WD SE Scalable Storage Hard Drive Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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more so welcome to my unboxing and first look at the wdse so this
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is according to Western Digital okay well first oh the unboxing right hold on
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let me here okay so there's a yeah
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there's a bag and normally your drive would come with a sealed bag but I got a
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special engineering sample bag so you would be ripping this apart but you can
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see that I clearly didn't have to do that because whatever so then you slide
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it out of the bag which contains of course the all important do not
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eat yeah I get a nice glamour shot of that there we go do not eat and oh yeah
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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
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the red and then the raid Edition the SE sits somewhere in between so it's in
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between in terms of performance it's in between in terms of price it's in
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between in terms of robustness so WD is
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rating it at about three times a consumer grade device in terms of the
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rights per year and they're now rating workload in terms of Rights per year so
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this drive is rated at 180 terabytes per year so it's simple do you need a red an
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SE or an re well do you write more than 180 terabytes per year then I guess you
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better get an re do you write like not that much compared to that about a third
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of that then get something like a wd red also it's validated for more than five
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driv in enclosure whereas the red is limited from about 1 to five is the
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recommended from WD range however I mean I personally have run Reds in larger
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configurations they haven't exploded yet but you know of course the vibration
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resistance is is only as good as it is so the SE is much more similar to
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something like an re in terms of how much vibration it gives off and how
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resistant it is to vibration from other drives so this one can scale Beyond five
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drives up to you know 24 drives or even more in larger arrays it's available in
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larger capacity so it's 4 tab and comes with a 5year warranty rather than the
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Consumer grade 3year warranty that something like a wd red has other than
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that I think that's pretty much all there is to say about this drive it's
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SATA 6 you know
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