@@danielkaranja7978 depends on your use case and how you want to back your data up. It's possible to meet all the criteria for good backup practices and avoid online storage services altogether. The video also puts this forward as something private that you don't have to pay a service fee for.
Nah, with good hardware raid you're pretty secure. I've worked at Cisco, yahoo, Google, others managing servers for many decades. We *rarely* need to restore something. Only if you are wishing to keep more than one revision.
@@silentblackhole Caring strongly about minor pronounciation differences is more than a little bit ridiculous, ngl, especially when it's an acronym with no official pronunciation.
Jimmy you bought a DS1821+, the 18 means you can have up to 18 drives. the unit holds 8 drives and you can get 2 more 5 bay addons that plug into your NAS by the eSata plugs in the back.
I hope you have your security set up correctly if you’re planning to use your NAS anywhere. It’s another rabbit hole that takes time to understand for newbies, but it’s essential. Thankfully, Synology’s recommendations are actually pretty OK as long as you follow the practices, port forward responsibly and minimize port openings on your network, but it’s even better if you can complement it with a Wireguard-based VPN.
Great intro into the NAS world, Jimmy. Like your style of delivery too. Subscribed! 🙂 I have two Synology NAS drives: A DS412+ that I bought in 2015 and a DS920+ that I bought a couple of weeks ago. My main reasource hog is my photography. Storing the digital images, initially scanned negatives and more recently the digital RAW files fresh from the camera was becoming problematic, hence the initial purchase. I've had a NAS box longer then that, but where the Synology DS412+ has proven to be incredibly reliable over the past seven years, my previous no-name brick failed catastrophicaly after only a couple of years and cost me a fortune to have a professional data-recovery firm rebuild the RAID and recover the data. I bought the second NAS (DS920+) a couple of weeks ago beause I thought my DS420+ was failing, but the actual problem was becasue I inadvertantly 'hot-swapped' a failing drive. DOH! I didn't loose any data but the NAS was two, three times a day giving me error messages that where similar to the broken drive I swapped out, hence my believing that the NAS itself was broken. Having bought a second device, however, swapping all the data from the old to the new without issue, I subsequently undertook a factory-reset on the the old unit, which fixed the percieved problem. It's now working perfectly again. The DS412+ is now one of two local backups for the DS920+, where the other is a seperate USB external HDD 'brick'. I use IDrive, an online cloud service dedicated to backup regimes, for my offsite backup. Ove the last seven years, I've had three drive failures Total losses of info - zero! Lessons learned: A) Don't cheap-out and buy no-name kit for your pressios data. It's not worth it. If you have precious data then buy decent kit with a reputation. There's two or three key players in this space, so there's alternatives. B) Do invest (time/effort/money) in instigating a proper backup routine. Use the 3-2-1 backup: 3: Create one primary backup and two copies of your data. 2: Save your backups to two different types of media. 1: Keep at least one backup file offsite. C) Don't hot-swap drives in a NAS that's not designed to offer that facility! Mine don't but some NAS units will allow hot-swapping of drives, so check that out if it's an important feature for you.
You made the same blunder I did with first NAS, NEVER go cheap on HDD capacity, harder to upgrade later on. I went with 3x8TB and added another 2x8TB a year later to fill 5 bay NAS, Still filled them had the NAS 3 years now. I should have bit the bullet and gone with 3x 16TB to start with and added the rest later, I would still have a few years of storage rather than now being full.
This is why I generally prefer UnRAID. Way it works is just: -Have a parity disk as large as the biggest disk in your array (or two) -Have something quick to use as a big storage cache for the entire thing (an SSD). Otherwise, you can grab whatever hard drive you want and it'll just work. One parity disk, you can survive one drive failure. Two parity disks, you can survive two. Always back up everything important and keep a spare drive lying around in case one fails. End result is easily expandable storage and a server you can also use for other stuff through Docker images and VMs, potentially. Plus, the lack of proprietary Synology stuff means it's easy to replace other parts.
@@mikec2845 Some people store tons of movies n' shit, keep all their games on there so they can grab them more quickly than downloading them from Steam again, etc. But yeah, I still don't get how you'd manage to use up more than *16 TB* of space unless you're storing tons of raw video footage.
For beginners I have to say... this video is kinda bad. First you bought (or got sponsored) one of the most overpowered synology consumer nas that are out there. Quick explanation for Synology "mouthful" naming scheme: DS means Disk Station which is their consumer line-up. The last two numbers is the release year of the unit the other numbers (the first or the first two) stands for the maximum supported drives of the unit. Everything (if anything) after those numbers means how powerful the machine is (eg. J, +, play, xs, etc.) where + is the second most powerful rating. So your DS1821+ is a consumer (Desktop) DiskStation that supports up to 18 Disks (8 in this unit + 5 per expansion unit (DX, DiskStation Expansion)) released in 2021 with the "power rating" +. More explanation of Synologys naming scheme can be found online if anyone is interested. I think it is pretty easy to understand if you read into it. I think this is pretty overkill for the normal user. SHR, while only useabel with synology, sound pretty good for non-tech people. Second some explanation is wrong. The biggest IMO is this: At 8:20 you say that "CMR drives do better in a NAS than regular hard drives do" and while it is somewhat right it's wrong. CMR stands for Conventional Magnetic recording and IS (or at least should be, otherwise you should go out and buy something else) your "regular" hard drive. The other type is "shingled magnetic recording" and does pretty much what is says: it has shingled disks where your data is stored and because of that it is pretty slow. Also third: as others already commented a NAS is not a real backup. It sounds like you suggest people switch from Dropbox, Google drive etc. to a NAS but now you have to look after your files. If (in your case) two drives fail - which is possible with multiple drives from the same manufacturer at the same age - you lose all your stuff. So it would be better to use your NAS for this quick and easy access to your files (even without internet) but still have it uploaded every night or so to one of the cloud providers. This way if multiple drives fail or even worse a fire or a flood in your home you still have everything somewhere else. A (more or less) 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Even though i have unlimited storage on Google Drive (grandfather plan), I still use a NAS for daily storage access like video editing because it’s much faster than Google Drive when I’m local. For backup and access outside of my home, I use Google Drive that sync up with my NAS.
