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more welcome to my unboxing and First
Look aha at a type of packaging that
you'll likely never see so this is a
four pack of seat's new NZ hard drive so
what is a NZ hard drive see it requires a lot of explanation because similar to
seates competitor who also has a Nas optimized drive this one has a very
cryptic name that doesn't in any way imply the functional oh wait no it's
called a NZ hard drive okay so it's for nazes it's available in a variety of
capacities up to 4 terabyte which for a consumer grade NAS drive is right now
the highest capacity that you can get it comes with a three-year warranty it uses
a SATA 3 6 GB per second interface not
that that matters in any way shape or form because quite frankly the things
that matter for Naz drives are a couple of things so number one is vibration
tolerance these ones are optimized for anywhere from 1 to five drives in an
enclosure and they are optimized to not be interfered with by the other drives
around them the next thing is workload so these are rated for a 24/7 workload
however not to the same sort of extent that you'd find on something like a
Seagate constellation es which is their their Enterprise class drive it's also
designed for quiet operation which is important if you're using your Nas or
your hard drive enoder encloser hard drive encloser it's a new thing I just
invented a hard drive enclosure on something like a desktop next to your PC
and you don't want to sit around and listen to it and um of course cost is a
factor so as a consumer grade device this particular NAS drive is not very
expensive performance takes a back seat with a Nas hard drive and the reason for
that is because most nasas are going to be limited not by the performance of the
drives inside but by the performance of the network interface attached to them
in most cases gigabit which one of these drives can max out never mind if you go
and Chuck like four of them in an enclosure running in RAID 10 which or
something like that um or they're going to be held back by the controller
involved which in most nases is not going to be able to handle more than
gigabit operation anyway in something like a raid five which is what I
personally would usually run four drives in as long as I have a controller that's
powerful enough to deliver me at least you know 40 50 60 megabytes per second
of right speed because there are a lot of calculations in grade five is
efficient because it gives you three drives worth of capacity with only one
drive taken up in terms of redundancy
but it just means more calculation intensive therefore it is slower thank
you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Seagate NAS drive and
hey guys stay tuned because I'm going to back up these claims where I'm actually
here first I want you guys to say what you think am I right or am I wrong about
the whole NAS Drives performance doesn't matter thing cuz I'm going to try and
back it up I've actually got slick working on a test right now where we're
going to be using a pretty high-end Synology Nas so $500 $600 for Bay Nas
and we're going to go Seagate NAS drive versus WD red 3 terb and we're going to
find out which one performs better stay tuned for more don't forget to subscribe
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