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this video is brought to you by the Corsair obsidian 350d micro ATX case exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance PCs visit Corsair comm / obsidian to learn more welcome to my unboxing and first look haha at a type of packaging that you'll likely never see so this is a four pack of Seagate's noon as hard drive so what is a nas hard drive see it requires a lot of explanation because similar to Seagate's competitor who also has a nasa optimized drive this one has a very cryptic name that doesn't in any way imply the function of oh wait no it's called an as hard okay so it's for NASA's it's available in a variety of capacities up to four terabyte which for a consumer-grade NAS drive is right now the highest capacity that you can get it comes with a three-year warranty it uses a SATA 3 six gigabit per second interface not that that matters in any way shape or form because quite frankly the things that matter for NAS drives are a couple of things so number one is vibration tolerance these ones are optimized for anywhere from one to five drives in an enclosure and they are optimized to not be interfered with by the other drives around them the next thing is workload so these are rated for a 24/7 workload however but not to the same sort of extent that you'd find on something like a Seagate constellation ES which is their their enterprise class drive it's also designed for quiet operation which is important if you're using your Nass or your hard drive enclosure enclosure hard drive included it's a new thing I just invented a hard drive enclosure on something like a desktop and next to your PC and you don't want to sit around and listen to it and of course cost is a factor so as a consumer-grade device this particular nas drive is not very expensive performance takes a backseat with an as hard drive and the reason for that is because most naz's are going to be limited not by the performance of the drives inside but by the performance of the network interface attached to them in most cases gigabit which one of these drives can max out nvm if you go and chuck like four of them in an enclosure running in raid 10 which or something like that or they're going to be held back by the controller involved which in most masses is not going to be able to handle more than gigabit operation anyway in something like a raid 5 which is what I personally would usually run four drives in as long as I have a controller that's powerful enough to deliver me at least you know 40 50 60 megabytes per second on write speed because there are a lot of calculations involved raid fives efficient because it gives you three drives worth of capacity with only one drive taken up in terms of redundancy but it just means more calculation intensive therefore it is slower thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Seagate NAS Drive and hey guys stay tuned because I'm gonna back up these claims where I'm actually here first I want you guys to say what you think am i right or am I wrong about the whole Maz drives performance doesn't matter thing because I'm gonna try and back it up but I've actually got slick working on a test right now where we're gonna be using a pretty high-end Synology nas so 500 $600 for bein as and we're gonna go Seagate NAS drive versus WD red 3 terabyte and we're gonna find out which one performs better stay tuned for more don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos