The main factors that limit the performance of NAS functions are poor network environment, narrow network bandwidth, or narrow uplink bandwidth in the environment where NAS is deployed (the uplink bandwidth is often only 30 Mbit/s under unequal bandwidth). Every time I wonder if there is a NAS device that can be light and portable, powerful enough, and able to take with you wherever you go, I think, good guys, it's too right, productivity & entertainment artifact get.
Polar Space T2 unboxing
A full-featured portable NAS device
Productivity tools for creative practitioners
Step-by-step instructions for the camera to back up footage to NAS via FTP
The benefits of camera FTP backup** to NAS: models and clients are happy.
Advanced gameplay: customers can view in real time** and replace the wireless video transmission monitor.
If the camera doesn't support FTP, it's no problem, the SD card slot is here to help.
NAS works part-time as a USB flash drive, making file copying scenarios more flexible.
TV desktop & extreme film and television, you can watch it in the theater whenever you want
How to evaluate the Polar Space T2 Pocket Magic Box?
The body of the Polar Space T2 is made of aluminum metal, the silver shell is very textured, and the head and tail I.O interface parts are made of plastic, embellished in gray.
Flip it to the back of the device, and there is a heat dissipation vent in the middle of the hard disk compartment cover to ensure that m2 SSD does not run in a stuffy tank, with the included protective shell to use, do not worry about the air duct will be blocked on the desktop, to be reasonable, I personally think that if the circular hole is designed into the shape of the logo of the polar space, it will be a little better.
The overall size of the polar space T2 is about the same as a mobile phone, in fact, if you consider the thickness comprehensively, it is more like a power bank.
The interface is quite complete, and there is a power switch button and a Type-C power supply interface on the top side, 25G RJ45 network interface and an HDMI 20 interface, which can be used for ** output.
On the bottom of the I-O interface, there is an SD card slot, a USB32 Gen1 Type-A ports, and a USB32 Gen1 Type-C interface.
When you remove the hard drive cover with the included screwdriver, you can see the 2 m. inside2 hard disk bays, Polar Space T2 supports PCIe30 m.2 NVMe 2280 SSD, PCIe4 is not supported0 yo, pay attention to the hard disk do not choose the wrong one.
In the middle of the hard drive compartment is a small cooling fan, which is quiet in daily use. I used a KP230 Pro 2TB SSD here, and I initially estimated that it should be enough to meet the storage needs for the next 2-3 years.
The included power supply is a GaN fast charger, which supports up to 30W power supplyIn daily use, you can use the 12V power bank that supports the PD protocol for power supply, and the official publicity needs to meet the standard PD protocol of at least PD 30W, I am testing the maximum support to 18W PD protocol power bank can also be brought, but it is not excluded that it is an example.
In terms of battery life, the power of the 10,000mAh (typical value) mobile power supply has worked for about 6 hours from 100%-0%.
The device comes with an extremely small, also aluminum alloy remote control, which is powered by a CR2025 batteryIf the OTA updates the projection companion function in the later stage, the polar space T2 can be directly used as a PPT display tool.
Finally, a family photo, including a screwdriver, remote control, 1 flat network cable, 1 HDMI** cable, 1 Type-C data cable, 2 solid-state screws and a GAN charging head.
The official comes with an all-inclusive silicone protective case, which can effectively reduce the impact of accidental falls on the device.
Standing up for work can also be high, and heat dissipation is better.
In fact, many manufacturers have explored portability NAS, such as Hikvision's W100 and Synology's BeeDrive. Hikvision W100 has long been lost in the long river of time, Synology's BeeDrive is more like the hardware of Synology's DSM Drive function, and the real full-featured portable NAS device may be the first and most successful one.
The full function represents the complete ZOS system, and there are functions such as Polar Album and Polar Video and Audio.
The Polar Space T2 is equipped with the same RK3568 as the Z2 Pro and 4GB DDR4 memory.
That's right, 4GB, for a polar space NAS device, means you can even run Docker on it.
Extreme album function, 128GB iPhone is saved.
