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so today we can take a look at the new tech yes Nass and this is not the rapper Nass I every time I do something about NASA's I always get one guy in the comment who talks about the guy who used to make that good rap so what could we get that out of the way with but what we'll go here is the TS four five three BT three now another thing we're going to get out of the way with is the price tag it's a thousand dollars u.s. and if you're in Australia just let me get my water quickly here it's $1,500 now you're probably gonna be on either two sides of the camp you know what this thing can do and you came here to see the review or you like Brian that's too much for an a so you can go and build one yourself for much cheaper and yes I could I could build some nass here with a lot of the used parts I got lying around but this one here is very special because of the small form factor it can fit four drives in it it's also got dual Thunderbolt three connections it's also got cross support for Linux Mac OS and also Windows and so I'm probably getting your attention already and also couple that with the adding card that is included with the BT 3 it doesn't just have 10 gigabits per second Ethernet it also has two slots for nvme SSDs so in total you can essentially make this a six bein ass that has support for raid 0 raid 1 raid 5 raid 6 RAID 10 raid 50 raid 60 and we start to see what this thing can do so let's get on with the review that kind of rhymed welcome back to techie cities Brian coming to you guys today with the ts4 5/3 bt 3 from Q nap now last year I took a look at aq nap NASA and it wasn't really my shindig it didn't have 10 gigabits per second Ethernet essentially which is what I was looking for out of an ass being a 4k video editor you can sometimes stack up footage that goes over a hundred gigabytes in total so you need something that needs or has fast file transfers and sometimes you need to keep some of that footage because you might be doing two videos when you need to keep some of the previous footage so having something like this that can do tanky with so second for me was kind of important but then I went to Computex last year and I said to QNAP what I was looking for in an ass and then they said well we've got something that's perfect it's gonna be exactly what you need for a small studio small network and then they sent this over and coming into it you're gonna see that the price tag 999 dollars actually isn't bad for what you're getting with this thing so yes we've talked about the ten gigabit per second connection on board which can be routed to a 10 gig switch and then you essentially have access across all computers on the network providing they have 10 gig of their own solutions can access the data at any time and so with that you can on this Nass have the option to implement a nice kizi if you want to but there's really no need with kynapse ecosystem and OS it's absolutely amazing I was still managed to map drives all across the computers on this network into this thing and use them to install Steam games for example and then other people could access that same storage pool and access the games - this is from my raid 0 array which is 2 SSDs and they're combined - corsair xti drives originally i was going to put PCIe nvme Zin but again it only supports side of 3m VMI's which isn't too much to worry as those drives will still saturate that Tang gigabits per second connection quite well but another thing I needed from this was also ease of use where other people who aren't really computer literate here can again install the QNAP finder software which is really good and then they can essentially map the network drive with ease on their own and they won't have any problems so this thing gave me that advantage because what I wanted to do with this and why I needed this so badly is because I want to save time essentially you guys see the amount of builds I'm doing around here on the channel whenever I'm still one of those new builds and I put the games on I've got to get those games and sometimes I got to transfer them across USB 2 sometimes those games need to be updated and it just takes a lot of time with this now especially with the raid 0 portion which is a static volume I can then put the games all on this device access and from my main computer if I want to play games in my free time or also when those new builds come along I can have a deployment kit along with that raid 0 in the games and just quickly get things set up without wasting any time and now even if they don't have 10 gigabits most computers will have a 1 gigabits per second solution so I'll still be able to get those games across and install them relatively quickly with this box now the other two bays that I've dedicated to this drive so I've installed four drives in total and I'm not going with any classical RAID one I'm just going with two different storage pools with a J bond and that's for me and how I want to use this thing because the thick and thin volume structures that they allow on the QNAP ecosystem allow you to add drives in if you want to and have very little downtime so if I want to install an 8 bay drive in this studio in the future I can then take these 2 drives out put them in the a bay and then make them double raid 1 or even make it a raid 10 so it's up to me but it's not really gonna be a problem as you guys may have seen in the past with the Intel rig that I had recently going from the AMD system to that it was just a massive hassle to get everything reinstalled and some people in the comments thank you guys you're like dude you need an ass straight away you need to hurry up and get an ass because with these things you're not going to have those problems future expandability is not gonna be a problem at all and also backing up your diner and even if something blows out you're going to be able to replace it with ease in this box now speaking of the box itself the hardware specs we've got a 12 centimeter fan in the back very quiet does a great job of cooling I didn't