1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:14,360 today I've got a pretty cool product from Patriot to show you guys this is 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:17,279 the javelin S4 media server and what 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:24,000 this does is pretty much everything that I can think of in terms of a standalone 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,400 Nas boox and some things that I actually 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,480 didn't even think of so why don't we start with what's on the packaging on 6 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:34,160 the outside and then we'll go from there so Patriot figures these are the main 7 00:00:32,279 --> 00:00:37,640 talking points I have my own notes on what I think are the main talking points 8 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:41,399 so we'll compare them later on first of all it is an iTunes server so you can 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,399 use a single iTunes account for all computers in your network that's handy 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:49,440 okay it is a Logitech Squeezebox server so you can stream to Logitech enabled 11 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:53,000 devices that's also handy you can do Nas to NAS backup so you can actually image 12 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:59,000 with another Javelin unit within your network or outside your network so that 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:02,039 means you can do off-site backups using 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,199 a couple of in units that's very cool 15 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:08,920 and that's actually not something that was on my list so I'm glad they brought it up it is time machine compatible so 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,200 this is another Apple thing please don't don't hit the dislike button time 17 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:16,080 machine compatible is a handy feature it has a bit torrent client so you can 18 00:01:14,479 --> 00:01:21,520 download and manage all of your favorite torrent files um remotely okay remote 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:27,119 media playback so you can stream your media through a web browser or 20 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,439 iphone/Android mobile app that one's really cool that one in my eyes should 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,200 be up at the top UPnP and DNA certified okay so you can 22 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:37,680 seamlessly connect to other Home media devices and finally you can share you 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:44,079 can show off your media with friends and family anywhere so you can share files 24 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:47,880 over the inar webs all right here we go product highlights this is all pretty 25 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:51,399 similar stuff oh no actually there's more here okay so data storage over the 26 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:55,159 network and internet with Mobile Media Center and dashboard access photo albums 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:02:00,039 documents and more so that's that internet sharing bit okay you've got the 28 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,799 DLNA digital media server so that gives you instant access to music pictures 29 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:10,080 videos via digital media players on the home network such as the Patriot box 30 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:11,760 office all right um Logitech Squeeze Box 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,239 uh OneTouch backup of an external hard drive digital camera via USB that's 32 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:22,680 actually a really cool feature that's something that's a software thing they've enabled that a lot of nases do 33 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:24,280 not support with their USB ports all 34 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:29,000 right NZ to NAS replication we already covered that snapshot for instant backup 35 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:33,080 and restoration backing up your home PCS is something that is critical for any 36 00:02:30,519 --> 00:02:38,840 Nas to do now the software Solutions are either very elegant or very terrible in 37 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,680 my experience so uh that's something 38 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:45,000 that I'm glad that Patriot has worked into the javelin because backing up your 39 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:48,480 PC is the only real solution running something like a raid one in a home 40 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:52,760 computer is not a real solution because if you get a virus you still get wiped 41 00:02:50,599 --> 00:02:57,280 out so doing nightly backups is something that I would definitely 42 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:59,000 recommend to everybody smart sync backup 43 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:04,120 for automatic client backup okay good good good jumbo frame support so this is 44 00:03:00,959 --> 00:03:06,319 a 1 GB Nas so you do have fast transfer 45 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:11,440 support and it supports Network print server via USB connected printers you 46 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:13,560 can access an attach and access USB and 47 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:18,040 ESAT external hard drives as a folder share on the javelin S4 so you can 48 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:22,640 actually expand the storage beyond the four Drive Bays that are included with 49 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:27,200 the javelin S4 it has a 2-year warranty and here is a little Network map which 50 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,319 I'll show you more of in a minute which has a bunch of different ways that you 51 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,680 can use the Java so flexible raid configurations I 52 00:03:32,319 --> 00:03:40,080 mentioned it supports four drives we it supports a raid zero and a stripe I mean 53 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,319 okay please please never set up four 54 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:47,439 drives in a raid zero in a backup device that completely defeats the purpose 55 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,920 don't do it wrong raid one mirror this 56 00:03:47,439 --> 00:03:52,079 is a good way to set it up so you can actually take two drives or four drives 57 00:03:50,799 --> 00:03:56,720 and you can