Extreme Film and Television,Oh Huo,No longer have to worry about the company's network is not powerful,You have to call transcoding to see the resources in the NAS device at home。
Everyone is the era of self-a**, as long as you lift your phone or camera, you are the creator, the high portability of the Polar Space T2 gives creative workers a better workflow mode.
As mentioned earlier, the T2 is a full-featured NAS,The most important thing is that Polar Space T2 supports WiFi connection, and recently OTA will update the AP mode, we can easily and quickly back up the ** in the camera to Polar Space T2 through the FTP service that comes with ZOS. Take Dad's main camera A7M4 as an example, which supports direct upload to NAS via FTP. There are many friends who set up the camera FTP to upload the polar space NAS unsuccessfully, to be reasonable, I also studied it before I got it, here I will share it with you to solve two common problems:
Failure to connect to the FTP server, this is usually the path account information and other places are not set right, you need to turn back and check it carefully.
Unable to create a directory in the ftp server, this should be the problem that plagues users in the polar space the most, and there are several friends around me who are stuck here and finally give up, the main reason is that the directory is not accurate.
Next, I will teach you how to connect the camera to ZOS FTP, first find the file and sharing service in the system settings, and turn on the FTP function.
Then turn on our camera, my demo device here is Sony A7M4, first go to the network settings, Wi-Fi, select the wifi band.
In order to ensure the transmission efficiency, we choose the frequency band as 5GHz, if your router or other equipment does not support 5GHz, then use 24ghz。
Then go to the access point to manually set up the network for configuration.
Select the wireless network you want to use and enter the password to connect.
Next, go to FTP server settings and go to the Transmission Remote Functions tab.
Use the FTP transfer function.
Enable the FTP function and go to Server Settings.
The function is set to 10 groups of servers, and we pick server 5 here to configure.
Set the display name, it's not very important, keep the default OK, I'm here to make it easier to distinguish, set it to t2.
In Destination Settings, set the IP address of the T2 device on the LAN.
If you don't know the IP, you can check it in the device monitoring function, and I use Wi-Fi to access the LAN here.
This brings us to the most likely place to trigger the problem, the directory settings.
At present, ZOS is relatively little introduced in FTP, which may be mainly due to the security risks of the FTP protocol, and does not give a clear hanging path like SMB.
Friends in the setting of the FTP path is easy to subconsciously refer to the reference path given by SMB, eg:133xxxx6666,However, the SMB reference path given so far cannot be mounted successfully on T2
In fact, the SMB mount path on the PC side looks like this: nvmexx-133xxxx6666.
The FTP path looks like this:NVMexx-13388886666, which means that to enter the full registered user's mobile number (folder), the smb FTP needs to materialize xxxx to the actual value, so that we can get the FTP path available on the camera.
Teach you a trick to directly get the available path, when adding the network location, directly copy the FTP address given by the client, and then you can see the available directory path.
Next, we fill in the actual path we get into the directory settings.
And then all the way to the point, that's it.
First of all, we all know that the monitoring screen of Sony cameras is very rubbish, very rubbish, very rubbish, as a creative worker, if you work hard to find a model shooting group**, the result is to take the built-in monitor to the model customer to see, the look is very bad. But after we back up **to the Polar Space T2 NAS, it will be a different scene, enter the settings option in the Polar Album function, add**.
Add a folder that the camera uploads automatically.
Through the folder for filtering,Our models or customers can directly through the mobile device (can be a mobile phone,It can also be a tablet) to preview the ** that has just been taken,In most cases, the screen quality of the mobile phone and tablet is undoubtedly the A7M4 original monitor,Whether it is the size or the display effect。
For photographers, if you want customers to see what we shoot in real time, you need a wireless image transmission, search casually on JD.com, good guys, this** is really not cheap.
At this time, we only need to turn on the camera's "automatic FTP transmission" function, and our real-time shooting can be automatically transferred to the Polar Space T2 NAS.
Imagine that you are a location photographer, taking wedding photos with the newlyweds or taking pictures of the baby entrusted by the parents, you are shooting, and the customer can choose the favorite ** through the extreme photo album function of the Polar Space APP through their mobile phones (or tablets and other mobile devices in the store) by the side, what a beautiful thing.
