WD at Computex 2013 Booth Tour Day 5 - SE Mass Storage, RE Robustness, XE Performance & WD Giveaway
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This video offers a detailed look at Western Digital's Computex 2013 booth, focusing on their drive lineup and the intended use cases for each product tier. The host explains how the Red edition targets high end consumer and small to medium scale deployments, while the SE is positioned for data center scale storage with a balance of capacity and reliability. A key segment compares the RE enterprise drive, designed for maximum robustness and high durability in 24/7 cloud storage environments, to the SE and the XE SAS drive built for top performance. The walkthrough emphasizes architecture features like dual stage actuators, raft technology, and stable track design that improve multi-drive configurations and minimize vibration-induced degradation. The presenter then draws practical conclusions about when to choose each tier based on capacity needs, reliability requirements, and performance goals, and highlights how these drives fit into evolving cloud and redundancy strategies, ending with a plug for ongoing Computex updates and giveaways.
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