WEBVTT 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:11.759 The Corsair Carbide Air540 High Air Flow Cube Case is great for air cooling or 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:16.720 liquid cooling. Check the link in the video description to learn more. It's 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:23.680 finally here, guys. The fire test with the IOSE N2 fireproof waterproof NAS. 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:29.039 Now, I was going to do something kind of ghetto with our fire test that wouldn't 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.599 really have been safe. And so, I reached 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:36.000 out to Western Digital, makers of the ever popular WD 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:38.960 Red. These are our preferred NAS drives around here. Speaking of preferred, 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.280 which NAS drives did you buy, Slick? Four 3 TB WD reds. Four three TB WD 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.200 reds. And did you get those for free or sponsored in any way? I paid them for 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:50.000 incredible retail price of expensive. Yeah. Okay. So, they're expensive, but 00:00:48.879 --> 00:00:55.760 we do believe that they're worth it. They are rated for 24/7 operation. They 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:57.840 do come with 247 tech support. And of 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:02.000 course, they come with a longer warranty than most consumer grade drives. So, 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:06.560 they're rated for operation in anywhere from single to five drive operation 00:01:04.960 --> 00:01:11.040 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 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:16.479 is we are going to be putting these drives inside our N2. We have gotten a 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:19.520 sponsorship from WD to do this. They're not giving us any money, but they're 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:22.960 going to be giving the local fire department like hundreds of dollars, 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:28.960 which is actually very generous of them considering that we're going to light their drives on fire. Um, but then 00:01:26.479 --> 00:01:34.720 they'll hopefully still work to have us go down to their training grounds and 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:37.360 actually do uh a simulation of burning 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:42.159 down the NAS and then spraying it with water, which is exactly what this 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:47.520 fireproof, waterproof Naz is designed to withstand. So, I'm going to go ahead and 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:50.240 I'm going to throw our two WD red drives 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:54.079 in here. So, we've got an Allen key that's included for tightening these bad 00:01:51.840 --> 00:02:00.799 boys up. And we are going to head down to the training ground to get this done. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:05.759 Remember, the way that this works is that it actually sweats liquid from this 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:10.000 protective material around here. And then ventilation is still provided to 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:14.000 the drives by having these heat sinks around here take in air from the 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:17.360 outside. Now, the way that the N2 works, I go into this in more detail in my 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.400 unboxing of all things, but the way that it works is that it is allowing air to 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:28.640 pass through to cool the components inside while not allowing fire through 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:32.959 by having a baffle on the front shield right here so that there's no direct 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:36.000 line of sight for the fire and the flames to get into the drives 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:39.760 themselves. So, we're going to close this up. And I'm actually super excited 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.440 to do this. I've been looking forward to this for a while. So, we wanted to give 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:48.160 you guys a quick look at the burn room that we'll be using. So, here's the 00:02:44.959 --> 00:02:50.080 IOSafe N2 Naz. Richard is loading in 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:55.440 pallets that we're going to use to feed the fire, get her going, get her up to a 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:59.120 pretty uh unacceptable temperature for a normal hard drive, and then uh we're 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:02.879 going to we're going to douse it off with the with the hydrant and hose that 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.560 you saw before. So, let's just give you guys a closer look inside here at where 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:11.000 we're going to be putting it inside the burn room. All right, so we're loading 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:16.319 up pallets. So, go ahead. Yep. And uh so you can see there's like 00:03:14.239 --> 00:03:20.720 uh they they use this pretty often. So I'm told that the fire kind of goes up 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:24.239 here and curls around in the ceiling. And once Richard gets completely geared 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:28.879 up, you were saying how close can you get to to this fire? 00:03:26.959 --> 00:03:31.440 Right about here, probably. All right. So basically, you can stand right next 00:03:30.239 --> 00:03:37.360 to it. And about how hot are we expecting this to get? Uh could see 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:38.879 around 800. 