 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 2TB RE4 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. Okay, Rumble, I want you to grab the knife. 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. I 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. Take it out. This is the most reliable hard drive that you can pretty much get 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. 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 megs of cache. You can strap it to a cat to add more storage to your cat. It is more likely to last for a long time because it is an enterprise-grade product. Why would you want an enterprise-grade product? I can give you a few good examples. So number one is if it's going to be really hit hard a lot in terms of data accesses, reads writes, 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, and this is just a home server, this is not a proper server, where I've got about 20 drives in there. Including that one. I've probably had about 10 drives fail in the last few years here. Had I been using RE series drives as opposed to refurbished consumer drives, I wouldn't have run into that. And the reason that the drives get beat up so badly in a server environment like that, 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 shut down like a consumer computer would 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. Also these RE drives have a five year warranty 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 Rumble the Cat. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.