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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the small business owner Delight this is

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meant to be a turnkey storage and backup

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and data access solution for small

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businesses who basically don't want to lose all of their data this is the WD

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Sentinel dx4000 we're going to go ahead and get

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it out of the outer brown box and have a look at the inner brown box so that's a

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shipping carton so let's start by saying

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that this thing is not cheap this is a

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value proposition but not a price play this is not really meant for consumers

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to give you guys some idea the 4 tbte skew which is the one that we have here

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is around 800 bucks and moving up to something like a 12 tbte version you'd

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be looking at closer to $1,500 to $2,000 so what's the value proposition

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here well for one thing it includes actually you know what let's let's okay

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you guys will get the value proposition later and I should preface this by

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saying if you want a far more detailed look at this we will be doing a

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follow-up video on the ncixcom channel where we take a much closer look at it

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the product like this is not served correctly by a basic unboxing but we

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might as well film an unboxing if we have to open up the box so uh let's

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start with what WD has to say for themselves on the outside so the package

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contents is the small office storage server AC adapter rg45 cable okay system

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requirements are basically you need an internet connection and a router okay

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that's pretty basic two gigb Ethernet ports two USB 3.0 ports those two gigb

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Ethernet ports are very interesting because they are failsafe which means

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they are redundant so even if you lose an Ethernet port you will not lose

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access to your data uses an Intel atom d525 dual core processor with two gigs

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of RAM and runs Windows storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials now when you break

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down the cost of this unit including the hardware they're using that Intel

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processor as well as Enterprise grade Intel hardware for the rest of the

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infrastructure that supports it plus they've actually got a copy of Windows

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server on it plus some of the other stuff that they include it starts to

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look like a very compelling value supported client operating systems whole

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bunch of operating systems pretty much everything that most people would care about supported web browsers pretty much

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everything most people would care about um network uh Network authentic ah right

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it supports active directory so if you have an existing active directory this

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will integrate easily into that due to its Windows uh due to its Windows basis

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Network protocols okay F raid levels aha raid one and raid five so this is a 4

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tbte skew which means it has two 2 tbte

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WD uh re series drives inside these are

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both 1.2 million hour meantime between failure drives um because this is meant

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as a server not as a consumer product

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and there is no room for failure of data

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in a server so this oh yeah this this

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what's more telling about all of this is what's absent here there's nothing about

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jbod nothing about raid zero nothing

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about anything but raid one and raid five The Sentinel does not support Drive

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configurations that are not safe and redundant so this 4 terab skew will

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automatically be configured in raid one which means that in terms of actual

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usable space we're going to have 2 terabytes to start with and then if we

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add an additional drive we'll go up to 4 terabytes and it'll run in raid five

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automatically it also supports online raid level migration and capacity

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expansion which means I can continue to use my data lbe it at reduced

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performance while I throw in my third drive and upgrade my storage space very

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cool other features share folder level Access Control bare metal backup and

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restore for up to 25 computers oh that's really another really cool thing so the

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way it does Backups is actually purely incremental which means if you have uh

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you know let's say you maxed it out and you've got 25 computers and you've got

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let's say the 12 the 12 terab skew so 8 terab of usable data realistically can

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you back up 25 computers on 8 terabytes no except that you can because it is

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only it is not storing any duplicated data so the Windows operating system

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files for example are only going to be stored

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once and then it can use those same files to restore any of those 25

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computers also when it takes multiple snapshots of a system it's only going to

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copy any changes in the data rather than

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recopying the whole thing so it makes very efficient use of the storage space

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that it has moving right along file

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folder level restore okay front panel LCD for S of staus built in DLNA server

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so yeah so if you do presentations in your office for example so this is not

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the same use of a LNA server that you'd have at home where you want to stream

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videos to your iPad uh not about that it's about you know training videos and

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any other media that you might need for your business not for uh not for home

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use okay USB UPS support okay so

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supports uh USB ups and check this out

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guys so this thing is serious business

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so with an let's let's let's start with you know what no let's do accessories

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first so there's your inter there's your Ethernet cable there's your power

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brick look at that fsp no no name power

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brick okay there's your cable for that

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and that's pretty much it technical support and warranty guide okay that

