welcome to my unboxing and first look at netgear's ready for home so this
particular one doesn't come with any discs it does have a three-year warranty
it's not a business grade product so as far as the hardware spec goes it's got a
gigabit Network Port but it's got uh 256
Megs of RAM and then a single core Melville Melville melel Marvel processor
so I wouldn't expect to be getting like huge you know 100 megabyte second
transfer speeds or anything like that but honestly it's probably not what you
need for a home networking device so what does n Gear think you should use
this for home use storage use I mean
this is all these are all sort of Fairly self-explanatory things if you guys know
what a Naas is then you know it's probably good this is the biggest bag of
do not eat that I think I've ever seen in a box it's huge like look I don't
like you probably couldn't eat it if you wanted to
all right moving along to the nas itself um so yeah supports a single drive
failure pretty much any 2bay Naas as long as it supports raid one should be
able to support a single drive failure so that is fairly self-explanatory I
love the way Netgear stuff is built like it's like steel Drive cages I've seen
nasas that have like plastic cheesy ones
it actually feels like you know an appliance and it's I think part of it is
because Netgear does manufacture prograde stuff so it's actually probably
more expensive for them to retool a cheaper cheaper alternative um solution
than to just use stuff an existing design they have that's very rugged and
robust and just give it to the general consumer as well so uh that I appreciate
mounting wise you unfortunately don't get the benefit of toolless mounting
because that's not really how prograde stuff works but I I mean how often are
you really going to be changing the drive in a 2bay NZ unless it dies you
probably aren't going to be doing any of that
um it's kind of nice looking actually it looks again it looks very prograde so
this is the duo V2 it has a USB port on the front it has a on touch backup as
well as power you've got an activity LED as well as drive indicator LEDs for both
sides the most of the intake is at the front but there's going to be some air
intake on the side here as well as on the side here and all of that is going
to be have air drawn through it with a 92mm fan this is one of the bigger fans
that I've seen on a 2bay Nas cuz they filled up the almost the entire back of
the unit with the cooling fan so this is great because it's going to make it
quieter and it's also going to make sure that your drives aren't going to suffer
from any excess heat which can cause failures over time it has a Kensington
lock as well as a hard reset button two USB 3.0 ports on the back this is a nice
feature as well because it allows you to expand the storage Beyond just those
internal ports or do things like back your Nas up to something else and then
store it off site gigabit Lan DC power
in and let's see what else net gear
thinks is important about this so they're they're marketing sort of a Naas
as a private cloud and that really is kind of what it is it's a way to store
all of your stuff in one place do continuous backups on your machines have
uh well okay automatic expansion I think is sort of iffy because on a 2bay Nas
there's not much you can do to automatically expand it other than like
add more USB but there you go um what's cool is they do have a a mobile app so
you can remotely access your files as well as mobile access them and they do
have a private HD photo sharing site so I mean h calling something an HD photo
is sort of redundant but having a photo sharing site other than Facebook is
important to people and not everyone's techsavvy enough to set up like their
own like web server and you know set up
the authentication that would go into that so something like this where it's more of an appliance type option uh
could be very convenient and then of course these are the kinds of things that you do have to explain to people
who don't know that there's something outside of cloud storage you there are
no hosting fees there are no overage charges there's no actual limitation
other than buying bigger drives if you
want more storage or adding more nazes thanks for checking out this unboxing of
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videos I just realized I never showed you guys what's in this brown box I mean
I probably could have guessed an Ethernet cable hard drive mounting
screws and a power adapter same things
that are included with every Nas um and
then there's also their resource CD which you can of course download off the
Netgear website and their little quick start guide