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finally here, guys. The fire test with the IOSE N2 fireproof waterproof NAS.
Now, I was going to do something kind of ghetto with our fire test that wouldn't
really have been safe. And so, I reached
out to Western Digital, makers of the ever popular WD
Red. These are our preferred NAS drives around here. Speaking of preferred,
which NAS drives did you buy, Slick? Four 3 TB WD reds. Four three TB WD
reds. And did you get those for free or sponsored in any way? I paid them for
incredible retail price of expensive. Yeah. Okay. So, they're expensive, but
we do believe that they're worth it. They are rated for 24/7 operation. They
do come with 247 tech support. And of
course, they come with a longer warranty than most consumer grade drives. So,
they're rated for operation in anywhere from single to five drive operation
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
is we are going to be putting these drives inside our N2. We have gotten a
sponsorship from WD to do this. They're not giving us any money, but they're
going to be giving the local fire department like hundreds of dollars,
which is actually very generous of them considering that we're going to light their drives on fire. Um, but then
they'll hopefully still work to have us go down to their training grounds and
actually do uh a simulation of burning
down the NAS and then spraying it with water, which is exactly what this
fireproof, waterproof Naz is designed to withstand. So, I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to throw our two WD red drives
in here. So, we've got an Allen key that's included for tightening these bad
boys up. And we are going to head down to the training ground to get this done.
Remember, the way that this works is that it actually sweats liquid from this
protective material around here. And then ventilation is still provided to
the drives by having these heat sinks around here take in air from the
outside. Now, the way that the N2 works, I go into this in more detail in my
unboxing of all things, but the way that it works is that it is allowing air to
pass through to cool the components inside while not allowing fire through
by having a baffle on the front shield right here so that there's no direct
line of sight for the fire and the flames to get into the drives
themselves. So, we're going to close this up. And I'm actually super excited
to do this. I've been looking forward to this for a while. So, we wanted to give
you guys a quick look at the burn room that we'll be using. So, here's the
IOSafe N2 Naz. Richard is loading in
pallets that we're going to use to feed the fire, get her going, get her up to a
pretty uh unacceptable temperature for a normal hard drive, and then uh we're
going to we're going to douse it off with the with the hydrant and hose that
you saw before. So, let's just give you guys a closer look inside here at where
we're going to be putting it inside the burn room. All right, so we're loading
up pallets. So, go ahead. Yep. And uh so you can see there's like
uh they they use this pretty often. So I'm told that the fire kind of goes up
here and curls around in the ceiling. And once Richard gets completely geared
up, you were saying how close can you get to to this fire?
Right about here, probably. All right. So basically, you can stand right next
to it. And about how hot are we expecting this to get? Uh could see
around 800. 900 probably. So 800 to 900
degrees Celsius. We've actually got a thermal imager that we're going to be using to verify the temperature and the
uh the IoSafe Naz is being positioned right here. So, this is this is going to
get pretty toasty. Is this pretty realistic for what you'd expect for if
this thing was actually in a house fire, what it would be subjected to? This is
probably worst case scenario. This would be around the most flammable heat uh
creating objects you could possibly imagine. You know, this would be sandwiched between couches and drapes
and basically all the worst things you could imagine. Excellent. So, here we're
doing a quick run through of how the thermal imaging camera works. So, uh
check this out. There's a bunch of different modes, but uh I'm going to go
with oh, I don't know. Let's just go with the most sort of colorful interesting one. You can see Slick's
hand pops out whether it's in red or whether it's in white here or whether
it's uh white is hot, black is hot, all the different things can be hot. But
let's just go to the super colorful one because that one looks like lots of fun.
So, go ahead and pull your hand away from the door. You can see it actually
still remembers where where he touched it. So if we look inside the room, we
can see the pallets right here. And we can also see the IO safe uh Naz right
there. This uh particular Yeah, there's there's Slick standing there. So this
particular cinder block was out in the sun and the pallets were out in the sun.