900 probably. So 800 to 900 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:45.040 degrees Celsius. We've actually got a thermal imager that we're going to be using to verify the temperature and the 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:47.760 uh the IoSafe Naz is being positioned right here. So, this is this is going to 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:51.040 get pretty toasty. Is this pretty realistic for what you'd expect for if 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.640 this thing was actually in a house fire, what it would be subjected to? This is 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:00.159 probably worst case scenario. This would be around the most flammable heat uh 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:04.480 creating objects you could possibly imagine. You know, this would be sandwiched between couches and drapes 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:07.840 and basically all the worst things you could imagine. Excellent. So, here we're 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:10.879 doing a quick run through of how the thermal imaging camera works. So, uh 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:14.879 check this out. There's a bunch of different modes, but uh I'm going to go 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:20.160 with oh, I don't know. Let's just go with the most sort of colorful interesting one. You can see Slick's 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:25.600 hand pops out whether it's in red or whether it's in white here or whether 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:28.720 it's uh white is hot, black is hot, all the different things can be hot. But 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:31.280 let's just go to the super colorful one because that one looks like lots of fun. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:35.840 So, go ahead and pull your hand away from the door. You can see it actually 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:41.280 still remembers where where he touched it. So if we look inside the room, we 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:46.800 can see the pallets right here. And we can also see the IO safe uh Naz right 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:50.320 there. This uh particular Yeah, there's there's Slick standing there. So this 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.880 particular cinder block was out in the sun and the pallets were out in the sun. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:59.040 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 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:02.000 is overseeing the operation here today. And just just to be clear, Township of 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:06.639 Langley Fire Department doesn't endorse the IO safe N2 NAZ or anything like 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:10.960 that, but they have very generously given us a pretty good cost on helping 00:05:08.479 --> 00:05:14.880 us out here with testing it. Um, according to sort of what we agree is 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:18.960 what we'd say is kind of a reasonable simulation. So, how long is this going 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:22.320 to run? Uh, we anticipate it'll run about 20 to 25 minutes depending on the 00:05:20.880 --> 00:05:28.320 temperature we can get it to. And that is your typical uh well typical uh time 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:30.880 frame from when a fire starts to people notifying the fire department that 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:37.039 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 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:42.320 typical response time which is around 8 minutes. Okay. So Wow. Really? Yeah. 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:46.400 That's correct. Wow. That's outstanding. Okay. So we're going to hit probably you 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:49.520 said around 800 to,000 degrees peak. Yeah. We're going to target we're going 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:52.320 to target in the 8 to 900 degree range. over a thousand degrees, it starts to 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:57.120 break down the gunnite on the walls, which is our fire our fire coating for the walls. But uh we're going to shoot 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.800 for approximately 900 degrees at the seat of the fire. Okay. And then this is 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:06.479 going to be pretty much uh what you'd consider to be a pretty worst case scenario in terms of correct having 00:06:04.479 --> 00:06:10.560 having a fire start right next to next to the the target target, whatever you 00:06:09.039 --> 00:06:13.840 want to call it, is worst definitely worst case scenario. All right. So, 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:18.479 Richard, tell us about this gear. What do you got here? Uh well, we got our 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:22.800 mask. Uh kind of self-explanatory. Is it self-explanatory, sir? Is it? Well, and 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:28.960 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 00:06:26.479 --> 00:06:32.560 head is up display. Uh so, this displays lights, so lets me know how much air is 00:06:30.479 --> 00:06:35.919 in my pack. I've got my clear command. This is a speaker. There's a speaker 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.880 right in the uh mouthpiece. It allows everyone to hear me. It's extremely hard 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:42.160 to communicate when you're in a fire. So, that's what I use that for. Then, of 00:06:40.479 --> 00:06:46.960 course, we have the SCBA, which is the air bottle and uh the backpack. I have 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:50.080 my radio, which I'll be on, and I have our tick, which is our thermal imaging 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:55.039 camera, which uh I believe you just showed off. All right, so it's fire time. Uh Richard, you got what is what 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:59.039 is this? Sorry, what's this torch called? Tiger torch. All right, light 00:06:56.880 --> 00:06:59.039 her 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:06.960 up. That looks like fun. That looks like 00:07:03.919 --> 00:07:08.360 lots of fun. We ready to go? We're ready 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:12.800 to go. Let's do it. Let's light this thing. So, in he goes. because he's only 00:07:11.039 --> 00:07:16.400 lighting it right now. It's okay for Richard to go in without his full 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:19.639 breathing apparatus and all of that noise. So, what we're going to do is 00:07:18.080 --> 00:07:23.280 we're going to light her up. Get on out of there. We're going to 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:26.960 close the door and then we're going to check on it at maybe 3 or 5 minute 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:30.400 intervals. Have a look at it with the thermal imaging camera. Maybe leave it 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.639 open for just a just a couple seconds here so that they can get the fire starting. Yes, we are legitimately 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:37.599 lighting this thing on fire, folks. So, we're going to check on it every few 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:42.160 minutes and see if it needs to be stoked. uh see if we need to do anything 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:46.680 to to help make sure that we're reaching the temperatures we're going for here, 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:50.680 which as a reminder is around 800 to 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.680 1,000° F. 