1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:07,919 For the sake of expediency, we're going to spare you guys unboxing a couple of 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:12,719 networkattached storage devices from Seagate. But this is their new business 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:18,640 storage line. We've got a couple of different configs here. So, the first 4 00:00:14,719 --> 00:00:20,640 one is their 2 bay 4 terbte uh with 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,720 drives one, and that one makes sense to me. In the past, uh, whenever you've 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:28,880 bought a NAS from a hard drive company, whether it's Seagate or one of their 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:34,640 competitors or whoever else, um, it's always had drives in it. Seagate is now 8 00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:37,760 offering their NAS without drives. So, 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:40,399 this one right here is a 4 bay NAS that 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:45,360 looks to go up against the likes of guys like Sonology or QAP or any other 11 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:48,879 standalone NAS manufacturer. So, what does Seagate bring to the market that 12 00:00:46,879 --> 00:00:52,719 they think is so special? I'll tell you what, and actually I'm 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:56,559 kind of sold. Now, with that said, these are not necessarily priced at consumer 14 00:00:55,039 --> 00:01:01,680 price points because they do have some business grade features, but they're also not as highriced as some of the 15 00:01:00,239 --> 00:01:05,199 business grade NASA's I've encountered in the past, which is kind of cool. So, 16 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:08,640 check this out. It includes their Black Armor software, so you can discover your 17 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:13,760 NAS on Windows and Mac. You can do incremental or full system backups in 18 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,799 Windows. You can also recourse restore systems one by one. Incremental is 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:24,640 really, really cool. It means you don't have to use up all your drive space for a couple of backups. Um, okay. Hot 20 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:26,320 swappable SATA 2/3 drive bays. USM slot. 21 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:31,119 This is really cool. Check this out. So, this is intended for off-site backup. 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:36,159 So, you can use your NAS as a convenient way to put data on something that can be 23 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:40,240 archived easily or sent somewhere else. So, check this out. This is one of 24 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:43,520 Seagate's um I forget what this one is. They've I've lost track of what the 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,960 branding is. This is an older Free Agent Gooflex, although it works with their 26 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:50,720 newer stuff as well, where it's just a nice little slimline 2 and 1/2 in 27 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:54,159 portable drive. You can get them in much higher capacities now. This one's 500 28 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:57,840 gig. You slot that in there, you transfer some data, you throw a label on 29 00:01:56,159 --> 00:02:01,439 it, you archive it on a shelf or you put it in a safety deposit box or wherever 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:05,040 else you want to keep it safe. Very, very cool little thing to include. 31 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:09,440 That's on both the 2 bay and the 4 bay and it works just like that. Um, you've 32 00:02:07,119 --> 00:02:13,280 also got two USB 3 ports for additional expansion. So, there's a USB 3 in the 33 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:16,879 front just in case you're keeping it like I don't know on a desk or something 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:22,560 or whatever else. And then they each have an additional USB 3 port in the 35 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,319 back next to haha check this out dual 36 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:27,680 gigabit Ethernet ports. Now, that's not to say that you're going to get 2 GB per 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,520 second transfer speeds out of it, but it's redundancy. So, if one of these 38 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:35,280 interfaces fails outright, this thing will still work, which is very, very 39 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,720 cool. Your power in as well as a hard reset button are also located on the 40 00:02:36,959 --> 00:02:42,160 back of both of these devices. So, there's those USB3 ports I was going to 41 00:02:40,239 --> 00:02:47,280 talk about. The 2 bay has a 40 mil fan, whereas the 3bay has what appears to be 42 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:49,440 a 92mm fan that you can pull out and 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,640 change if you want, I suppose. Um, I usually end up doing that with Nazis 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:58,239 just because they ship with fans that are unnecessarily um powerful and I usually put like a 45 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:01,519 super silent low RPM fan in them. They both include the exact same set of 46 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:06,319 accessories. So, you've got a power cable, a gigabit Ethernet cable, and 47 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:09,680 your warranty information, as well as a software disc that includes all that 48 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:13,120 backup stuff that I talked about before. Uh, so your warranty is 3 years on these 49 00:03:11,599 --> 00:03:16,800 products. Let's go ahead and start getting into what makes them even more 50 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:20,720 special than that. Full support for all of your usual uh 51 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:25,920 servers. So, you can run an FTP server off of it. Uh, you can run an HTTP 52 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:29,280 server off of it. Wo ho ice scuzzy 53 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:32,319 targeting. Very cool. Um, the last time 54 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:37,040 I looked into this, it was 450 to 500 55 00:03:32,319 --> 00:03:38,959 bucks for a bear enclosure that um, 56 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,159 worked with ice scuzzy but wasn't particularly fast. So, I'm really 57 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:48,239 excited to see what Seagate's got going on here because that's a very competitive feature to have um, even for 58 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:53,040 like a higher priced product. So, very very cool. Very few Nazis support ice 59 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:56,720 scuzzi in the sort of smaller more inexpensive sort of I mean okay normally 60 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:00,239 you're looking at like a net gear like rack mount or something like that. Uh 61 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:04,400 multiple volume management that's cool. So you can set up different storage volumes. You can also if you don't want 62 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:09,680 to set up different storage volumes you can do quota and share management for different