Seagate NAS Hard Drive Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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more welcome to my unboxing and First
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Look aha at a type of packaging that
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you'll likely never see so this is a
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four pack of seat's new NZ hard drive so
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what is a NZ hard drive see it requires a lot of explanation because similar to
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seates competitor who also has a Nas optimized drive this one has a very
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cryptic name that doesn't in any way imply the functional oh wait no it's
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called a NZ hard drive okay so it's for nazes it's available in a variety of
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capacities up to 4 terabyte which for a consumer grade NAS drive is right now
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the highest capacity that you can get it comes with a three-year warranty it uses
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a SATA 3 6 GB per second interface not
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that that matters in any way shape or form because quite frankly the things
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that matter for Naz drives are a couple of things so number one is vibration
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tolerance these ones are optimized for anywhere from 1 to five drives in an
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enclosure and they are optimized to not be interfered with by the other drives
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around them the next thing is workload so these are rated for a 24/7 workload
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however not to the same sort of extent that you'd find on something like a
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Seagate constellation es which is their their Enterprise class drive it's also
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designed for quiet operation which is important if you're using your Nas or
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your hard drive enoder encloser hard drive encloser it's a new thing I just
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invented a hard drive enclosure on something like a desktop next to your PC
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and you don't want to sit around and listen to it and um of course cost is a
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factor so as a consumer grade device this particular NAS drive is not very
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expensive performance takes a back seat with a Nas hard drive and the reason for
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that is because most nasas are going to be limited not by the performance of the
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drives inside but by the performance of the network interface attached to them
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in most cases gigabit which one of these drives can max out never mind if you go
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and Chuck like four of them in an enclosure running in RAID 10 which or
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something like that um or they're going to be held back by the controller
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involved which in most nases is not going to be able to handle more than
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gigabit operation anyway in something like a raid five which is what I
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personally would usually run four drives in as long as I have a controller that's
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powerful enough to deliver me at least you know 40 50 60 megabytes per second
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of right speed because there are a lot of calculations in grade five is
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efficient because it gives you three drives worth of capacity with only one
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drive taken up in terms of redundancy
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but it just means more calculation intensive therefore it is slower thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Seagate NAS drive and
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hey guys stay tuned because I'm going to back up these claims where I'm actually
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here first I want you guys to say what you think am I right or am I wrong about
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the whole NAS Drives performance doesn't matter thing cuz I'm going to try and
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back it up I've actually got slick working on a test right now where we're
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going to be using a pretty high-end Synology Nas so $500 $600 for Bay Nas
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and we're going to go Seagate NAS drive versus WD red 3 terb and we're going to
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