LaCie HDD Network Space 2 by Neil Poulton Nas Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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feels like I've been looking at a lot of Nas units lately but this is one from ly
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which is uh unique in the fact that it is designed by Neil pton like to zoom in
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on that right there this is the network Space 2 and Neil poulton has gone ahead
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and designed a black glossy square box
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that features torrent downloads media streaming and up to 65 megabytes per
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second Ethernet speed you can see they've got it advertised as gigabit
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Ethernet and USB 2 .0 although I'm not sure if it works as a USB 2.0 drive
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right off your comp oh yes it does there you go all right right on the side it
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answers that question so it has USB to connect to a disk key or printer and
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then it also has like a usbb connector there so you can connect it directly to
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a computer and use it as a USB drive instead of a Nas should you so desire
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there's a power button as well as a power
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input plug spot all right so they show
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you how to connect it how to access all of your data anywhere using it and easy
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setup access download files even with your computer off centralize share and
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backup files at home create private accounts for everyone in your household
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which has like four stars on it for some reason I'm not sure why maybe they're
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just saying that you need to you know know how to do it or something all right
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so backup iTunes server remote access eco-friendly it has a 2-year warranty
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okay and then on the other side we've got the Box contents which we will find
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out in just a moment when we open it
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cuz that's what we do on this channel we open
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boxes or unbox product whichever you
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prefer there we are slicey
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slicey ooh very very well packed
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congratulations ly you have shipped a very well packaged product here I like
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this closed cell foam that they're using because it is pretty much
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indestructible I mean look at that you can take it and like drop it and you can
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tell it's just there's no there's no give to it and yet there is it's a very
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nice cushion for your uh for your hard drive I mean the last thing you want to
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see is a hard drive that ships in something that's uh not
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sturdy all right Network Space 2 quick install
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guide this is the guide you will want to use to install it quickly there that's
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the French section already so that was it it was like four pages then we have a
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network Space 2 the 1.0 C utilities CD
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or dvd you might want to go ahead and try that find out if there's anything
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useful on it and if there are uh newer versions on the ly website then go ahead
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and download them and use those instead included we have a very fancy looking
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Ethernet cable see that mirrored finish on the side very nice very nice black
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cable all right then we have a USB A to
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B cable so that's for connecting it directly to your computer as a USB drive
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here we have what appears to be an adapter
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although I don't know if I've seen that standard before all right then there's
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another adapter and then there's the one that I
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need the US adapter okay so hey look at
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that that's kind of neat it ships like International ready already so you just
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go ahead and uh put that on there well
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that's great if you're uh you're planning to travel with it or if you're
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planning to uh live in another country other than the us or Canada and and buy
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one of these it already comes with uh other adors although I don't recognize
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either of these I've seen the ones with uh with the cylindrical prongs I've seen
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some other ones I don't recognize either of those maybe you can tell me what
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country those are for if you're watching this
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video all right here is the network Space 2 so you can see clearly right
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here there's a PCB and that's connected to all of your inputs and outputs so
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there's your gigabit Ethernet there's your USB 2.0 there's a DC power in all
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right and then on the bottom you've got this is kind of a neat way to do this
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all of your uh certifications and branding and whatnot is on little
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rubberized feet which will prevent the network Space
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2 from moving when you put it down on the table you can see it is quite sturdy
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that's not going to move at all so I'm going to go ahead and take
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the plastic off it is extremely shiny so
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you can see my chest mounted tripod cam
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quite easily and we'll do the obligatory finger shot here so you can see just how
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shiny it is it is very square and very
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black well not really Square it's more of a rectangular prism see you've caught
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me on like a holiday so my hair is like messier than usual even and here at the
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front we find the USB port which we can use to plug in a USB thumb drive a
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printer because it does act as a print server and then on the other side we
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find the let see branding so I guess we
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might as well do a quick test with it to find out if their claims of 65 megabytes
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per second are true or false and other
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than that that's all there is to really say about the network Space 2