I think this is the first time I'm seeing David doing a video on NAS. Excited to see this series. I would like to see a video in this series on how to expand storage on the same NAS (eg. expanding from 2 2TB HDD's to 2 8TB and restoring the data in the higher capacity HDD's ).
I have 15 of these beasts and I love them. Businesses actually pay me to install them! It's incredible how many purposes just a single unit can fulfill. The high-availability features coupled with the UPS service is essential in medical and law practices.
I have been using synology for 15 years+ label your drives, 1-8 or 1-12 whichever nas you have and if your nas dies or you want to upgrade from an 8 to a 12 just put them in the new one in the same order and it boots up just like the old one. their systems are amazing.
I know this is a basic setup video, but I think in a follow up video it would be good to show people how to setup admin and non-admin users. For example, I’d create “David_Admin” and “David” users. Use the admin account to set up and manage with no shared folder access. Then setup the users with shared folder access but no access to change settings or any other apps that user doesn’t need. Then use the non-admin accounts to connect from computers and other devices
Great video David! Can't wait for more! I have a Synology DS1621+ and its main purpose is to store and host my Plex library. It's much more than a NAS it's a storage server.
Love my Synology. Active Backup for Business is amazing. I backup my machines, and VM's with it, and it's perfect. Surveillance Station is awesome. I'm just about to get 2 for work, and plan on doing HA, and they'll be backing up the whole office.
I am looking so much forward to receive my NAS tonight. I've seen this video twice and after that I'm sure I can easily set it up. When the parcel comes, I'll just start this video again and go through the steps. I'll end up feeling that my valuable data are safe.
~2.5 years into my 6 bay synology nas!! 100% reliable, easy to use interface, and haven't really had to do much. Its more affordable than a full unraid server build. The downside is the cpu can be somewhat limited in a lot of models, and you are somewhat limited by what you can run because of that (mainly multiple virtualization OS's, but synology does support docker). But for my use case that has never even been an issue with what I use it for. Highly recommended. My 1 piece of ADVICE is get the largest model you can afford, you can ALWAYS add more drives later and just start with 3 or 4. My 6 bay is great and I only use 4 slots (1 drive is redundant) and i want to go to 6 drives (2 redundant) but I wish i had a 10+ bay. the larger bay models also have more powerful CPUs which benefits that aspect as well.
There is a serious metastasis problem with Synology. Several years ago I bought one on their NAS, thinking this would be sufficient. Now I'm up to four machines. I don't know how many I will be forced to buy down the line!
Nice, I'm a long time Synology user too. I have Ubiquiti cameras and use the Synology surveillance software. The only real issue is if the NAS is stolen or the home burns down. My next step is to have another NAS in another location, and having them duplicate data.
Hi David. You should mention that NAS is really expencive compared to cloud storage. If you do the math, you can often get 10 years of cloud storage for the same price as a NAS. Great video by the way 😍😍
I use Synology more then 12 years. Changed through this time 3 times to newer Hardware and Drive-Extension. Ride 1 for secure Data. VPN for out of Home connection into my home network. NFS for Windows and Apple Drive Share and real time Synchronisation. Next to change a disk drive, i never had any problem. DSM 7 is a easy management tool. Yes, I like it.
I would love to see a CISCO switch vs ARUBA switch video from you. I very much enjoy how detailed you are about the content you put out...very awesome videos! Thanks for the content !
Funny that you came out with this video. I've had a very 'Synology' weekend. On friday I had to sync a client's Synology to S3 since they use the synology as a low latency cache for large files. Saturday I got a great deal from an old client on a used DS1819+ (the previous model of the 8 bay one that you showed) and today I'm migrating data from my synology RS815 to the new one while watching this video lol. One nice point to point out about SHR2 is that it alllows you to add more disks in the future. Happy Sunday!
Some quick comments. You usually are very deep in tech but this was kinda on the surface. And the security focus was kinda lost compare to other content. - You should explain SHR, and why you didn’t select it - you should explain the security risk associated with quick connect and other options. - you should explain why it’s good to create a separate user (not admin) for file access in windows. - you should explain why you have a + series and what it has over a j Other wise I’m looking forward to your ha project.
