LG N1T1 NAS External Hard Drive & DVD Drive Combo Unit Setup & Testing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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all right we're doing some video coverage on the LG this is the N1 T1 Nas
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unit so it's a combination Nas unit external Optical and USB drive so I'm
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using their Nas detector software and I
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have successfully located the LG Nas
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so that was easy would you like to create a desktop icon for the selected
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NAS network folder yes okay that was
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relatively simple so why don't do a quick speed test and then I'm actually
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going to I've installed two pieces of LG software the nas Monitor and the nas
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detector so I'm launching the nas monitor right now you can see I just use
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their dis and click on those and then install them so here we've got the nas
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monitor launching hopefully shortly is
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this it y there it is uh okay so about Nas
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monitor open
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uh why don't we open the web men
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here we go so hm I don't have a user ID
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it must have a default one I'm going to try admin with no
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password sometimes it's admin I may have to come back
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shortly hey it's admin admin that was easy Okay so we've got a bunch of
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different stuff in here you can see that we have the uh the basics of our Nas so
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uh usage amount is all at around 1% we've got the firmware revision the fan
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is set to silent let's see what else we can look at here so here's all of our
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Network info so it's the system name system description you can change all
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that good stuff IP address you can set it to obtain one manually or not uh
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system time we have a number of other things
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that we can check out here so power it
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has different power settings okay that's pretty neat wow it's got a ton of stuff
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in here you can do firmware updates uh from within this uh this menu right
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here see mail notification so you can get mail notification when let's see
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notification trigger hard drive status reports okay cool cool you can set up
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user
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accounts as well as shared folder names
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you can do file backup so you can it looks like you can back up to DVD which
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would be kind of neat Okay so it's actually got built-in burning software
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right into the web menu so you throw a DVD in there and you can uh back up
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anything from your hard drive to the dis you can rename your disc to something
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else that's kind of cool it has a backup button so that's for the optical drive
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data backup or backup to image so you have a couple different options you can
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schedule backups you can do USB backup and it also supports Apple Time Machine
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so you can set it to which volumes you want to back up so you can do torrent
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you can have a network printer it's a file server and finally it's got an
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iTunes server as well as the
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DLNA okay so that is pretty much all I
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wanted to say about this particular menu let's do a quick performance test so I
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have uh okay I guess we'll know pretty quick whether or not it's working at
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gigabit speeds but I have a movie file so this is a 266 megabyte file and I'm
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going to go ahead and cut and paste it
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into the public volume let's see how how long it takes oh I need permission okay
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maybe I won't put it in there okay let's try X hard
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drive
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cut oh okay maybe I just need to enter that admin
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admin because you can set up different stuff yeah yeah there we go okay so
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paste let's see how long it
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takes okay so far that's looking at kind of like that's looking at about like 10
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100 speeds but we will know for sure
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when we actually do the read test from the NZ so remember if you want to know
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exactly how fast it's going I'll don't use this number here the one there
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instead you should use the total size of the file 266 Megs over the amount of
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time it took to copy paste it so let's
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go ahead and paste that to the desktop and let's see if that goes any faster
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yes it is so the right speeds are a little bit limited on this particular
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Nas but the read speeds are quite good I over 30 mb per second and don't forget
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that it has the capability with the switch on the back to be used with a
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simple USB cable which they do include in the box so you just got a straight
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USB a to a cable and then all you do is flick the switch right here and you can
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change it to an external optical drive or to an external hard drive that
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operates off USB just with the flick of a button so right now you can see I have
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it set to NZ and I'm going to move the camera close to it just to demonstrate
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you cannot hear that fan at all in fact I think it's off right now I heard it
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spin up when it turned on so it is not defective but it's gone ahead and turned
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it off because there is no need for the fan to cool the hard drive when it's not
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doing anything really intensive so that's the silent setting that we saw
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before thank you for checking out my performance test of the LG network
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storage N1 T1