Gadgetory

hello everyone I'm Dimitri without recognized and in just six months we filled up the four terabyte hard knocks archive the my cloud mere by Western Digital has fulfilled its destiny with the raid 1 array keeping all of our data safe in two separate hard drives and we are big boys now so we have to step up our storage game creativity is fueled by the best instruments it doesn't always come easy and in the process you often realize how important quality is the Rd 400 bio CC gives you quality and speed with M de tu interface the shivanand flash and a PCI bracket making it possible to focus on what matters invest in storage that makes a difference with a 5 year advanced warranty so producing 4k videos is incredibly taxing on storage to give you points reference on average we consume anywhere from between thirty to a hundred gigabytes per project per project and so the my cloud mirror archive has over two thousand folders and over twenty-two thousand files in total most of which is raw footage the final published videos and all the files associated with that edit in case we need to revisit that project later now recently I realized that it's not a completely sustainable way to approach the archiving and what we backup so I start to sort of slim down on what goes into the archive so removing any b-roll that isn't used in the final edit is one approach and the second thing is I remove all the on-camera portions for myself because they usually take up between 10 to 30 minutes depending on how many mistakes I make and that's quite those files are quite large and so they go out of the window so let me introduce our new NASA technology ds4 16 play it's an ass that I've called the Harbour Canucks saver that has come at the very right time of need as our previous one filled up completely it's a four bay disc station in four home streaming and actually perfect for creative professionals in my opinion it's as compact as it would get for a for bein as with a functional design like the tools bay panel that sits on these rubber dimples for easy access if only it wasn't so glossy as it immediately picks up dust and finger marks looks kind of gross I would put a skin on it if that was an option the LEDs on the front show power status of each disk and status of the volume itself and if you find them too in-your-face not only can you adjust the brightness but you can also schedule brightness of the leds so just pretty clever now the thing supports up to 40 terabytes of capacity but we have a sizable 16 terabytes and on four drives these are Seagate NAS drives and I like the hot-swappable nature of the bay with SSD supported on the bracket as well now based on our usage history these will be occupied in about 16 months since I'm running these four drives in a Synology hybrid raid so it gives me one disk redundancy so in our total volume we have 12 terabytes of redundant storage meaning if one disk on this volume fails the volume can repair itself as long as the failed drive is replaced of course you can go in and set the manual rate but I like that Synology goes in and applies all the automatic settings that are appropriate for your disk configuration which is not only helpful for us to learn what's going on behind the scenes but also is very new friendly to start there are three USB 3 ports one at the front and two at the back plus dual Gigabit LAN ports and the proprietary power input with a power brick included along with two ethernet cables so you can connect an ass to a couple of routers or a couple of network switches and plus it would give you a failsafe in case one length fails the USB ports can either be used for additional USB storage or if you want wireless access to the masts you just have to plug in the Wi-Fi adapter or even a Bluetooth adapter now neither of the Wi-Fi sticks that I own have worked but there is a compatibility list for all the Wi-Fi dongles the fans of the back are 80 millimeters and are surprisingly quiet even at full speed mode that you can change by the way it doesn't give you a temperature readout though just a simple visual thermal status in terms of speed I am saturating my Gigabit LAN and the speed test and receiving totally consistent transfer speeds back and forth for the archive and so the way I approach this whole nas is I simply mapped my network folder which I can access from my computer and then also access that archive from the outside the office so I'll give a burr and Aiden access to their own folders with a storage quota so we can share files more securely and lastly I love the interface for dsm or DiskStation manager it's much better than my previous experience with the my cloud stuff so we have several widgets on the right that gives you an overview of your Nass status plus we have all the needed controls for drive management network setup user and group creation and I really just barely skimmed the surface of it's full functionality you can assign automatic folder backups from your PC you can sync files from many cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox so they'll automatically appear at your on your nas and all this comes with an advanced yet simple interface so you can search for files you can sort by file type you can preview thumbnails you can play videos autoplay back on my original gh4 100 megabits per second 4k clips was quite choppy but rendered 4k videos played just fine this would be a very good media server especially with the 4k streaming capabilities and also transcoding for mobile devices and one really cool feature I found was the built-in download station so torrents are downloaded directly onto your nas but remember legal file-sharing only please and with that we have a new NASA archive for the harbor connects videos I'm hoping it will last for at least a year since we have nice large volume with redundancy which I appreciate and me not being in totally networked good this is my second time experiencing or playing around with an ass let me know if you have any tips that I should continue on for this backup archive NAT solution for our videos leave them in the comments down below I would appreciate that I hope you guys enjoyed this video I'm Pete your power connection we'll see you in the next one