I love my synology nas drives, and I use the seagate Ironwolf hard drives! both companies have great warranties and customer service! thanks for another great video
Interesing that you chose RAID 1 over Synology's SHR1. Can I ask why you made that choice as SHR1 allows for drive expansion without having to start again if you slot in higher capacity drives.
@@AdrianEarnshawMusic I know but also am not into the synology. Good for not tech people but for tech enthusiasts gotta find better alternatives. However, getting free gear does help.
Great Video, I have had my DS918+ running for 3 years straight without issues. I don't like that they are trying to force people to now buy Synology hard drives. I've got shucked WD Easystores in mine. Only cost me $190 for each 14TB HDD. My nas is a Plex server, family cloud, and I also self host lots of docker containers. Its the best/most useful purchase I've ever had. I also got 2x 250gb NVME SSDs installed for read/write cache, 16GB of RAM, and a APC BR1500MS2 UPS(absolutely must have).
I recently had a situation where my DS918+ would not turn on, the blue light would blink once/twice but not turn on. It turned out to be a failed power brick, even though the green LED on the brick was still on, the brick was not outputting enough power to start the system. I replaced it with a $20 third party PSU from Amazon, so far so good. So, if you ever find the unit won't turn on, start with the power brick.
Synology is awesome, except that I've had two DS1817 (8 drive models) have total board failures out of warranty, one with a defective power switch that had to be replaced as well as another with a blown power supply. I also have two DS416's that have never have a failure. This just gives me doubts that all models don't have the same reliability since all four DS1817's have failed and none of my two DS416 have.
I have been using these for a while now as the onsite Veeam repository for my clients VMware backups. I use one of these for onsite and a Veeam cloud provider for offsite. This gives a hands off backup solution that is monitored via emails. Just don't join the Veeam server or NAS to the domain and use really hard passwords on both. That way if ransomware hits the domain they don't have access to the backups. Plus the offsite provider has backups of your backups so there are several opportunities to restore.
I just set up a ds1821+. 8 drive bays. I'm using SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid), that way I can add drives over time instead of buying all the drives at once and one drive acts as redundancy. Adding a drive does take a long time. Even adding one 16tb drive to expand the storage pool takes over 2 days. This setup will be for a Plex server.
Sitting here, enjoying your videos as usual. First time actually commenting. And heres why: I was wondering why you would deploy multiple Synology NAS Systems in your private Network and not build a NAS from scratch i.e. TrueNAS/unRAID or even proxmox. While I'm sure theres a plethora of reasons for Synology one could argue that it goes both ways. I was just curious, feel free to disregard this comment. 😉
Synology is really nice stuff. I use their enterprise storage at customers and I have one myself. The plus version is even better with the snapshot capability and active backup for business. Really great stuff.. thanks for the video!
Mixed Drives (Beyond Raid/SHR/QNAP), bit-rot ZFS vs BTRFS and other solutions (Synology said they were coming up with their own) and ECC memory. Also, amount of simultaneous users for VMs, Plex, can the NAS handle VMs with Unity engine editor, and speed differences between RAID 5, 50, and 10 and how much is overkill. Finally, it would be great to see your mid-level recommendation. Something that at least supports RAID 5 and possibly supports RAID 50. Even some info on upgradability. Thanks for the info!
I use for years now Synology NAS and i am verry verry satisfied with Synology products. Only it is still very unclear which additional memory expansions in the Synology + models. You have to be very careful about which memory banks are accepted by Synology. Docker for a Fortianalyzer, for example, is not recommended. I also manage my IP cameras with the Surveillance Station, which is a good solution. And security is also very well organized. I'm a fan ;)
Great video David! Well, it's may be good start of series about NAS (e.g. TrueNAS and Synology) with VLANs, bonding/link aggregation, adding routing daemons in NAS network subsystem for ospf or even bgp, high available NAS with some kind of VRRP or kind of MCLAG )))
I had 918+ for a while, and was hesitant in upgrating DSM from 6.x to 7.x version. I don't have a backup big enough for this box, in case the upgrade doesn't work. But seeing your DSM 7.0 working nicely, I'm more confident in the upgrade.
