Question 1

what is the difference between the se drive wd4000f9yz and the re drive wd4000fyyz will be getting 4 for a raid 5 configuration ?

Accepted Answer

Performance-wise, Se drives align quite well with Re, although Re is better designed to handle a greater annual workload (550TB/year vs. 180TB/year).

The main difference between Se and Re is that the RE is more durable, spec’d to handle 3x as much data throughput over its lifetime. Also, the mean-time before failure (MTBF) rating has been decreased from 1.4 million hours for the RE to 800,000 for the SE.

The target market for Se is “bulk” storage: high-end NAS and “scale-out” architectures (where storage is added over time).  Re, a “durable” option, and Xe, a “performance” one. WD puts both Se and Re in the same tier 2 level, with Xe occupying tier 1.

I use 5 of the 4TB 7200 SE drives in raid 5 in a Areca ARC?8050 8-bay thunderbolt enclosure (i started with 3) and they work great.

Question 2

Will this plug and play nicely with a 2009 Mac Pro?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The 2009 Mac Pro uses 3.5" hard drives. This drive will fit. It just needs to be formatted with MacOS or clone the current hard drive if you're looking to upgrade your Mac's primary drive. You can confirm by typing "SP506" on Apple's support page.

Question 3

I want to purchase this as a cold spare for my WD Sentinel DX4200 NAS.  Is this hot swap ready, or do I need to move over the case from the failed drive?

Accepted Answer

Yes, all SATA HDDs that conform to the standard are hot swappable. These especially being they are enterprise class HDDs made for environments that have to be serviceable while live, cloud storage, database systems and the like.

Question 4

question for wd staff
i need replace for wd blacks because they not good to run on my desktop 20/24 power on count alert after year of use
im not will use it in raid but like file warehouse (+-300gb/1tb write/read day cycle)
in that use with will be better wd se or wd re?

Accepted Answer

As great as these drives are, i would, for your read/write cycle, probably go with the RE drives as they are designed for heavier usage. Typical usage for these is NAS units / backups /archiving. I believe on the WD website they have a duty cycle recommendation for each drive type. I would follow that to see what fits your needs best.

Brand	WD
Series	Se
Model	WD4000F9YZ
Packaging	Bare Drive

Interface	SATA 6.0Gb/s
Capacity	4TB
RPM	7200 RPM
Cache	64MB

Features	Cost effective enterprise-class storage Get the right blend of performance, reliability and capacity and optimize your total cost of ownership. 24x7x365 reliability Choose the storage foundation specifically designed for large-scale datacenter replication environments running 24x7x365. High capacity for hyperscale environments Build a massive data footprint with capacities up to 6TB - 216TB per square foot. Designed for quality and reliability Datacenter drives undergo at least 5 million hours of functional testing, and over 20 million hours of comprehensive interoperability testing in an extensive array of server and storage systems. Dynamic fly height technology Each read-write head's fly height is adjusted in real time for optimum reliability. Vibration Protection Enhanced RAFF technology includes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration in real time. The result is a significant performance improvement in high vibration environments over desktop drives. Multi-axis shock sensor Automatically detects the subtlest shock events and compensates to protect the data. RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) Reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives. NoTouch ramp load technology The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. Thermal extended burn-in test Each drive is put through extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling to ensure reliable operation. Advanced Format (AF) Technology adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers as one of multiple ways to continue growing hard drive capacities. AF is a more efficient media format that enables increased areal densities.
Usage	For NAS systems

Form Factor	3.5"
Height (maximum)	26.10mm
Width (maximum)	101.60mm
Length (maximum)	147.00mm

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