Storage Upgrade - The Synology DS220j NAS !!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- TheRetroRecall needs more storage and what better way to do it than through a NAS... a Synology NAS! It's not Retro... but hey - the channel is growing and we need to adapt!! In this video we will unbox and setup the Synology DS220j NAS for our future channel storage requirements!!
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I have always associated NAS as these huge cumbersome deals. This thing is actually "Cute"! Honestly, I never really payed attention to how they work.. so this was much appreciated information. Thanks so much my friend. Always solid content.. Retro, or not! 👍👍👍
Thank you!!! Yes it's amazing how much they have changed over the years. It can literally be tucked away and life goes on!
The DS220uj is an awesome tool. I bought one already populated with 2 x 1TB drives which I quickly found was beginning to run short of space as I found the whole thing extremely useful. Just a few days ago, I upgraded to the 2 x 1TB drives in the SHR drive pool to 2 x 4TB Synology branded drives and was amazed at just how easy it was to perform the upgrade - the whole system was done and dusted within a couple of hours and whilst the new drives were "repairing" the system was still available to use - very impressive. The DSM automatically recognised that a drive had been replaced and provided the instructions on screen to follow to perform the upgrade. Whilst not "hot swappable" this was no big deal and quite intuitive.
A great recommendation for any one considering their first foray in to the world of NAS 👍
I 100% agree! While I have yet to have to upgrade as I went quite large at the beginning, everything I have read stated that it will be what you have experienced! Thanks for sharing and for watching!
this is very cool! I just turned to Datto NAS back up server into a media streaming centre.
That's awesome!!
Very nice Machine. You never have enough storage. Great Choice
Thank you!
I'm using a super-overkill old workstation PC for my NAS needs, it's got two 10-core/20-thread Xeon CPUs and 128GB of RAM so I'm justifying the power consumption by running several other services... My favorite is a PXE Boot server that hosts all my OS install ISOs so I can just boot PCs off the network to install Windows or Linux....
Nice!
I have the exact same model of NAS with 2x12TB Seagate Ironwolf drives in it. I've had it for about three years, and has been working well for me. My only complaint about it is that you have to take the whole thing apart to install or replace drives...but in the grand scheme of things, I suppose this isn't a big issue since (hopefully) you'd only need to do so once every few years at most.
Love to hear someone else using it. Do you use all of the features? What RAID configuration are you running? Have you run into any issues?
@@TheRetroRecall I'm running it in RAID1. Honestly just using it for mass storage purposes, haven't had yet to use any of the extra features. I MIGHT in the future also set it up as a security camera DVR (not yet researched that, but have heard it can do this), but that'll wait until my current camera system conks out.
@@bigloudnoiseSeagate? Better have a second choice for the drives! The Seagate Barracuda in my PC quit working on me, and I’m having to replace it.
I'm running Seagate Ironwolf Pros in my NAS and they are rated pretty high. I mean a mechanical drive is a mechanical drive, however based on the 20tb price of these they didn't skimp on the components (hopefully)
Some of those Synology NAS units allow you to upgrade the RAM not sure if that one does or not.
Good point and great thinking.. I don't recall any removable ram or expansion slots on this unit.. It may be soldered on. I'll have to take another look.
I have a Nas DS220J with two hard du=isks Seagate 2T each but to be really honest it toook me a year and a total reset to upload my pictures from my Iphone the Nas, Have difficulties to save my Time machine on regular basis and now am not able to access it being abroad or even upon my return ( I can see the Nas seems ok , I receive report of duplication and if my Nas went off power due to power cut) but why cant I access it ??
Is there a place to have. a full step by step (setup and usage) for dummy?
Unfortunately there are quite a bit of factors that can contribute to these symptoms.. It would be difficult for me to assist... However a complete rest of your settings, new drives and a file transfer from your old drives (visa usb adapter) to new would give you a fresh start. Then I would focus on your network after you've completed a full reset. Their website is extremely helpful in my opinion and can help with a lot of issues. I hope that you are able to get this resolved.
