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more so welcome to my unboxing and first look at the wdse so this
is according to Western Digital okay well first oh the unboxing right hold on
let me here okay so there's a yeah
there's a bag and normally your drive would come with a sealed bag but I got a
special engineering sample bag so you would be ripping this apart but you can
see that I clearly didn't have to do that because whatever so then you slide
it out of the bag which contains of course the all important do not
eat yeah I get a nice glamour shot of that there we go do not eat and oh yeah
there's a hard drive in there as well so what's the point of the SE because there's already a NAS drive so we've got
the red and then the raid Edition the SE sits somewhere in between so it's in
between in terms of performance it's in between in terms of price it's in
between in terms of robustness so WD is
rating it at about three times a consumer grade device in terms of the
rights per year and they're now rating workload in terms of Rights per year so
this drive is rated at 180 terabytes per year so it's simple do you need a red an
SE or an re well do you write more than 180 terabytes per year then I guess you
better get an re do you write like not that much compared to that about a third
of that then get something like a wd red also it's validated for more than five
driv in enclosure whereas the red is limited from about 1 to five is the
recommended from WD range however I mean I personally have run Reds in larger
configurations they haven't exploded yet but you know of course the vibration
resistance is is only as good as it is so the SE is much more similar to
something like an re in terms of how much vibration it gives off and how
resistant it is to vibration from other drives so this one can scale Beyond five
drives up to you know 24 drives or even more in larger arrays it's available in
larger capacity so it's 4 tab and comes with a 5year warranty rather than the
Consumer grade 3year warranty that something like a wd red has other than
that I think that's pretty much all there is to say about this drive it's
SATA 6 you know
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