see my drives get hot at all and this is in a again Australia's ambient temperatures are pretty hot though keep in mind what it does get too hot I will turn my aircon on because with drives I find in the dead heat of summer if it goes close to 40 degrees and you're transferring files you can blow out hard drives I have blown out one three terabyte hard drive in the past so of course even though this does do a decent job of cooling you still always have to take precautions in terms of how you treat your gear but pulling off this right here it comes off very easily if you unlock it I actually have already busted it because that's how you break your kness when you're too savage Midway reviews you can grab the bays and just literally pull down on that knob and then they come out and you can hot-swap them if you need to so you've got that option there to install the drive bays with these they do have a screw this installation on the 3.5 inch side of things but on the 2.5 inch drives you will have to use the included screws again though it doesn't take any time at all though if you do want to pull this thing apart just keep in mind that you may void your warranty so I've already pulled this thing apart it actually took a long time to disassemble I don't recommend doing it but inside we had two sticks of ddr4 memory so eight gigabytes of ddr3 L in total you've also got that full core J 3455 quad core comes at 1.5 gigahertz base across for cause they'll can turbo up to 2.3 gigahertz if you need it to so if you're doing encoding which you can also dedicate to the GPU side of things it's got HD graphics 500 so you can use that for life encoding or transcoding if you wish to then it does have that little bit of extra power now the best thing about this package is as a small lightweight package uses 10 watts from the wall when you've got it switched on and even when I was transferring files the most I saw come out of this thing was 14 watts from the wall and so that's another big reason why I wanted something like this with a very small footprint is because of its low power consumption the noise is low as well and it's also literally the size of my hand very small form-factor especially for fitting two-six drives now with the package itself you also get the HDMI cable to rj45 cables and the AC adapter too and on the back of the device it has the two HDMI 1.4 B ports that support up to 4k 30 Hertz and with that on the actual QNAP drive itself this is where things start to get a little bit interesting it doesn't just double down as an ass and add a direct attached storage because it does have the Thunderbolt 3 on the front so you can get up to 40 gigabits per second transfer across those devices not only does it have that which will support Mac Linux and also windows it does have the whole app Center where you can install things like plex media server surveillance systems or VPN software on this box so you can even install karaoke if you want to and Spotify so you can have this thing as a music station as well so on the back does have mic in Jack's and also a line out now if you use the line out you will cancel the voice activation system on this device though of course you can get it to better audio system because the included speaker is really small and tinnies but with those mic jacks as well you can essentially use this not only for karaoke but for an intercom too so the possibilities of this thing start to become like what can this thing do initially when I got first got it in and I was like thinking the price tag was a little bit expensive but it soon became a question of what can this thing not do because literally everything that I want from this it can do it and can do it over the network as well you can even hook it up directly to your computer which is what I did for the 10 gigabits per second test because I currently don't have a 10 gigabit switch here so I wanted to test the speed so I hooked it up directly to my computer via a 10 gig cat cable and also with this device - it was so easy to set up as soon as you put the drives in and open it up for the first time you can log in via your computer if you wish to or you can hook something up directly to the NAS but setting it up is so simple it's very easy it gives you a step-by-step process but as well as that it's so intricate and detailed if you want to read out all the drives the history of them the temperatures also check their health you can do that with the BT 3 but if you guys want to know more about the actual augmented benefits of the Q nap NASA's then I'll put my previous review of the Q nap NASA where I went and played video games on it even and that'll explain more because what I'm doing here today with this NASA is detailing what it's doing for me in my studio being an actual story dedicated storage device now they're moving on with this device the only thing that I could think of that someone might critique about it is the fact that doesn't have wireless built in but you wouldn't really want your nice to have wireless built in because most of times it is going in a different spot to where you're gonna be working and so you would maybe want to hook this up to a switch and then get a mesh wireless network happening so yeah that's really kind of a mute point but I'm guessing someone may be interested in like oh does it have wireless onboard too because nowadays it seems like in 2018 whenever I'm selling a computer or something everyone's asking does it have wireless so this thing here doesn't have wireless built in but you for what its intents and purposes I don't think you would want it to have wireless it'd just be a waste of time you know guys the last thing before we move over to conclusion with this thing was my experience with this Nass the setting up of this device was so easy it made me feel like a pro because my networking knowledge is very limited I mean I did do the basics in the past but this thing made me feel like a pro because it had so many options and it just explained everything along the way and setting it up was hassle-free you can even