set them up to mirror each other so even if any one drive fails 58 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:00,760 you're going to have all of your data replicated somewhere else on a 59 00:03:58,519 --> 00:04:06,000 completely um data identical Drive RAID 10 is mirror 60 00:04:03,519 --> 00:04:09,720 and stripe performance and backup I still don't really recommend it because 61 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:14,680 you're going to be limited by gigabit Ethernet anyway you might as well just 62 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:20,799 stick with your raid ones or your raid fives so raid five is three drives or 63 00:04:17,799 --> 00:04:22,800 more and it allows you to have any one 64 00:04:20,799 --> 00:04:28,160 drive fail and then you can put in another drive and rebuild the array as 65 00:04:25,639 --> 00:04:31,600 if it was never gone so it supports the capacity of two drives with with three 66 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,960 drives so it's quite a bit more efficient than raid one where you need 67 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:40,520 two drives to support the capacity of one drive but you have the disadvantage 68 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:44,919 of rebuild time if a drive does go down in the array now raid five is cool be or 69 00:04:43,039 --> 00:04:49,560 with a spare dis is cool because you can throw four drives in your Javelin S4 if 70 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:54,759 and one of them is sitting there idling doing nothing if any one drive fails 71 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:59,000 that idling doing nothing Drive will automatically build itself into the 72 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:05,080 array to replace it and then you can at your leisure take out the dead drive and 73 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:08,120 put in a new one the javelin S4 does 74 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:11,400 support 3 terb drives so you can throw 75 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:14,440 up to 12 terabytes of 76 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:21,080 storage okay good it's okay into this tiny little 77 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:26,000 box comes very well packed as you guys just saw it's got a big old thick layer 78 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:30,440 of foam on all sides of it this is up to about an inch thick on all sides so I 79 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:36,240 really wouldn't worry about being any damage to your drives or your javelin in 80 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,080 transit all right let's put that box back together I wanted to show you guys 81 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,400 that Network map later so we'll show that and here I'm just going to move 82 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:46,479 back a little bit so you don't see my notes all right in terms of accessories 83 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:50,199 we don't have too much we've got what feels like a very solid very heavy duty 84 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:55,639 Ethernet cable with goldplated connectors looks like a 6t cable and 85 00:05:53,000 --> 00:06:00,759 then we have a power adapter looks like it has a built-in power supply so no uh 86 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:05,199 no external power brick very nice nice okay we've got drivers and manuals the 87 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:08,880 fan contains hazardous moving Parts don't you know put your fingers or other 88 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:13,360 objects in it you've got a quick start guide which is like in a lot of 89 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:18,039 different languages and stuff so you're covered pretty much no matter 90 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:23,120 how things go and this looks like some kind of a key my guess is that it's to 91 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:27,800 keep other people from just walking up to your jabin and pulling all of your 92 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:33,680 drives out of it I mean it's so small I'm guessing they could just grab the 93 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:36,039 javelin unless it has a Kensington lock 94 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:39,160 which I can't tell yet if it does this is actually kind of a slick looking 95 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:43,000 little unit that's another thing that a lot of nazes don't really have going for 96 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:47,319 them is they they tend to look kind of dumb and since it's something that you 97 00:06:44,919 --> 00:06:52,720 have to have either on or near your desk it's it's it is nice when it looks 98 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,880 good all right so there is the javelin 99 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:58,919 itself and you know what give me a second to get things organized 100 00:06:56,599 --> 00:07:03,160 here all right so we finally got the unit itself out all I have to do is push 101 00:07:01,319 --> 00:07:07,960 there the door opens at the front and I can see all four SATA interfaces at the 102 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:14,000 back of the unit it comes with four of these Drive sledges which 103 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:18,160 uh you use to put the drive on and slide it into the unit itself this did end up 104 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,960 being a key so you can actually lock this front door no problem but as I 105 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:26,879 mentioned before if I was going to steal something from a javelin I would probably just take the whole Javelin 106 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,360 itself it's fairly small fairly light although once you load it up with drives 107 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:35,440 it could be a little bit on the heavy side side and you don't want to move it around to avoid any damage to the drives 108 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:39,639 you've got uh compatible with Windows 7 sticker as well as a DNA certified 109 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:44,440 sticker Patriot logo and then you've got your power button with a built-in LED at 110 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,159 the front and that pretty much does it for the front you've got activity LEDs 111 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:51,080 for the hard drives as well as a network LED 112 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:58,800 here on the back we have a gigabit 113 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:04,840 