3:59: I think you have red and blue mixed up on the disk speed. WD Blue drives are 7200rpm and WD Red drives are 5400 rpm.

I'd never seen a retail packaged HDD, this was actually an interesting unboxing

PC components in nice boxes still kinda excites me lol. Even if it’s just a hard drive.

I've had many Seagate drives fail on me over the last roughly 10 years, but the Toshiba and WD drives are all still going strong.

6:28 The question on everyone's lips: "Is Stanley ok?" Brilliant video as ever Chris. I've always been a fan of WD drives. I've got 4x 3TB WD Red drives in my NAS running in RAID-5 and they've not missed a beat in about 5 years.

It doesn't matter how old or Professional you are, opening up a shiny new HDD/ SSD/ SSHD the feeling is always the same as your first purchase. You can hear the excitement in his voice. So genuine!

It´s not for the topic, it´s for the person. Explanations in such a fine mannor, both competent and full of humour. You really light up my day. Nice!

This guy is still living in the 80's with that desk setup. I love it!

Nooo! Stanley fell on the floor! I loathe those seals that wrap over the tabs and slots of the box. I understand having a degree of security, but I just want to get to the hardware that I purchased without destroying the packaging or losing portions of my anatomy. Good Lord, we nearly lost Stanley this week... Be safe, Chris. Thanks for the videos.

Ah, a new drive. Takes me back to when PC World was a geeks cavern of treasures, when you had to know what a port, interrupt and device number was, and how to set jumpers and all sorts of other 'black arts' ... sigh. Thanks for sharing.

Large HDDs are so underrated in a world of SSDs. While yes, main OS and main files are on a SSD, but I've backed-up all of my DVD and Blu-Ray movies, TV series and Anime in lossless MKVs on External HDDs and one of them is a 12TB.

Great video, Chris. I love the honest direct communication and lack of clickbait and flashy distracting music and video effects. Please also provide a link to the Icy Box enclosure.

Your work desk is a hybrid of modern and classic computer parts. So awesome!

Stanley the Knife has been around for many years.... He can take an occasional drop on the floor and still be able to make the cut! 😁

So glad to see Stanley and Mr. Scissors team back at work! I hope Stanley recovers from his fall off the desk, poor guy. It is good to know your team are unaffected by Covid! No masking required!

Just watched a bloke do something I’ve done myself maybe 20 times before, but still enjoyed every minute. ‘Yep he’ll do this now…mhmm yep now that…yep good.’ Nice one Chris.

The way you label things. I used to be like that but then I grew out of it. My gramps was truly an advocate of labeling. He'd go as far as labeling a fridge as such.

I find it absolutely staggering how far computer hard disk capacity has come over the years, from a few tens of megabytes back in the 1980s to several terabytes today!

I am also a video editor with loads of archived files. I went for 2 x 18 TB WD Gold HDDs, which after formatting, both drives came down to 16TB. The reason why I chose the Gold series enterprise drives is the 5year warranty, 512 MB cache and the fact that I never turn my computer off. I didn't mind that it took ages to transfer the files across from a stack of external WD drives that vary in age up to about 10 years old, the job is done and everything is now at my finger tips.

Professor Barnatt, I wanted to tell you I totally enjoy EC, and that yours is one of *the* best out there, bar none. EC was a saving grace while I was laid up in hospital after having a major surgery, and helped me get through it. Thank you!

I don't understand how I've gone from high octane nitro levels of content to being genuinely interested in everything he says. Probably because it's about computers, but still. This is really cool. Thank you for the information!!! This is a massive help

It's a very good enclosure indeed. Fully metal it conducts all the potential heat away from the drive. You can even attach a heat sink to it to keep it cool under the filming lights or during hot summer days.

The 1TB WD green from my older NAS has literally spinned 24/7 from Nov'2010 until last week-end when I finally decided to upgrade to a 2x14TB WD EX2 ultra (which uses red drives). Pretty reliable hardware indeed.

I love the fact that you still use squared monitors and old pc case on your rig.

When I see EC's freshly uploaded video, I know it's going to be a good time

I've had my 6TB WD Black for a few years and it's truly the best piece of mass storage I've ever had.

I had a SanDisk SSD fail outside of warranty and WD replaced it FOC with a higher spec larger capacity SSD - paid postage both ways and even emailed me the shipping labels. Best customer service experience ever...

I have had used Western Digital since the year 2000 and have had good luck with all of the drives since then.

