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hi dave taylor here again and this time
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i want to talk about disk space
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right that resource that we somehow
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never quite seem to have enough of
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on my macbook pro for example i recently
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doubled the size of the disk inside
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and you know what i'm finding i'm
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finding i'm getting close to the edge
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man it's like there's just not enough
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disk space and yeah you can use the
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cloud and that's all well and good
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if you have a fast connection otherwise
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it ends up being where you're just
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twiddling your thumbs waiting for things
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to download waiting for that big file
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and you certainly can't use it for for
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example video editing
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so when western digital sent me the my
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this seemed like a great deal and let me
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just show you it's a big heavy unit this
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is one and a half pounds
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but it's a four terabyte dual
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drive raid zero or one or
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jbod drive so what does this mean this
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boatload of space there's another word i
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could use but i won't so it's a boatload
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and you can set it up so that it
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actually has redundant versions of files
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on here because of course
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i don't want to have four terabytes of
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data just to have it go south
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now western digital has been making
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drives forever so the chance of
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going wrong is pretty slim but you know
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you always want to have that insurance
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but four terabytes and here's what makes
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this really cool is it's a thunderbolt
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and check it out the cable is actually
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built into the unit and it doesn't need
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so for me to be able to use it literally
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all i have to do is plug it into my
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thunderbolt connector on my computer and
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terabytes of super fast storage how fast
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it can be up to 233 megabytes a second
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that's pretty lightning fast well sorry
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thunderbolt fast not lightning fast
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lightning is a different connector
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really nice and the fact that you can
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run it in different raid configurations
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now i won't buy this is not inexpensive
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two terabyte version is 299 dollars
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and this four terabyte drive and like i
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this is like a little tiny workout here
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this four terabyte drive is 429
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street price but on the other hand if
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you need a lot of disk space and you
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really fast this thing's a rock star if
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i'm working on video in the field
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then i absolutely will bring this with
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me so western digital my passport pro
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you can get more at wdc.com
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and i'm a big western digital fan anyway
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and this is just a great addition to
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so i say check it out and if you're
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looking for disk space
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at this moment in time this is about as
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big as it gets and this thing's
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god i did it again thunderbolt fast all
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right this is dave taylor and i'll be
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figuring out the difference between
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thunderbolt and lightning later
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so thanks for watching