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
is overseeing the operation here today. And just just to be clear, Township of
Langley Fire Department doesn't endorse the IO safe N2 NAZ or anything like
that, but they have very generously given us a pretty good cost on helping
us out here with testing it. Um, according to sort of what we agree is
what we'd say is kind of a reasonable simulation. So, how long is this going
to run? Uh, we anticipate it'll run about 20 to 25 minutes depending on the
temperature we can get it to. And that is your typical uh well typical uh time
frame from when a fire starts to people notifying the fire department that
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
typical response time which is around 8 minutes. Okay. So Wow. Really? Yeah.
That's correct. Wow. That's outstanding. Okay. So we're going to hit probably you
said around 800 to,000 degrees peak. Yeah. We're going to target we're going
to target in the 8 to 900 degree range. over a thousand degrees, it starts to
break down the gunnite on the walls, which is our fire our fire coating for the walls. But uh we're going to shoot
for approximately 900 degrees at the seat of the fire. Okay. And then this is
going to be pretty much uh what you'd consider to be a pretty worst case scenario in terms of correct having
having a fire start right next to next to the the target target, whatever you
want to call it, is worst definitely worst case scenario. All right. So,
Richard, tell us about this gear. What do you got here? Uh well, we got our
mask. Uh kind of self-explanatory. Is it self-explanatory, sir? Is it? Well, and
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
head is up display. Uh so, this displays lights, so lets me know how much air is
in my pack. I've got my clear command. This is a speaker. There's a speaker
right in the uh mouthpiece. It allows everyone to hear me. It's extremely hard
to communicate when you're in a fire. So, that's what I use that for. Then, of
course, we have the SCBA, which is the air bottle and uh the backpack. I have
my radio, which I'll be on, and I have our tick, which is our thermal imaging
camera, which uh I believe you just showed off. All right, so it's fire time. Uh Richard, you got what is what
is this? Sorry, what's this torch called? Tiger torch. All right, light
her
up. That looks like fun. That looks like
lots of fun. We ready to go? We're ready
to go. Let's do it. Let's light this thing. So, in he goes. because he's only
lighting it right now. It's okay for Richard to go in without his full
breathing apparatus and all of that noise. So, what we're going to do is
we're going to light her up. Get on out of there. We're going to
close the door and then we're going to check on it at maybe 3 or 5 minute
intervals. Have a look at it with the thermal imaging camera. Maybe leave it
open for just a just a couple seconds here so that they can get the fire starting. Yes, we are legitimately
lighting this thing on fire, folks. So, we're going to check on it every few
minutes and see if it needs to be stoked. uh see if we need to do anything
to to help make sure that we're reaching the temperatures we're going for here,
which as a reminder is around 800 to
1,000° F.
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
what's called an indirect attack where he's going to uh shoot a modified fog,
which is about 30° at the ceiling for 2 seconds. He's going to let the steam
from the water droplets rain down on the fire. It'll help darken it down. Then
he'll narrow his pattern a bit and then attack the fire directly on. Should only
take a couple of minutes. Here he goes, guys.
You want to give the Naz a good spray just for good
measure. Can't see that all.
All right. So, we're surveying the damage. Now, on the left side of the
unit here, you can see the steel enclosure didn't really discolor too
much and didn't really bow out too much. Although, it did bow a little bit.
Whereas, on the right side, where it was right next to the fire, even in the
fire, it has discolored. And if you get an angle of it kind of from the front
here, you can see it actually bowed out a fair bit. So, it was it was warped and
deformed. The front ports, the front USB port, the SD card reader, these are just
empty holes now because all the plastic surrounding them has completely melted
away. You're not intended to reuse this NAS. You send it to IOSFE. They put new
drives in a new .naz and transfer your data onto that and send it back to you.
That's how the whole service works. Now, here on the back, you can see the only
thing left of the cooling fan for the unit is the four screws around the
outside. Other than that, it's just a mass of melted plastic. And this is a
little bit surprising, but the gigabit Ethernet port and the two USB3 ports at
the back kind of survived, but then the uh the power input did not. So, once
again, I wouldn't even begin to consider firing this thing up.