I always like your video. For this one, not only you showed the performance of the hard drive, but also very informative about every details.

Poor Stanley, I hope he's alright!

10 terrabytes in a standard hard drive size, I remember when 10 megabytes was the same size and shape as a fridge, and sat proudly in the middle of the office!

Your videos continue to educate me in areas I didn't know existed! I always watch your videos on simple concepts like this as a refresher and walk away with something new every time. Great work! :)

This is technology explained clearly, so that I , amongst many others I believe, can navigate upgrades safely and optimally using quality parts too. Thank You.

Aside from the costs you mention, I've always found WD to build reliable and robust HDs - compared to my Seagate experiences, which I've had many since the late '90's , they've been really troublesome. (I realise people will have differing experienced). Just as an example, I've actually got a WD 120gb HD from the 2000's that works still.

I bought a WD 10TB drive on Amazon last week. It arrived the next day in a static bag inside a plastic bag. Yes, that's it. It wasn't even boxed, just inside two flimsy plastic pouches with no shock protection at all. I put it in a box and initiated an immediate return. Unbelievable, it's as though the world gets dumber by the day.

The WD Black 3.5” drives have been, for me, 100%. I have twelve of them, used for primary recording from my Pro Tools HD systems. I have used them really hard, filled and wiped, over and over probably in the hundreds of times for television series work, 24 hours a day 7 days a week for months on end. I use them in a 4 slot rack mounted eSATA dock and I don’t know when they fail because I have never had one fail in years. Not even a peep of a problem. Just years of perfection. I’ve never seen any other brand/model work so reliably.

Very thorough review. Mines coming on Friday!

Here I am, back again. First for the 30th time. Good stuff as always. 10TB Hard Drive. Here I got my NAS built over an Odroid XU-4 thanks to those many reviews Mr Barnatt has showed us. Here we have another good option. Nice sunday.

Another great video Chris very informative as ever 🙂

your aesthetic reminds me of the BBC tapes my dad had in his VHS library, i love it

Usually dont watch long videos but you did such a great job really like the 80s theme

This reminds me my first hard drive ever, a 10 MB (decimal mega-bytes) 5,1/4 half height that came with the IBM XT clone, a drive from Cogito Systems, some obscure provider, while in fact it was the Seagate unit. What a time we live through - a milion times more capacity at hand!

Great video as always Christopher, I always buy WD drives as I have had trouble before with Toshiba and Seagate failing after 1 year, I've just bought an 18TB WD Elements external drive for £259.99 to back up my Plex server which has 7 WD Red 3TB drives, all of which are second hand from eBay and are dated 2013 and are still running perfectly without any errors.

Seeing the Cinefex magazines on your shelf always makes me smile.

I didn't knew I had to uncheck quick format for first time use. Thanks for your informative video.

I must be the lucky one here; I've never had a drive fail. I've got a 80GB Toshiba from 2005 still running. I only replaced it with WD black for more storage. WD drives are reliable and made very well.

A data hoarder's dream. I only have 4 TB WD Reds on my NAS and filled up 40% in the past 4 years. And much of that is just snapshots. I guess if you're doing video work, 10TB might not seem like a lot. Time for the 4 petabytes WDs 😁 Anyway, great video as always.

Another fantastic video. Thanks again from Sydney Australia. I hope you have an excellent Christmas and 2022 is your best yet. Being a 70's kid and loving computers since I can remember, my first being a VIC20 and then an XT pro PC after that I just love the depth of your Videos. All the best mate

It’s great to get a glimpse into your workflow, Chris. Thanks -

Very impressive speeds and I'm really pleased you mentioned cooling. This looks like a good solution for your needs and the video was very informative and well laid out as always.

Stanley the knife and Mr Scissors in one episode. Yeah!

I appreciate that you explained the naming schemes for WD, as I didn't know the difference. Thinking of retiring one of my drives soon. Cheers!

Thank you Chris. I didnt know full format also scanned for bad sectors. That's a very good advice for a new drive, if it needs to be sent back for replacement, before taking into use.

Hard drive and ssd videos are very interesting

Fun fact, the WD Black drives share some internal components with the WD Red drives... Better heat dissipation and vibration resistance... Those puppies can be stacked together without issues on the long run however, they are not built to sustain 24/7 read/write workloads like the Red and Purple are... They run quite a bit hotter as well... The Black Nvme drives are speed demons... 3.5GB/sec read and 3GB/sec write in PCIe 3.0... Haven't seen a loading screen in anything in years... Major Windows Updates takes less than a minute to complete as well...

