1. Unpacking
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is made of an integrated aviation aluminum alloy material. The anodizing process not only improves the product texture and comfortable feel, but also greatly improves its mechanical strength and heat dissipation capacity.
At the same time, the quicksand texture and the restrained and low-key storm gray color scheme have a high-quality texture, which can be well integrated in both office and home environments.
The Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s supports the 5Pro bay architecture with 4+1 bays and is moderate in size. Exquisite workmanship and elegant and soft appearance design make the product not bulky at all, with a sense of technology and fashion.
The visual interactive screen is a highlight of Lenovo’s personal cloud storage X1s.
It can not only effectively guide the user in real time when the device is initialized. In daily use, practical information such as network speed and CPU usage can also be displayed, and it is also convenient for accurate troubleshooting when diagnosing device status. It is particularly worth mentioning that this screen can also display the installation progress during the initial installation and guide users to operate step by step, which is very friendly to novice users.
It can be seen that Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s can support 3.5-inch, 2.5-inch and other JBOD/RAID1/5/10 and other disk combinations of various specifications. The 5Pro bay architecture can provide up to 100TB of storage space, which is massive.
The five bays of Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s are marked with dots from left to right, and the identification is very clear. The fifth drive on the far right can be regarded as the highlight technology of Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s. It provides three expansion functions, including hot backup, plug-in, acceleration, etc., covering the usage requirements of various scenarios, while taking into account data security.
Specifically, as a hot spare disk, it can become a hot spare for a disk array. When one of the other four hard disks fails, the No. 5 hard disk can directly replace its work, preventing storage interruption and making it safer; as an external disk, it can become a non-system disk and work independently. As long as the hard disk with stored data is directly inserted into the fifth position, it can be used directly, which is more convenient; as an acceleration disk, it can also be inserted intoSSDSolid-state drives are used for acceleration, with faster read and write speeds, improving the efficiency of data exchange.
The disk rack extraction and loading and unloading adopts a tool-free design, and the hard disk can be removed directly by pressing the disk removal button.
The disk rack installation of the hard disk can also be fixed by a tool-free bracket with shock-absorbing feet, which is very convenient.
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is designed with an independent front power button, which can display the working status of each disk through the indicator light.
The fuselage is designed with a USB 3.0 interface, which is convenient for data copying of large-capacity external storage devices.
It is worth mentioning that it is also specially configured with a Type-C interface, which provides a wider range of usage scenarios.
The heat dissipation problem of personal cloud, especially multi-disk cloud storage products, has always been concerned by users.
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s adopts an invisible 3D three-dimensional air intake structure, and uses dual heat dissipationfanWith the internal air guide design, an efficient heat dissipation channel is formed, and the heat dissipation performance is excellent.
At the same time, Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s can also perform intelligent temperature sensing, and automatically adjust the fan speed according to the hard disk temperature, so as to minimize the noise during work.
2. Configuration
How well a personal cloud storage performs has a lot to do with its processor.
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is equipped with a new generation of 10nm process technologyIntelThe N5105 platform, which uses the Jasper Lake architecture, adopts a quad-core and four-thread design, and the main frequency is up to 2.9GHz. Compared with the previous generation, the CPU computing power mainly responsible for tasks such as file transfer, compression and decompression has increased by 40%, while the GPU computing power mainly responsible for tasks such as video transcoding and smart album computing has increased by 125% compared with the previous generation. The absolute flagship Configuration is a ceiling-level existence in personal cloud storage products.
At the same time, it also has 8GB of DDR4 memory, which provides a larger cache space for data extraction and backup.
In addition to the powerful processor performance, the network connection of Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is dual 2.5G network ports and link aggregation.
The 2.5G network port can provide a data transmission capacity of about 240MB per second, and link aggregation can also better utilize the high-bandwidth capability of dual 2.5G network cards, not only for personal use, but also for studios, small and micro enterprises, etc. In high-bandwidth usage scenarios, Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s also provides enough redundant space to help users cope easily and collaborate efficiently.