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might be important you want to hold on to this especially if you're a business user now WD has designed this thing from

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the ground up to be as simple as possible so you don't necessarily have

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to have an IT guy at your business in order to use this now we're going to be

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testing it and making sure that that's actually the case but WD seems very

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confident that almost anyone can use it here's an administrator's quick install

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guide which explains a little bit about what the Sentinel is all about and how

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to use it shows you how to connect it shows you how to configure it okay so

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this is uh not all English actually oh it's relatively quick so it's only a few

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steps how to connect your computers to it including different

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os's uh how to authenticate and uh join

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or and connect to the server okay so

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what makes this server grade Hardware we got a cooling fan servers need cooling

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that's good we've also got dual power in

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these are failsafe which means if you buy an additional power brick even if

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your power brick fails even if your internal power supply on the Sentinel

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fails you will not experience any downtime two USB 3.0 ports for auxiliary

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storage as well as for you know uh running a UPS over USB and then there

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are your dual again fail safe gigabit Ethernet

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connections um on the side you got some ventilation holes on the other side you

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got some more ventilation holes on the bottom you don't see anything really out

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of the ordinary actually hold on a sec so what makes this thing you know really

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Enterprise grade server grade a few things there are your redundant power

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supply inputs so if you grab yourself an additional power supply making sure that

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you use the appropriate uh the appropriate spec for your power grip you

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will actually experience no downtime in the event of a failure even of the

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internal uh components that are on the other side here so that's pretty cool

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there's your USB ports for any you know

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additional functionality you need whether it's using it as a print server

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or whether it's uh using a ups for backup and there are your fail safe dual

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gigabit Ethernet ports we've also got a cooling fan on the back as well as your

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serial number and any information Kensington lock spot is right here some

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ventilation holes on the side some ventilation holes on the other side

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especially if you load this thing up with four drives you're going to want it reasonably well ventilated on the front

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you can see it opens up here and there is a drive so let's not fuss with that

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one let's instead pull out one of the empty ones so in terms of Drive mounting

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it's actually very straightforward now this is cool because our Sentinel is uh

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is a is an uh sorry a 4 gig or 4 tbte

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but WD sent us an additional drive now it should be noted that it is a special

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skew that goes into the Sentinel WD is taking the data security of small

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businesses very seriously you can't just use any re Drive there's uh there's a

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matrix uh available I think it's online which shows you which drives you can use

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in order to upgrade the storage of your Sentinel so for the same reason it does

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not support running outside of raid 1 or Raid 5 it does not support

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non-enterprise grade hard drives okay

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you're not this is not meant to be a cheap NAS where you're using consumer

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grade hardware for a business use this

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is a business class piece of hardware so

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anyway they sent us an additional 2 tab drive and the upgrade process is as

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simple as even if the machine is powered on lining it up there's no mounting

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screws no nothing dropping it in I mean

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don't drop it be careful it's a hard drive hold on ah there we go pressing it

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in and closing it that is the upgrade process you can do it while it's on and

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it won't even affect your ability to access your data and it's going to start

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putting this in raid five mode which will double our available capacity by

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switching from raid 1 to raid 5 I'm going to take that out for now though because we do want to have a look at it

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running in raid one mode uh when we do our full Tech tips before we uh go much

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further into that okay so there's on the front we've

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also got our LCD readout we've got activity LEDs for the four drives as

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well as navigation buttons for here as well as a power button so that's you

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know what let's call that it for the unboxing and I want you guys to

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definitely check out the full video on this on ncixcom maybe this isn't for you

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but if you're like the tech it guy in family you know anyone who has a small

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business slick was showing me some pretty terrifying statistics it was

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something in the neighborhood of 40 to 60% of small businesses never open their

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doors again after a catastrophic data

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loss think about that for a second and if you know anyone who has a small

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business where they're still using you know oh I don't have a thumb drive on me

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but where they're still using thumb drives to move critical business data

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around it's not the right way to go thumb drives can fail I personally had

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one fail a little while ago that was very inconvenient for me this gives

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everyone remote access to the data they need you can set everything up based on

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which users have access to what and when and all of all those kinds of settings

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this is more along the lines of what people should be using so thank you for checking out this unboxing and first

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