IOSafe N2 Fireproof & Waterproof NAS Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,416 words · ~7 min read
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data DH Drive air ae400 now while I love
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data security as much as the next guy in
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terms of keeping my precious memories safe it is still pretty hard to get
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excited about a Nas because the cold hard truth is they all do basically the
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same thing they keep your data store data safe by replicating it across
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multiple drives they allow you to centralize your storage in one place
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they allow you to build a sort of personal cloud so that you can access
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your data on the Go and all of these are good things but the cold hard truth is a
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lot of them are either let down by subpar Hardware they're let down by
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subpar software or they're let down by just not being interesting or not having
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anything different about them enter the io safe n 2 totally different first of
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all it starts with packaging check this out that is some of the thickest closed
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cell foam that I've ever seen packed around a NZ and there is a very good
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reason for that that very good reason is that this thing weighs a frakin ton it
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weighs about as much sort of like cubic cm for cubic cimer as a
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UPS oh and there's a very good reason for that too this NZ is fireproof and
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waterproof it can handle up to, 1500° F
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or around 8 140° C for 30 minutes at
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lower temperatures it can go for longer and to put that in perspective most
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house fires won't go for longer than 30 minutes before a fire department shows
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up and puts it out and that's where the waterproofness comes in so not only is
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it flood resistant because it can handle 10 ft of fresh or salt water for up to
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72 hours but it can handle having the
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fire outside of it where it'll be basically red hot by the time the fire
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department reaches it and it can handle being hosed down at that point in time
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all of this without causing data to be lost on the drives inside you guys you
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guys getting crazy with me here yet all right so it's available in a couple of
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configurations diskless or with diss installed this right here is the
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diskless one but the thing about the installed disc one is that um iosafe
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doesn't expect you to actually continue to use the nas after it's been on fire
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and after it's been doused down with water they expect you to send it to them
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for data recovery they cover shipping both ways which is very very cool and
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they even send you back your new N2 so
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if it goes on fire or whatever else they send you a new one they send you new
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drives inside so your data is completely safe I don't believe there's any deductible on the first one but don't
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necessarily quote me on that check the link in the description if you want more details so the in let's go accessories
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first I guess so there's a power adapter right there all right power cord got
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some screws for installing drives got an Ethernet cable got a small magnet as
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well as an iosafe disc and this removal
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tool so it has a very unique construction first of all the entire
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outside of it is made of steel so
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there's no aluminum screws even because aluminum or plastic or any other
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materials are going to have serious problems at 1500° F so it's all made of
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steel around the backside you can see there is still a ventilation fan and the
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way that that works is they actually have vent holes in the front that are
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built with kind of a m like structure so that in a fire the Flames themselves
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can't get through to reach the drives
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and they have to go through the insulation which is uh has a very unique
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design as well so it still is allowed to have active cooling it's got a power in
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at the back gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports and a security Kensington lock on
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the other side we find not a whole lot of anything and then on the front this
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is where things start to get really interesting power copy USB 2
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SD card reader and activity LED so there's two drives inside you can
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configure it in jbod raid zero or Raid
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one and we are going to take this baby apart all right guys so here we are the
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first thing it's just two screws it's actually less complicated than I thought
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we didn't really need to cut the camera here so the first thing we find once we
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take off the front nice long screws okay there we go are the flows safe vents so
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these are the ventilation holes that allow air to pass in through the side
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here then along this drive storage containment
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unit here and then out the back the second thing we find is this stuff this
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is their data cast insulation this is a very unique solution what this does is
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once it reaches a temperature of around 160° f it begins to sweat water and so
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you can see that's lining the entire inside there so what that means is that
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as long as there is liquid water present
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the temperature of this insulation cannot exceed 100° C that's how it works
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seriously go look it up if there's still liquid water in the bottom of your
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frying pan the frying pan cannot exceed
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100° C so that allow that is what allows
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it to sweat it out over a period of 30 minutes and keep the temperature of the
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drives I mean 100° isn't you know happy for them but under control to the point
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where they will still be able to have the data pull off of them afterwards now
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that's not the end of the protection because do just because you're fireproof
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doesn't mean you're waterproof so that's where this next layer comes in so we're
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going to go ahead and remove this Allen key screw right here there we go and
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this is where you will find aha the
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hydro safe barrier so this is the one that handles 10 ft of fresh or salt
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water for up to 72 hours or being hosed off with a fire hose and you can see
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here now we get to some aluminum construction so this is where the drives
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themselves go remember these ones will be at safe temperature so they didn't
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have to build them out of steel necessarily but you can see they're
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designed out of aluminum for thermal conductivity so that's the sled that the
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drive mounts in and then here is where the drive will actually be able to make
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contact with this shell around it with the drive enclosure itself which is what
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will allow it to pass heat using the fins on the outside and be cooled by the
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fan at the back so keeping your drive safe during a fire or flood is important
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but you also have to keep them safe while they're actually operating it so
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guys stay because we will be torture testing this drive guys leave a comment
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under the video if you have some crazy creative ideas for how you think we can
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torture it do not forget to like the video and don't forget to share the
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video with anyone who you think might benefit from this kind of small or
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medium business style Nas enclosure remember guys I did say a lot of nazes
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are let down by sort of poor software or poor Hardware implementations this one
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has very respectable read and write speeds and uses Synology software so
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that means you can install apps and it has very Advanced Management systems and
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all that good stuff sonology makes good stuff so don't forget to subscribe and
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I'll see you guys next time
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