The one thing not mentioned ... a NAS is NOT a backup. Its a primary file storage and use system, parity is not an actual backup. If something ... anything goes wrong with the unit or the area the unit is sitting in ... you have no other version of your files, which is a complete fail as a definition of a backup. Many approach this in different ways; - The front USB (or rear) of most NAS devices are for plugging in an external storage device to back up mission critical files occasionally. It depends on the size of the backup for someone like Jimmys usage. Either a truly massive backup drive (20+Tb) in an external enclosure, so he can backup RAW files, or a smaller drive (4 or 8Tb) in that enclosure to just backup finished video projects. Synology's system has settings just for all this. Or instead of an auto backup function, you can set it up so all you do is plug in this external (once a week or whatever) into the front USB, and it auto copies over any changes to desired folders you want backed up. - As a further step, truly ultimate critical mission files (agreements, taxes, paperwork ... or even a full copy of that external drive) can further be backed up automatically to Google drive, dropbox or any cloud service from the NAS directly. NOW you have a true backup system: a NAS for file system parity protection, an external drive on site to protect the NAS in case of complete NAS system loss, and an offsite backup of that, in case of a Satellite crashing into your house or a fire. Just make sure you memorise your cloud server user and password. People really need to understand that a NAS is NOT a backup. No real backup can be in the same box all together, the inherent risk is too large. One small glitch and everything is gone, thats not a backup.
Completely agree Although I'm not sure I'd be too happy relying on just a USB drive plugged into the NAS - if the NAS can write to that drive, then it has the ability to trash it - it's part of the NAS (I'm thinking of malicious stuff like QLocker).
What if you have your NAS setup as SHR-2, for example, in cases of Synology? You have 4 drives but can only utilise 2 of them and the other 2 are a backup of the first 2. In that case would you consider a NAS a backup solution? In addition, if you have like 40TB of data, there's no feasible way to "backup" your data on your NAS, instead of buying like 20x 2TB T5 SSDs, or paying upwards of $500USD a month for Google Drive, which completely negates the need for a NAS in the first place (Most people get a NAS to save money on cloud storage), and the time required to backup 40TB to the cloud is just insane (it'll probably take weeks if not months with internet connections in some places). With RAID and SHR, I would consider a NAS a backup. Curious to hear what your thoughts on this are.
@@techforever1970 OK then, you set up as SHR-2. Then someone breaks in and steals your NAS, or you have a lightning strike that fries it, or a water leak that drowns it. Or a fire, or a fault that destroys the drives. Ideally you need more than one backup, including one that's off-site, in a secure location. So if your main building burns down, you still have the off-site backup. Of course you need to be sure that the off-site backup is up-to-date and intact, and that takes a lot of work. Backup isn't easy, especially with 40TB of wanted data!
I highly recommend using an old laptop or an unused/cheap one and install debian (or any other distro tbh) if you're starting out. It will teach you a lot, and it will make it obvious that servers are not "basically" computers, they are computers. You can do literally anything you want with it. NAS are great, don't get me wrong, but owning and managing your own little server is extremely rewarding and simpler that it looks like (you have to be open to learning new things though). It's a fun rabbit holw to fall into, as you can always make it more stable, more efficient, more deployable (if you care about that). Also, I highly recommend not installing any graphical environment and managing the server via ssh. But like any computer, you can do exactly what you want, and I find it a very enjoyable exerience
i myself have old celeron laptop that useless for years, i installed fedora on it and then install docker, smb, ftp, ssh, and many more stuff. hell, it so useful that i can host my own content, do downloads, makes it as bluetooth speakers and many more! and i use Nextcloud, Jellyfin for the frontend, and deploys it via docker
Please make sure you bought the CMR WD RED drivers the SMR Drives are incompatible with Synology because it will fail the Raid rebuild check Synology compatible drive list please if you using the SMR replace them with the CMR Drives in Red WD sold red drives that where SMR not knowing that it would fail even though the WD Manger said in Keynote don't use SMR Drives or shingled magnetic Recording drives use CMR Convectional magnetic Recording
I love Synology been using it for some years now, had a WD NAS and wasnt the best for my Plex needs. I only use Plex with my NAS and mostly all the movies/shows are ones I own but I do still setup a backup for them in case of failure. I do love Sylology's SHR and found it better then the other options.
1:10 watch time is equal to money for you so I think you should give back our money and less you can buy time itself 🙃 PLEASE MAKE THIS THE TOP COMMENTS (and btw the quantum computers are way cooler😎)
Best explained among all the other channels I've watched. Its like you specifially answered all my questions I had in mind. Earned a new subscriber here!
So this video was a wake up call. I'm starting up my own RUclips channel fairly soon (3D modeling tutorials). I thought about what I might teach and my target audience. Not once did I think about storage! I already use up a lot of storage space as is. Not sure if I'd need a NAS quite yet, but it's definitely on my radar now. Thanks, Jim!
You can get a smaller Synology like a DS920+ (soon to be the Ds922+) I use one as a home user and a tinkerer. I filled mine with four 2TB drives for enough space vs cost.
These are going to be essential for those travelling internationally. Border agents can take an image of any device you’re travelling with so it’s best to keep your data elsewhere and secure.
I would never recommend your setup as is. If you want speed then you want to pair of M.2s in RAID 1 cache (1,250 MB/s) and then your mass storage. Also QNAP offers ZFS and their hardware isn't a just little better, it's significantly better. Also I'd consider dual 10 GbE.
I wish they do but I doubt it. Even Google Photos-like products from big cloud & AI companies like Microsoft and Amazon are not even remotely comparable. I really want a viable Google Photos competitor; one that's as simple to set up & use and has an AI that's as good. Been looking for a long while, nothing even remotely comes close.
Where, who, or why, did you decide to go with NOZ, and NAZ?! 😂 Weird pronunciation I just haven't heard lol. Dig getting this info out to normal folks, keep it up! Cheers!
great choice. I'm using this since 10+ years 2 Bay & 5 Bay Synology also I've sold 200+ Synology NAS. Some tips 01. Please don't forget spare hard disk 02. UPS in the event blackout 03. Buy plus series model & extend 2 years Warranty (Total 5 Years Warranty) 04. Don't forget 2FA for security reason (Two Factor Authentication)
UPS is a must for a NAS, Just need one big enough to enable an auto shutdown if there is a power blackout, Don't need a really expensive one. Get one that gives you at least a few minutes worth so the HDD's can spin down and turn off the NAS, Otherwise you could lose all your data.
Wonderful video explaining it all. I'm new to NAS, just bought a used 2-bay unit and experimenting from there. Pretty excited to see how it'll work out.