I did not have any issues upgrading from DSM 6 to 7 on DS918+ except I think I had to manually turn on SMB support for older version so that some of my home network devices could access shares, and it did inform me about this either right before or after the upgrade. I recently had a situation where the NAS would not turn on, the blue light would blink once but not turn on. It turned out to be a failed power brick, even though the green LED on the brick was still on, the brick was not outputting enough power to start the system. I replaced it with a $20 third party PSU from Amazon, so far so good. So, if you ever find the unit won't turn on, start with the power brick.
Many years ago, I had a 4 bay rack mount Synology NAS at my school, the RS812. It was a solid enough unit, but then I hit an issue where the unit would lock up and become totally unresponsive on the network and only a power cycle would restore it temporarily. Switching to the 2nd network port didn't help either, so the issue was with something else internally. By that time the warranty had expired, so had to limp along until we got a QNAP unit. I was bummed when the RS812 died as I really did like Synology's DSM at the time. I grew to love the QNAP replacement unit, until it died a number of years later with its own set of problems.
Perfect timing. I’ve been wanting to set up a NAS. Do you have an affiliate link? Synology is a brand that I’ve been looking at and now that you’ve done a video on it I don’t need to look any further. I appreciate you. Thank you!
I have a NAS DS1520+ with 5 drives which I’ve had for about a year now and enjoyed it as well making my life much easier to library all my media. Having moved home a few times now and had lots of Music, CD’s going back like 25+ years I needed a much better way to library and store all my media locally and not in lots of boxes. As well reliable store all my personal data and not in the public cloud but my own personal network cloud. I’ve had no real issues with my NAS DS.
I know this comment will get burried but I might as well give it a try. Hey David, could you make a video calling Synology out about collecting data and having these devices call home all the time? These devices are basically the keys to our kingdom and it's one of the biggest reasons of why people buy them, to keep their data private and secure. But Synology has gotten into data collection and they do it quite often according to my firewall and pihole. Great product, but they need to stop that. Also, they have to start using newer and faster CPUs for the higher end products, they're using shitty CPUs that spike with the most minimal tasks. They give us all these features which is awesome, but then you're limited thanks to their terrible CPU choices.
When copying or moving a file to or from your PC to the Synology, never use Windows Explorer, which will take all day. Instead copy the file onto a jump drive, plug this into the Synololgy port, then use File Station to transfer the file. Always stick with File Station to move things around.
@tradde11 This sounds like a good idea. My purpose for the NASs was to create a universal media "Juke Box" at home, where I could call up any of thousands of films, tv shows, music, or books from a tablet or smart tv. I am almost there using android VLC player as main fetcher & player. Only problem is vlc interface is not designed for the juke box concept. VLC has the option to accelerate playback which lets me get thru slow moving documentaries at 160% speed. I've been told to use Plex or Kodi, but despite devoting lots of time to these, never got them, especially Plex, to work as advertised. I tried Serviio which is better, but it freezes up when confronted with too many media files.
I've had a DS1511+ for years. Never misses a beat. Had a drive fail once, just swapped it out for a larger drive and it rebuilt with zero downtime. Why RAID1 rather than SHR, David? Do you just want to steer clear of their proprietary solution?
Dave do some quick videos on setting up a Plex server and also creating a backup of your NAS onto AWS therefore you have a local and cloud stored versions of your data.
Be careful, plenty of NAS' are affected by the Intel Atom C2000 bug. They are at that age now where they are failing, it's instant and you can't fix it. You should find out if your devices are affected and replace them before it's too late. Firewalls and many other devices are also affected.
One tip: Never use the same vendor disks, merge it, because if one vendor has a fault, all your disk will fail. I learnt that in the hard way ;-), one NAS with the same vendor disks, there was a fault in thouse disks and all data were lost.