Greetings. I still own an older smartphone with a Micro SD card since most companies got rid of that feature, and most smartphones with more than 128gb of internal storage cost $1,000+ USD. Since my data has amounted to almost 300gb of family photos and videos over the years, an 128gb/256gb smartphone is out of the question, so cloud storage seems to be my only option at this point. Would this be a good alternative? I don't really care so much about Apple iCloud, Samsung Cloud, or Google Photos backup features; automatically saving videos and photos to the cloud. I'm looking for more of a google drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive "in manual mode" feature that allows me to access all my photos and videos over my smartphone through the Cloud, as well as copy photos and videos to it when I want to; manually. I don't like the whole automatic backup and restore/replacement of files. Great video btw.
Thank you! I would say it all depends on your level of comfort (and your pocketbook ;) In my case with what I am doing - I have a ton of data that I want to ensure is stored in some sort of resilient manner. I researched the cloud option and it was becoming too expensive for me to do it feasibly / comparatively to that of the NAS that I setup in this Video. For 300gb, that was easy for me as my MS Office 365 subscription comes with 1TB of Cloud storage (One Drive). So for your scenario that may be an option. I have several Terabytes of data I need stored so my situation is different. I am comfortable with what I did, however I will be upgrading in the next year to a 4 bay or 8 bay NAS with the option to continue to populate drives and add SSD storage. This will allow me to expand, while adding a layer of security to the data. NOTE - This is NOT a backup / RAID is NOT a backup - just a more robust data storage method. If you want to backup, it should be stored in multiple locations / mirrored at the same time. I hope I was SOME sort of help for you. Thanks for watching ;)
@@TheRetroRecall Yes, I have two 1TB external hard drives with my family photos and videos backed up to each; lost 1TB or files before so I won't make that same mistake again. My goal is to carry 300gb of storage in a newer more modern 128gb storage smartphone. Since I don't pay for any subscription based software, $100 USD a year for only cloud storage (Google One, OneDrive, etc.) seems a little expensive, and considering I'll have to deal with this issue for the rest of my life; wanting to carry more data than what my smartphone is capable of holding physically, I though this would be the way and save money in the long run. So basically this was my intention: save to 1TB hard drives, save to NAS, delete from smartphone, carry 300gb over the cloud with me anywhere, perhaps transfer files from NAS to phone/phone to NAS, etc. And yes, that was very helpful. Thank you.
Good luck with it!!!! It's always a challenge!
I keep my videos backed up on another youtube account just in case but a hdd is better I have so many videos.
it will fill up in no time.
20tb would be nice for 4k moves downloaded
I have 3 14tb hdds I need another one for my music used most of the 4tb one for music.
Nice and smart idea. The only cautionary thought I had was someone indicated that their videos were deemed copyright by RUclips... And it was their own channel lol.
We shall see how this goes and with the SHR configuration, I will be able to scale to another Synology with more space with ease.
You're crazy. What about when RUclips shut down? These companies don't last forever
I would imagine storage is almost a constant struggle for a content creator?
Definitely. I keep all of my raw data, my edited data, thumbnail data etc. If RUclips were to ever dissapear... I could upload it again. With this upgrade I'm good for a year or so.
i'm going to use a program to view youtube videos and comment under the you are not allowed to watch warning with firefox
I heard something about that. I'll have to read up
@@TheRetroRecall they force feed you youtube music if you pay for youtube premium plus i do not like to pay to get censored by youtube
I have premium and I haven't seen anything about the music. Again, not sure, will have to look into it.
@@TheRetroRecall youtube music is included
Ah yes. I use amazon for music lol.
This is brilliant. Many channel creators apparently make videos and upload them, and that's it. They don't keep a copy. And then something happens and the channel gets taken down and suddenly they lose the only copy they had; the one RUclips was using. That's idiotic, pardon my bluntness. If you are making videos, you need to keep your material, the edit or cut list, and the edited final version. Exactly what you are doing. They say of course you need the original files and TWO copies stored in different places, to truly have a backup. But this is a great answer. Congrats!