I like how in your videos you qualify your decisions by saying you know that there are other options, but you like things a certain way and are willing to pay to have it just the way you like.

Christopher, when you started I looked at that older looking computer, even with a floppy drive, and you said, "6 TB," and I thought, "Christopher is using the same size Hard Drive that is in my older computer." Then, wait a minute, that is a 6.4 GB Hard Drive I have in that thing. A 1996 Sony Vaio Pentium II 300 MHz, upgraded to 190 MB RAM, and a 6.4 GB original Hard Drive, and it is a Western Digital. That hard drive my wife used for her business is 25 years old and is working perfect...LOL! Now, my newer Laptop and Computer both have 250 GB SSD, just to let everybody know I am not stuck in the dark ages. Thank you for explaining how to initialize the Drive in Windows 10!

A small thing I thought was worth pointing out is that when you use crystaldiskmark for such large drives, you should change the test file size to 8gb and the number of runs to at least 3. That gives you a more accurate representation of the performance of the disk.

As far as the speed variation when you first copied files while the drive was directly connected to the test PC, it is probably due to the cache on the drive. The transfer over SATA is faster than the drive can handle, and along with the OS reading back info while writing, it causes the OS to have to wait for allocation and directory between some writes. Once the last file is scheduled, the read-back required decreases, and there is an increase in transfer rate.

It's good to hear that HDD's are still available at competitive speeds. I'll be in the market for one this coming year. Thanks for another great video.

Excellent vid! Surprising performance from a disk drive!

I do not know why but i still find HDDs exciting :)

12:40 "Icy Box" I keep meaning to get a normal enclosure like that for my swap drives. The only enclosure I've picked up so far is an Rosewill RX304 which has a side cooling fan and front panel display for drive rpm, fan speed and temperature. I use that as my media drive storage which is used to play movies from the PC and Blu Ray. Not only functional but looks cool too :)

Really interesting video Chris, always look forward to Sundays for the notification from your channel!

Yet another very good video that was informative and worth waiting a week for since the last one,cheers Chris.

"Oh dear, Stanley's fallen on the floor.." Funny stuff right there! Haha! Anyway, thanks for the video! I too think you made a good choice going with the WD drive, I've had great luck with them over the years.

On the subject of why to buy an internal drive and manually put it inside an external enclosure, internal drives are normally considerably less cost than a dedicated external hard drive. It also means, as Chris has done here, you can easily upgrade the drive as a separate enclosure is designed to be taken apart where a complete one isn't.

I like your videos, always the subject is very well shown, explained, and we can learn a lot from you , thank you

Please WD, keep your quality high, that's why we love your product

hi Chris, great info as always, i nag my staff to always put the date on HDD s when we put them into service so we can rotate them out of service after a specified amount of time...never thought of doing the same for my home gear. I'm not sure if if you have covered Shingled HDD technology, but maybe you could explain why they are NOT a good idea in a NAS. I mistakenly had purchased one or two for a NAS and it was a disaster. the same drive seems to be ok as a stand alone backup or cold storage drive. great show as always!!!

Regarding the "pre-made" WD external disks... the position of the rubber feet on them expects you to have them standing up on one end. Good for desk space, but terrible for accidentally knocking a spinning hard disk over! I added extra feet to the side of mine so I could lie it down.

Congratulations with an upgrade!

Not a fancy rig not a RGB fans, but you made it really abstractive content! Thanks you sir!

In comparison I still have a few 3.5 IDE 1GB Quantum Fireballs in use . I compare them to my average sized MicroSD card at 16GB and I feel a bit cheated, but obviously they didn't exist back in the day. It makes one wonder how a person could manage the many 2GB partitions to use your drive fully under Fat16. It would have been nice to have MBR BIOSes patched to handle such large drives.

I'm most impressed by your workspace. I couldn't see any obvious passwords on any of those post-it notes. :D I look forward to watching many more years of your videos.

After I did a full format I did format it again but using the fast format and it showed the local disk as yours I gave it a try right now and it worked.now I can I see my hdd.thank you anyway

Thanks for another informative and entertaining video. I understand that it is customary within the comments section to tell you that you purchased the wrong brand, or the wrong model, or that you are using the wrong operating system, or that you should have installed the drive differently, or that you should have made a video on a completely different subject instead. I'm going to do none of those things.

