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what's going on guys Jays two cents here bringing you another video here on the tech channel about well tech because that's what we do here at least that's what I try and do now when I built skunk works a few months back a lot of people recognized and kind of called out the fact that I just sort of glossed right over the hard drives and I didn't really mention the hard drives when it came to skunk works and the reality is the storage situation on my main rig is pretty atrocious to say the least now just to answer some questions here about what hard drives I'm currently running guys I'm telling you right now it's disappointing in fact I'm probably going to lose some community respect with what went in there because I'm not running any raids or anything like that in fact I've got two SSDs a 256 a data SX 900 which I will be replacing with a Samsung 840 Evo a 500 gigabyte pretty soon here a Plextor 256 gigabyte that's the m5 I am running a 2 terabyte Toshiba Drive and a 1 terabyte Toshiba Drive and that's it and as you as you can probably imagine I'm running out of space very fast when it comes to the amount of storage I need to bring you guys this lovely HD content in fact on average a 10 minute video takes about 35 gigabytes of raw footage we're talking about the b-roll and all the outtakes and that sort of stuff about 35 gigabytes per video and considering I have over 400 videos you can do the math on how bad my storage situation is so recently I was contacted by Western Digital and they said hey J we love the channel we love the content is there anything we can do for you and it was all of a sudden like the clouds opened and everything just so Western Digital said yeah man we got you covered we'll go ahead and send you one of the my cloud ex2 Nazz servers it is a network accessible storage and it's got its own processor and it's actually pretty cool now this is the four terabyte version it's got 2 2 terabyte Western Digital Reds in there and it's got its own software you can access it from iPad or Android or iOS devices from other computers from obviously your main computer and it's pretty neat has its own software you can do raid configs and whatnot so we're going to go ahead and crack this bad boy open take a quick look at it and then we're going to set it up and see if it's really as plug-and-play as they claim that it is now when you first open up the box right at the top there's a concierge service card here with a 800 number or 855 number right on top to give you some support if you need it you have your actual nas drive right here let's just upside down so she packed in there pretty tightly so we've got a box of accessories and we've got the navs itself now as you can see the nez it's pretty small in fact it looks bigger on the box this is it right here it's pretty damn small it looks really nice actually it's it's almost like a gunmetal color hell it even matches skunkworks that's pretty awesome right on the top you can see you have got your plug in place storage hard drives on there I'm sorry your hot-swap drives on there I'm going to go ahead and leave these in there for now guys I've read the manual but - 2 terabyte Western Digital Red's pretty awesome if you ask me and then I'm assuming this is probably going to have maybe a cat 5 or a cat 6 and some power yep there we go we got a power brick right here and we have got our Ethernet cable right here so that's it that's all that's in the box I'm gonna go ahead and plug this thing in now and we will see just how easily this thing is set up on the network and we'll start archiving some data although you guys won't get to be a part of that because I take data security very serious serious business transition well guys I gotta say that the Western Digital my cloud ex2 is very very simple to use in fact I've been playing around it for a while now which is why the sudden wardrobe change because I was like oh I forgot to record the last part of the video because I got so involved in setting up the nez and I was having so much fun with that right setup is very easy you can do J bud you can do striped you could raid 0 raid 1 you can do spanned and I went ahead and moved it from a raid 0 which it came pre setup as a raid 0 into a spand setup now I don't need the super fast transfer rate of a raid and I don't need the redundancy of a raid because I'm not actually using that as my operating system drives obviously actually want as much storage as I possibly can since it really is going to be nothing more than storage and archiving of my youtube videos and a lot of my raw content that I use when I do my editing so I want all 4 terabytes available to me not to terabytes in a raid setup but you can set up multiple users you can allocate which parts of the hard driver there's give them access to certain files you have shared files which are public and it's really cool so if you want to give different file folders availability to different users in your family or maybe your office they you can even lock them down to only having accesses to the folders that you give them access to so it's really neat there's actual data encryption on there is automatic backups there's even automatic like HTTP file fetching on there so that if you're constantly pulling down files or something for work you can even set a timer on there where it will go to these HTTP settings with these usernames and you can actually set it up to go and fetch files and download them automatically you can hook up USB storage devices to this so that you have some more redundancy when it comes to file backups and there's just so much flexibility in this it's more than just a network accessible storage it is really a mini server that is just accessed on your storage it's so much more than just a basic nadz it's got full functionality the dashboard is easy to use it's very intuitive updating the software is very simple in fact I needed a firmware update all I did was click one button and off it went it did everything by itself so guys if you're looking for having a very simple nav solution you've got to consider looking at the iCloud from Western Digital I mean guys that's what Western Digital does this is what they do this is their thing storage I loved everything about the software in fact there's not one thing I found in this software that can't do that I wish it did in fact actually there's one thing and it might even be able to do it I just haven't found a way to do it if there is a way oh if there's a way to set up users to where they have access to their own folders but if you can limit the amount of access they can have to the Nazz in terms of storage you could say user a only gets 200 gigabytes of storage and user 3 gets 100 gigabytes whatever that would be really cool I haven't found a way to do it it might be possible but I recommend heading on over to the Western Digital website or look down the description you can find some Amazon links if you guys are interested in purchasing this drive for purchasing this drive for yourself or somebody else so guys thanks for watching this video going head on over to Facebook or Twitter if you have any questions it's the best place to get ahold of me as always guys I really really appreciate your views it helps us channel a whole bunch you guys have no idea where this channel would be right now if it wasn't for you guys actually I do would be absolutely nowhere now I got you guys to thank for the success of this channel so as always guys I hope to see you in the next one take care