Kind of survived as in after it's been fired up. Yeah, kind of survived as in
they like still have color, but they wouldn't work. Just putting that out
there. So, here we are, guys. We see a bit of a sharp contrast here between the
destroyed .naz and the replacement NAS. Now, you would normally ship this thing
back in its current state to IOSFE. You
would not do any of these uh any of this taking apart on your own
because wow, it's like you hear that
sound. Okay. because you you don't know what you're doing and you don't know
what you're getting yourself into necessarily with respect to sort of
water the water seals having water getting into them or whatever whatever
other problems there might be. You want to be real careful about this and just
let IOSFE take care of it for you. But of course, we are not that patient. So,
we wanted to just take this bad boy apart and show you guys what's up. So
you can actually see the material that we had inside the N2 has uh got some
sort of burn marks on it here, especially around the edges. But you can
also see that there's still some condensation on the inside of the
plastic sheathing that's over top of it.
And right here up against where the drives are, there's no no burn marks at
all. You can also see that on the right hand side or well I guess it would have
been the but yeah the right hand side of the unit um is much more burned than the
left hand side of the unit and that was because the fire was right there up
against it. So that was that was where it took the brunt of the damage. Okay,
so next up we've got the actual aluminum housing inside. You can see there's more
uh more scorch marks.
Okay. So, the aluminum housing here
serves a couple of purposes. Number one is that it keeps the hard drives cool
under normal operating conditions. So, that's where the airflow sort of covers
and it's got some heat sinks on it. Number two is it acts as the waterproof
seal for the unit. So, that keeps the water from the fire hose out. So, we're
going to go ahead and try and pry it off here. Okay. So, we just managed to pry
it off with a fork. I suspect what happened is the gasket around the
outside probably melted a bit and it looks like that may or may not have been
the case. Actually, it's in uh it's in not bad condition all things considered.
So, um yeah, it looks like just around this one edge on that one side where the
fire was touching the Naz almost the whole time. That's the only place where
we see any kind of a problem here. So, let's start with the drive that probably
got it a little bit easier in terms of the abuse that went
on. Okay. So, it looks pretty normal.
You wouldn't know that that was sitting in a fire for uh 20 to 25 minutes. All
right. Now, the abused one. Here we go,
guys. Let's go ahead and pull this out. It is highly recommended, actually, it
is required that you let your drives dry out completely before reinstalling them.
in another enclosure or doing anything with them. Um, our enclosure didn't
really get that wet and I don't think that the waterproofness was penetrated
at all and there isn't really any moisture left in the device to to go
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
guys know if if they still work. I mean, look at this. This was in this way and
there's no no perceivable damage to it
at this point in time. So, we're going to keep the camera rolling and we're
just going to time-lapse this because I want you guys to know that there's no
faking and no switcheroo going on here. If these drives have data on them, they
survived a 25minute fire.
No way. My precious my precious
pictures. So, there you have it, guys. I
I'm I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. Um I save told me it was going to work, but
still. You saw that fire. I mean, uh look at this enclosure. Oh, it's so
heavy. Look at the way that this side bowed out. I mean, we abused this thing
to the point where I wasn't necessarily
that, you know, convinced that anything was going to survive it. Look at what
happened to the cooling fan in the back that it's I mean, it's gone. It's
obliterated. You can smell it when it's closed. I know. You can still smell it
even uh even now. So, uh the idea is not to keep using these
drives. The idea is to pull all the data off of them and use different drives
now, which of course IO takes care of. But there you have it, guys. My precious
memories are still on the Naz. Let's
even see if we can play back uh Big Buck Bunny. Oh, it's an MKV. Okay. Well,
we'll play back like Oh, okay. MP4. Yes.
Open with Windows Media Player. Look at that. There's the old NCX tech tips
intro playing off of two hard drives
that were sitting this far away from a
th00and degree Fahrenheit plus
fire. Uh, thanks for checking out this video. Huge thanks to IOSFE who sent us
two of their NAS to make this happen and then WD who paid for us to go to the
training facility and set the whole thing on fire. Other than that, uh this
is just a Linus Tech Tips video. So
there's uh there's no sponsorship beyond that. So we were as interested as anyone
in finding out whether this whole thing was going to work. And that's again that's one of the reasons we brought in
a second sponsor to fund us lighting it on fire because WD ultimately doesn't
have anything invested in whether or not this Naz works. But I'm sure they're
happy to know that they have something fireproof to recommend to their
customers at this point. So uh there you go guys. Like this video if you liked
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