For sure! I have a mirror of this data set to incrementally copy offsite on a biweekly basis.. That will definitely add to the redundancy :)
I have a question and no one ever answers it or addresses it. I have the same unit and two 4 TB drive, and one just failed.... I want to know whether I can put in a new 6 terabyte drive, I know I may even lose two terabytes of space, but I want to spend a little bit money now to upgrade one so that I only have to upgrade one later when I run out of space or the other dies if that makes sense. So will this thing run with one 4 terabyte and one 6tb drive?
To be honest, where you are dealing with data, I'm not entirely 100% sure. It depends on a lot of factors. If you have this exact one, did you set it up using the Synology RAID format? If so, you should be able to pop in the 6tb drive and the software should rebuild it to the 4TB and you losing the 2Tb. Now that said, I would go on the Synology website and read up on this specific use case to be 100% sure.
I have an almost identical setup. A Synology 220+ NAS and 2 x 20TB WD Red Plus drives. I started out with 2 x 8TB WD Red Plus drives, and expanded about 18 months later. It has worked perfectly. My drives are hot swappable and just slide in and out without disassembling
Nice! Synology makes good stuff.
Love your channel, glad to see you're growing. NAS looks great. I like the notifications feature.
Thank you and it's awesome. It literally goes to my phone which is great.
I have the Synology DS120j with a 4 tb drive
Awesome! So far I am really happy with this drive.
That is pretty cool, I like that
It is a definite upgrade for the channel!
I bougt an old Netgear from a friend that i do not think check it before he sold it. so i bought it for 500 swedish kr thats about 40 dollar so to my surprise when i start it there was 4 disks each 4 terrabyte so that was nice at least for me...Even it is an old Netgear it stil does its purpose its a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+...Have you ever think about why you/we save so much data? Music videos etc? How much do we realy watch our old videos listen to our music etc?....we save and we save and much we never use...:)....
Haha so true, however if RUclips ever decides to shut the channel down, I have the original files that literally take hours to produce. I can always republish to another platform. I also have so many pictures - memories :)
I have been on youtube for many years and ok i use adblock i hate all commersial but now they stop me from use it if i did not remove the adblock????? so i had to remove it..hm...i use to download many videos but what about now??? download videos whit commersial??? L.O.L...No thank you but i read that those who creat adblock is working on by pass that to..L.O.L....hope they finish soon...Any way thanks for great videos and geating from a snowing sweden...:)
Yes I heard that something happened to the adblock stuff. Snow in Sweden already?? The snow is coming soon here in Canada :)
When more storage is needed, more storage is needed.
Something i do want to recommend highly against is RAID5 with multi terrabyte HDD's. The change of hitting a bad/flakey sector is too large during a rebuild. I draw the line at 2TB per disk.
The use of SHR is perfectly fine for this use case. But i must note that SHR is a proprietary and Synology specific technology. The regular RAID is standard linux MD RAID.
backup's backup's backup's! RAID not a backup!
I myself use Truenas for my own storage needs though i must say the DSM interface is very neat and Synology provides a lot of features in a very polished package.
Thanks and agreed backups are key, I do have automated backups as well. Very good call out on SHR. I do plan on sticking with Synology for the time being allowing the ability to scale. That said, I will have to look at their migration tools allowing the ability to switch to a standard vs SHR if a choice is ever made to go with a different manufacturer.
When you have so much content that you create content on expanding your capacity to hold said content!
Haha! Never thought about that lol.
Great nas. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
Thanks!!
I have a DAS setup. Running a MegaRAID controller in a RAID 5 array and I am very happy with the performane.
Awesome!! I personally have never been a fan of Raid5.. Lost some really important data one time due to that config.
@@TheRetroRecall I can relate to that. Raid is not backup. Remember that fact, and you will be very happy.
Haha indeed. I have learned that lesson.