I have the DS918+. After using it for the past few years I can honestly say it is one of the best purchases that I have made. I use it mainly for streaming movies with plex throughout the house and of course backup for other media. I have it connected directly to the router. With the combination on Nvidia Shield boxes in each room and great gigabit speed there are few things that I can't do. At this time, I am ready for the available expansion bay as I am running out of room. Here is a tip. The NAS will use the smallest capacity hard drive as the largest available. So, if you start off with a 4 terabyte and add a 6 terabyte next the NAS will use the 4 as the maximum space available if you are using Synology default backup option. Now almost 5 years later I am finally replacing the smallest drive to a bigger one to get the space that has been there all these years. In short, I have all 4 bays filled three have the same size drive and one has a smaller one. After replacing the smallest, drive I will finally have the full capacity of the drives I have put in. One last tip. If you are streaming movies over your network, make sure your HDMI cables going from the media box such as Shield are current meaning they are able to stream at least 4K video. Doing this will help fix any problems with streaming and audio/ video voice synchronizations. I thought this was the internet speed for a long time even the TV being super old (plasma), but it was not. Check your cables. Don't go to cheap and you will enjoy your NAS a lot more. Synology has a great website check it out before making any purchases decisions.
As a lifetime geek and lover of all tech toys, I've wanted a NAS for years. Now at 71, with a few extra bucks from the sale of a family property, I took the leap and got a Synology DS1821+ this week. Still waiting on my 6 10Tb disks, but I set it up in test fashion with a pile of old castoff drives from my hoarding closet. Working as a field service engineer for 40 years, I had some networking experience, but retiring 10 years ago has faded a lot of that knowledge. Currently working my way thru some old Network+ manuals from 15 years back, and plowing thru stone age concepts like NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, etc. But the basics are coming back to me. Planning to use this NAS to store lifetimes of scanned and digital photos, family documents, my CNC and 3D printer files,and my wife's massive hoard of digital sewing, embroidery, and quilting files. Also reserving the two remaining NAS drive bays for Synology's Surveillance Station. Sad commentary on modern life that I plan to outfit my front yard like a video studio. Thanks for a great video. I may just show it to family members who keep asking, "whats that black box on the desk for?"
Only 10TB disks? There is one mistake I made when I started using NAS: buying too small disks. The 2 last disks I bought are 22TB disks. I always underestimated my ‘needs’.
Great video on the benefits of using a NAS. I have been using a NAS since the first consumer level devices were released in the early 2000s by Ximeta called the Net Disk. I currently use the Synology DS218 Play+, WD PR210 Pro, D-Link DNS 320L and D-Link DNS-340L. Furthermore, I use my NAS servers to store my engineering designs, music collection, movie collection along with photos from my drones and cameras.
Right now I find myself in the same situation of you at the beginning of the video. A small army of external drives driving me crazy. Now planning to transition to NAS. The video is very informative and didactic on that issue. Thanks for the advice, liked and subscribed, and btw, your girlfriend is very pretty.
Just beware of the multiple Ransomware we are getting on NAS... I got attacked with deadbolt ransomware in January and lost everything that wasn't backed up... They sent an email yesterday that another deadbolt version attack happened again....
I'm a tinkerer so I built my own and went with Truenas but I have installed Synology/Qnap stuff for clients who don't mind paying extra for the ease of use. I'm a ZFS guy so that was important for me but for the 'average' user these are solid, just don't buy used unless you are willing to forgo warranty.
Hey, a NAS is very valuable for more than just Dollar value. I manage a facility that has 2 NAS's and 54 cameras connected to it. Just amazing how capable the NAS is for storing 30 and 90 day backup of all those cameras. Not difficult to use but does require some Tech knowledge. There are many features that can be added that this facility isn't using. Crazy stuff. Now I'm thinking about getting a 6 bay unit for my house. Just need to cough up a couple grand for all the equipment, drives and UPS. .
I have the Synology 1019+ 5-bay with 5 WD 8TB Red drives in SHR-1. Then I use hyperbackup with an external 20TB drive to keep an additional backup. I don't keep all data offsite like I should but what I have is good enough for me. I highly recommend Synology. Its very easy to setup and use and you can do a lot with it.
There is a thing called digital hoarders and they have a subreddit. People who go down this path and start backing up Wikipedia or movies that they will never watch again or are not even interested in need to step back and see if there is an underlying issue.
Please be aware, I had to get my Synology NAS repaired three times, one time the ATOM CPU problem, second time PSU problem, third time motherboard broke.
I got a Terramaster F4-210 with 2g. Of RAM it was around 189 last year and decided to splurge the money on 4 20tb hdds and just use it as a NAS and the "home server" functionalities are on a cheap n100 chinese mini PC with CasaOS for docker that basically handles my media server, personal cloud, torrenting, dns and much more. Been really happy with my decision. I would like to get a second mini PC and move the media server there for better performance
Thank you for creating this. very informative video. Can you please suggest which brand is reliable for concealed wiring for certified CAT8 or CAT 7 cables? Scenario- I want to connect my NAS with CAT7 or CAT 8 ethernet cable to my deco mesh router which has a 10G port, also connect this router to my computer with the ethernet cable for faster access. I have already purchased CAT 8 ports for all access points including walls. I ordered FEEDUS CAT7 and CAT8 cables from amazon but it stopped working within 7 months. Now I am routing concealed cable through walls, hence looking for a reliable cable brand.
I have a Synology RS819 rack mount with 4 4tbs Iron wolf in a RAID5. I do backup the NAS, using HYPER BACKUP every night and pay Synology C2 Cloud space as a secondary backup. My photos and docs are priceless to me and I can’t risky it. I run PLEX with my music and Movies, use Synology Drive, Synology Photos. Best purchase…
Hi Jimmy, I don't know if this is your area of expertise, I kind of wish I had found our video before making my purchase, anyway I just purchased the WD 12TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra Network Attached Storage - NAS through Amazon, only it's just a two disk housing at the price of $449. which I just looked is now $529 (I got lucky). The type of data is just normal home use, pst, file that all pc's can access via outlook, stuff like that. I can only hope I made the right choice. Speaking of data access speed, I always thought a usb 3.0 connection was faster than an ethernet connection but viewing your video and your test, that's not the case.
Good video, but I gotta yank you on this: "It's definitely not related to a rapper" DOESN'T PICK NAS, ONE OF THE GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME, INSTEAD PICKS POP COPYCAT, NAS-X: CALLS HIM "A RAPPER".
