WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY!

[LinusTech]

This contest is now closed!! Winners are below!

 

GRAND PRIZE: WINTHER

RUNNER UPS: SUSHISKY & WING2K5

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Western Digital is taking a "go big or go home" approach to at least two things right now. One is the all new 4TB 3.5" Red NAS-optimized hard drive, and the other is this giveaway. Western Digital provided us with an incredibly generous EIGHT 4TB Red drives to give away. Because these drives are RAID-optimized, we thought it would make sense to group up the prizes so that you guys can run them the way they're meant to be run!

 

 

Again... HUGE thanks to Western Digital for making this giveaway possible. They've been so supportive of Linus Tech Tips. They sponsored our trip to Computex, sponsored our trip to PAX, and they're giving awesome stuff away to our community

 

PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME TO READ THE SPONSOR MESSAGES BELOW!

 

 

SPONSOR MESSAGES

 

1. Check out this excellent review of the WD Red 4TB over at Storage Review. These guys are awesome and know far more about testing drives than we ever will!

 

 

2. Check out the WD Red lineup even if you're not planning to enter the contest: http://geni.us/YQabkT

 

3. Check out this video outlining the advantages of WD's Red lineup of drives: 

 

 

 

WD RED 4TB GIVEAWAYS RULES & REGULATIONS 

 

I decided to split things up into one GRAND PRIZE and two runner up prizes. The big winner (who will be drawn first) gets FOUR 4TB WD Red 3.5" hard drives. That's right. FOUR. That's enough to store 12TB of data in RAID 5, or 8TB of data in RAID 1. Each runner up will receive TWO 4TB WD Red 3.5" hard drives. That's enough for 4TB of RAID1 safe storage! This is a Linus Tech Tips giveaway (WD is providing the drives to us to decide what we want to do with them) so it's WORLDWIDE!

 

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

 

This giveaway is only available for Linus Tech Tips forum members, and as usual you can either get ONE entry to win, or you can get more!!

 

1x entry - Post about your storage setup in this thread. The most important thing is WHY you run the hardware you run. There are NO bonus points for talking about WD, and there are no wrong answers. It's okay to say what brands you're using, and it's okay to have a reason that's as simple as "my friend recommended it at the time"

 

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing the giveaway on your personal Facebook

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing the giveaway on your personal Twitter

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing a link to this giveaway announcement thread in some other community (forums, social networks, super-active community websites other than linustechtips.com like Digg... etc). We aren't trying to spam so make sure you are sharing with people who you genuinely think will care about it!

You can get a maximum of 4 entries by including links in your post to the three eligible sharing places. Here is an example of what an optimal maximum entry (4) post would look like:
                                                                                                                                                                                    

1. I don't have a desktop, but I run an OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD for my boot drive because it was a great price, and offers great speed with a 5 year warranty. I don't keep any storage drives in my system because I use spotify for all of my music and I don't watch many movies, but I do have a 1TB external USB3 drive that has 1-touch back up, so I plug that in once in a while so that if my laptop gets lost I will still have my data. 
 

2. Facebook share from (Name Goes Here): (insert verifiable link here)
 

3. Twitter share with Twitter handle @Example: (insert verifiable link here)
 

4. Community Site share with nickname (nickname goes here): (insert verifiable link here)

                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

The contest closes September 30th, 2013 and the winner will be contacted after we've had a chance to tabulate the entries. Good luck everyone! Thanks for participating, and a big thanks again to our sponsor, WD!

[rangat]

I am right now setting up my desktop, just made a nas

[SteepGnomeKing]

So many giveaways it's amazing.

 

I have a Mushkin 240gb msata SSD and a Seagate 750gb HDD.

It's really all that will fit in my laptop as I don't have a dekstop. The hdd came with the laptop so didn't have much choice here and I got the ssd because I really wanted a faster boot drive. Not to many companies make msata ssd's in general and also at a good price.

Starting to run out of room with blu-ray rips they take up 30+gb of space. Plus all the steam games from summer sale and humble bundle are really starting to add up also.

[Hyydrah]

Lots of Western Digital giveaways lately.

[MrMurphysLaw]

i used to have 3 hdd's they all died and now im using a 750gb laptop drive thats maxed out..

i would die for a reliable drive like a wdred

[megadarkwood]

1tb laptop drive. Would love this drive as an external!

[brownninja97]

I have a 1tb seagate barracuda. i put games on it and pictures, and memes, you, profile pictures and most likely viruses. Most of all "naughty" pictures of slick. If i had the money then nas and raid would be an option for me.

