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finally here, guys. The fire test with the IOSE N2 fireproof waterproof NAS.

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Now, I was going to do something kind of ghetto with our fire test that wouldn't

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really have been safe. And so, I reached

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out to Western Digital, makers of the ever popular WD

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Red. These are our preferred NAS drives around here. Speaking of preferred,

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which NAS drives did you buy, Slick? Four 3 TB WD reds. Four three TB WD

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reds. And did you get those for free or sponsored in any way? I paid them for

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incredible retail price of expensive. Yeah. Okay. So, they're expensive, but

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we do believe that they're worth it. They are rated for 24/7 operation. They

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do come with 247 tech support. And of

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course, they come with a longer warranty than most consumer grade drives. So,

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they're rated for operation in anywhere from single to five drive operation

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within a single enclosure. Any more than that, you're going to want to step up to an SE. And the main point of all of this

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is we are going to be putting these drives inside our N2. We have gotten a

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sponsorship from WD to do this. They're not giving us any money, but they're

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going to be giving the local fire department like hundreds of dollars,

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which is actually very generous of them considering that we're going to light their drives on fire. Um, but then

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they'll hopefully still work to have us go down to their training grounds and

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actually do uh a simulation of burning

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down the NAS and then spraying it with water, which is exactly what this

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fireproof, waterproof Naz is designed to withstand. So, I'm going to go ahead and

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I'm going to throw our two WD red drives

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in here. So, we've got an Allen key that's included for tightening these bad

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boys up. And we are going to head down to the training ground to get this done.

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Remember, the way that this works is that it actually sweats liquid from this

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protective material around here. And then ventilation is still provided to

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the drives by having these heat sinks around here take in air from the

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outside. Now, the way that the N2 works, I go into this in more detail in my

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unboxing of all things, but the way that it works is that it is allowing air to

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pass through to cool the components inside while not allowing fire through

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by having a baffle on the front shield right here so that there's no direct

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line of sight for the fire and the flames to get into the drives

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themselves. So, we're going to close this up. And I'm actually super excited

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to do this. I've been looking forward to this for a while. So, we wanted to give

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you guys a quick look at the burn room that we'll be using. So, here's the

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IOSafe N2 Naz. Richard is loading in

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pallets that we're going to use to feed the fire, get her going, get her up to a

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pretty uh unacceptable temperature for a normal hard drive, and then uh we're

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going to we're going to douse it off with the with the hydrant and hose that

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you saw before. So, let's just give you guys a closer look inside here at where

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we're going to be putting it inside the burn room. All right, so we're loading

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up pallets. So, go ahead. Yep. And uh so you can see there's like

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uh they they use this pretty often. So I'm told that the fire kind of goes up

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here and curls around in the ceiling. And once Richard gets completely geared

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up, you were saying how close can you get to to this fire?

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Right about here, probably. All right. So basically, you can stand right next

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to it. And about how hot are we expecting this to get? Uh could see

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around 800. 900 probably. So 800 to 900

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degrees Celsius. We've actually got a thermal imager that we're going to be using to verify the temperature and the

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uh the IoSafe Naz is being positioned right here. So, this is this is going to

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get pretty toasty. Is this pretty realistic for what you'd expect for if

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this thing was actually in a house fire, what it would be subjected to? This is

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probably worst case scenario. This would be around the most flammable heat uh

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creating objects you could possibly imagine. You know, this would be sandwiched between couches and drapes

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and basically all the worst things you could imagine. Excellent. So, here we're

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doing a quick run through of how the thermal imaging camera works. So, uh

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check this out. There's a bunch of different modes, but uh I'm going to go

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with oh, I don't know. Let's just go with the most sort of colorful interesting one. You can see Slick's

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hand pops out whether it's in red or whether it's in white here or whether

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it's uh white is hot, black is hot, all the different things can be hot. But

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let's just go to the super colorful one because that one looks like lots of fun.

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So, go ahead and pull your hand away from the door. You can see it actually

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still remembers where where he touched it. So if we look inside the room, we

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can see the pallets right here. And we can also see the IO safe uh Naz right

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there. This uh particular Yeah, there's there's Slick standing there. So this

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particular cinder block was out in the sun and the pallets were out in the sun.