I had two DNS323's and out grew them. I now have a RaspberryPi 4 with a drive bay of 4 drives and a drive bay with two drives. The four bay has two 18 TB drives and two 4 TB drives and the two bay has two 2 TB drives. You noticed I have two of each size? One is data, other is backup. I have scripts on the Pi to run backups every night. The Pi is gibibit ethernet and my modem/router is gigibit, so they are very fast even moving movies from desktop to the drives. No, can not share on WiFi, or when away from home, but I'm secure in that nothing that is not replaceable is on my different computers. If it is important, it goes the the Network drives.
One of the biggest advantages is safety. If it's possible, it's best to avoid having sensitive data (or any non backed up data) on your main PC. If something happens and your data is lost, or you get ransomware and all your data is encrypted (or otherwise stolen), then you're pretty much out of luck. If your data is elsewhere, there's far less risk.
I have an 80TB Unraid NAS mainly for Plex and local computer backup storage. Currently 67.2TB used with a 14TB parity drive and 1x 14TB, 3x 10TB, 3x 8TB, and 2x 6TB drives for the data array.
1: your mispronouncing NAS. its N.A.S. or nasssssss. not NAZZZZZZ 2 your mistaken if you think all your data is safe on a single NAS like that. all that box does is give you large file capacity and high uptime. what it doesnt give yo is a backup of all yoru data in a seprate place. ideally, a seprate building.
I am in the process of getting a Synology DS418 set up for at home use. This was a great video! I would love to see a video on the apps you have installed to allow for remote access.
OK! I've just invested into a NAS for my photo business and it's driving me nuts! I cant seem to work out how to even get my library into my NAS!! Im a complete noob t this!
That's physical data or file storage, and admit it or not there are different currencies in use worldwide being realistic, why not create realtime per country currency exchange tabulation per product price changes of that storage product machine by being versatile with the dollar original product currency to Garner more buys and if moving forward with non physical data or file storage why create a central AI node for company members with secure line and sending codes to AI and AI send those important files or data to non physical secluded or concealed file or data storages as result of research and development of natural storage areas or science based non physical storages but be sure that payments are in on time if using central nodes because that's a business because there's ongoing tech improvements on both sides and as the Beatles song lyrics says, Tomorrow Never Knows. Clear.
Google Drive or other Cloud Storage Services are more for share files with other and fast up and download speeds. Your Nas is limited to your internet provider speeds for online connection over nextcloud, owncloud etc.
If I have a NAS plugged into ethernet, and my pc is plugged into a separate ethernet outlet in the same house, do I then have direct connection to the NAS storage from my pc or do I need to connect them alternatively? I'm thinking about getting one, and was just wondering how that works :D
Wait wait, stop fooling people this is far away from a fully functional redundant NAS at its best this is a nice package for your pile of hard drives that you have thrown all-around your desk. At least be honest it's sponsored. This solution will work consistently till you lose 2 of the 4 drives and then curse the world for your own stupidity, for professional work never take the cheap route, cheap people earn the change at the end of the day.
Great video I shoot 3-5T a year Started back in the day with 512G a year then 1 T I am half way through my work year and my 5T drives are both almost full I need a solution badly
@Jimmy Tries World ds620slim is the only ssd oriented that I have seen and I wanted to move to synology is it any option from them that I haven't found? mechanical hard drives are not an option, neither non synology.
12:19 problem using NAS without ethernet cable running through your home to maximize the speed of the NAS and landlord may get mad at you if you poke some holes.
I am A Synology geek. Set up an 8 bay for a relatives photography studio about 6 years ago. Knew nothing about them and did it as a hobby. The system came out great with photographers logging in via FTP and wedding video serving on large screens in studio to show prospective clients.
ther is no need for sinologi box or similar , every one has a old computer iven a 10y old core2duo can work well for that most computer can suport 4 or 6 drives out of the box and you can iven run it with windows if instaling nas os is to difficult for you and with 50buck you can add a few extra sata ports on most mb if you don t have one houre to set it up , be reddy to work one month to be able to aford a sinologi
Don't forget...a NAS is not backup. It's storage. Remember to backup all your data.
Correct. In this video, it is presented as a replacement for Google drive while in fact, the two are more complementary.
@@danielkaranja7978 depends on your use case and how you want to back your data up. It's possible to meet all the criteria for good backup practices and avoid online storage services altogether.
The video also puts this forward as something private that you don't have to pay a service fee for.
Rule of 3
Nah, with good hardware raid you're pretty secure. I've worked at Cisco, yahoo, Google, others managing servers for many decades.
We *rarely* need to restore something. Only if you are wishing to keep more than one revision.
@@ernie548 it's not specifically for data failure. There are other reasons to keep a backup.
I'm impressed how fluidly you swap between NOZ and NAZ pronunciations of NAS. I normally hear it pronounced NAS as in (nasty).
That's the correct way. The way he's saying it is horrible
@@silentblackhole Caring strongly about minor pronounciation differences is more than a little bit ridiculous, ngl, especially when it's an acronym with no official pronunciation.
Jimmy you bought a DS1821+, the 18 means you can have up to 18 drives. the unit holds 8 drives and you can get 2 more 5 bay addons that plug into your NAS by the eSata plugs in the back.
@InSomnia DrEvil that’s because he did not buy anything this is a product placement otherwise one should know what’s buying.
The pronunciation changes of "NAS" in this video is wild
I hope you have your security set up correctly if you’re planning to use your NAS anywhere. It’s another rabbit hole that takes time to understand for newbies, but it’s essential. Thankfully, Synology’s recommendations are actually pretty OK as long as you follow the practices, port forward responsibly and minimize port openings on your network, but it’s even better if you can complement it with a Wireguard-based VPN.
I counted 54 “NAS“ mentions (singular & plural) & once unabbreviated. So 55? 🤓
Great intro into the NAS world, Jimmy. Like your style of delivery too. Subscribed! 🙂
I have two Synology NAS drives: A DS412+ that I bought in 2015 and a DS920+ that I bought a couple of weeks ago.
My main reasource hog is my photography. Storing the digital images, initially scanned negatives and more recently the digital RAW files fresh from the camera was becoming problematic, hence the initial purchase.
I've had a NAS box longer then that, but where the Synology DS412+ has proven to be incredibly reliable over the past seven years, my previous no-name brick failed catastrophicaly after only a couple of years and cost me a fortune to have a professional data-recovery firm rebuild the RAID and recover the data.
I bought the second NAS (DS920+) a couple of weeks ago beause I thought my DS420+ was failing, but the actual problem was becasue I inadvertantly 'hot-swapped' a failing drive. DOH!
I didn't loose any data but the NAS was two, three times a day giving me error messages that where similar to the broken drive I swapped out, hence my believing that the NAS itself was broken. Having bought a second device, however, swapping all the data from the old to the new without issue, I subsequently undertook a factory-reset on the the old unit, which fixed the percieved problem. It's now working perfectly again.
The DS412+ is now one of two local backups for the DS920+, where the other is a seperate USB external HDD 'brick'. I use IDrive, an online cloud service dedicated to backup regimes, for my offsite backup.
Ove the last seven years, I've had three drive failures Total losses of info - zero!
Lessons learned: A) Don't cheap-out and buy no-name kit for your pressios data. It's not worth it. If you have precious data then buy decent kit with a reputation. There's two or three key players in this space, so there's alternatives. B) Do invest (time/effort/money) in instigating a proper backup routine. Use the 3-2-1 backup: 3: Create one primary backup and two copies of your data. 2: Save your backups to two different types of media. 1: Keep at least one backup file offsite. C) Don't hot-swap drives in a NAS that's not designed to offer that facility! Mine don't but some NAS units will allow hot-swapping of drives, so check that out if it's an important feature for you.
Thank your for sharing.
You made the same blunder I did with first NAS, NEVER go cheap on HDD capacity, harder to upgrade later on.
I went with 3x8TB and added another 2x8TB a year later to fill 5 bay NAS, Still filled them had the NAS 3 years now.
I should have bit the bullet and gone with 3x 16TB to start with and added the rest later, I would still have a few years of storage rather than now being full.
if you don't mind me asking, what are you storing to fill that quickly?
@@mikec2845 That's kind of like asking what type of people you have hidden in your basement. A bit personal don't you think?
@@watema3381 I think I prefaced myself well. No one is forcing him to reveal his deepest secrets.
"I'm a professional photographer"...?
This is why I generally prefer UnRAID. Way it works is just:
-Have a parity disk as large as the biggest disk in your array (or two)
-Have something quick to use as a big storage cache for the entire thing (an SSD).
Otherwise, you can grab whatever hard drive you want and it'll just work. One parity disk, you can survive one drive failure. Two parity disks, you can survive two. Always back up everything important and keep a spare drive lying around in case one fails.
End result is easily expandable storage and a server you can also use for other stuff through Docker images and VMs, potentially. Plus, the lack of proprietary Synology stuff means it's easy to replace other parts.
@@mikec2845 Some people store tons of movies n' shit, keep all their games on there so they can grab them more quickly than downloading them from Steam again, etc.
But yeah, I still don't get how you'd manage to use up more than *16 TB* of space unless you're storing tons of raw video footage.
For beginners I have to say... this video is kinda bad.
First you bought (or got sponsored) one of the most overpowered synology consumer nas that are out there.
Quick explanation for Synology "mouthful" naming scheme:
DS means Disk Station which is their consumer line-up.
The last two numbers is the release year of the unit
the other numbers (the first or the first two) stands for the maximum supported drives of the unit.
Everything (if anything) after those numbers means how powerful the machine is (eg. J, +, play, xs, etc.) where + is the second most powerful rating.
So your DS1821+ is a consumer (Desktop) DiskStation that supports up to 18 Disks (8 in this unit + 5 per expansion unit (DX, DiskStation Expansion)) released in 2021 with the "power rating" +.
More explanation of Synologys naming scheme can be found online if anyone is interested. I think it is pretty easy to understand if you read into it.
I think this is pretty overkill for the normal user. SHR, while only useabel with synology, sound pretty good for non-tech people.
Second some explanation is wrong. The biggest IMO is this:
At 8:20 you say that "CMR drives do better in a NAS than regular hard drives do" and while it is somewhat right it's wrong. CMR stands for Conventional Magnetic recording and IS (or at least should be, otherwise you should go out and buy something else) your "regular" hard drive. The other type is "shingled magnetic recording" and does pretty much what is says: it has shingled disks where your data is stored and because of that it is pretty slow.
Also third:
as others already commented a NAS is not a real backup. It sounds like you suggest people switch from Dropbox, Google drive etc. to a NAS but now you have to look after your files. If (in your case) two drives fail - which is possible with multiple drives from the same manufacturer at the same age - you lose all your stuff.
So it would be better to use your NAS for this quick and easy access to your files (even without internet) but still have it uploaded every night or so to one of the cloud providers. This way if multiple drives fail or even worse a fire or a flood in your home you still have everything somewhere else.
A (more or less) 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Exceeeeept... if your house burns down or floods or gets burglarized, and they take your NAS, so much for that. Always keep an offsite backup!
Or if he was to work from somewhere else
Even though i have unlimited storage on Google Drive (grandfather plan), I still use a NAS for daily storage access like video editing because it’s much faster than Google Drive when I’m local. For backup and access outside of my home, I use Google Drive that sync up with my NAS.
is there an unlimited option? what does it cost?
Great, now you just have to learn to say NAS instead of NOS
The one thing not mentioned ... a NAS is NOT a backup.
Its a primary file storage and use system, parity is not an actual backup. If something ... anything goes wrong with the unit or the area the unit is sitting in ... you have no other version of your files, which is a complete fail as a definition of a backup.
Many approach this in different ways;
- The front USB (or rear) of most NAS devices are for plugging in an external storage device to back up mission critical files occasionally. It depends on the size of the backup for someone like Jimmys usage. Either a truly massive backup drive (20+Tb) in an external enclosure, so he can backup RAW files, or a smaller drive (4 or 8Tb) in that enclosure to just backup finished video projects. Synology's system has settings just for all this. Or instead of an auto backup function, you can set it up so all you do is plug in this external (once a week or whatever) into the front USB, and it auto copies over any changes to desired folders you want backed up.
- As a further step, truly ultimate critical mission files (agreements, taxes, paperwork ... or even a full copy of that external drive) can further be backed up automatically to Google drive, dropbox or any cloud service from the NAS directly.
NOW you have a true backup system: a NAS for file system parity protection, an external drive on site to protect the NAS in case of complete NAS system loss, and an offsite backup of that, in case of a Satellite crashing into your house or a fire. Just make sure you memorise your cloud server user and password.
People really need to understand that a NAS is NOT a backup.
No real backup can be in the same box all together, the inherent risk is too large. One small glitch and everything is gone, thats not a backup.
Completely agree
Although I'm not sure I'd be too happy relying on just a USB drive plugged into the NAS - if the NAS can write to that drive, then it has the ability to trash it - it's part of the NAS (I'm thinking of malicious stuff like QLocker).
What if you have your NAS setup as SHR-2, for example, in cases of Synology? You have 4 drives but can only utilise 2 of them and the other 2 are a backup of the first 2. In that case would you consider a NAS a backup solution? In addition, if you have like 40TB of data, there's no feasible way to "backup" your data on your NAS, instead of buying like 20x 2TB T5 SSDs, or paying upwards of $500USD a month for Google Drive, which completely negates the need for a NAS in the first place (Most people get a NAS to save money on cloud storage), and the time required to backup 40TB to the cloud is just insane (it'll probably take weeks if not months with internet connections in some places). With RAID and SHR, I would consider a NAS a backup. Curious to hear what your thoughts on this are.
@@techforever1970 OK then, you set up as SHR-2. Then someone breaks in and steals your NAS, or you have a lightning strike that fries it, or a water leak that drowns it. Or a fire, or a fault that destroys the drives. Ideally you need more than one backup, including one that's off-site, in a secure location. So if your main building burns down, you still have the off-site backup.
Of course you need to be sure that the off-site backup is up-to-date and intact, and that takes a lot of work. Backup isn't easy, especially with 40TB of wanted data!
I highly recommend using an old laptop or an unused/cheap one and install debian (or any other distro tbh) if you're starting out. It will teach you a lot, and it will make it obvious that servers are not "basically" computers, they are computers. You can do literally anything you want with it. NAS are great, don't get me wrong, but owning and managing your own little server is extremely rewarding and simpler that it looks like (you have to be open to learning new things though). It's a fun rabbit holw to fall into, as you can always make it more stable, more efficient, more deployable (if you care about that). Also, I highly recommend not installing any graphical environment and managing the server via ssh. But like any computer, you can do exactly what you want, and I find it a very enjoyable exerience
i myself have old celeron laptop that useless for years, i installed fedora on it and then install docker, smb, ftp, ssh, and many more stuff. hell, it so useful that i can host my own content, do downloads, makes it as bluetooth speakers and many more! and i use Nextcloud, Jellyfin for the frontend, and deploys it via docker
Please make sure you bought the CMR WD RED drivers the SMR Drives are incompatible with Synology because it will fail the Raid rebuild check Synology compatible drive list please if you using the SMR replace them with the CMR Drives in Red WD sold red drives that where SMR not knowing that it would fail even though the WD Manger said in Keynote don't use SMR Drives or shingled magnetic Recording drives use CMR Convectional magnetic Recording
I’ve been toying with getting one of these bad boys, thanks for this!
I love Synology been using it for some years now, had a WD NAS and wasnt the best for my Plex needs. I only use Plex with my NAS and mostly all the movies/shows are ones I own but I do still setup a backup for them in case of failure. I do love Sylology's SHR and found it better then the other options.
1:10 watch time is equal to money for you so I think you should give back our money and less you can buy time itself 🙃 PLEASE MAKE THIS THE TOP COMMENTS (and btw the quantum computers are way cooler😎)
"Nas" only rhymes with "Oz" when you're talking about the rapper. Otherwise "NAS" rhymes with "ass"
It's pronounced, "Naz". U keep flipping BTW Naz and noz.
Best explained among all the other channels I've watched. Its like you specifially answered all my questions I had in mind. Earned a new subscriber here!
So this video was a wake up call. I'm starting up my own RUclips channel fairly soon (3D modeling tutorials). I thought about what I might teach and my target audience. Not once did I think about storage! I already use up a lot of storage space as is. Not sure if I'd need a NAS quite yet, but it's definitely on my radar now. Thanks, Jim!
You a max user or blender?
@@manavgala2361 Blender and Maya, but I prefer Blender.
You can get a smaller Synology like a DS920+ (soon to be the Ds922+) I use one as a home user and a tinkerer. I filled mine with four 2TB drives for enough space vs cost.
@@notreallyme425 my 920+ fuckin rocks
Can’t wait for the tutorials
To the author.
You downplay yourself throughout the video and don't show competence and confidence in being an expert.
"Just a RUclipsr".
These are going to be essential for those travelling internationally. Border agents can take an image of any device you’re travelling with so it’s best to keep your data elsewhere and secure.
one question, what happens if you were transferring a file from another hard drive then suddenly lose power like a blackout, will it get corrupted? 😬
Always invest in a good UPS to ensure this scenario doesn’t occur.
I would never recommend your setup as is. If you want speed then you want to pair of M.2s in RAID 1 cache (1,250 MB/s) and then your mass storage. Also QNAP offers ZFS and their hardware isn't a just little better, it's significantly better. Also I'd consider dual 10 GbE.
Synology needs to come up with a solution for photos and videos as robust as google photos with automatic uploads
I wish they do but I doubt it. Even Google Photos-like products from big cloud & AI companies like Microsoft and Amazon are not even remotely comparable.
I really want a viable Google Photos competitor; one that's as simple to set up & use and has an AI that's as good. Been looking for a long while, nothing even remotely comes close.
NAZ NAZ NAZ NAZ
Where, who, or why, did you decide to go with NOZ, and NAZ?! 😂 Weird pronunciation I just haven't heard lol. Dig getting this info out to normal folks, keep it up! Cheers!
I heard this as well, dude was flipping the script on me every 5 seconds lol still a good vid
where can i get a NOZ it looks better than my NAS
what about JellyFish LumaForge?
NOSSS NOSS NOSSSSSS NAWSS NOOOZZZZ NAWSSSZZZZZ
great choice. I'm using this since 10+ years
2 Bay & 5 Bay Synology
also I've sold 200+ Synology NAS.
Some tips
01. Please don't forget spare hard disk
02. UPS in the event blackout
03. Buy plus series model & extend 2 years Warranty (Total 5 Years Warranty)
04. Don't forget 2FA for security reason (Two Factor Authentication)
UPS is a must for a NAS, Just need one big enough to enable an auto shutdown if there is a power blackout, Don't need a really expensive one.
Get one that gives you at least a few minutes worth so the HDD's can spin down and turn off the NAS, Otherwise you could lose all your data.
Wonderful video explaining it all. I'm new to NAS, just bought a used 2-bay unit and experimenting from there. Pretty excited to see how it'll work out.
wait so the redundancy is stored only in the 6TB drive? What happened when it fails?