The efficiency of duangduang is improved, maybe the customer will be dazzled directly, add more than a dozen fine repairs**, and the business will soon be better, but don't tell me that you are not at ease with your shooting skills, and you are worried that the real-time image transmission customer will not be able to look at it, then I can't help it, and it is recommended to re-study first.
Polar space is designed with SD card slot, even if the camera does not support FTP, it can also be easily uploaded to the NAS, and the memory card space is insufficient when the location photographer or is out playing, which is very useful.
The SD card reader of T2 is directly connected to the CPU, and this CPU only provides SD30 lanes, so the transfer rate when copying files from the SD card to the NAS is only about 60MB s, and the manual copy work is also a little cumbersome. However, the good news is that the automatic copy function is already on the way to OTA, which can greatly reduce the workflow (copy), and the transfer rate is not so important.
Since they all carry NAS with them, it is always a bit of a "snake to add to the snake" to carry a USB flash drive or a mobile hard disk or something, and the developers of Polar Space ZOS probably think the same way, after all, it is the most convenient to copy files from other people's devices or USB flash drives. Polar space T2 supports U disk mode, and then it can be opened in the system settings, you can customize the size of the U disk, and provide EXFAT and NTFS two file systems to choose from, NTFS can adjust the size of the capacity, EXFat is compatible with Linux, how to choose depends on the personal use scenario.
Simply do a data transmission performance test, because the U disk is a software virtual, so the speed of copying is definitely not as good as the USB disk or PSSD at the same rate as the NVMe SSD, but 358Sequential read speed of 91mb s with 219The write speed of 3MB s is also comparable to that of a solid-state USB flash drive.
In USB flash drive mode, external devices in the personal space are automatically attached to the set USB flash drive space to facilitate data exchange.
Business trips、The journey of travel will inevitably be a little boring,The mobile phone signal on the train is not good**It must be quite strenuous,With the polar space T2 is equivalent to taking the audio-visual ** library with you,Watch it anytime and anywhere,Ba Shi is very。
In addition, Polar SpaceT2It also supports HDMIThe desktop function,HDMIThe desktop is different from the Polar SpaceZ4S Z4 Pro seriesHDMI**output,Z4 ProHDMI**Output is more like a screen projection operation in terms of operation logic,T2It provides a desktop that can be controlled directly,Remote control uses Bluetooth for pairing。
HDMI desktop needs to use APP to scan the code to log in.
The interface is similar to that of the Polar Space TVAPP,Provided**Record、Polar film and television and file functions,File access waiting for OTA,The future projection companion function may be to take the file。
The familiar poster wall,Both beautiful and practical,Directly connect the T2 to the hotel's TV during the trip,Watch whatever you want,Finally, you don't have to endure the hotel's uninteresting TV。
Familiar resource introduction page.
*Double speed** function is provided, and the 4K Blu-ray source ** is normal.
It also provides subtitle selection and audio track selection functions,**Smooth,Drag quickly,The viewing experience is pretty good。
In the working of the device, the memory usage is basically around 41%.
The CPU occupancy is not high, and the rk3568 is still a generation of gods.
In order to protect the privacy of users, the T2's HDMI desktop also provides privacy setting options.
You can set a 4-digit password through the arrow keys, and there are a total of 256 combinations of 4*4*4*4, which is enough for this kind of scenario that does not require strong security.
Polar Space T2 can be said to have opened a new posture and new model of NAS, and its main consumer group is for consumers who are more inclined to productivity scenarios, business scenarios, and high-frequency data access scenarios, especially for photographers, which is simply a real fragrance auxiliary tool, and an all-solid-state, ultra-quiet portable NAS is worth having.
If the requirements for high-speed and high-frequency access data are not so high, and it is just a simple application scenario, in fact, Q2C is currently the most cost-effective choice, and SATA SSD can also be used if you pursue silence.
If you pursue 2For 5G high-speed access, choose the Z2 Pro
The budget is sufficient, and the Z4 Pro is directly on it.