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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ds4 11 from Synology so I don't know if you guys are not familiar with Nass brands but yeah Synology is like up here in terms of the overall quality the user experience I've never used one before I'm just going based on hearsay but I'm very excited to be checking this one out and I will be using it so I have very high expectations for this particular nas enclosure this so this is a 4 Bay let's go over the features first great for file-sharing duh it's an S okay webserver cool you can run a small website off of it data protection read so this this enclosure supports raid 0 1 5 6 and 10 yes it supports read 6 very cool although with let's take a step back let's take a step back raid 6 and a four bay enclosure is actually kind of brain-dead because raid 6 requires 2 drives for parity and destroys your write performance whereas raid 10 will also require 2 drives for parity and will have fantastic performance so ok maybe that's pointless but raid 5 is good because you only need one parity drive so you can have better capacity than raid 10 ok mobile access ok using your smartphone or whatever else DLNA media server fully compliant with that surveillance server compliant oh cool ok PC backup is supported mail server supported compatible with Windows Mac and Linux no problem Windows ABS you know what I actually don't know what that means so feel free to leave a comment on the video and let me know online photo-sharing a print server ok cool and so this is basically all that stuff we just saw except like with arrows interesting the ds4 11 is a slightly higher performance than the 411 j with these NAS units it often comes down to the performance of the network controller so most of them are gigabit now so that's less of an issue it used to be that a lot of them were ten hundred which is just way too slow in this day and age and it also comes down to the performance of the processor because especially if you're running in a raid configuration such as raid 5 which is gonna be how exactly how I would want to run this enclosure because wait five means you use buckets if you have three or four three terabyte drives j-bot would give you 12 terabytes okay so stick with me here guys - j-bot however jaiva just a bunch of disks doesn't provide any data redundancy so any protection from a data from a hard drive failure so not ideal raid one will give you only six terabytes of storage but will protect you from up to two hard drive failures as long as they're not both on the same on the same data mirror okay so there's that raid 5 gives you 9 terabytes of data and will allow for up to one outright drive failure so it's the perfect balance although you do have a bit of a performance impact our raid 10 gives you so raid 10 gives you great performance and raid 5 will impact performance negatively but right so that right right right so in your ideal configuration which is raid 5 to get the most out of your storage drives that you're paying good money for the processor is a huge factor because the faster your processor is the faster it can calculate that parity bit that's required for raid 5 operation and for the redundancy that it provides let's go ahead take all this stuff out let's have a look at the unit itself so so for beam has the whole front is basically ventilated slits here you've also got indicators for the four hard drives that it is compatible with land indicator status indicator and a power switch is right at the front on the side you find not a whole lot to write home about a Synology a logo on the other side you find a completely matching Synology logo okay I think you say - no sorry - 60 millimeter fans round out the back those look like low-profile fans yep hopefully they're not too loud but I haven't fired it up yet so I don't know yet power in Gigabit LAN two USB 2.0 ports so that's you know for your print server whatever other functionality eats at a port so that's kind of neat okay maybe there's more of a point to raid 6 with this thing than I thought if you want to run something else off of it reset switch so it's your hard reset and it looks like you got thumbscrews to take the whole sort of back apart now what I want to know is how he actually is like drivin here the bottom is on little feet which is sort of good and ha included accessories power adapter now they're more different power cable Ethernet cable screws to install drives and apparently to install up a lot of things okay welcome read this first don't mind if I do what's in here probably a Quick Start Guide they come in lots of different languages that's good except that that I can't find English come on welcome there we go ah thank you for purchasing this check this for compatible hard drives if you buy red you'll know that it's compatible or you'll early it's something something you okay thank you for that that's actually the most useless read this first that I think I've ever encountered warranty information whatnot so yeah give me a second here guys I'm gonna have to try and figure out how to open this thing up yeah I totally knocked out on those fans those are standard profile eighty millimeters so the fact that they're using to larger fans in the back of a 4 B enclosure like this is very promising this should be extremely quiet so let's go ahead and load this in so you can see its rear loaded oh I'm sorry I've never even showed you guys wheat okay here here Bobby turn the okay this comes off now to get me remove the back piece yeah so much rear loaded so we turned it around to eat like that I take off the four thumb screws and this just drops down like this and then you can load in your four drives just like that so I'm gonna pull out these other sleds so you guys can see the back flame that's built into there they're using a proprietary motherboard down in the bottom so let's go ahead and actually let's check it out there you go Marvel controller over there whatever this is I'm sorry I'm totally in the way of the camera here so nothing out of the ordinary pretty much there's all your activity led all of your activity LEDs there's the that looks like a PCI Express 4x interface or like some kind of custom so you know something depending on kind of a chips that they're using whatever none of that's really important the point is the non J version has the higher end the higher end processor and actually this is a really this is a really smooth installation you can install that's why it comes with more screws check this out so besides installing the drives on the sleds and sliding them in you can actually install yet another longer screw if you want even more security like if you're gonna you know ship it somewhere or something like that pre-installed and then you just close the back up and you're good to go so thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the BS 411 and I haven't actually gone through the specs so we're not quite done and there's no specs on here that we didn't talk about already so we're done and right why did I say that WD reds are the ideal drive so they have longer mean time between failures longer warranty they have 24/7 phone support if you have any kind of a problem they have Nazz optimized firmware they also vibrate less so in a multi drive enclosure like this they're less likely to vibrate and interfere with each other and they are validated by WD and by the NOS makers to be compatible so you don't even have to look it up on a Synology website you'll know that a red drive will work in your nest thank you for checking out my unboxing first look at the ds4 1-1 from Synology don't forget to subscribe - 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