Hi David, Enjoy your videos. On the Synology NAS Topic I would like you to do a video on data recovery of a NAS storage in the case on the NAS hardware dying and not a HDD. I dont think you can just put the drives into another NAS? Also you may now be able to get the same model NAS at the time. I have looked around for this info and what I have found has not been that great. I think you could provide a good guide to this very important topic.. Thanks
Made the mistake of buying a DS220J. Worst device to have. Saving now for one which can act as a DAS such as those from Qnap that use thunderbolt or USB C and 2.5gb eth. I like Synology as a product though.
I currently have this same first world problem - not enough local disk space. Was pondering a synology NAS. This is a good solution though since RAID is not a backup, you face the challenge of a double fault or something else where the array is otherwise trashed (less likely but still possible). If it wasn't so expensive, I'd say forget the NAS and get a flash SAN instead 😁For offsite, I have the most critical stuff copied to a luks encrypted volume on an ubuntu instance at a linode datacenter some 300 miles away. RAID 0, IMHO, is an oxymoron.
Liked the video, as a Synology NAS owner nothing new to me though in this one. If I may give some feedback: don't really like the rather nervous editing or fast camera switching. It's trying to add some sort of dynamic but feels very artificial and distracting. I also notice that the sound quality is different in both camera angles, so that adds to the distraction.
Hello may I ask . Would you say it’s a good idea to start my career as an ethical hacker/ cybersecurity analyst. In South Africa ? Are there any local groups you may know off like convention’s and yearly events in za but that being said I’ve been watching a lot of the ethical hacking vids and they are so interesting keep doing what you do 😀
Idk if you will read this but I was wondering if there is a way to make a type of keylogger to record when external things are connected to your pc. If so It would be amazing if you made a video on it.
David, something I learned a couple of years ago. The drive are sold (and marketing) with Kibi bytes, so the storage of 6Gb drive in kibibyte works with a 1000 factor. When you start storing stuf and configure hé raid settings etc they will report in Kilobyte that’s working with the 1024 factor. You kind of “loose” data storage due to a marketing point, that never was there.
Thanks David! What about if you have one 4TB Seagate NAS disk full with data and buying Synology NAS and the some 4TB Seagate disk? I will loose after installing two hard drive all information from already full hard disk I think.
I just started learning about Linux and I want to buy a laptop but window is pre installed. Should I use virtual machine to run Linux or do I need to format windows and install Linux?
I'm planning to buy a 220+ with either wd red plus or ironwolf Nas drives. Is it worth it to spend up for HDD speeds (7200rpm?) I see anything below 8tb is automatically and intentionally slower.
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I think this is the first time I'm seeing David doing a video on NAS. Excited to see this series. I would like to see a video in this series on how to expand storage on the same NAS (eg. expanding from 2 2TB HDD's to 2 8TB and restoring the data in the higher capacity HDD's ).
I have 15 of these beasts and I love them. Businesses actually pay me to install them! It's incredible how many purposes just a single unit can fulfill. The high-availability features coupled with the UPS service is essential in medical and law practices.
I have been using synology for 15 years+ label your drives, 1-8 or 1-12 whichever nas you have and if your nas dies or you want to upgrade from an 8 to a 12 just put them in the new one in the same order and it boots up just like the old one. their systems are amazing.
I know this is a basic setup video, but I think in a follow up video it would be good to show people how to setup admin and non-admin users. For example, I’d create “David_Admin” and “David” users. Use the admin account to set up and manage with no shared folder access. Then setup the users with shared folder access but no access to change settings or any other apps that user doesn’t need. Then use the non-admin accounts to connect from computers and other devices
Just learned about RAID in my CompTIA class. This is good additional information.
Great video David! Can't wait for more!
I have a Synology DS1621+ and its main purpose is to store and host my Plex library. It's much more than a NAS it's a storage server.
The complete NAS newbi that i am didnt stop me from setting up my DS224+ that i received this morning.
Thanks to your excellent video David !
Have one for 7 years already. Love mine. Photo backups from phones instead of subscriptions. Have smart home on docker too. It can do everything.
Love my Synology. Active Backup for Business is amazing. I backup my machines, and VM's with it, and it's perfect. Surveillance Station is awesome.
I'm just about to get 2 for work, and plan on doing HA, and they'll be backing up the whole office.
I am looking so much forward to receive my NAS tonight. I've seen this video twice and after that I'm sure I can easily set it up. When the parcel comes, I'll just start this video again and go through the steps. I'll end up feeling that my valuable data are safe.
~2.5 years into my 6 bay synology nas!! 100% reliable, easy to use interface, and haven't really had to do much. Its more affordable than a full unraid server build. The downside is the cpu can be somewhat limited in a lot of models, and you are somewhat limited by what you can run because of that (mainly multiple virtualization OS's, but synology does support docker). But for my use case that has never even been an issue with what I use it for. Highly recommended. My 1 piece of ADVICE is get the largest model you can afford, you can ALWAYS add more drives later and just start with 3 or 4. My 6 bay is great and I only use 4 slots (1 drive is redundant) and i want to go to 6 drives (2 redundant) but I wish i had a 10+ bay. the larger bay models also have more powerful CPUs which benefits that aspect as well.
There is a serious metastasis problem with Synology.
Several years ago I bought one on their NAS, thinking this would be sufficient. Now I'm up to four machines. I don't know how many I will be forced to buy down the line!
Have an old RS815 still trucking as a media host for my Plex server. Runs like a champ. Fun to see a video from David on it
Nice, I'm a long time Synology user too. I have Ubiquiti cameras and use the Synology surveillance software.
The only real issue is if the NAS is stolen or the home burns down.
My next step is to have another NAS in another location, and having them duplicate data.
Hi David. You should mention that NAS is really expencive compared to cloud storage. If you do the math, you can often get 10 years of cloud storage for the same price as a NAS. Great video by the way 😍😍
The best tutorial on this subject, period.
I use Synology more then 12 years. Changed through this time 3 times to newer Hardware and Drive-Extension. Ride 1 for secure Data. VPN for out of Home connection into my home network. NFS for Windows and Apple Drive Share and real time Synchronisation. Next to change a disk drive, i never had any problem. DSM 7 is a easy management tool. Yes, I like it.
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I would love to see a CISCO switch vs ARUBA switch video from you. I very much enjoy how detailed you are about the content you put out...very awesome videos! Thanks for the content !
Funny that you came out with this video. I've had a very 'Synology' weekend. On friday I had to sync a client's Synology to S3 since they use the synology as a low latency cache for large files. Saturday I got a great deal from an old client on a used DS1819+ (the previous model of the 8 bay one that you showed) and today I'm migrating data from my synology RS815 to the new one while watching this video lol. One nice point to point out about SHR2 is that it alllows you to add more disks in the future. Happy Sunday!
Some quick comments. You usually are very deep in tech but this was kinda on the surface. And the security focus was kinda lost compare to other content.
- You should explain SHR, and why you didn’t select it
- you should explain the security risk associated with quick connect and other options.
- you should explain why it’s good to create a separate user (not admin) for file access in windows.
- you should explain why you have a + series and what it has over a j
Other wise I’m looking forward to your ha project.
Loved the real-world application of NAS! Finally understand how it works. Thanks David
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I love my synology nas drives, and I use the seagate Ironwolf hard drives! both companies have great warranties and customer service! thanks for another great video
Interesing that you chose RAID 1 over Synology's SHR1. Can I ask why you made that choice as SHR1 allows for drive expansion without having to start again if you slot in higher capacity drives.
Should have done zfs
@@rudysal1429 not an option on a Synology NAS. SHR or RAID are the only options.
@@AdrianEarnshawMusic I know but also am not into the synology. Good for not tech people but for tech enthusiasts gotta find better alternatives. However, getting free gear does help.
Great Video, I have had my DS918+ running for 3 years straight without issues. I don't like that they are trying to force people to now buy Synology hard drives. I've got shucked WD Easystores in mine. Only cost me $190 for each 14TB HDD. My nas is a Plex server, family cloud, and I also self host lots of docker containers. Its the best/most useful purchase I've ever had. I also got 2x 250gb NVME SSDs installed for read/write cache, 16GB of RAM, and a APC BR1500MS2 UPS(absolutely must have).
I recently had a situation where my DS918+ would not turn on, the blue light would blink once/twice but not turn on. It turned out to be a failed power brick, even though the green LED on the brick was still on, the brick was not outputting enough power to start the system. I replaced it with a $20 third party PSU from Amazon, so far so good. So, if you ever find the unit won't turn on, start with the power brick.
Great to see a synology NAS video from David! I've always wanted one and loved watching content about them, thanks for the great video!
Synology is awesome, except that I've had two DS1817 (8 drive models) have total board failures out of warranty, one with a defective power switch that had to be replaced as well as another with a blown power supply. I also have two DS416's that have never have a failure. This just gives me doubts that all models don't have the same reliability since all four DS1817's have failed and none of my two DS416 have.
I've researched for awhile a NAS from Synology. I really need to purchase one. Thanks for the content.
you can easily counter data being sold if you send your data to any of the cloud services with cryptomator first. then its all encrypted.
Nice video. How about doing FreeNas/TrueNas next? :)
I have been using these for a while now as the onsite Veeam repository for my clients VMware backups. I use one of these for onsite and a Veeam cloud provider for offsite. This gives a hands off backup solution that is monitored via emails. Just don't join the Veeam server or NAS to the domain and use really hard passwords on both. That way if ransomware hits the domain they don't have access to the backups. Plus the offsite provider has backups of your backups so there are several opportunities to restore.
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I just set up a ds1821+. 8 drive bays. I'm using SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid), that way I can add drives over time instead of buying all the drives at once and one drive acts as redundancy. Adding a drive does take a long time. Even adding one 16tb drive to expand the storage pool takes over 2 days. This setup will be for a Plex server.
David just to let you know you are doing a remarkable Job.
Sitting here, enjoying your videos as usual. First time actually commenting.
And heres why: I was wondering why you would deploy multiple Synology NAS Systems in your private Network and not build a NAS from scratch i.e. TrueNAS/unRAID or even proxmox.
While I'm sure theres a plethora of reasons for Synology one could argue that it goes both ways.
I was just curious, feel free to disregard this comment. 😉
Synology is really nice stuff. I use their enterprise storage at customers and I have one myself. The plus version is even better with the snapshot capability and active backup for business. Really great stuff.. thanks for the video!
Thanks David. Will try this in the near future!
Super useful! Thanks a lot David!
Synology is a rock solid NAS. Lots of good options in the NAS market. I favor the fire proof, ioSafe products.
Mixed Drives (Beyond Raid/SHR/QNAP), bit-rot ZFS vs BTRFS and other solutions (Synology said they were coming up with their own) and ECC memory. Also, amount of simultaneous users for VMs, Plex, can the NAS handle VMs with Unity engine editor, and speed differences between RAID 5, 50, and 10 and how much is overkill. Finally, it would be great to see your mid-level recommendation. Something that at least supports RAID 5 and possibly supports RAID 50. Even some info on upgradability. Thanks for the info!
I use for years now Synology NAS and i am verry verry satisfied with Synology products. Only it is still very unclear which additional memory expansions in the Synology + models. You have to be very careful about which memory banks are accepted by Synology. Docker for a Fortianalyzer, for example, is not recommended. I also manage my IP cameras with the Surveillance Station, which is a good solution. And security is also very well organized. I'm a fan ;)
Excellent video. thanks for sharing it was very helpful. Greetings from Cuba 🇨🇺
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This is an awesome Nas storage!..
Such a useful and clear video. Thanks
Great video David! Well, it's may be good start of series about NAS (e.g. TrueNAS and Synology) with VLANs, bonding/link aggregation, adding routing daemons in NAS network subsystem for ospf or even bgp, high available NAS with some kind of VRRP or kind of MCLAG )))
I had 918+ for a while, and was hesitant in upgrating DSM from 6.x to 7.x version. I don't have a backup big enough for this box, in case the upgrade doesn't work. But seeing your DSM 7.0 working nicely, I'm more confident in the upgrade.
I did not have any issues upgrading from DSM 6 to 7 on DS918+ except I think I had to manually turn on SMB support for older version so that some of my home network devices could access shares, and it did inform me about this either right before or after the upgrade. I recently had a situation where the NAS would not turn on, the blue light would blink once but not turn on. It turned out to be a failed power brick, even though the green LED on the brick was still on, the brick was not outputting enough power to start the system. I replaced it with a $20 third party PSU from Amazon, so far so good. So, if you ever find the unit won't turn on, start with the power brick.