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That's why they're quite a bit hotter than the rest of the inside of the room. So we're here with Captain Brian Ule who

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is overseeing the operation here today. And just just to be clear, Township of

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Langley Fire Department doesn't endorse the IO safe N2 NAZ or anything like

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that, but they have very generously given us a pretty good cost on helping

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us out here with testing it. Um, according to sort of what we agree is

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what we'd say is kind of a reasonable simulation. So, how long is this going

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to run? Uh, we anticipate it'll run about 20 to 25 minutes depending on the

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temperature we can get it to. And that is your typical uh well typical uh time

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frame from when a fire starts to people notifying the fire department that

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they've got a fire in their house and then the temperatures that it will get to once we once we uh arrive in our

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typical response time which is around 8 minutes. Okay. So Wow. Really? Yeah.

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That's correct. Wow. That's outstanding. Okay. So we're going to hit probably you

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said around 800 to,000 degrees peak. Yeah. We're going to target we're going

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to target in the 8 to 900 degree range. over a thousand degrees, it starts to

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break down the gunnite on the walls, which is our fire our fire coating for the walls. But uh we're going to shoot

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for approximately 900 degrees at the seat of the fire. Okay. And then this is

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going to be pretty much uh what you'd consider to be a pretty worst case scenario in terms of correct having

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having a fire start right next to next to the the target target, whatever you

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want to call it, is worst definitely worst case scenario. All right. So,

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Richard, tell us about this gear. What do you got here? Uh well, we got our

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mask. Uh kind of self-explanatory. Is it self-explanatory, sir? Is it? Well, and

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uh I know there's a lot of gamers that watch this channel. I'm a gamer myself. So, this is actually a HUD. This is my

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head is up display. Uh so, this displays lights, so lets me know how much air is

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in my pack. I've got my clear command. This is a speaker. There's a speaker

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right in the uh mouthpiece. It allows everyone to hear me. It's extremely hard

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to communicate when you're in a fire. So, that's what I use that for. Then, of

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course, we have the SCBA, which is the air bottle and uh the backpack. I have

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my radio, which I'll be on, and I have our tick, which is our thermal imaging

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camera, which uh I believe you just showed off. All right, so it's fire time. Uh Richard, you got what is what

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is this? Sorry, what's this torch called? Tiger torch. All right, light

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up. That looks like fun. That looks like

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lots of fun. We ready to go? We're ready

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to go. Let's do it. Let's light this thing. So, in he goes. because he's only

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lighting it right now. It's okay for Richard to go in without his full

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breathing apparatus and all of that noise. So, what we're going to do is

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we're going to light her up. Get on out of there. We're going to

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close the door and then we're going to check on it at maybe 3 or 5 minute

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intervals. Have a look at it with the thermal imaging camera. Maybe leave it

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open for just a just a couple seconds here so that they can get the fire starting. Yes, we are legitimately

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lighting this thing on fire, folks. So, we're going to check on it every few

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minutes and see if it needs to be stoked. uh see if we need to do anything

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to to help make sure that we're reaching the temperatures we're going for here,

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which as a reminder is around 800 to

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So before he goes in, you want to tell tell us how he's going to put out the fire. Yeah, Richard's going to perform

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what's called an indirect attack where he's going to uh shoot a modified fog,

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which is about 30° at the ceiling for 2 seconds. He's going to let the steam

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from the water droplets rain down on the fire. It'll help darken it down. Then

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he'll narrow his pattern a bit and then attack the fire directly on. Should only

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take a couple of minutes. Here he goes, guys.

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measure. Can't see that all.

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All right. So, we're surveying the damage. Now, on the left side of the

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unit here, you can see the steel enclosure didn't really discolor too

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much and didn't really bow out too much. Although, it did bow a little bit.

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Whereas, on the right side, where it was right next to the fire, even in the

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fire, it has discolored. And if you get an angle of it kind of from the front

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here, you can see it actually bowed out a fair bit. So, it was it was warped and

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deformed. The front ports, the front USB port, the SD card reader, these are just

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empty holes now because all the plastic surrounding them has completely melted

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away. You're not intended to reuse this NAS. You send it to IOSFE. They put new

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drives in a new .naz and transfer your data onto that and send it back to you.

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That's how the whole service works. Now, here on the back, you can see the only

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thing left of the cooling fan for the unit is the four screws around the

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outside. Other than that, it's just a mass of melted plastic. And this is a

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little bit surprising, but the gigabit Ethernet port and the two USB3 ports at

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the back kind of survived, but then the uh the power input did not. So, once

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again, I wouldn't even begin to consider firing this thing up.

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Kind of survived as in after it's been fired up. Yeah, kind of survived as in

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they like still have color, but they wouldn't work. Just putting that out

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there. So, here we are, guys. We see a bit of a sharp contrast here between the

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destroyed .naz and the replacement NAS. Now, you would normally ship this thing

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back in its current state to IOSFE. You

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would not do any of these uh any of this taking apart on your own

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because wow, it's like you hear that

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sound. Okay. because you you don't know what you're doing and you don't know

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what you're getting yourself into necessarily with respect to sort of

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water the water seals having water getting into them or whatever whatever

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other problems there might be. You want to be real careful about this and just

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let IOSFE take care of it for you. But of course, we are not that patient. So,

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we wanted to just take this bad boy apart and show you guys what's up. So

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you can actually see the material that we had inside the N2 has uh got some

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sort of burn marks on it here, especially around the edges. But you can

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also see that there's still some condensation on the inside of the

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plastic sheathing that's over top of it.

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And right here up against where the drives are, there's no no burn marks at

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all. You can also see that on the right hand side or well I guess it would have

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been the but yeah the right hand side of the unit um is much more burned than the

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left hand side of the unit and that was because the fire was right there up

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against it. So that was that was where it took the brunt of the damage. Okay,

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so next up we've got the actual aluminum housing inside. You can see there's more

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uh more scorch marks.

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serves a couple of purposes. Number one is that it keeps the hard drives cool

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under normal operating conditions. So, that's where the airflow sort of covers

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and it's got some heat sinks on it. Number two is it acts as the waterproof

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seal for the unit. So, that keeps the water from the fire hose out. So, we're

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going to go ahead and try and pry it off here. Okay. So, we just managed to pry

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it off with a fork. I suspect what happened is the gasket around the

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outside probably melted a bit and it looks like that may or may not have been

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the case. Actually, it's in uh it's in not bad condition all things considered.

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fire was touching the Naz almost the whole time. That's the only place where

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we see any kind of a problem here. So, let's start with the drive that probably

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got it a little bit easier in terms of the abuse that went

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on. Okay. So, it looks pretty normal.

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You wouldn't know that that was sitting in a fire for uh 20 to 25 minutes. All

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right. Now, the abused one. Here we go,

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guys. Let's go ahead and pull this out. It is highly recommended, actually, it

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is required that you let your drives dry out completely before reinstalling them.

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in another enclosure or doing anything with them. Um, our enclosure didn't

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really get that wet and I don't think that the waterproofness was penetrated

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at all and there isn't really any moisture left in the device to to go

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inside here and bother it. So, we're probably going to be able to pretty much fire these babies up and I'll let you

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guys know if if they still work. I mean, look at this. This was in this way and

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there's no no perceivable damage to it

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at this point in time. So, we're going to keep the camera rolling and we're

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just going to time-lapse this because I want you guys to know that there's no

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faking and no switcheroo going on here. If these drives have data on them, they

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survived a 25minute fire.

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No way. My precious my precious

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pictures. So, there you have it, guys. I

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I'm I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. Um I save told me it was going to work, but

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still. You saw that fire. I mean, uh look at this enclosure. Oh, it's so

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heavy. Look at the way that this side bowed out. I mean, we abused this thing

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to the point where I wasn't necessarily

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that, you know, convinced that anything was going to survive it. Look at what

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happened to the cooling fan in the back that it's I mean, it's gone. It's

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obliterated. You can smell it when it's closed. I know. You can still smell it

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even uh even now. So, uh the idea is not to keep using these

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drives. The idea is to pull all the data off of them and use different drives

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now, which of course IO takes care of. But there you have it, guys. My precious

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memories are still on the Naz. Let's

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even see if we can play back uh Big Buck Bunny. Oh, it's an MKV. Okay. Well,

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we'll play back like Oh, okay. MP4. Yes.

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Open with Windows Media Player. Look at that. There's the old NCX tech tips

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intro playing off of two hard drives

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that were sitting this far away from a

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fire. Uh, thanks for checking out this video. Huge thanks to IOSFE who sent us

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two of their NAS to make this happen and then WD who paid for us to go to the

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training facility and set the whole thing on fire. Other than that, uh this

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is just a Linus Tech Tips video. So

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there's uh there's no sponsorship beyond that. So we were as interested as anyone

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in finding out whether this whole thing was going to work. And that's again that's one of the reasons we brought in

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a second sponsor to fund us lighting it on fire because WD ultimately doesn't

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have anything invested in whether or not this Naz works. But I'm sure they're

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happy to know that they have something fireproof to recommend to their

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customers at this point. So uh there you go guys. Like this video if you liked

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it. Dislike it if for whatever reason you disliked it. I thought it was awesome though. Leave a comment letting

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