Ethernet port we have a hard reset switch I love seeing hard reset switches 114 00:08:01,639 --> 00:08:06,440 because even the best software crashes 115 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:10,039 sometimes I actually had a tablet crash on me a little while back and it was 116 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,400 very difficult to figure out how to reset it because it had no hard reset 117 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:19,280 switch um okay sorry sorry I on a tangent here gigabit Ethernet port e 118 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:22,000 SATA interface two USB interfaces so that means you can have one of them 119 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,879 permanently attached to a printer for example and you can have the other one 120 00:08:23,919 --> 00:08:30,560 uh available for USB storage whatever the case may be and I'm sorry this one 121 00:08:28,159 --> 00:08:37,800 on the back is is actually the power button and the one on the front is not a 122 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:42,560 power button so what is the one on the 123 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:44,279 front I don't know okay well I'll figure 124 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:48,519 that out later all right finally we've got an 80 mm cooling fan we have our 125 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:52,760 power in here and then I just want to take a look at the overall construction 126 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:58,839 of the unit so you can see here we've got access via the bottom panel to 127 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,680 nothing that's screwed shut but we do have four rubber feet here on the bottom 128 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:06,200 so that's going to keep the javelin S4 from moving around when you've put it 129 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:09,279 down on the table it's also raised a little bit so I don't know here yeah 130 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:12,519 there's a good way to see it so you can see that it's going to get some 131 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:17,120 convection cooling coming up through the bottom and that's where the fan is going 132 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:20,720 to take in some of its air that's at least based on my observation and then 133 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:26,000 the rest is going to come through these vents in the front which have uh a fine 134 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:29,600 mesh over them so it should be just a matter of going like this to clean the 135 00:09:27,839 --> 00:09:33,600 dust off them once in a while and then there's also ventilation around the 136 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:39,839 outside edge where air should be able to pass quite freely into the inside around 137 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:43,040 the outsides of the door so that's uh that pretty much takes care of 138 00:09:40,839 --> 00:09:46,640 ventilation and it appears that this is not ventilation at all because you can 139 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:50,160 see that once I open it up there's actually no access to the bottom 140 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:58,079 compartment from the top so it looks like that's purely 141 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:58,079 a power supply component 142 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:06,200 RTM folks RTM means read the manual this 143 00:10:03,959 --> 00:10:09,200 is the OneTouch backup button so you'll use that every time you want to do a 144 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:14,040 OneTouch backup which basically just means it's triggering a software event 145 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:19,640 to run a prescheduled backup that you have configured already so yeah that's 146 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:23,519 pretty much it all right next a couple more things so Patriot recommends using 147 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:27,079 Enterprise or Raid Edition class hard drives for maximum reliability when 148 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:31,920 using raid zero or Raid five configurations good reason for that raid 149 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:35,839 zero as I mentioned before like not it's for Speed it's not for reliability you 150 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:41,800 lose one drive out of a four Drive rate zero all the data is gone so just don't 151 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:47,079 use that at all and then for raid five the array is quite vulnerable if a drive 152 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:50,200 fails during that period where you haven't put in a new drive and let it 153 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:54,800 rebuild itself while it's rebuilding if another Drive fails it will all be gone 154 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:59,440 so it is best to use Enterprise class drives now finally let's have a look at 155 00:10:56,839 --> 00:11:04,800 Patriots Network map here where you have the javelin as the center of the house 156 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:07,000 right there and then you have uh you 157 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:11,279 know a UPS being managed by it you have external hard drives a printer you can 158 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,680 back up the javelin itself to another Javelin over the Internet that's a 159 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:18,360 really cool feature I love that okay you've got portable devices like phones 160 00:11:16,839 --> 00:11:23,839 that you can stream media to you've got a network media player like a box office 161 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:25,920 hooked up to your TV Xbox 360 you've got 162 00:11:23,839 --> 00:11:30,079 it connected via wire to a wireless router switch which you can stream media 163 00:11:27,639 --> 00:11:35,240 to your laptop or to your computers including Windows and Macintosh 164 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:38,720 computers and finally any UPnP and DLNA 165 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:40,200 devices and even Linux computers 166 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:43,279 themselves so there's going to be a full Tech tips episode coming on the javelin 167 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,639 where we show some of these features but for now that is my unboxing thank you 168 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:51,680 for checking it out and I'll turn this around the right way don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips