As you know, I am Eli the computer guy.

And in today's video, I'm gonna be doing review a review of the QNAP Q g d hyphen.

1600 p.

This is a pretty a little butin beast right here.

Basically, this is a P O E swift that has a server built in that has a desktop computer built in that actually could do virtualization.

It is a nifty need product that I want to show you today now for F T c.

Compliance reasons.

I do have to say that Qnap actually sent me this device and basically it's on long term loan.

To be clear, they're not paying me a dime.

I'm not earning a cent from QNAP.

They said they just said that they would send this to me and they asked how long I would like to keep it.

And I said a long, long time.

And they said, Okay, that's kind of the FTC compliance here.

This is a $699 device, So take it or leave it.

But again, if you followed me for any length of time, you know that that my reputation is more important than any piece of crap.

So one of the things I'll just I'll just hint here, foreshadowing here on the t l did not watch too long.

Did not want for this video.

The user experience for this thing is total and complete garbage.

Yes, I guess so.

You know, I'm not selling out to Q and 1/2.

I'm not selling out these big manufacturers.

Let me be clear right here and now Whoever designed the user experience for this thing should be fired.

It should be fired.

They should be blacklisted and they should be.

They should be forced to work in a floral shop for the next decade.

This is a really cool device, but the user experience is absolute garbage.

So with that, let's get into the review.

So I was so excited to get my hands on this little thing.

Qnap contact me when their PR people contacted me and said, Hey, do you want to be able to test this thing out?

And I took a look at it and I said, Yes, absolutely yes, absolutely.

Ship it to me now.

I said that before I doubt with the user experience.

I told you how bad the user experiences on this thing.

It's miserable.

But anyway, so you may be asking why do I care about this?

So I care about this because I'm doing a lot of our Guido projects.

Basically, what I want to focus on for a lot of my education going into the future is I o t s o.

This is what is called an Arduino microcontroller.

This is actually an Arduino, you know, with WiFi that's has a full T c p I p four wireless stack actually built on to the microcontroller so I can connect sensors to this and actually have this communicate with a server.

And I can have a server basically format commands and have something like this being to read command.

So basically, I can have 10 or 20 or 100 of these and my infrastructure.

Some could be collecting data.

Some can be triggering events based off of what a server has to say s so on and so forth.

But again, one of problems you get into in the i o t world is what What is the brains for this gonna be again when you're dealing with microcontrollers?

They all have to communicate back to something.

And then the whole question is, is how do you build out that infrastructure that they're gonna be communicating back with?

So why I was really excited to get my hands on this thing is, I really think this can be a major component for a backbone for a I ot infrastructure.

The reason being and so what this has This has 16 p o E ports.

So these air power over Ethernet ports s that means not only can use them for networking, but you can also use them to power devices such as surveillance cameras, such as wireless access points such as some of these Arduino and raspberry pi.

If they have the P o E module, basically, you could just connect.

Ah, a network connection to the p o.

E.

Sweat can actually be a power devices, one that really cool things with this is all 16 ports.

All 16 ports support up to 30 watt of P o.

E powers.

That's pretty significant, but then four can actually do up the 60 watt of P o E.

Power.

So that means you're gonna four relatively powerful of electronic devices being power from this and then the other, the other 12 ports pretty powerful again.

30 watts over p.

O.

Is significant.

The first thing I was excited about this is it has a p o.

We switched on DSO.

That's really nice, obviously the connections to a backbone and all that, then beyond that, what's really cool is this actually has a server build into, So we take the top off of this, we can take a look.

And basically, as you can see, there's ram here.

You actually have one of their qnap server solutions actually built into the switch yourself.

Have you ever dealt with unit before?

You know, it's basically, you know, sign ology.

All of these Nass providers, they have their own little operating system that allows you to run things like Web servers, database servers, all kinds of stuff like that that's actually built in to the P O.

We switch.

Then.

Beyond that, even their operating system supports virtualization.

So if you want to spend up a virtual who bun, two servers or some kind of Lennox or Microsoft servers, you can actually spend them up within the server that's built into this unit so that you have full control over whatever you need again, this could be very important.

If you're dealing with the Microsoft stacks are you doing with the Microsoft Stack?

You're dealing with things like active directory Maur niche products that again may not be used necessarily in Lenox World.

You can actually spend up your own Microsoft server within a virtual machine on this.

And actually, so again, all of your I O T devices and all that can communicate back to that server, and that server can do whatever you want.

Then what's cool beyond that is if you take a look at the front, you actually have an a t.

M.

My connection.

You have a network cable and you have USB connections, and this is basically it gives you a Lennox type.

It's not the greatest a Lennox desktop, so essentially you can plug this into Iraq.

You can plug a monitor, keyboard, mouse, external storage or whatever else directly into this, and then you can manage the server or do other things.

So basically what's built into this one qnap devices.

You have the 16 porkpie Oh, we switch.

You have the qnap server important component that supports virtualization.

And then, on top of that, you have the desktop component.

So again, the cool part is you can just to shove this into Iraq or hell, not even Iraq.

You can just put this on a shelf at your customary reply in your office site.

And then this might actually be everything that you need, not just the networking, but also the server solution also for the maintenance and all that type of thing.

So that's why I'm really excited about this.

So now you know why I'm really excited about this.

