10TB WD Black: Fast Hard Drive Upgrade

WD Black 10TB HDD tested and fitted in an external USB enclosure. Video includes summary of Western Digital hard drive families, as well as competitor Seagate Barracuda and Toshiba X300 drives.

Note that I have no association with Western Digital and purchased the product shown for my own use.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Desk Storage
02:57 Selection & Unboxing
07:28 Initialize & Format
09:53 Performance Tests
12:37 Drive Swap
15:09 USB Speed
17:42 Wrap

#WDBlack #FastHDD # #ExplainingComputers

[unicodefox]

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.

[zboy]

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.

[tonma]

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

[hans-joachimschroder]

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!

[wasitacatisaw]

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.

[rickybryan]

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!

[souravas]

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

[dreammfyre]

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

[RedLine_Renesis]

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.

[fotografm]

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.

[ericinla]

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

[WaifuLife]

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.

[fazleemonty]

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

[Supernaut]

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!

[djzio]

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!

[chrismorgan]

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.

[retroconsole_]

I hope that large SSD/NVME drives would be very affordable some day. For huge files SSD/NVME drives are beasts. In addition they'd outlast mechanical drives.

[MonsterConrad]

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

[DJPenguino]

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

[saintuk]

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.