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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 terabyte re 4 edition hard drive and what makes it re is the fact that it has a much much longer mean time between failure than other drives ok well I need to grab the knife slice the package right there you know that good boy good boy alright ok 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 ok I'll help you a little bit no go away ok ok good play Rumble ok take the hard drive pick it out this is the most reliable hard drive that you can pretty much check because 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 mean time 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 7,200 rpm so all that stuff's pretty straightforward it has 64 Meg's of cache and 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 ok he can go thank you good boy so number one is if it's going to be really hit a hit hard a lot in terms of data accesses reads writes moving the heads or basically if it's going to be under heavy load if it's going to be used in a 24/7 application it's gonna be used for streaming media or some kind of server application you're probably better off with inari serious drugs for example in my home server and this is just a home server this is not like a proper server where I've got like about twenty drives in there I've probably had including that one I've probably had about ten drives fail in the last few years here had I been using re series drives as opposed to like refurbished consumer drives I wouldn't have run into that and the reason that it gets better drives get beat up so badly in a server environment like that a 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 rate 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 five-year warranty and to go along with their 1.2 million hours of mean time between failure so thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look featuring rumbled cat and don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos