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for the sake of expediency we're going to spare you guys unboxing a couple of network-attached storage devices from Seagate but this is their new business storage line we've got a couple of different configs here so the first one is their to Bay 4 terabyte with drives ones and that would make sense to me in the past whenever you've bought an as from a hard drive company whether it's Seagate or one of their competitors or whoever else it's always had drives in it Seagate is now offering their NASA's without drives so this one right here is a 4 beta that looks to go up against the likes of guys like a Synology or kuna or any other standalone ass manufacturer so what does Seagate bring to the market that they think is so special I'll tell you what and actually I'm kind of sold now with that said these are not necessarily priced at consumer price points because they do have some business grade features but they're also not as high priced as some of the business grade masses I've encountered in the past which is kind of cool so check this out it includes their black armor software so you can discover your nas on Windows and Mac you can do incremental or full system backups in Windows you can also recourse restore systems one by one incremental is really really cool means you don't have to use up all your drive space for a couple of backups ok hot-swappable SATA 2/3 drive bays USM slot this is really cool check this out so this is intended for off-site backup so you can use your nas as a convenient way to put data on something that can be archived easily or sent somewhere else so check this out this is one of Seagate's I forget what this one is then I've lost track of what the branding is this is an older free agent go flexible it works with their newer stuff as well where it's just a nice little slimline to a half inch portable drive you can get them in much higher capacities now this one's 500 gig you slot that in there you transfer some data you throw a label on it you archive it on a shelf or you put it in a safety deposit box or wherever else you want to keep it safe very very cool little thing to include that's on both the 2 bay and the four bay and it works just like that you've also got two USB 3 ports for additional expansion so there's a USB 3 in the front just in case you're keeping it like I don't know on a desk or something or whatever else and then they each have an additional USB 3 port in the back next to haha check this out dual gigabit ethernet ports now that's not to say that you're going to get two gigabit per second transfer speeds out of it but its redundancy so if one of these interfaces fails outright this thing will still work which is very very cool your power in as well as a hard reset button they're also located on the back of both of these devices so there's those USB 3 ports I was going to talk about the to Bay has a 40 mil fan whereas the 3 Bay has what appears to be a 92 millimeter fan that you can pull out and change if you want I suppose I usually end up doing that with naz's just because they ship with fans that are unnecessarily powerful and I usually put like a super silent low rpm fan in them they both include the exact same set of accessories so you've got a power cable a Gigabit Ethernet cable and your warranty information as well as the software disc that includes all that backup stuff that I talked about before so your warranty is three years on these products let's go ahead and start getting into what makes them even more special than that full support for all of your usual servers so you can run an FTP server off of it you can run an HTTP server off of it whoa ho I scuzzy targeting very cool the last time I looked into this it was 450 to 500 bucks for a bear enclosure that worked with ice Guzzi but wasn't particularly fast so I'm really excited to see what Seagate's got going on here because that's a very competitive feature to have even for like a higher priced product so very very cool very few naz's support I scuzzy and the sort of smaller and more inexpensive sort of I mean okay normally you're looking at like a net year like rackmount or something like that multiple volume management that's cool so you can set up different storage volumes you can also if you don't want to set up different storage volumes you can do quota and share management for different users as well as volume level encryption so you can manage who can see what who has access to what who's allowed to use how much of the space and all that good stuff it supports Active Directory as well as raid zero one five ten or span and I would really recommend guys with a server like this a four base server where you're keeping business important data of some sort do not run a single Drive do not run raid zero it shouldn't even support raid zero I wish the manufacturers would just stop including support for raid zero because it's terrible run raid 5 or raid 10 where you're using either one drive or half of your drives for redundancy just in case something bad happens so redundancy and off-site backup is what storage is all about so I just showed you the whole process of installing a drive I wanted to check out what drive Seagate's including with these enclosures so this one right here has 2 2 terabyte drives in it so they're using their Barracuda series drives I wouldn't have minded seeing them including their constellation series drives which are there they're more sort of enterprise grade storage drives but I guess if the intention is for the user to be using raid anyway personally in my own as that I use for all of our tech tips data I am using Barracuda drives so you know I can say all I want well we should be using you know enterprise grade drives but I actually don't and I haven't really had any issues with that either so there you go Oh what else they got going on here local backup oh yeah this is so cool Nazz tuned as backup is supported so you can go USM / USB device to nest so you can kind of go okay dude did it did it - do I want to backup this thing for example this right here is our steam game Drive so we have all of our Steam games for our test benches on here so if I'm like oh I'd be a real pain if that drive died and I lost it I could do an incremental backup just by popping it in here and configuring it everyone so well very very cool stuff the forebay has a little LCD in the front by the way in case you guys are wondering to bay doesn't have that you can also have multiple nasa's and backup from nouns to NOS that's something that many nasa's do not support or the functionality is so hidden and so broken that it's basically not usable anyway so that's very very cool there's a OneTouch transfer button on the front there's that one and network desta's backup yes very very cool that that kind of stuff just gets me geeking out Apple Time Machine software is supported which is cool as well as a bare metal restore over network that's another huge one being able to do a bare metal restore basically means that you can circumvent a lot of the inconvenient stuff that comes along with backing up machines sort of normally with respect to licensing and stuff like that so it's it's a very convenient way to be able to do backups uh this is another thing too this I mean you could consider an iTunes server or a DLNA server to be more of a consumer-grade feature but I personally don't because if you were to deploy probably not something like this but probably something like this one where you throw two drives in here and raid one so that you have redundancy just in case something dies you put that in like a store or something you use the iTunes server or the DLNA server to power all of your digital signage off of this one little box that's what I see that kind of functionality being forced so it does support both iTunes and DLNA so you can stream to supported devices I don't think I ever showed the front of them up close so there's activity LEDs USB 3 power button and then same thing on the other one I wish the front wasn't glossy but I guess it's not the end of the world and then on the other one same thing power activity LEDs and then your front USB 3 I think that pretty much oh yeah Seagate private cloud so you can create your own sort of cloud I mean really that's what an as is creating your own network storage so that you can have all of your storage in one place I'm a huge advocate of network attached storage I think everyone should be using it for pretty much everything but their Seagate private cloud is not just the ability to kind of set up an FTP server for yourself and kludge it together but also the ability to use their smartphone app to access your little private cloud wherever you are so there you go keep all your data somewhere keep it safe and then preferably keep it somewhere else as well thanks for checking out this unboxing and first look at Seagate's business NASA's don't forget to subscribe 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