I enjoyed this video a lot, a nice tutorial on a topic that I have been interested in lately!
Many years ago, I had a 4 bay rack mount Synology NAS at my school, the RS812. It was a solid enough unit, but then I hit an issue where the unit would lock up and become totally unresponsive on the network and only a power cycle would restore it temporarily. Switching to the 2nd network port didn't help either, so the issue was with something else internally. By that time the warranty had expired, so had to limp along until we got a QNAP unit. I was bummed when the RS812 died as I really did like Synology's DSM at the time. I grew to love the QNAP replacement unit, until it died a number of years later with its own set of problems.
Perfect timing. I’ve been wanting to set up a NAS. Do you have an affiliate link? Synology is a brand that I’ve been looking at and now that you’ve done a video on it I don’t need to look any further. I appreciate you. Thank you!
So the other ethernet port can be used to share with my other computer "the NAS drive"
Nice one David. I was very close to getting a synology a lot of times, but settled for an alternative in the end.
You're right David.
My second terabyte hard drive just broke lol
I need a NAS
I like Synology you can also setup snmp to monitor the performance of the NAS with PRTG or any other monitoring tool
I have a NAS DS1520+ with 5 drives which I’ve had for about a year now and enjoyed it as well making my life much easier to library all my media. Having moved home a few times now and had lots of Music, CD’s going back like 25+ years I needed a much better way to library and store all my media locally and not in lots of boxes. As well reliable store all my personal data and not in the public cloud but my own personal network cloud. I’ve had no real issues with my NAS DS.
Great feedback! Thanks for sharing!
@@davidbombal My synology doesn't show on my windows network places? How do i go about it?
I am also fan of synology nas. Thanks David Bombal.
Thanks for the comment! What do you like about it?
I know this comment will get burried but I might as well give it a try. Hey David, could you make a video calling Synology out about collecting data and having these devices call home all the time? These devices are basically the keys to our kingdom and it's one of the biggest reasons of why people buy them, to keep their data private and secure. But Synology has gotten into data collection and they do it quite often according to my firewall and pihole. Great product, but they need to stop that. Also, they have to start using newer and faster CPUs for the higher end products, they're using shitty CPUs that spike with the most minimal tasks. They give us all these features which is awesome, but then you're limited thanks to their terrible CPU choices.
That is exactly what I was thinking when he started creating a Synology user account just to access the NAS. It doesnt seem like a very secure setup.
When copying or moving a file to or from your PC to the Synology, never use Windows Explorer, which will take all day.
Instead copy the file onto a jump drive, plug this into the Synololgy port, then use File Station to transfer the file.
Always stick with File Station to move things around.
@tradde11 This sounds like a good idea.
My purpose for the NASs was to create a universal media "Juke Box" at home, where I could call up any of thousands of films, tv shows, music, or books from a tablet or smart tv. I am almost there using android VLC player as main fetcher & player. Only problem is vlc interface is not designed for the juke box concept. VLC has the option to accelerate playback which lets me get thru slow moving documentaries at 160% speed.
I've been told to use Plex or Kodi, but despite devoting lots of time to these, never got them, especially Plex, to work as advertised. I tried Serviio which is better, but it freezes up when confronted with too many media files.
I've had a DS1511+ for years. Never misses a beat. Had a drive fail once, just swapped it out for a larger drive and it rebuilt with zero downtime.
Why RAID1 rather than SHR, David? Do you just want to steer clear of their proprietary solution?
greetings, love your videos, have you ever made a roadmap to networking? if not it would be a great video to watch...
Perhaps a future video you can show how to backup to the NAS, like adding network drives etc to a hypervisor
Dave do some quick videos on setting up a Plex server and also creating a backup of your NAS onto AWS therefore you have a local and cloud stored versions of your data.
