For the sake of expediency, we're going to spare you guys unboxing a couple of
networkattached storage devices from Seagate. But this is their new business
storage line. We've got a couple of different configs here. So, the first
one is their 2 bay 4 terbte uh with
drives one, and that one makes sense to me. In the past, uh, whenever you've
bought a NAS from a hard drive company, whether it's Seagate or one of their
competitors or whoever else, um, it's always had drives in it. Seagate is now
offering their NAS without drives. So,
this one right here is a 4 bay NAS that
looks to go up against the likes of guys like Sonology or QAP or any other
standalone NAS manufacturer. So, what does Seagate bring to the market that
they think is so special? I'll tell you what, and actually I'm
kind of sold. Now, with that said, these are not necessarily priced at consumer
price points because they do have some business grade features, but they're also not as highriced as some of the
business grade NASA's I've encountered in the past, which is kind of cool. So,
check this out. It includes their Black Armor software, so you can discover your
NAS on Windows and Mac. You can do incremental or full system backups in
Windows. You can also recourse restore systems one by one. Incremental is
really, really cool. It means you don't have to use up all your drive space for a couple of backups. Um, okay. Hot
swappable SATA 2/3 drive bays. USM slot.
This is really cool. Check this out. So, this is intended for off-site backup.
So, you can use your NAS as a convenient way to put data on something that can be
archived easily or sent somewhere else. So, check this out. This is one of
Seagate's um I forget what this one is. They've I've lost track of what the
branding is. This is an older Free Agent Gooflex, although it works with their
newer stuff as well, where it's just a nice little slimline 2 and 1/2 in
portable drive. You can get them in much higher capacities now. This one's 500
gig. You slot that in there, you transfer some data, you throw a label on
it, you archive it on a shelf or you put it in a safety deposit box or wherever
else you want to keep it safe. Very, very cool little thing to include.
That's on both the 2 bay and the 4 bay and it works just like that. Um, you've
also got two USB 3 ports for additional expansion. So, there's a USB 3 in the
front just in case you're keeping it like I don't know on a desk or something
or whatever else. And then they each have an additional USB 3 port in the
back next to haha check this out dual
gigabit Ethernet ports. Now, that's not to say that you're going to get 2 GB per
second transfer speeds out of it, but it's redundancy. So, if one of these
interfaces fails outright, this thing will still work, which is very, very
cool. Your power in as well as a hard reset button are also located on the
back of both of these devices. So, there's those USB3 ports I was going to
talk about. The 2 bay has a 40 mil fan, whereas the 3bay has what appears to be
a 92mm fan that you can pull out and
change if you want, I suppose. Um, I usually end up doing that with Nazis
just because they ship with fans that are unnecessarily um powerful and I usually put like a
super silent low RPM fan in them. They both include the exact same set of
accessories. So, you've got a power cable, a gigabit Ethernet cable, and
your warranty information, as well as a software disc that includes all that
backup stuff that I talked about before. Uh, so your warranty is 3 years on these
products. Let's go ahead and start getting into what makes them even more
special than that. Full support for all of your usual uh
servers. So, you can run an FTP server off of it. Uh, you can run an HTTP
server off of it. Wo ho ice scuzzy
targeting. Very cool. Um, the last time
I looked into this, it was 450 to 500
bucks for a bear enclosure that um,
worked with ice scuzzy but wasn't particularly fast. So, I'm really
excited to see what Seagate's got going on here because that's a very competitive feature to have um, even for
like a higher priced product. So, very very cool. Very few Nazis support ice
scuzzi in the sort of smaller more inexpensive sort of I mean okay normally
you're looking at like a net gear like rack mount or something like that. Uh
multiple volume management that's cool. So you can set up different storage volumes. You can also if you don't want
to set up different storage volumes you can do quota and share management for different users. Uh as well as volume
level encryption so you can manage who can see what who has access to what
who's allowed to use how much of the space and all that good stuff. if it supports Active Directory um as well as
RAID 0 1 5 10 or span. And I would really recommend guys with a server like
this, a 4B server um where you're keeping presumably business important
data of some sort. Do not run a single drive. Do not run RAID zero. It
shouldn't even support RAID zero. I wish the manufacturers would just stop
including support for RAID zero because it's terrible. um run RAID five or RAID
10 where you're using either one drive or half of your drives for redundancy
just in case something bad happens. So redundancy and off-site backup is what
storage is all about. So I just showed you the whole process of installing a
drive. Um I wanted to check out what drives Seagate's including with these
enclosures. So this one right here has two two TBTE drives in it. So they're
using their Barracuda series drives. I wouldn't have minded seeing them
including their constellation series drives which are their um their more uh
sort of enterprisegrade storage drives but I guess if the intention is for the
user to be using RAID anyway uh personally in my own NAS that I use for
all of our TechTips data I am using Barracuda drives so you know I can say
all I want oh you should be using you know enterprise grade drives but I
actually don't and I haven't really had any issues with that either. So there you go. Uh what else they got going on
here? local backup. Oh yeah, this is so cool. NAS to NAS backup is supported. So
you can go USM/ USB device to NAS. So you can kind of go, okay,
I want to back up this thing. For example, this right here is our Steam
game drive. So we have all of our Steam games for our test benches on here. So
if I'm like, oh, it'd be a real pain if that drive died and I lost it. I could
do an incremental backup just by popping it in here and configuring it every once
in a while. Very, very cool stuff. The 4 bay has a little LCD in the front, by
the way, in case you guys are wondering. 2 bay doesn't have that. You can also
have multiple NAS and back up from NAS to NAS. That's something that many NAS
do not support or the functionality is so hidden and so broken that it's
basically not usable anyway. So, that's very very cool. Uh there's a one-touch
transfer button on the front. There's that one. And uh network backup. Yes.
Very very Oh, cool. That that that kind of stuff just gets me geeking out. Apple
time machine software is supported, which is cool. As well as bare metal
restore over network. That's another huge one. Being able to do a bare metal
restore basically means that you can circumvent a lot of the inconvenient
stuff that comes along with backing up machines um sort of normally with
respect to licensing and stuff like that. So, it's a it's a very convenient way to be able to do backups. Uh it this
is another thing too. this. I mean, you could consider an iTunes server or a DNA
server to be more of a consumer grade feature, but I personally don't because
if you were to deploy probably not something like this, but probably something like this one where you throw
two drives in here in RAID one so that you have redundancy just in case
something dies. You put that in like a store or something. You use the iTunes
server or the DNA server to power all of your digital signage off of this one
little box. That's what I see that kind of functionality being for. So, it does
support both iTunes and DNA. So you can stream to supported devices. I don't
think I ever showed the front of them up close. So there's activity LEDs, USB 3,
power button, and then same thing on the other one. I wish the front wasn't
glossy, but I guess it's not the end of the world. And then on the other one,
same thing. Power activity LEDs, and then your front USB 3. I think that
pretty much Oh, yeah. Seagate private cloud. So you can create your own sort
of cloud. I mean, really, that's what a NAS is. Creating your own network
storage so that you can have all of your storage in one place. I'm a huge
advocate of network attached storage. I think everyone should be using it for
pretty much everything. But their Seagate private cloud is not just the
ability to kind of set up an FTP server for yourself and cludge it together, but
also the ability to uh use their smartphone app to access your little
private cloud wherever you are. So there you go. Keep all your data somewhere,
keep it safe, and then preferably
keep it somewhere else as well. Thanks for checking out this unboxing and first
look at Seagate's business Nazis.