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here on the desk we've got a brand new for bein asked from a Zeus tour that's right you heard that right a new investment division from a Zeus tech that makes motherboards graphics cards all that goodness you used to and you may even want to think of it as as you store going a little bit different but it's coming in at a really hard-hitting price of three hundred and sixty US dollars for based solution hot-swappable supports raid zero one five six and ten today we're going to configure this in raid five and take you through a little tour but if you're in astray it cost six hundred Ozzie dollars now what makes this so phenomenal in terms of its price performance is the fact that it's got a ten gigabit per second Ethernet switch on board so you can use this for so many more things than just simple file transfers to and with those speeds you can get much faster than your one gigabit per second or one hundred twenty five megabytes per second and with the drive configuration we're using four Seagate iron wolf pro six terabyte drives and these are configured as we said before in a raid five essentially giving us three times the speed of a standard hard drive but also giving us backup in the form of parity across all four drive so if one of the drives drops out we still have all those files backed up very interesting solution fantastic for a Soho or even a small network at home but when it all comes down to it I think as you store files this solution could be the best fit for a lot of people out there in the audience let's explain why welcome to tacky-ass city and here we have this little unit here it's actually on at the moment and you can probably hear how quiet it is the editor in the background their use of his actually using this at the moment and it's in operation and that's how quiet this soar benefit of that is you can manually change the fan speeds in operation hot swap the drives as we said before but you can also create individual users with ease limit their access privileges of read and write operations or read-only and DEA privileges with the hardware inside you've got a Marvel dual-core CPU 2 gigabytes of RAM and you may be thinking ok the specs are a little bit lower than what I'm used to on an ass but I'm here to tell you that this thing is so quick it's snappy it's actually more responsive in my opinion than the QNAP nice that we've recently tested and that was boasting much higher specs at least with it's a gigabytes of RAM this thing is really quick it's smooth on all devices we've tested it you can use it from a smartphone whether it be iOS or Android can also use it from Linux Windows or a Mac computer itself so it's got all the configurations are readily available the UI and feature set is so simple yet does have all the features I would want from an aspir sley the ability to distort manual apps they've got a heap of different apps to choose from as well plex media server things like security surveillance and you can hook up to 16 cameras up to this device at once not to mention you can customize the GUI with your own colors themes or even logos if you're a business and back to the hardware itself three switches through one gigabit ports and also an aquaintance your 10 gigabit per second Ethernet cable now if you've only got a 1 gigabit per second switch but for instance you've got a 10 gigabit nic in your computer that you've been pouring from build to build since 10 gigabit per second switches can be very expensive but you still want to get faster than 1 gigabit per second speeds then you can aggregate all three of these NICs into one and get essentially 3d bits per second speeds both over your switch and through this Nass itself and then to your computer with its tangu bit per second nic and you also get a three-year warranty in the dimensions are 24 centimeters by 33 by 21 weighs in at 3.5 kilograms without drives installed it also is a complete tooless installation and you can remove the front cover with ease that is magnetic - so now moving through some of the more intricate features with this nest you can remotely access your files via when address by setting up a user login you can also individually map separate user profiles as well as controlling LED brightness and you can actively monitor pretty much everything from different computers all at the same time up to a total of 512 connections to this NASA itself it also supports xqz and you can change the different hibernation settings where the power consumption itself is around fifty to sixty watts when all four of these drives are in use but on hibernation it goes under ten watts power consumption which is very impressive so you don't have to worry about leaving this thing on it will do a good job of still using little to no power even while it's in a standby mode you know the schedule is for daily weekly or even monthly health checks or even scans to optimize the drive themselves to make them faster it also give you a readout of the drives perceived health and how much life it has left so if you need to change it out before it drops out you can do so now with the little azuz thought there is no wireless built in itself so I do recommend if you get it something like this hooking it up via a switch and then having a wireless access point connected to that switch that's of course essentially Wireless now and now lastly with the AS 4040 I really like the robustness of this device you can use it as a file storage server you can use it as a surveillance camera App Center you uses plex media server or you can even just watch movies directly off it saving you the need to have a home theater PC as demonstrated when I hooked it up to my LG TV and just access the NASS through the web browser on that TV I was able to play my favorite movies and files with ease and it worked absolutely fine it's also got a built-in VPN app so you can use it across your network as a VPN and it also supports live transcoding so if you wish it to be working for you while sitting idly dormant but now it's time for the conclusion 360 us this is the best thing I like about this device it's coming in with a 10 gigabit per second Ethernet switch on board it also supports the three link aggregation but moreover the UI is so simple to use it's going to be a great and perfect solution for those budget-conscious but pretty much want the best value when it comes to a soho Nass and really when it comes down to I can't really critique anything about this device at all except maybe the side of three limits of the transfer speeds themselves not being able to fully saturate the tank occur bits per second connection but again at 360 u.s. or 600 ozzie dollars is that really going to be something that you're looking for in a unit so cheap but ultimately when it comes down to it build quality it's quiet it's just packed with features so easy to use bang I love this thing it's actually going to be replacing the QNAP here which yeah that's how much I like this thing and big thanks for a zoo store for sending this unit out for a review also big thanks to Seagate for providing the hard drives installed in this unit as well the six terabyte hard drives are really high-quality I've been using the 10 terabytes here on the QNAP device and there have been flawless the whole time this thing has been in my studio so there are units that I can recommend if you want to check out more details then links will be in the description below and that's about it really guys I hope you enjoyed this review if you did then be sure to hit that like button let us know in the comments section below if you have any questions or comments about the azuz tour is 4040 and i'll get back to as soon as i can also there is two USB 3.1 as well which you can plug drives up to directly and transfer files to the nasa that way or you can hook up a printer to it if you wish to but also there's no vga outputs as well so you will have to access this device through your switch router or computer directly and it does hook up directly to computers with ease - very simple to use as opposed to other NASA's that I've used in the past they have been a little bit difficult to hook up directly to computers more so than hook up to a switch anyway I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye but let explain but letting azuz tech I says we've tested here you can use it from a smartphone whether it be a Android or shut up whistle