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.440 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 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:43.039 what's called an indirect attack where he's going to uh shoot a modified fog, 00:08:40.800 --> 00:08:47.200 which is about 30° at the ceiling for 2 seconds. He's going to let the steam 00:08:44.959 --> 00:08:51.360 from the water droplets rain down on the fire. It'll help darken it down. Then 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:55.920 he'll narrow his pattern a bit and then attack the fire directly on. Should only 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:58.920 take a couple of minutes. Here he goes, guys. 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:17.040 You want to give the Naz a good spray just for good 00:09:17.800 --> 00:09:22.519 measure. Can't see that all. 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:28.480 All right. So, we're surveying the damage. Now, on the left side of the 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:33.040 unit here, you can see the steel enclosure didn't really discolor too 00:09:30.640 --> 00:09:36.480 much and didn't really bow out too much. Although, it did bow a little bit. 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:40.640 Whereas, on the right side, where it was right next to the fire, even in the 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:43.839 fire, it has discolored. And if you get an angle of it kind of from the front 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:48.480 here, you can see it actually bowed out a fair bit. So, it was it was warped and 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:53.440 deformed. The front ports, the front USB port, the SD card reader, these are just 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:58.080 empty holes now because all the plastic surrounding them has completely melted 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:03.279 away. You're not intended to reuse this NAS. You send it to IOSFE. They put new 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:07.680 drives in a new .naz and transfer your data onto that and send it back to you. 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:10.800 That's how the whole service works. Now, here on the back, you can see the only 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:14.720 thing left of the cooling fan for the unit is the four screws around the 00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:19.040 outside. Other than that, it's just a mass of melted plastic. And this is a 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:23.920 little bit surprising, but the gigabit Ethernet port and the two USB3 ports at 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:28.640 the back kind of survived, but then the uh the power input did not. So, once 00:10:26.079 --> 00:10:32.959 again, I wouldn't even begin to consider firing this thing up. 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:36.720 Kind of survived as in after it's been fired up. Yeah, kind of survived as in 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:41.040 they like still have color, but they wouldn't work. Just putting that out 00:10:38.959 --> 00:10:46.959 there. So, here we are, guys. We see a bit of a sharp contrast here between the 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:52.560 destroyed .naz and the replacement NAS. Now, you would normally ship this thing 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:55.360 back in its current state to IOSFE. You 00:10:52.560 --> 00:11:01.720 would not do any of these uh any of this taking apart on your own 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:04.480 because wow, it's like you hear that 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:06.800 sound. Okay. because you you don't know what you're doing and you don't know 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:11.519 what you're getting yourself into necessarily with respect to sort of 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:15.200 water the water seals having water getting into them or whatever whatever 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:18.560 other problems there might be. You want to be real careful about this and just 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:22.320 let IOSFE take care of it for you. But of course, we are not that patient. So, 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:27.440 we wanted to just take this bad boy apart and show you guys what's up. So 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:33.920 you can actually see the material that we had inside the N2 has uh got some 00:11:31.839 --> 00:11:37.720 sort of burn marks on it here, especially around the edges. But you can 00:11:35.920 --> 00:11:43.519 also see that there's still some condensation on the inside of the 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:45.200 plastic sheathing that's over top of it. 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:49.519 And right here up against where the drives are, there's no no burn marks at 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:53.839 all. You can also see that on the right hand side or well I guess it would have 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:58.880 been the but yeah the right hand side of the unit um is much more burned than the 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.360 left hand side of the unit and that was because the fire was right there up 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:09.680 against it. So that was that was where it took the brunt of the damage. Okay, 00:12:06.880 --> 00:12:16.040 so next up we've got the actual aluminum housing inside. You can see there's more 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:19.279 uh more scorch marks. 