Be careful, plenty of NAS' are affected by the Intel Atom C2000 bug. They are at that age now where they are failing, it's instant and you can't fix it. You should find out if your devices are affected and replace them before it's too late. Firewalls and many other devices are also affected.
Hi David, I would love to see you create another NAS video on cloud syncing application with cloud base storage.
One tip: Never use the same vendor disks, merge it, because if one vendor has a fault, all your disk will fail. I learnt that in the hard way ;-), one NAS with the same vendor disks, there was a fault in thouse disks and all data were lost.
This is awesome :) 😊
Hi David, Enjoy your videos. On the Synology NAS Topic I would like you to do a video on data recovery of a NAS storage in the case on the NAS hardware dying and not a HDD. I dont think you can just put the drives into another NAS? Also you may now be able to get the same model NAS at the time. I have looked around for this info and what I have found has not been that great. I think you could provide a good guide to this very important topic.. Thanks
We need a more advanced tutorial than this, please 🙏
Synology is one of the best #NAS
Great stuff
Great video David. Thanks.
Made the mistake of buying a DS220J. Worst device to have. Saving now for one which can act as a DAS such as those from Qnap that use thunderbolt or USB C and 2.5gb eth.
I like Synology as a product though.
I currently have this same first world problem - not enough local disk space. Was pondering a synology NAS. This is a good solution though since RAID is not a backup, you face the challenge of a double fault or something else where the array is otherwise trashed (less likely but still possible). If it wasn't so expensive, I'd say forget the NAS and get a flash SAN instead 😁For offsite, I have the most critical stuff copied to a luks encrypted volume on an ubuntu instance at a linode datacenter some 300 miles away. RAID 0, IMHO, is an oxymoron.
Great video, I have the same NAS
I can't afford myself a NAS right now, but this will be relevant later when i purchase
Liked the video, as a Synology NAS owner nothing new to me though in this one.
If I may give some feedback: don't really like the rather nervous editing or fast camera switching. It's trying to add some sort of dynamic but feels very artificial and distracting. I also notice that the sound quality is different in both camera angles, so that adds to the distraction.
Nice!... I'm already using. Some advices about security?
great content! Thanks David!
Glad you liked it!
Please make a video on SQLMAP
You should do more videos on storage like storage arrays , the subject of sans and nas in general
I'd be interested to see info about date transfer speeds e.g. I understand you can bond the two gigabit channels together.
Can't wait to setup my own NAS instead of using a Raspberry Pi as one. Does this Synology NAS work with Plex?
Just picked up a DS920+, Have you used these for VMs? What other useful things have you done with these NAS?
Hello may I ask . Would you say it’s a good idea to start my career as an ethical hacker/ cybersecurity analyst. In South Africa ? Are there any local groups you may know off like convention’s and yearly events in za but that being said I’ve been watching a lot of the ethical hacking vids and they are so interesting keep doing what you do 😀
I like this vid. Good insight.
Idk if you will read this but I was wondering if there is a way to make a type of keylogger to record when external things are connected to your pc. If so It would be amazing if you made a video on it.
Super cool thanks!
Thanks! Glad you like it!
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Hello david its interesting thank you so much
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Hi David will you be doing any software defined radio vids anytime soon?sdr hacking
David, something I learned a couple of years ago. The drive are sold (and marketing) with Kibi bytes, so the storage of 6Gb drive in kibibyte works with a 1000 factor. When you start storing stuf and configure hé raid settings etc they will report in Kilobyte that’s working with the 1024 factor. You kind of “loose” data storage due to a marketing point, that never was there.
Omg, I'm going to save for a NAS now. All these cool features like python SQL or WordPress is awesome!
Beauty
that's a good one
Thanks David!
What about if you have one 4TB Seagate NAS disk full with data and buying Synology NAS and the some 4TB Seagate disk?
I will loose after installing two hard drive all information from already full hard disk I think.
I just started learning about Linux and I want to buy a laptop but window is pre installed. Should I use virtual machine to run Linux or do I need to format windows and install Linux?
I'm planning to buy a 220+ with either wd red plus or ironwolf Nas drives.
Is it worth it to spend up for HDD speeds (7200rpm?) I see anything below 8tb is automatically and intentionally slower.