WEBVTT 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:07.919 For the sake of expediency, we're going to spare you guys unboxing a couple of 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:12.719 networkattached storage devices from Seagate. But this is their new business 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:18.640 storage line. We've got a couple of different configs here. So, the first 00:00:14.719 --> 00:00:20.640 one is their 2 bay 4 terbte uh with 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.720 drives one, and that one makes sense to me. In the past, uh, whenever you've 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:28.880 bought a NAS from a hard drive company, whether it's Seagate or one of their 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:34.640 competitors or whoever else, um, it's always had drives in it. Seagate is now 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:37.760 offering their NAS without drives. So, 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:40.399 this one right here is a 4 bay NAS that 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:45.360 looks to go up against the likes of guys like Sonology or QAP or any other 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:48.879 standalone NAS manufacturer. So, what does Seagate bring to the market that 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:52.719 they think is so special? I'll tell you what, and actually I'm 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:56.559 kind of sold. Now, with that said, these are not necessarily priced at consumer 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 00:01:00.239 --> 00:01:05.199 business grade NASA's I've encountered in the past, which is kind of cool. So, 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:08.640 check this out. It includes their Black Armor software, so you can discover your 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:13.760 NAS on Windows and Mac. You can do incremental or full system backups in 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:16.799 Windows. You can also recourse restore systems one by one. Incremental is 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 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:26.320 swappable SATA 2/3 drive bays. USM slot. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:31.119 This is really cool. Check this out. So, this is intended for off-site backup. 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 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:40.240 archived easily or sent somewhere else. So, check this out. This is one of 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 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.960 branding is. This is an older Free Agent Gooflex, although it works with their 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 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:54.159 portable drive. You can get them in much higher capacities now. This one's 500 00:01:52.479 --> 00:01:57.840 gig. You slot that in there, you transfer some data, you throw a label on 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 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:05.040 else you want to keep it safe. Very, very cool little thing to include. 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 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 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 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:22.560 or whatever else. And then they each have an additional USB 3 port in the 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.319 back next to haha check this out dual 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 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:31.520 second transfer speeds out of it, but it's redundancy. So, if one of these 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:35.280 interfaces fails outright, this thing will still work, which is very, very 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:38.720 cool. Your power in as well as a hard reset button are also located on the 00:02:36.959 --> 00:02:42.160 back of both of these devices. So, there's those USB3 ports I was going to 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 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:49.440 a 92mm fan that you can pull out and 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.640 change if you want, I suppose. Um, I usually end up doing that with Nazis 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 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.519 super silent low RPM fan in them. They both include the exact same set of 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:06.319 accessories. So, you've got a power cable, a gigabit Ethernet cable, and 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:09.680 your warranty information, as well as a software disc that includes all that 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:13.120 backup stuff that I talked about before. Uh, so your warranty is 3 years on these 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:16.800 products. Let's go ahead and start getting into what makes them even more 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:20.720 special than that. Full support for all of your usual uh 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 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:29.280 server off of it. Wo ho ice scuzzy 00:03:25.920 --> 00:03:32.319 targeting. Very cool. Um, the last time 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:37.040 I looked into this, it was 450 to 500 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:38.959 bucks for a bear enclosure that um, 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:42.159 worked with ice scuzzy but wasn't particularly fast. So, I'm really 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 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:53.040 like a higher priced product. So, very very cool. Very few Nazis support ice 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:56.720 scuzzi in the sort of smaller more inexpensive sort of I mean okay normally 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:00.239 you're looking at like a net gear like rack mount or something like that. Uh 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 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 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:13.280 level encryption so you can manage who can see what who has access to what 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 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 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:31.759 this, a 4B server um where you're keeping presumably business important 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:35.520 data of some sort. Do not run a single drive. Do not run RAID zero. It 00:04:33.919 --> 00:04:39.360 shouldn't even support RAID zero. I wish the manufacturers would just stop 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:45.360 including support for RAID zero because it's terrible. um run RAID five or RAID 00:04:42.479 --> 00:04:49.759 10 where you're using either one drive or half of your drives for redundancy 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:55.520 just in case something bad happens. So redundancy and off-site backup is what 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:59.280 storage is all about. So I just showed you the whole process of installing a 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:02.400 drive. Um I wanted to check out what drives Seagate's including with these 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:07.440 enclosures. So this one right here has two two TBTE drives in it. So they're 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:10.400 using their Barracuda series drives. I wouldn't have minded seeing them 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:17.120 including their constellation series drives which are their um their more uh 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:21.520 sort of enterprisegrade storage drives but I guess if the intention is for the 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:25.919 user to be using RAID anyway uh personally in my own NAS that I use for 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:30.080 all of our TechTips data I am using Barracuda drives so you know I can say 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:32.880 all I want oh you should be using you know enterprise grade drives but I 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 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:44.160 here? local backup. Oh yeah, this is so cool. NAS to NAS backup is supported. So 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:47.840 you can go USM/ USB device to NAS. So you can kind of go, okay, 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:51.199 I want to back up this thing. For example, this right here is our Steam 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 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 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:02.160 do an incremental backup just by popping it in here and configuring it every once 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 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 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:13.919 have multiple NAS and back up from NAS to NAS. That's something that many NAS 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:18.319 do not support or the functionality is so hidden and so broken that it's 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:22.400 basically not usable anyway. So, that's very very cool. Uh there's a one-touch 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:27.440 transfer button on the front. There's that one. And uh network backup. Yes. 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:30.720 Very very Oh, cool. That that that kind of stuff just gets me geeking out. Apple 00:06:29.039 --> 00:06:34.880 time machine software is supported, which is cool. As well as bare metal 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:38.880 restore over network. That's another huge one. Being able to do a bare metal 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.479 restore basically means that you can circumvent a lot of the inconvenient 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:47.440 stuff that comes along with backing up machines um sort of normally with 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 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:57.520 is another thing too. this. I mean, you could consider an iTunes server or a DNA 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:00.880 server to be more of a consumer grade feature, but I personally don't because 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 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:08.720 two drives in here in RAID one so that you have redundancy just in case 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:12.960 something dies. You put that in like a store or something. You use the iTunes 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:17.680 server or the DNA server to power all of your digital signage off of this one 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:22.000 little box. That's what I see that kind of functionality being for. So, it does 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:25.440 support both iTunes and DNA. So you can stream to supported devices. I don't 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, 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:33.520 power button, and then same thing on the other one. I wish the front wasn't 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, 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:43.280 same thing. Power activity LEDs, and then your front USB 3. I think that 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:46.080 pretty much Oh, yeah. Seagate private cloud. So you can create your own sort 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:49.520 of cloud. I mean, really, that's what a NAS is. Creating your own network 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 00:07:51.599 --> 00:07:56.879 advocate of network attached storage. I think everyone should be using it for 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:01.599 pretty much everything. But their Seagate private cloud is not just the 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:06.080 ability to kind of set up an FTP server for yourself and cludge it together, but 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:10.720 also the ability to uh use their smartphone app to access your little 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:15.919 private cloud wherever you are. So there you go. Keep all your data somewhere, 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:17.759 keep it safe, and then preferably 00:08:15.919 --> 00:08:22.960 keep it somewhere else as well. Thanks for checking out this unboxing and first 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:22.960 look at Seagate's business Nazis.