00:12:16.040 --> 00:12:21.680 Okay. So, the aluminum housing here 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:26.800 serves a couple of purposes. Number one is that it keeps the hard drives cool 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:30.320 under normal operating conditions. So, that's where the airflow sort of covers 00:12:28.959 --> 00:12:35.519 and it's got some heat sinks on it. Number two is it acts as the waterproof 00:12:32.560 --> 00:12:40.079 seal for the unit. So, that keeps the water from the fire hose out. So, we're 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:44.480 going to go ahead and try and pry it off here. Okay. So, we just managed to pry 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:48.399 it off with a fork. I suspect what happened is the gasket around the 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:51.680 outside probably melted a bit and it looks like that may or may not have been 00:12:49.920 --> 00:12:57.040 the case. Actually, it's in uh it's in not bad condition all things considered. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:13:01.360 So, um yeah, it looks like just around this one edge on that one side where the 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:05.279 fire was touching the Naz almost the whole time. That's the only place where 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:10.399 we see any kind of a problem here. So, let's start with the drive that probably 00:13:07.839 --> 00:13:16.560 got it a little bit easier in terms of the abuse that went 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:17.920 on. Okay. So, it looks pretty normal. 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:25.399 You wouldn't know that that was sitting in a fire for uh 20 to 25 minutes. All 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:27.519 right. Now, the abused one. Here we go, 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:32.079 guys. Let's go ahead and pull this out. It is highly recommended, actually, it 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:36.560 is required that you let your drives dry out completely before reinstalling them. 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:40.560 in another enclosure or doing anything with them. Um, our enclosure didn't 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:44.560 really get that wet and I don't think that the waterproofness was penetrated 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:47.839 at all and there isn't really any moisture left in the device to to go 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:52.800 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 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:58.560 guys know if if they still work. I mean, look at this. This was in this way and 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:59.920 there's no no perceivable damage to it 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:03.279 at this point in time. So, we're going to keep the camera rolling and we're 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:07.920 just going to time-lapse this because I want you guys to know that there's no 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:15.079 faking and no switcheroo going on here. If these drives have data on them, they 00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:15.079 survived a 25minute fire. 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:35.600 No way. My precious my precious 00:14:35.880 --> 00:14:42.240 pictures. So, there you have it, guys. I 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:47.120 I'm I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. Um I save told me it was going to work, but 00:14:44.160 --> 00:14:52.160 still. You saw that fire. I mean, uh look at this enclosure. Oh, it's so 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:58.560 heavy. Look at the way that this side bowed out. I mean, we abused this thing 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:01.040 to the point where I wasn't necessarily 00:14:58.560 --> 00:15:04.800 that, you know, convinced that anything was going to survive it. Look at what 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:08.320 happened to the cooling fan in the back that it's I mean, it's gone. It's 00:15:06.560 --> 00:15:12.600 obliterated. You can smell it when it's closed. I know. You can still smell it 00:15:10.079 --> 00:15:18.560 even uh even now. So, uh the idea is not to keep using these 00:15:15.839 --> 00:15:23.120 drives. The idea is to pull all the data off of them and use different drives 00:15:20.800 --> 00:15:29.440 now, which of course IO takes care of. But there you have it, guys. My precious 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:31.760 memories are still on the Naz. Let's 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:37.760 even see if we can play back uh Big Buck Bunny. Oh, it's an MKV. Okay. Well, 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:40.320 we'll play back like Oh, okay. MP4. Yes. 00:15:37.760 --> 00:15:46.079 Open with Windows Media Player. Look at that. There's the old NCX tech tips 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:50.320 intro playing off of two hard drives 00:15:46.079 --> 00:15:54.040 that were sitting this far away from a 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:56.399 th00and degree Fahrenheit plus 00:15:54.040 --> 00:16:02.480 fire. Uh, thanks for checking out this video. Huge thanks to IOSFE who sent us 00:15:59.680 --> 00:16:07.759 two of their NAS to make this happen and then WD who paid for us to go to the 00:16:05.839 --> 00:16:14.160 training facility and set the whole thing on fire. Other than that, uh this 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:15.920 is just a Linus Tech Tips video. So 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:20.480 there's uh there's no sponsorship beyond that. So we were as interested as anyone 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:25.759 in finding out whether this whole thing was going to work. And that's again that's one of the reasons we brought in 00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:29.839 a second sponsor to fund us lighting it on fire because WD ultimately doesn't 00:16:27.920 --> 00:16:33.120 have anything invested in whether or not this Naz works. But I'm sure they're 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:36.800 happy to know that they have something fireproof to recommend to their 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:39.759 customers at this point. So uh there you go guys. Like this video if you liked 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:44.240 it. Dislike it if for whatever reason you disliked it. I thought it was awesome though. Leave a comment letting 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:57.350 us know what you thought. And as always, don't forget to subscribe.