 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.com slash obsidian to learn more. Welcome to my unboxing and first look... Aha! At a type of packaging that you'll likely never see. So this is a four-pack of Seagate's new NAS 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 NAS optimized drive. This one has a very cryptic name that doesn't in any way imply the function... Oh wait no it's called a NAS hard drive. Okay so it's for NASs. It's available in a variety of capacities up to 4 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 6 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 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 NAS or your hard drive encoder. Encloder? Hard drive encoder! It's a new thing I just invented. A hard drive enclosure on something like a desktop 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 back seat with a NAS hard drive. And the reason for that is because most NASs 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. Never mind if you go and chuck like four of them in an enclosure running in RAID 10. Which is something like that. Or they're going to be held back by the controller involved. Which in most NASs 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 of write speed. Because there are a lot of calculations involved. RAID 5 is 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 going to 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 NAS drives performance doesn't matter thing. Because I'm going to try and back it up. I've actually got Slick working on a test right now where we're going to be using a pretty high end Synology NAS. So 500, 600 dollar 4 bay NAS. And we're going to go Seagate NAS drive versus WD Red 3 terabyte. And we're going to find out which one performs better. Stay tuned for more. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxing reviews and other computer videos.