users. Uh as well as volume 63 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,280 level encryption so you can manage who can see what who has access to what 64 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:20,720 who's allowed to use how much of the space and all that good stuff. if it supports Active Directory um as well as 65 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:26,320 RAID 0 1 5 10 or span. And I would really recommend guys with a server like 66 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:31,759 this, a 4B server um where you're keeping presumably business important 67 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:35,520 data of some sort. Do not run a single drive. Do not run RAID zero. It 68 00:04:33,919 --> 00:04:39,360 shouldn't even support RAID zero. I wish the manufacturers would just stop 69 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:45,360 including support for RAID zero because it's terrible. um run RAID five or RAID 70 00:04:42,479 --> 00:04:49,759 10 where you're using either one drive or half of your drives for redundancy 71 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:55,520 just in case something bad happens. So redundancy and off-site backup is what 72 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:59,280 storage is all about. So I just showed you the whole process of installing a 73 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:02,400 drive. Um I wanted to check out what drives Seagate's including with these 74 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:07,440 enclosures. So this one right here has two two TBTE drives in it. So they're 75 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,400 using their Barracuda series drives. I wouldn't have minded seeing them 76 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:17,120 including their constellation series drives which are their um their more uh 77 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:21,520 sort of enterprisegrade storage drives but I guess if the intention is for the 78 00:05:19,039 --> 00:05:25,919 user to be using RAID anyway uh personally in my own NAS that I use for 79 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:30,080 all of our TechTips data I am using Barracuda drives so you know I can say 80 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,880 all I want oh you should be using you know enterprise grade drives but I 81 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:38,639 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 82 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:44,160 here? local backup. Oh yeah, this is so cool. NAS to NAS backup is supported. So 83 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:47,840 you can go USM/ USB device to NAS. So you can kind of go, okay, 84 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:51,199 I want to back up this thing. For example, this right here is our Steam 85 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,880 game drive. So we have all of our Steam games for our test benches on here. So 86 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:58,800 if I'm like, oh, it'd be a real pain if that drive died and I lost it. I could 87 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:02,160 do an incremental backup just by popping it in here and configuring it every once 88 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,720 in a while. Very, very cool stuff. The 4 bay has a little LCD in the front, by 89 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,639 the way, in case you guys are wondering. 2 bay doesn't have that. You can also 90 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:13,919 have multiple NAS and back up from NAS to NAS. That's something that many NAS 91 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:18,319 do not support or the functionality is so hidden and so broken that it's 92 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:22,400 basically not usable anyway. So, that's very very cool. Uh there's a one-touch 93 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:27,440 transfer button on the front. There's that one. And uh network backup. Yes. 94 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,720 Very very Oh, cool. That that that kind of stuff just gets me geeking out. Apple 95 00:06:29,039 --> 00:06:34,880 time machine software is supported, which is cool. As well as bare metal 96 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,880 restore over network. That's another huge one. Being able to do a bare metal 97 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:42,479 restore basically means that you can circumvent a lot of the inconvenient 98 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:47,440 stuff that comes along with backing up machines um sort of normally with 99 00:06:45,919 --> 00:06:52,960 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 100 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:57,520 is another thing too. this. I mean, you could consider an iTunes server or a DNA 101 00:06:55,759 --> 00:07:00,880 server to be more of a consumer grade feature, but I personally don't because 102 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:05,440 if you were to deploy probably not something like this, but probably something like this one where you throw 103 00:07:03,599 --> 00:07:08,720 two drives in here in RAID one so that you have redundancy just in case 104 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:12,960 something dies. You put that in like a store or something. You use the iTunes 105 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:17,680 server or the DNA server to power all of your digital signage off of this one 106 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:22,000 little box. That's what I see that kind of functionality being for. So, it does 107 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:25,440 support both iTunes and DNA. So you can stream to supported devices. I don't 108 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,400 think I ever showed the front of them up close. So there's activity LEDs, USB 3, 109 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,520 power button, and then same thing on the other one. I wish the front wasn't 110 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:37,599 glossy, but I guess it's not the end of the world. And then on the other one, 111 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:43,280 same thing. Power activity LEDs, and then your front USB 3. I think that 112 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:46,080 pretty much Oh, yeah. Seagate private cloud. So you can create your own sort 113 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,520 of cloud. I mean, really, that's what a NAS is. Creating your own network 114 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,599 storage so that you can have all of your storage in one place. I'm a huge 115 00:07:51,599 --> 00:07:56,879 advocate of network attached storage. I think everyone should be using it for 116 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:01,599 pretty much everything. But their Seagate private cloud is not just the 117 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:06,080 ability to kind of set up an FTP server for yourself and cludge it together, but 118 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:10,720 also the ability to uh use their smartphone app to access your little 119 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:15,919 private cloud wherever you are. So there you go. Keep all your data somewhere, 120 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:17,759 keep it safe, and then preferably 121 00:08:15,919 --> 00:08:22,960 keep it somewhere else as well. Thanks for checking out this unboxing and first 122 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,960 look at Seagate's business Nazis.