Since the mechanical hard disk has higher requirements for the stability of power supply, Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is also equipped with a power adapter with a maximum output power of 120W to ensure sufficient power supply.
3. Experience
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1S is also very easy to use. After installing the Lenovo Personal Cloud Client, scan the device and bind it.
The new personal cloud system 3.0 can automatically back up the daily documents, photos, videos and other content generated by users to Lenovo personal cloud storage X1s according to the settings.
It is worth mentioning that the personal cloud does not scan files in full when it comes up, but requires users to add the folders that store the corresponding photos/videos to the corresponding functions. It seems like an extra step, but it also better protects the user’s data privacy and security.
Lenovo personal cloud storage X1s is also very user-friendly for data management, which is more suitable for personal use habits.
1. Home audio system
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s can automatically store the movies,televisionThe play is intelligently classified, organized and matched, and is automatically arranged and displayed in the form of a poster wall, which is beautiful and more intuitive, making it easy for users to select the content they want to watch. In addition, users can freely create new categories, manage private videos individually and quickly share them with other users of the device. Not only that, Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s also has a built-in personal cloud high-speed exclusive version of Thunderbolt download, which supports personal cloud exclusive acceleration, users can remotely operate personal cloud to download anytime, anywhere, download at work, and watch when they get home, so that Experience more fun.
2. One-stop photo intelligent management
Relying on powerful computing power, Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s can sort and sort pictures, intelligently identify categories such as people in photos, photo shooting locations, and photo shooting objects, even in overseas locations.
It can recognize more than 50 types of objects, easily helping users to review their favorite memories, allowing users to manage all photos on their personal cloud in one-stop through the “Photos” function, and freely create and share albums.
3. Music Center
Lenovo’s personal cloud storage X1s music center allows users to efficiently retrieve music based on singers and albums. Support users to create personal playlists and freely classify and organize songs. Pure interface experience brings purer music enjoyment.
After this period of experience, I feel that the Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is not only easy to use, but also very much in line with people’s habits of using digital devices.
bycell phoneTaking the terminal as an example, the interface is simple and easy to understand, and you can upload files by clicking the “+” sign, and the learning cost is very low.
The classification is also very clear and clear, and it will not let me search again and again in the complicated documents.
I especially like its built-in Thunderbolt download function, which can directly download the resources I want to watch to the Lenovo personal cloud storage X1s at high speed, making it more comfortable to watch at any time.
Now I don’t need to carry cumbersome devices such as notebooks, mobile hard drives, and data cables when I go out. As long as I open the Lenovo Personal Cloud Client, I can access the content stored in the device at any time, whether it is for customer data or leisure viewing, through Lenovo Personal Cloud. Cloud X1s can do it, which is very convenient.
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s supports multi-terminal access on mobile terminals, PC terminals, and TV terminals, and is also very suitable for studios and small and micro enterprises. Members can use mobile phones or computers to download and backup files.
At the same time, the feature of supporting multi-user online access and login allows Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s to provide the convenience of data sharing and efficient collaboration for team work.
For example, various documents, reports, PPT and other materials in daily work can be saved to the device through the automatic backup function of Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s, and can be directly extracted at home, without the need to repeatedly save data every day and carry heavy burdens equipment, very convenient.
The automatic file deduplication and excellent classification function can not only reduce the repeated backup of files that are prone to occur during backup, reduce the large amount of space occupied, and users can quickly find the files they need, making work easier.
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is also strong in data privacy protection. In addition to SDVN technology, more secure data transmission is also performed over VPN tunnels encrypted with private protocols. A number of rigorous threat tests such as black box, white box, and protection allow it to ensure that users’ data privacy is not violated.
4. Summary:
The editor feels that the Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is an all-around NAS product.
In addition to being the flagship level in terms of hardware configuration, it also provides users with a more user-friendly and personalized experience. Whether it is for individuals, studios, small and micro enterprises, it can well meet the needs of mass storage, efficient backup, and security and privacy.
If you want to have a professional, high-performance NAS product, Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1s is a good choice.