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the corsair carbide air 540 high airflow cube case is great for air cooling or liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more it's finally here guys the fire test with the IO safe end to fire proof waterproof Nazz now I was going to do something kind of ghetto with our fire test that wouldn't really have been safe and so I reached out to Western Digital makers of the ever-popular WD red these are our preferred nas drives around here speaking of preferred which now is drives did you buy slick for three terabyte WD reds and did you get those for free or sponsored in any way yeah okay so they're expensive but we do believe that they're worth that they are rated for 24/7 operation they do come with 24/7 tech support and of course they come with a longer warranty than most consumer grade drives so they're rated for operation and anywhere from single to five drive operation within a single enclosure and even more than that you're going to want to step up to an se and the main point of all this is we are going to be putting these drives inside our n2 we have gotten a sponsorship from WD to do this they're not giving us any money but they're going to be giving the local fire department like hundreds of dollars which is actually very generous of them considering that we're going to light their drives on fire but then they'll hopefully still work to have us go down to their training grounds and actually do a simulation of burning down the NASS and then spraying it with water which is exactly what this fire proof water proof Ness is designed to withstand so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to throw our 2wd red drives in here so you got an allen key that's included for tightening these bad boys up and we are going to head down to the training ground to get this done remember the way that this works is that it actually sweats liquid from this protective material around here and then ventilation is still provided to the drives by having these heat sinks around here taking air from the outside now the way that the n2 works I go into this in more detail in my unboxing of all things but the way that it works is that it is allowing air to pass through to cool the components inside while not allowing fire through by having a baffle on the front shield right here so that there's no direct line-of-sight for the fire and the flames to get into the drives themselves so we're going to close this up and I'm actually super excited to do this I've been looking forward to this for a while so we wanted to give you guys a quick look at the burn room that we'll be using so here's the IO safe end tune as Richard is loading in pallets that we're going to use to feed the fire get her goin get her up to a pretty unacceptable temperature for a normal hard drive and then we're going to we're going to douse it off with the with the hydrant and hose that you saw before so let's just give you guys a closer look inside here at where we're going to be putting it inside the burn room all right so we're loading up pallet so go ahead yep and so you can see there's like they use this pretty often so I'm told that the fire kind of goes up here and curls around in the ceiling and once Richard gets completely geared up you were saying how close can you get to this fire right right here probably alright so basically you can stand right next to it about how hot are we expecting this to get I could see around 800 probably so 800 to 900 degrees Celsius we've actually got a thermal imager that we're going to be using to verify the temperature and the the IO safeness is being positioned right here so this is this is going to get pretty toasty is this pretty realistic for what you'd expect for if this thing was actually in a house fire what it would be subjected to this is probably worst-case scenario this would be around the most flammable heat creating objects you could possibly imagine you know this would be sandwiched between couches and drapes and basically all the worst things you could imagine excellent so here we're doing a quick run-through of how the thermal-imaging camera works so check this out there's a bunch of different modes but I'm gonna go with oh I don't know let's just go with the most sort of colorful interesting one you can see slicks hand pops out whether it's in red or whether it's in white here or whether it's white as hot black is hot all the different things can be hot but let's just go to the super colorful one because that one looks like lots of fun so go ahead and pull your hand away from the door you can see it actually still remembers where where he touched it so if we look inside the room we can see the pallets right here and we can also see the i/o safe Nazz right there this particular yet there's their slick standing there so this particular cinderblock was out in the Sun and the pallets rather than the Sun that's why they're quite a bit hotter than the rest of the inside of the room so we're here with Captain Brian Yule who is overseeing the operation here today and just to be clear Township of Langley Fire Department doesn't endorse the IO safe end to nas or anything like that but they have very generously given us a pretty good cost on helping us out here with testing it according to sort of what we agree is what we'd say is kind of a reasonable simulation so how long is this going to run we anticipate it will run about 20 to 25 minutes depending on the temperature and get it to and that is your typical well typical timeframe from when a fire starts to people notifying the fire department that they've got a fire in their house and in the temperatures that it will get to once we once we arrive in our typical response time which is around 8 minutes ok so wow really yeah that's correct wow that's outstanding ok so we're gonna hit probably you set around eight hundred to a thousand degrees peak yeah we're going to target we're going to target in the eight to nine hundred degree range over a thousand degrees it starts to break down the gunite on the walls which is our fire fire coating for the walls but we're going to shoot for approximately nine hundred grease at the seat of the fire okay and then this is going to be pretty much what you'd consider to be a pretty worst-case scenario in terms of correct haven't having a fire start right next to next to the target target whatever you want to call it is worth definitely worst-case scenario alright so Richard tell us about this gear what do you got here well we got our mask kind of self-explanatory is it self-explanatory sir is it well and I know there's a lot of gamers that watch this channel the gamer myself so this is actually a HUD this is my head it's up display so this displays lights so lets me know how much air is in my pack I've got my clear command this is a speaker there's a speaker right in the mouthpiece it allows everyone to hear me it's extremely hard to communicate when you're in a fire so that's why I use that for and of course we have the SCB yay which is the air bottle and the backpack I have my radio which I'll be on and I have our tick which is our thermal-imaging camera which I believe we just showed up all right so it's fire time Richard you got what is what is this sorry was this torch called tiger torch all right light her up that looks like fun that looks like lots of fun we're ready to go we're ready to go let's do it let's light this thing so any goes because he's only lighting it right now it's okay for Richard to go in without his a full breathing apparatus and all of that noise so what we're going to do is we're going to light her up get on out of there we're going to