ok good morning YouTube time for another postbag look at this package first this
one came from I think it was Amazon crazy deals and Amazon seller this is
that's one of their three I guess the third s 3500 series is the enterprise
version of their solid state disk and this is a 300 gigabyte version and I've got two of those
and I need someplace to put them so I'll show you what is in the other box he tells speed
demon hadn't seen that logo before and this one came from B&H photo New York so that is phonology
see that here it's a DX two one three and I'd showed you a earlier video out of that describe
to my Synology network attached storage or NAS device is zoom in on that there it's basically
a two-disc expansion box for the series that I have and then in the back it has a DC input it
uses an external 12-volt power supply and then it's got the an eSATA connection that you plug
in to your main Synology nas device and this is one of the expansion Bay's you can have up
to two of these you can either have a this is a tube a you can also get a five bay but the idea
is I want to put I can have a SSD cache set up on the the the disk station drive array that I have
with one Drive you can do what's called read to cache if you do two SSDs you can then do a read
and a write cache so what that does is it puts everything that goes in and out of the the disk
station is written on one drive and they they actually set both drives up in a I think it's
a raid zero which i think is the mirroring two drives two identical drives in a box and since
I only have one slot left in my main box I picked up this little one and since this has a DC power
supply I may be able to power this off of my solar batteries this only takes about 20 Watts
I'll measure the power consumption that's the case I can power this pretty easily that's a
less than two amps of DC power and so that'll basically be like in PS uninterruptible power
supply this guy off a solar power if these drives can handle a lot of the frequently accessed files
on the system the main the drives in the main disk station can then be put to sleep and when
they power down that'll save about 10 watts on every drive so you could right now it's using
about 60 watts and if they're all in hibernation I think it drops down to 20 watts so that's my
plan I'll show you a little later how I plan to get these inside here and we'll walk through the
configuration process see we got power cord power supply DC output 12 volts it says 12 volts 6 amp
but I think this this actual unit is specified to only take about 20 Watts so strives our
c12 at 0.65 at 1 amp so it's about 7-7 so there I think these views of around
10 watts apiece ultimately I will replace this unit with a little DC 2 DC power adapter and
run this whole thing instead of off of this cord I'll run it off of a little coax power
connector like that and run this off of solar and then hopefully this will let my big disk
drive array go to sleep so I'll update you when I get a chance to look at that