I have the DS918+. After using it for the past few years I can honestly say it is one of the best purchases that I have made. I use it mainly for streaming movies with plex throughout the house and of course backup for other media. I have it connected directly to the router. With the combination on Nvidia Shield boxes in each room and great gigabit speed there are few things that I can't do. At this time, I am ready for the available expansion bay as I am running out of room. Here is a tip. The NAS will use the smallest capacity hard drive as the largest available. So, if you start off with a 4 terabyte and add a 6 terabyte next the NAS will use the 4 as the maximum space available if you are using Synology default backup option. Now almost 5 years later I am finally replacing the smallest drive to a bigger one to get the space that has been there all these years. In short, I have all 4 bays filled three have the same size drive and one has a smaller one. After replacing the smallest, drive I will finally have the full capacity of the drives I have put in. One last tip. If you are streaming movies over your network, make sure your HDMI cables going from the media box such as Shield are current meaning they are able to stream at least 4K video. Doing this will help fix any problems with streaming and audio/ video voice synchronizations. I thought this was the internet speed for a long time even the TV being super old (plasma), but it was not. Check your cables. Don't go to cheap and you will enjoy your NAS a lot more. Synology has a great website check it out before making any purchases decisions.
As a lifetime geek and lover of all tech toys, I've wanted a NAS for years. Now at 71, with a few extra bucks from the sale of a family property, I took the leap and got a Synology DS1821+ this week. Still waiting on my 6 10Tb disks, but I set it up in test fashion with a pile of old castoff drives from my hoarding closet. Working as a field service engineer for 40 years, I had some networking experience, but retiring 10 years ago has faded a lot of that knowledge. Currently working my way thru some old Network+ manuals from 15 years back, and plowing thru stone age concepts like NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, etc. But the basics are coming back to me. Planning to use this NAS to store lifetimes of scanned and digital photos, family documents, my CNC and 3D printer files,and my wife's massive hoard of digital sewing, embroidery, and quilting files. Also reserving the two remaining NAS drive bays for Synology's Surveillance Station. Sad commentary on modern life that I plan to outfit my front yard like a video studio. Thanks for a great video. I may just show it to family members who keep asking, "whats that black box on the desk for?"
Only 10TB disks? There is one mistake I made when I started using NAS: buying too small disks. The 2 last disks I bought are 22TB disks. I always underestimated my ‘needs’.
Great video on the benefits of using a NAS. I have been using a NAS since the first consumer level devices were released in the early 2000s by Ximeta called the Net Disk. I currently use the Synology DS218 Play+, WD PR210 Pro, D-Link DNS 320L and D-Link DNS-340L. Furthermore, I use my NAS servers to store my engineering designs, music collection, movie collection along with photos from my drones and cameras.
Right now I find myself in the same situation of you at the beginning of the video. A small army of external drives driving me crazy. Now planning to transition to NAS. The video is very informative and didactic on that issue. Thanks for the advice, liked and subscribed, and btw, your girlfriend is very pretty.
I like how you were touching the NAS 😂😂😂
I was worried if it's gonna be turned on
Good video but STOP saying NAZ. LOL
Just beware of the multiple Ransomware we are getting on NAS... I got attacked with deadbolt ransomware in January and lost everything that wasn't backed up...
They sent an email yesterday that another deadbolt version attack happened again....
I'm a tinkerer so I built my own and went with Truenas but I have installed Synology/Qnap stuff for clients who don't mind paying extra for the ease of use. I'm a ZFS guy so that was important for me but for the 'average' user these are solid, just don't buy used unless you are willing to forgo warranty.
Hey, a NAS is very valuable for more than just Dollar value. I manage a facility that has 2 NAS's and 54 cameras connected to it. Just amazing how capable the NAS is for storing 30 and 90 day backup of all those cameras. Not difficult to use but does require some Tech knowledge. There are many features that can be added that this facility isn't using. Crazy stuff. Now I'm thinking about getting a 6 bay unit for my house. Just need to cough up a couple grand for all the equipment, drives and UPS. .
Remember! Raid is NOT a backup!
37: nas
5: noz
2: naz
1: gnaws
total: 45 times ;-)
(great video btw)
😂😅🤭
I get 2.2GB/s using direct connect from 10Gbe on Synology to 10Gbe Nic installed on PC. Jumbo frames and separate subnet for the win.
I have the Synology 1019+ 5-bay with 5 WD 8TB Red drives in SHR-1. Then I use hyperbackup with an external 20TB drive to keep an additional backup. I don't keep all data offsite like I should but what I have is good enough for me. I highly recommend Synology. Its very easy to setup and use and you can do a lot with it.
It would be nice if you could describe your Synology box in detail. It seems that you added a 10G card to it. I'd love to hear about it.
There is a thing called digital hoarders and they have a subreddit. People who go down this path and start backing up Wikipedia or movies that they will never watch again or are not even interested in need to step back and see if there is an underlying issue.
HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE "NAS"?
Google photos is such a breeze to find any photo you're searching for though by keyword
Please be aware, I had to get my Synology NAS repaired three times, one time the ATOM CPU problem, second time PSU problem, third time motherboard broke.
I think if you made your own pc you could have got it for atleast half the price.
I got a Terramaster F4-210 with 2g. Of RAM it was around 189 last year and decided to splurge the money on 4 20tb hdds and just use it as a NAS and the "home server" functionalities are on a cheap n100 chinese mini PC with CasaOS for docker that basically handles my media server, personal cloud, torrenting, dns and much more. Been really happy with my decision. I would like to get a second mini PC and move the media server there for better performance
Thank you for creating this. very informative video. Can you please suggest which brand is reliable for concealed wiring for certified CAT8 or CAT 7 cables? Scenario- I want to connect my NAS with CAT7 or CAT 8 ethernet cable to my deco mesh router which has a 10G port, also connect this router to my computer with the ethernet cable for faster access. I have already purchased CAT 8 ports for all access points including walls. I ordered FEEDUS CAT7 and CAT8 cables from amazon but it stopped working within 7 months. Now I am routing concealed cable through walls, hence looking for a reliable cable brand.
I have a Synology RS819 rack mount with 4 4tbs Iron wolf in a RAID5. I do backup the NAS, using HYPER BACKUP every night and pay Synology C2 Cloud space as a secondary backup. My photos and docs are priceless to me and I can’t risky it. I run PLEX with my music and Movies, use Synology Drive, Synology Photos. Best purchase…
Hi Jimmy, I don't know if this is your area of expertise, I kind of wish I had found our video before making my purchase, anyway I just purchased the WD 12TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra Network Attached Storage - NAS through Amazon, only it's just a two disk housing at the price of $449. which I just looked is now $529 (I got lucky). The type of data is just normal home use, pst, file that all pc's can access via outlook, stuff like that. I can only hope I made the right choice.