[Cs342]

I use a Samsung 840 250GB for my boot drive, and then I have a 2TB RAID 0 HDD setup with 2 x 1TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives. I run RAID 0 because I do lots of video editing and gaming, and faster reads and writes are crucial. I also would prefer to have a single 2TB volume instead of 2 separate 1TB partitions so RAID allows me to combine storage.

[MrGidwani]

I got a 750Gb WD Black Drive and a 250Gb Samsung 840 SSD.

[Lamb]

I have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda for games and mass storage, and one 120GB Samsung 840 SSD as a boot drive. I would love a 4TB drive though!

[Morpheus]

I'm using a 2tb hard drive and I do nightly backups to an external hard drive. I'm hoping to buy an SSD soon since hard drives are pretty slow. I'm using this setup because I didn't have any other storage when I made my build so I needed the size of a HDD instead of the speed of SSD. I think even a small SSD (just for the OS) is now essential in any build but unfortunately I didn't have an option to buy one due to my build budget. My plan is to eventually buy another HDD and Raid 0 it with the current one and use an SSD for OS and some games.

[Bluejay0]

1 Samsung 830 120 GB and one 500GB Barracuda. My Raid 1 Blue 500GB Failed.

[DyGr00339]

I use simply a WD caviar Blue in my RIG because that is all I can afford as a highschool student

[Kevinkt]

I have a 240 seagate harddrive..... i could really use the space.

 

It came with my pc

[markalmza]

using a 64 gb patriot ssd, and a 320 gb wd drive for storage because i use my ssd just for boot and some programs

[kajan]

Im using a 128 gb ssd for os and a 1 tb hard drive for storage, the best performance/gb value in my opinion. 

[bcredeur97]

I have a 2TB Apple Time Capsule, and a 4x 160GB RAID 0 for storage. I use my storage mostly for storing games and making backups of my data(especially with the time capsule)I got the time capsule for really cheap so thats why i run it for my backups. need some more drives to build an actual RAID array that I can use for backups. Would love to use some WD Reds

 

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/bcredeur97/status/375061715685085184

[Gumby8888]

I use my ssd's for speedy map rotations in Battlefield 3 and Velociraptor for fast video storage of videos while playing games. They were also recommended by friends and family.

 

This is my storage and could use more for movies and games.

Hard Drive: 2x OCZ Vertex 4 128GB  (FW 1.5) 
Hard Drive: OCZ Vertex 4 256GB (FW 1.5) 
Hard Drive: 1 1TB Velociraptor storage

 

Facebook share Chris Kelly https://www.facebook.com/Gumby8888/posts/711917495492457

Twitter share @Gumby8888 https://twitter.com/Gumby8888/status/375119574020001793

Google+ User Chris Kelly https://plus.google.com/u/0/118277457601166710217/posts/A12GNf3fgyt

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

Using an SSD for the speed and the cheapest possible 1TB drive I could get my hands on at the time.  Think it is a Toshiba or something like that.

 

https://twitter.com/a321_Harkness

[gunsman]

right now i am running a 256 GB SSD in the original razer blade, super fast storage. it was the only choice at the time they only had 1 model.  and i don't have any other storage because other things have taken priority

 

twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamHashey/status/375062531540144128 (@adamhashey)

 

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adam.hashey/posts/673755629302066 (adam hashey)

[GameModeLiam]

I use a 1tb seagate, because at the time it was christmas, and it was cheap. With all of the video editing and gaming I do, 1 tb isn't enough.

[tS_kStin]

I need more storage mainly. I have filled up my 120 ssd, 1tb seagate, and a 3tb seagate. And its all stuff I use.

[OddlyShapedTree]

I have 2 1TBs HDDs, one Samsung F3 because it was good for the price at the time and another Seagate one because I needed one fast and it was the best one that Best Buy had. No RAID unfortunately. I need the space not the speed.

 https://www.facebook.com/david.valladares.92/posts/594879940558991




https://twitter.com/OddlyShapedTree/status/375062300530450432





https://teksyndicate.com/forum/general-discussion/come-check-out-linus-wd-giveaway/152095
 

[Sheld]

1. I dont have a special setup but i do store all my data in my laptop and a share wirelessly to my other computers i also have a back up on my desktop hard drive but my hard drives r just stock ones and only 500gb storage. 
 

2. Facebook share from agustin gomez-iriondo: https://www.facebook.com/Agustin.GI/posts/10201035201654563
 

3. Twitter share with Twitter handle @sheldyk : https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/375060934026203137
 

[Dariru]

I'm using an 120GB OCZ Agility 3 for my boot drive, some old 500GB hard drive, and a 1.5TB WD Green. I used this setup because I just transferred the old hard drive to a brand new build and then added the WD Green later after needing more storage.