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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ds411 from sonology so I don't know

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if you guys are that familiar with nas Brands but yeah sonology is like up here

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in terms of the overall quality the user experience I've never used one before

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I'm just going based on hearsay but I'm very excited to be checking this one out

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and I will be using it so I have very high expectations for this particular

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particular Nas enclosure this so this is a 4B let's go over the features first

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great for file sharing duh it's a Nas okay web server cool so you can run a

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small website off of it data protection and raid so this uh this enclosure

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supports raid 0156 and 10 yes it supports raid six

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very cool although with actually hold on hold on okay hold on hold on let's take

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a step back let's take a step back raid

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six in a 4B enclosure is actually kind of brain dead because raid six requires

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two drives for parody and destroys your right performance whereas RAID 10 will

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also require two drives for parody and will have fantastic performance so okay

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maybe that's pointless but raid five is good because you only need one parody

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drive so you can have better capacity than RAID 10 uh okay mobile access okay

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using your smartphone or whatever else DNA media server fully compliant with

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that surveillance server compliant oh cool okay PC backup is supported mail

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server is supported compatible with Windows Mac and Linux no problem

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Windows ads you know what I actually don't know what that means so feel free

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to leave a comment on the video and let me know online photo sharing in a print

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server okay cool and so this is basically all that stuff we just saw

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except like with arrows interesting uh

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the ds411 is slightly higher performance than the 411 J with these Nas units it

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often comes down to the performance of

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the network controller so most of them are gigabit now so that's less of an

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issue it used to be that a lot of them were 1000 which is just way too slow um

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in this day and age um and it also comes down to the performance of the processor

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because um especially if you're running in a raid configuration such as raid

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five which is going to be how exactly how I would want to run this enclosure

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because raid five means you use okay so if you have three or four three terabyte

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drives um jbod would give you 12

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terabytes okay so stick with me here guys so jbod however jbod just a bunch

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of discs doesn't provide any data redundancy so any protection from a data

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from a hard drive failure so not ideal

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raid one will give you only 6 terabytes

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of storage but will protect you from up to two hard drive failures as long as

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they're not both on the same uh on the same data mirror okay so there's that

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raid five gives you 9 terabytes of data

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and will allow for up to one outright drive failure so it's the perfect

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balance um although you do have a bit of a performance impact uh RAID 10 gives

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you oh I already talked about RAID 10 so RAID 10 gives you great performance and

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raid five will impact performance negatively but uh right so that right right right

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so in your ideal configuration which is raid five to get the most out of your

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storage drives that you're paying good money for um the processor is a huge

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Factor because the faster your processor is the faster it can calculate that

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parody bit that's required for raid five

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operation and for the redundancy that it provides so let's go ahead and take all

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this stuff out and let's have a look at the unit itself so it's a 4bay NZ the

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whole front is basically uh ventilated slits here uh you've also got uh

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indicators for the four hard drives that it is compatible with land indicator

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status indicator and a power switch is right at the front on the side you find

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not a whole lot to write home about a sonology logo on the other side you find

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a completely matching sonology

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logo okay nothing exciting sorry uh 2 60

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mm fans round out the back those look like low profile fans yep um hopefully

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they're not too loud but I haven't fired it up yet so I don't know yet power in

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gigabit Land Two USB 2.0 ports so that's

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you know for your print server or whatever other functionality eat a port

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so that's kind of neat okay maybe there's more of a point to raid six with

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this thing than I thought if you want to run something else off of it a reset

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switch so that's your hard reset and it looks like you got thumb screws to take

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the whole sort of back apart now what I want to know is how do you actually

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install a drive in here the bottom is on little feet which is sort of good and uh

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ah included accessories power adapter other more different power cable

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Ethernet cable screws to install drives

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and apparently to install a lot of

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things okay H welcome read this first

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don't mind if I do what's in here probably a quick start

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guide Vel lots of different languages that's

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good uh except that I can't find English

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come on help me English English welcome

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there we go uh thank you for purchasing this check this for compatible hard

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drives if you buy Reds you'll know that it's compatible um regularly something

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something okay thank you for that that's actually the most useless read this

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first that I think I've ever encountered um setup discs and warranty

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information and whatnot so give me a second here guys I'm going

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to have to try and figure out how to open this thing up yeah I totally nubbed

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out on those fans those are standard profile 80 mm so the fact that they're

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using two larger fans in the back of a 4bay enclosure like this is uh very

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promising this should be extremely quiet so let's go ahead and load this in so

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you can see it's rear loaded oh I'm sorry I never even showed you guys we

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okay here here here hold on hold on uh we turn the okay apparently this comes

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off now too that we've uh that we've removed the back piece okay then so it's

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rear loaded so we turned it around see like that uh take off the four thumb

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screws and this just drops down like this and then you can load in your four

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drives just like that so I'm going to pull out these other sleds so you guys can see the back plane that's built into

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there they're using a proprietary motherboard down in the bottom so let's

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go ahead and uh actually let's check it out there you go Marvel controller over

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there whatever this is sorry I'm totally in the way of the

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camera here so nothing out of the ordinary pretty much there's all your

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activity LED all of your activity LEDs there's the uh that looks like a PCI

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Express for X interface or like some kind of custom SATA something depending

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on what kind of a chipset they're using um whatever none of that's really

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important the point is the non J version has the higher end uh the higher-end

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processor and uh actually this is a really this is a really smooth uh

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installation uh you can install Ah that's why it comes with more screws

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check this out so besides installing the drives on the sleds and sliding them in

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you can actually install yet another longer screw if you want even more

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security like if you're going to you know ship it somewhere or something like that pre-installed and then you just

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close it back up and you're good to go so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the ds411 and

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I haven't actually gone through the specs so we're not quite done and uh

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there's no specs on here that we didn't talk about already so we're done and

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right why did I say that WD Reds are the ideal driv so they have longer meantime

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between failures um longer warranty they

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have 24/7 phone support if you have any kind of a problem they have Nas

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optimized firmware they also vibrate less so in a multi-drive enclosure like

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this they're less likely to vibrate and interfere with each other and they are

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validated by WD and by the nas makers to

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be compatible so you don't even have to look it up on uh sy's website you'll

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know that a red Drive will work in your Nas thank you for checking out my

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