Speaking of data access speed, I always thought a usb 3.0 connection was faster than an ethernet connection but viewing your video and your test, that's not the case.
Hey Jimmy now that you have a NAS could you do a video on setting up and your experience with Plex?
Good video, but I gotta yank you on this:
"It's definitely not related to a rapper"
DOESN'T PICK NAS, ONE OF THE GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME, INSTEAD PICKS POP COPYCAT, NAS-X: CALLS HIM "A RAPPER".
hi... what 10Gbe switch do you have?
Just picked up a new Asustor gen 2 -6704 with 30 TB + 16 gig / 2 SSDs for cache 🔥rock solid raid 5
I had two DNS323's and out grew them. I now have a RaspberryPi 4 with a drive bay of 4 drives and a drive bay with two drives. The four bay has two 18 TB drives and two 4 TB drives and the two bay has two 2 TB drives. You noticed I have two of each size? One is data, other is backup. I have scripts on the Pi to run backups every night. The Pi is gibibit ethernet and my modem/router is gigibit, so they are very fast even moving movies from desktop to the drives. No, can not share on WiFi, or when away from home, but I'm secure in that nothing that is not replaceable is on my different computers. If it is important, it goes the the Network drives.
Your pronunciation of NAS is triggering me lol. Solid video.
One of the biggest advantages is safety. If it's possible, it's best to avoid having sensitive data (or any non backed up data) on your main PC. If something happens and your data is lost, or you get ransomware and all your data is encrypted (or otherwise stolen), then you're pretty much out of luck. If your data is elsewhere, there's far less risk.
I have an 80TB Unraid NAS mainly for Plex and local computer backup storage. Currently 67.2TB used with a 14TB parity drive and 1x 14TB, 3x 10TB, 3x 8TB, and 2x 6TB drives for the data array.
The irony here is that Google drive will be used again as the backup solution 😅
1: your mispronouncing NAS. its N.A.S. or nasssssss. not NAZZZZZZ
2 your mistaken if you think all your data is safe on a single NAS like that. all that box does is give you large file capacity and high uptime. what it doesnt give yo is a backup of all yoru data in a seprate place. ideally, a seprate building.
I am in the process of getting a Synology DS418 set up for at home use. This was a great video! I would love to see a video on the apps you have installed to allow for remote access.
I need This
"drop something" and showing linus, nice~~
A naaahhhzzz. Lmao
Says his wife has a youtube channel... Doesn't provide link...
Que Dog House Music... lol
OK! I've just invested into a NAS for my photo business and it's driving me nuts! I cant seem to work out how to even get my library into my NAS!! Im a complete noob t this!
Gotta be honest....I literally stopped watching when you showed your newbie NAS was $1000..
That's physical data or file storage, and admit it or not there are different currencies in use worldwide being realistic, why not create realtime per country currency exchange tabulation per product price changes of that storage product machine by being versatile with the dollar original product currency to Garner more buys and if moving forward with non physical data or file storage why create a central AI node for company members with secure line and sending codes to AI and AI send those important files or data to non physical secluded or concealed file or data storages as result of research and development of natural storage areas or science based non physical storages but be sure that payments are in on time if using central nodes because that's a business because there's ongoing tech improvements on both sides and as the Beatles song lyrics says, Tomorrow Never Knows. Clear.
Google Drive or other Cloud Storage Services are more for share files with other and fast up and download speeds.
Your Nas is limited to your internet provider speeds for online connection over nextcloud, owncloud etc.
I have both a Nas for data that changes not so often and is not needed to be shared, like word sheets, prasentation files etc.
What about thieves breaking into your apartment?
If I have a NAS plugged into ethernet, and my pc is plugged into a separate ethernet outlet in the same house, do I then have direct connection to the NAS storage from my pc or do I need to connect them alternatively?
I'm thinking about getting one, and was just wondering how that works :D
Wait wait, stop fooling people this is far away from a fully functional redundant NAS at its best this is a nice package for your pile of hard drives that you have thrown all-around your desk. At least be honest it's sponsored. This solution will work consistently till you lose 2 of the 4 drives and then curse the world for your own stupidity, for professional work never take the cheap route, cheap people earn the change at the end of the day.
Great video
I shoot 3-5T a year
Started back in the day with 512G a year then 1 T
I am half way through my work year and my 5T drives are both almost full
I need a solution badly
Congrats! Hit me up if you wanna collab or need some help with anything!
@Jimmy Tries World ds620slim is the only ssd oriented that I have seen and I wanted to move to synology is it any option from them that I haven't found? mechanical hard drives are not an option, neither non synology.
I replaced my MS file server with Synology NAS. Use Amazon S3 for offsite backup.
u ALREADY HAEV REDUNDANCY AS parity and keep one cold backup for imp stuffs
Your pronunciation made me close the video.
12:19 problem using NAS without ethernet cable running through your home to maximize the speed of the NAS and landlord may get mad at you if you poke some holes.
Everything you store on google drive is technically owned by google (at least in the EULA). it's why I never touch it.
and here I am with 12TB of SSDs in my pc and spare hard drives in a closet... I don't really have a place to put it in my tiny apartment
Video was going great till mixing 4TB and 6TB drives... Also not optimal for speeds to mix up drive sizes.
Please I’m looking for tutorial how to install it with 10gb please
If you're willing to do a little tinkering, you can get a much better DIY NAS for cheaper.
Did you have to upgrade any of your home networking setup to take advantage of the 10Gbps connection?
I am A Synology geek. Set up an 8 bay for a relatives photography studio about 6 years ago. Knew nothing about them and did it as a hobby. The system came out great with photographers logging in via FTP and wedding video serving on large screens in studio to show prospective clients.
ther is no need for sinologi box or similar , every one has a old computer iven a 10y old core2duo can work well for that most computer can suport 4 or 6 drives out of the box and you can iven run it with windows if instaling nas os is to difficult for you and with 50buck you can add a few extra sata ports on most mb if you don t have one houre to set it up , be reddy to work one month to be able to aford a sinologi
No thanks, I prefer to stay with Google / Microsoft Cloud. But still a very good video !
I wish I could have a NAS. Even a 2 bay would be nice. But we can't get internet installed again.
will you have a step by step set up , got a DS200J and dont believe i did set up properly . thanks :)
No one should trust “the cloud” because it is just someone else’s computer. Do you know that other person well enough to trust them with your data?
What does nas stand for
Network Attached Storage
Oh my god I'm also a data Horder I am on my 5th 128gb SD card because all my downloads are done on my phone