close the door and then we're going to check on it add maybe three or five-minute intervals have a look at it with the thermal-imaging camera maybe leave it open for just just a couple seconds here so that they can get the fire starting yes we are legitimately lighting this thing on fire folks so we're going to check on it every few minutes and see if it needs to be stoked see if we need to do anything to help make sure that we're reaching the temperatures we're going for here which as a reminder is around 800 to a thousand degrees Fahrenheit so before he goes in you want to tell us how he's going to put out the fire Richard's going to perform what's called an indirect attacked where he's going to shoot a modified fog which is about 30 degrees at the ceiling for two seconds he's going to let the steam from the water droplets rain down on the fire it'll help darken it down then he'll narrow his pattern a bit and then attack the fire directly on should only take a couple of minutes here he goes guys you want to give the anaz a good spray just for good measure all right so we're surveying the damage now on the left side of the unit here you can see the steel enclosure didn't really discolor too much and didn't really bow out too much although it did bow a little bit whereas on the right side where it was right next to the fire even in the fire it has discolored and if you get an angle of it kind of from the front here you can see it actually bowed out a fair bit so it was it was warped and deformed the front ports the front USB port the SD card reader these are just empty holes now because all the plastics surrounding them has completely melted away you're not intended to reuse this Nazz you send it to i/o safe they put new drives in a Nunez and transfer your data on to that and send it back to you that's how the whole service works now here on the back you can see the only thing left of the cooling fan for the unit is the four screws around the outside other than that it's just a mass of melted plastic and this is a little bit surprising but the Gigabit Ethernet port and the 2 USB 3 ports of the back kind of survived but then the the power input did not so once again I wouldn't even begin to consider firing this thing up har-har-har after it's been fired up yeah kind of survivors and they like still have color but they wouldn't work just bring that out there so here we are guys we see a bit of a sharp contrast here between the destroyed nas and the replacement now as now you would normally ship this thing back in its current state to IO safe you would not do any of these any of this taking apart on your own because wow it's like you hear that sound ah okay because you don't know what you're doing and you don't know what you're getting yourself into necessarily with respect to sort of water the water seals having water getting into them or or whatever other problems there might be you want to be real careful about this and just let IO safe take care of it for you but of course we are not that patient so we wanted to just take this bad boy apart and show you guys what's up so you can actually see the material that we had inside the n2 has got some sort of burn marks on it here especially around the edges but you can also see that there's still some condensation on the inside of the plastic sheathing that's over top of it and right here up against where the drives are there's no no burn marks at all you can also see that on the right hand side or well I guess it would have been the but yeah the right hand side of the unit is much more burned than the left hand side of the unit and that was because the fire was right there up against it so that was that was where it took the brunt of the damage okay so next up we've got the actual aluminum housing inside you can see there's more more scorch marks okay so the aluminum housing here serves a couple of purposes number one is that it keeps the hard drives cool under normal operating conditions so that's where the airflow sort of covers and it's got some heat sinks on it number two is it acts as the waterproof seal for the unit so that keeps the water from the fire hose out so we're going to go ahead and try and pry it off here okay so we just managed to pry it off with a fork I suspect what happened is the gasket around the outside probably melted a bit and it looks like that may or may not have been the case actually it's in not that conditional things considered so yeah it looks like just around this one edge on that one side where the fire was touching the Naz almost the whole time that's the only place where we see any kind of a problem here so let's start with the drive that probably got it a little bit easier in terms of the abuse that went on okay so it looks pretty normal you wouldn't know that that was sitting in a fire for 20 to 25 minutes all right now the abused one here we go Kai's let's go ahead and pull this out it is highly recommended actually it is required that you let your drives dry out completely before reinstalling them in another enclosure or doing anything with them our enclosure didn't really get that wet and I don't think that the waterproofness was penetrated at all and there isn't it really any moisture left in the device to go inside here and bother it so we're probably going to be able to pretty much fire these babies up and I'll let you guys know if they still work I mean look at this this was in this way and there's no no perceivable damage to it at this point in time so we're going to keep the camera rolling and we're just going to time-lapse this because I want you guys to know that there's no faking and no switcheroo going on here if these drives have data on them they survived a 25 minute fire you no way my precious my precious pictures so there you have it guys I mean I shouldn't be surprised I Oh save told me it was going to work but still you saw that fire I mean look at this enclosure oh so heavy look at the way that this side bowed out I mean we abused this thing to the point where I wasn't necessarily that you know convinced that anything was going to survive it look what happened to the cooling fan in the back that mean it's gone it's obliterated I know you can still smell it even even now so ah the idea is not to keep using these drives the idea is to pull all the data off of them and use different drives now which of course IO safe takes care of but there you have it guys my precious memories are still on banaz let's see you can see if we can play back Big Buck Bunny oh it's an MK V ok well we'll play back lake Oh mov ok mp4 yes open with Windows Media Player look at that there's the old MC IX tech tips intro playing off of two hard drives that were sitting this far away from a thousand degree Fahrenheit plus fire thanks for checking out this video huge thanks to IO safe who sent us two of their NASA's to make this happen and then WD who paid for us to go to the training facility and set the whole thing on fire other than that this is just a Linus tech tips video so there's there's no sponsorship beyond that so we were as interested as anyone in finding out whether this whole thing was going to work and that's again that's one of the reasons we brought in a second sponsor to fund us lighting it on fire because WD ultimately doesn't have anything invested in whether or not this NAS works but I'm sure they're happy to know that they have something fireproof to recommend to their customers at this point so there you go guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if for whatever reason you disliked it I thought it was awesome though leave a comment letting smell what you thought and as always don't forget to subscribe