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all right we're doing some video coverage on the LG this is the N 1 T 1 Nast unit so it's a combination as unit external optical and USB drive so I'm using their NAS detector software and I have successfully located the LG NAS so that was easy would you like to create a desktop icon for the selected NAS Network filter yes ok that was relatively simple so why don't we do a quick speed test and then I'm actually going to I've installed two pieces of LG's software the NAS monitor and the NAS detector so I'm launching the NAS monitor right now you can see I just used their disk and click on those and then install them so here we've got the NAS monitor launching hopefully shortly is this it yeah there it is ok so about Nass monitor open why don't we open the web menu here we go so hmm I don't have a user ID it must have a default one I'm gonna try admin with no password sometimes it's admin I may have to come back shortly hey it's admitted min that was easy ok so we've got a bunch of different stuff in here you can see that we have the the basics of our nav so usage amount is all went around one percent we've got the firmware revision the fan is set to silent let's see what else we can look at here so here's all of our network info so it's the system name system description you can change all that good stuff IP address you can set it to obtain one manually or not a system time we have a number of other things that we can check out here so power it has different power settings ok that's pretty neat Wow it's got a ton of stuff in here you can do firmware updates from within this this menu right here see mail notification so you can get mail notification when let's see a notification trigger your harddrive status reports okay cool cool can setup user accounts as well as shared folder names you can do file backup so you can it looks like you can backup to DVD which would be kind of neat okay so you've actually got built-in burning software right into the web menu so you throw a DVD in there and you can backup anything from your hard drive to the disk you can rename your disk to something else that's kind of cool it has a backup button so that's for the optical drive down a backup or back up to image so you have a couple different options you can schedule backup so you can do USB backup and it also supports Apple Time Machine you can set it to which volumes you want to backup so you can do torrents yeah I can have a network printer it's a file server and finally it's about nineteen server as well as the deal and II okay so that is pretty much all I wanted to say about this particular menu lets do a quick performance test so I have okay I guess we'll know pretty quick whether or not it's working at gigabit speeds but I have movie files so this is a 266 megabyte file and I'm going to go ahead and cut and paste it into the public volume let's see how long it takes all I need permission okay maybe I won't put it in there okay let's try X hard drive cut okay any dad just need to enter that admin admin because you could set up different stuff yeah yeah there we go okay so paste let's see how long it takes okay so far that's looking at kind of like that's looking at about like ten hundred speeds but we will know for sure when we actually do the read test from the nest so remember if you want to know exactly how fast it's going all you don't use this number here one there instead you should use the total size of the file 266 Meg's over the amount of time it took to copy/paste it so let's go ahead and paste that to the desktop and let's see if that goes any faster yes it is so the write speeds are a little bit limited on this particular Nass but the read speeds are quite good at over 30 megabytes per second and don't forget that it has the capability with the switch on the back to be used with a simple USB cable which they do include in the box so you just got a straight USB a to a cable and then all you do is flick the switch right here and you can change it to an external optical drive or to an external hard drive that operates off USB just with the flick of a button so right now you can see I have it set to NAS and I'm gonna move the camera close to it just to demonstrate that you cannot hear that fan at all in fact I think it's off right now I heard it spin up when it turned on so it is not defective but it's gone ahead and turned it off because there is no need for the fan to cool the hard drive when it's not doing anything really intensive so that's the silent setting that we saw before thank you for checking out my performance test of the LG network storage n1 t1