Let's go over to my little work area, and I can kind of show you the insides of this a little bit better without having to hold this in one hand.

So here's a qnap a little more up close and personal again.

If we take a look at the front of it, we can see our 16 p o.

E.

Ports.

We can see the key.

Am I connected the USB, We can see the connector to the trunk lines and all that.

We can see that we have the little display.

This gives you the information for things like I p addresses and all that kind of stuff basically looks like a pretty normal front.

Except you get this nice a key in my connection and that type of thing.

Now, if we put this down and we simply take off the top, we can look at the inside of it.

And again, this is a pretty cool, pretty cool little setup.

Eso right here.

This is the whole server components under here is the intel processor.

So is it It is an intel Celeron processor.

Um, now, if you're like me and you hear the word Celeron, the first thing you're gonna go is like, ah, seller on.

Yea, what I have to say about the Celeron after using this for a little bit is once the machine has booted let me be clear once the machine is working, this Celeron does not seem to be that bad.

A processor again.

I have a bone to server installed on here, and everything seems to truck along pretty well again.

You've got to deal with what resources you have.

You want to put it you know you're not gonna make this into a gaming machine or anything, But again, if you put like a command line.

Lennox distribution, a couple of command line Lennox distributions that type of thing on here to be clear once, once this system has booted up and actually it actually performs its surprisingly well.

We have the Celeron processor under here on, and then you have eight gigs of RAM in this particular model.

So when you're looking to purchase one of these things, you could get one with either four gigs of Ram or eight gigs around again.

One of the nice things you can see is these air just normal, these areas normal RAM slots.

So basically, if you get the four gig version, you should be up to slot in another four gigs if you want.

So on and so forth.

Um, I was doing a little bit of research about if you could upgrade the Ram to, like 16 gigs or actually put Maur ram in here because I'm all about that virtualization when things I think is really cool is being overrun.

The virtual machines From what I could tell, at least by Intel specifications, the seller on C p U on Lee supports eight gigs of round so one of things have to be careful about.

You could put 16 gigs of Ram in here.

I'm sorry, but it only supports the eight.

Right?

So even if you put 16 in here would only recognize eight s O that something just to keep in mind, then for storage.

As far a storage is concerned, basically, you have this little bay over here.

This supports up to two solid state drives again.

One, the really cool, nifty things about the modern world is you know, the solid state drives can actually get up to, like, 7.5 terabytes of storage right now.

Think about that for a second.

So you could literally have 15 terabytes of storage in this device simply simply by slotting them in.

So again, that's kind of an interesting thing to think about, like in the i o t world.

So if you have all these sensors connected back to hear again surveillance cameras, any of that type of thing, I think about a device like this 15 terabytes of storage, absolutely insane.

Then you actually also have PC.

I express expansion slots here.

Eso for PC expansion slots.

They have a wireless card connection that you can get.

They also have, ah, storage connection.

See, there's a there's a P C i e car that you can you can put in in dot thio drives onto a car drives anyways and not to storage on to S O.

They do have expansion with PC, I hear.

So what you can see is again.

I mean, that's not a desktop computer by any stretch of the imagination, but there is a little bit of great ability here, and you could actually put in some things to really make this impressive as long as you don't need anything more than a Oh, a intel a Celeron processor in order to make it run.

Okay, so here's the fun part.

Let's actually get this thing up in Iran is the first thing.

Of course, someone slammed top on those to be clear, there's no sensors or anything.

If the top is on, you can turn the whole system on even if the top is off.

But again, for things like airflow, that type of thing, I would highly recommend that you put it on, then pass that you take a little power cord.

You plug this into the back.

Um, Then you take the keyboard, you take your keyboard, you plug that into one of the USB connections, you take your mouse, you plug this into one of the USB connections, and then you take your network cable, plug this into one of the network hordes and then you take your age.

Am I and you plug this in.

So that will drive the little screen right there.

Now, the important thing as you connect all of this, this is the first place we get into the disaster of the user experience for this qnap device.

Have I said the U.

S.

People need to be fired, blacklisted, sent to the sent to the four old mines in the next decade.

So when you're dealing with this, right, So So when the technology world, you know, we talk about physical devices and then we talk about logical devices.

So a logical device is like a switch A wireless access point, a router, Internet modem, right?

Those air, all different logical devices now in the past, on the way back when they used to also be their own physical device, you would have a switch and the logical device in the visible device was simply a swift de rounder was the rat.

Wireless access point was wireless access point on the modern world.

We now have multiple a logical devices that are basically put into one physical advice, eh?

So if you go out and you get your, oh, you go out and you buy a wireless wireless router a WiFi router right that actually has a wireless access point, it has a router and has a switch.

It probably also has a number of other components built into it.

So it's new Morris, a logical devices built into one physical device.

Now we deal with other technology companies.

They wrapped that into a pretty easy to use pack right again.

If you're going by lynxes, wireless router, you'll be able to do with the switch.

And the WiFi router capability is relatively easily.

You know, it's all relatively seamlessly bound together, so that not only looks like one physical device, but also when you go to administer it, it feels like one device.

The thing is, when you deal with qnap, you have to realize is these air all different things.

They basically simple.

You get duct tape and super glued all of these physical devices into one thing.

And they got it.

Physical device.

And so, basically, you have your switch here, and the switch can be functional away from the qnap service.