 This video is brought to you by the Corsair Obsidian 350D Micro ATX case. Exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance PCs. Visit corsair.com slash obsidian to learn more. So welcome to my unboxing and first look at the WD-SE. So this is according to Western Digital. Okay, well first of the unboxing, right? Hold on. Let me here. Okay. So there's a net, there's a bag. And normally your drive would come with a sealed bag, but I got a special engineering sample bag. So you would be ripping this apart, but you can see that I clearly didn't have to do that because whatever. So then you slide it out of the bag, which contains, of course, the all-important Do Not Eat. Yeah, I get a nice glamour shot of that. There we go. Do not eat. And oh yeah, 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 the RED and then the RAID edition. The SE sits somewhere in between. So it's in between in terms of performance. It's in between in terms of price. It's in between in terms of robustness. So WD is rating it at about three times a consumer grade device in terms of the rights per year. And they're now rating workload in terms of rights per year. So this drive is rated at 180 terabytes per year. So it's simple. Do you need a RED, an SE, or an RE? Well, do you write more than 180 terabytes per year? Then I guess you better get an RE. Do you write like not that much compared to that, about a third of that? Then get something like a WD RED. Also, it's validated for more than five drives in an enclosure, whereas the RED is limited from about one to five as the recommended from WD range. However, I mean, I personally have run REDs in larger configurations. They haven't exploded yet. But, you know, of course, the vibration resistance is only as good as it is. So the SE is much more similar to something like an RE in terms of how much vibration it gives off and how resistant it is to vibration from other drives. So this one can scale beyond five drives up to 24 drives or even more in larger arrays. It's available in larger capacity. So it's four terabyte and comes with a five-year warranty rather than the consumer-grade three-year warranty that something like a WD RED has. Other than that, I think that's pretty much all there is to say about this drive. It's SATA 6, you know? Yeah. For a RAID. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.