today Rumble will be assisting me with the unboxing because this is a fairly
straightforward unboxing that I'm sure even he can handle so this is the
Western Digital 2 tbte re4 Edition hard
drive and what makes it re is the fact
that it has a much much longer meantime between failure than other drives okay
Rumble I want you to grab the knife so I want you to slice the package right
there can you handle that good boy good
boy all right okay we're done with the knife now I want you to grab the hard
drive oh no no need you to take the
packaging off there we go I'll help you
a little bit okay I'll help you a little bit oh no don't go away don't go away
okay okay good boy Rumble okay take the hard drive K it out this is the most
reliable hard drive that you can pretty much get because say Western Digital
validates their Enterprise storage drives much more than their consumer
drives now their consumer drives are perfectly reliable however compared to
some consumer drives this Enterprise Drive has up to double the meantime
between failure it is otherwise just like a
regular storage drive in that it connects via SATA power as well as SATA
2 or SATA 3 depending on what kind of a drive you're going for and it's got the
same kind of platter technology in there it spins at 7200 RPM so all that stuff's
pretty straightforward it has 64 Ms of cash and uh you can strap it to a cat to
add more storage to your cat and it is more likely to last for a long time
because it is an Enterprise grade product so why would you want an Enterprise grade product I can give you
a few good examples so number one oh he's getting mad okay he can go thank
you good boy uh so number one is if it's
going to be really hit hit hard a lot in
terms of data accesses um Reads wres
Moving the heads around basically if it's going to be under heavy load if it's going to be used in a 24/7
application if it's going to be used for streaming media or some kind of server
application you're probably better off with an re series drive for example in
my Home Server um and this is just a Home Server
this is not like a proper server uh where I've got like about 20 drives in
there I've probably had oh including that one I've probably had 10 drives
fail in the last few years here had I been using reer drives as
opposed to like refurbished consumer drives I wouldn't have run into that and
the reason that it gets that the drives get beat up so badly in a server
environment like that it particularly Home Server is because I'm using a drive
pool which means that the data is constantly balancing around between all
the different drives in kind of a fake raid which means they're almost always
being accessed a little bit they never get a break they never get you know shut
down like a consumer computer would you know at night or over a weekend when you
go away it's running in a server environment and it's just not the
intended use of those drives so we'll be back in just one second so I just wanted
to look up the warranty as well so these re drives have a 5-year warranty in to
go along with their 1.2 million hours of meantime between failure so thank you
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