update the firmware to the latest firmware it'll let you know if it needs a firmware update you've got on the desktop side of things the cue finder Pro which will just map your drives on your actual main systems with ease and I had no slowdowns whatsoever there's no dropouts the 10 gig connection worked flawlessly and the one gig connection worked really well when I was just backing up data overnight just to test everything out and so I've backed up all my files from my main drive to this and the important files again across two different drives over the j-bot because initially I wanted to put two nvme drives in this device but there were PCIe nvme s and I realize it had the side a3 interface so that may be just one little negative about this device but I ended up using the four bays and again they're hot swappable so easy to install things I ended up putting to one terabyte SSDs in and to 10 terabyte a wolf pros and now with the data I ended up putting these two and these separate storage pools because of the fact that I wanted to get as much space as possible and only really double backup my most important files but again when it comes to an ass I'm a unique kettle of fish I'm definitely doing things differently than the norm where people would have a raid one for example and then be scheduling that to auto backup either every day every week or every month me I'm just Yolo I'll back up things when I need to back up things are after I complete a video or after I'm initially dumping the footage on a SSD drive from the memory card on the camera of course the loading times and the wait times when setting up a raise on an ass solution does take a lot longer if you're coming from Windows where I'm used to just setting up hard drives and clicking format and at taking two seconds this thing will take a few minutes to boot up and it will take a few minutes to set up the arrays and also just do things in general when it comes to configuring things it's not as snappy as your 8700 K or five gigahertz do keep that in mind but that aside when it came to setting up all the drives in the array that I wanted it was just so quick and keep in mind I'm not doing the norm what I do with my footage it's not a weekly or a monthly scheduled backup kind of thing over raid 1 I want to maximize the most storage out of my to 10 terabyte iron wolf pros I don't actually want to raid one them because I want more storage and a lot more of it so they're very expensive drives so I utilize it in a way where I can only double backup the really important stuff that I can't afford to lose or even triple back it up with the raid zero if I need to and if I need to in the future have where a scheduled backup for example then I can upgrade that with this to a raid 1 also the file transfers as well that were really quick I had no problems over the tang gigabits connection which I directly connected to my computer - and setting that up was so easy it even told me it's late look you've got to get this under the same subnet mask so it's very noob friendly for someone who wants to set up a new NASA and they want to get the most they've got an idea of what they want this thing will let you do it so kudos to QNAP for making something that's so simple yet so intricate that even a dummy like myself when it comes to networking can get things set up in like literally less than a day and get it set up we've copied all your files across and having no dropouts having no slowdowns yeah this thing can do it all and I'm glad to say that even though it's $1,000 us and 1500 AUD it does have everything that I'd want from an ass but it was in conclusion this thing is gonna be that little workhorse that's in the background you're not really gonna hear of him again you're not really gonna see him that much but he's gonna be pulling his weight here around at Tech yes City that's for sure don't worry about that another thing as well it does have trim support too I was able to trim my assess these even while they're in raid zero so I believe that even works better than Windows 10 Pro it was amazing that it had that feature as well as the iron wolves in this device they were copying over 200 megabytes per second consistently over the 10 gig connections all surprised at how quick those 10 terabyte drives were I was actually shocked I was expecting them to be a bit slower but they're pretty quick for what they are you do get 10 terabytes of storage with them so hmm anyway I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below what you think of this NASA if you guys want to see me build a NASA with the parts I have lying around here and then compare it against this I will make that happen one thing though I will want it to have a 10 gig solution on board and I will want it to be small and I will want it to be low-power so I'll see what I can put together and see how it compares to the ts4 5/3 BT 3 because this thing with dual funderbolt it's able to be a - say it would be an ass it's even able to be like a directly connected Ethernet box if you need it - and also coupled with the host of all the other things that can do man oh one more thing some feedback for QNAP maybe just the build itself it is all plastic and since it is a very high-end unit for an ass I would like to see it maybe have a bit of Steel that would make it just perfect like for the aesthetics and just for like I don't know the feel of the unit just little thing just those little things maybe I'm just being too picky anyway I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye no you're not getting him you're not giving this away I am given this way though so if you want a chance to enter for a free mini ITX pc world wide posted internationally links in the description below 2400 G in this little package 16 gigabytes of RAM in and this is D by took a long time to fall apart actually and and the speeds were very impressive keep in mind everything is setting up reporting raid 0 raid 1 raid 10 raid 50 rate 60 raid 5 raid 6 and if I could say so but ultimately excellent unit and I'll catch you guys in another tech unit