Hi Christopher, Is it worth getting a 10TB harddrive, since they last for only 3-4 years(as you said in you previous harddrive video)

Great video, as always. There is definitely something very satisfying about opening the anti-static bag on a new hard drive, something I need to do soon for my aging desktop PC. Sadly my budget doesn’t run to a 10TB WD Black.

Loved it, very concise and accurate in explanation

What's weird is that the WD Gold 10TB drive is actually cheaper than the WD Black 10TB drive from WD in the USA. Even though the gold is supposed to be their top-end offering, somehow price-wise they are selling them for less at the moment. 🤔 I would also think that you might also use something like M-Discs for archival 'cold storage'. Which makes sense. It allows you to keep a copy that wouldn't be impacted by a mechanical or electrical failure potential. Worst case, if all of the drives that you have fail and you have those, you can still recover the archive.

I think you miss the seemly weird point that the disk perform better in real life situation with the USB contrôler, regardless of theorycal Cristal disk test and obvious presumptions. I think it's due to the fact that you didn't use the same s-ata controller for both disks. That way you didn't emptyout the disk's cache because of bottlenecking with two drive on the same SATA lane, one Reding and the other one writing. In short, going one controller (s-ata) to an other (USB 3.0) went overall better regardless of a worst top speed. PS, I use two sata controller for that exact reason in my EDIT workstation. It's faster to render or make large files on one drive FROM an other drive ON an other controller.

Nobody Explains Computers like you Chris Your the best my friend Absolutely love this channel

"I now have enough space for many more years of explaining computers videos" ... Music to my ears! 😁

For anyone wondering why the final capacity of the hard drive is smaller in Windows than what it says on the box, it's because of a difference in how the capacity is counted. A 0 or 1 is a bit, and 8 bits is a byte, but for kilobytes and upwards, different operating systems count them differently. In Unix, Linux, and Mac OS, 1000 bytes is a kilobyte, whereas in Windows, it's 1024 bytes. That repeats for megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and so on. It's weird, but that's how it is.

My first HDD was a “Sider” for my Apple //e. 10 MB, $800 (US). It was the size of a modern UPS unit. A year after I bought it, they came out with a 20 MB version for the same price. No way I could afford to upgrade. I still have this system. Never filled up the HDD, it was just such massive storage for the time.

Excellent review I was considering the same 3 drives for my new backup. I will buy the WD 10TB now!

Another GREAT video... Chris

I have a problem with drives. It's not that they are failing. It's that fail at their purpose to store the information reliably. A perfectly normal drive can lose all the data inside at any time when you are writing information on it. It's been boggling my mind for a while. A drive that can store your data for year and years to come can just lock up on you because of some power flicker, bad cable or some software hickup. And it's not just the data that you have been copying, all your data is now "gone". And not just HDD, these cases apply for SSDs as well. So the bigger the drive - the bigger the damage. Keeping all your eggs in one basket kind of thing. So now you need to restore it on another drive as big as the one that is not recognised anymore. I asked around on forums, but the only solution everyone knows about is backup. Just keep all your data on at least 2 places. I find this to be quite strange. That we don't have mechanisms in place that protect data from stuff like that happening in the first place. Something that oversees the data writing and keeps it safe untill the process is over instead of risking everything on a HDD even if you are moving a single jpeg. Also, the data table is supposed to be written on 2 places in case one of them gets corrupted, but that doesn't seem to work at all.

I've always had good luck with WD drives. I have an embarrassingly large number of them.

This is by far the most exciting Unboxing video of the year for me ;)

Very neat and tidy caddy, safe and secure Chris 😃

I avoid the WD drives that have the built in encryption like the plague. When the drive decides to lock you out, that's the end. Not even the HD data companies nor WD themselves can recover the data. Both at the personal level, and Enterprise level, I won't ever trust any drive with built in encryption ever again.

while the warranty does matter, one thing i learned is that toshiba lasts years if not decades, seagate barely last months, i always avoid seagate, i want my pc parts to last, the warranty tells me nothing about seagate

I love your videos, Informative, educational, and entertaining. I hope Stanley didn't suffer any lasting effects from his fall.

Thank you for this upload because I was looking at these same drives!

PURCHASED Two 14TB Western Digital drives for $199 each on sale. Work great

Always excited to see your videos with Mr Scissors and Stanley the knife!!

Quite some storage you have there. Cool video !

Always enjoy Stanley the knife and Mr Sizzors but my new favorite is your impressive (bromide challenged) Tower of Power. Absolutely LOVE it. Very COoL. Cheers!