Western Digital RE4 Series Enterprise Grade Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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today Rumble will be assisting me with the unboxing because this is a fairly
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straightforward unboxing that I'm sure even he can handle so this is the
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Western Digital 2 tbte re4 Edition hard
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drive and what makes it re is the fact
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that it has a much much longer meantime between failure than other drives okay
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Rumble I want you to grab the knife so I want you to slice the package right
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there can you handle that good boy good
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boy all right okay we're done with the knife now I want you to grab the hard
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drive oh no no need you to take the
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packaging off there we go I'll help you
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a little bit okay I'll help you a little bit oh no don't go away don't go away
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okay okay good boy Rumble okay take the hard drive K it out this is the most
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reliable hard drive that you can pretty much get because say Western Digital
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validates their Enterprise storage drives much more than their consumer
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drives now their consumer drives are perfectly reliable however compared to
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some consumer drives this Enterprise Drive has up to double the meantime
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between failure it is otherwise just like a
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regular storage drive in that it connects via SATA power as well as SATA
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2 or SATA 3 depending on what kind of a drive you're going for and it's got the
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same kind of platter technology in there it spins at 7200 RPM so all that stuff's
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pretty straightforward it has 64 Ms of cash and uh you can strap it to a cat to
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add more storage to your cat and it is more likely to last for a long time
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because it is an Enterprise grade product so why would you want an Enterprise grade product I can give you
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a few good examples so number one oh he's getting mad okay he can go thank
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you good boy uh so number one is if it's
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going to be really hit hit hard a lot in
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terms of data accesses um Reads wres
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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
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application if it's going to be used for streaming media or some kind of server
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application you're probably better off with an re series drive for example in
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my Home Server um and this is just a Home Server
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this is not like a proper server uh where I've got like about 20 drives in
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there I've probably had oh including that one I've probably had 10 drives
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fail in the last few years here had I been using reer drives as
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opposed to like refurbished consumer drives I wouldn't have run into that and
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the reason that it gets that the drives get beat up so badly in a server
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environment like that it particularly Home Server is because I'm using a drive
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pool which means that the data is constantly balancing around between all
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the different drives in kind of a fake raid which means they're almost always
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being accessed a little bit they never get a break they never get you know shut
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down like a consumer computer would you know at night or over a weekend when you
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go away it's running in a server environment and it's just not the
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intended use of those drives so we'll be back in just one second so I just wanted
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to look up the warranty as well so these re drives have a 5-year warranty in to
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go along with their 1.2 million hours of meantime between failure so thank you
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for checking out this unboxing and First Look featuring Rumble the cat and don't
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