Thank you so much for sharing your review! I had to watch it before buying one myself. 🙏 I went ahead and bought the ZyXEL NAS326 myself a few days ago, and I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed. Setting it up was an absolute nightmare, and I couldn't even connect it online because the device wasn't found automatically on Zyxel Cloud. Even manual attempts to connect it failed. 🙅♀ Moreover, I had no luck with the connection to Google Drive and Dropbox either. It seems ZyXEL hasn't updated their services, making it impossible to sync with those platforms. The instructions mentioned two mobile apps - xCloud and Zyxel Drive. However, the first one is no longer supported and redirects you to download the second one, which is outdated and incompatible with newer versions of Android (mine is Android 10, which is far from the latest).... Essentially, it can only be used as a local storage device, making it far from the ideal advertised NAS solution. 😵 After several painful hours of frustration, I ended up returning it and opting for a Synology unit instead. Let me tell you, the installation and setup process for the Synology unit was an absolute breeze in comparison. 🔝
The app provided by Zyxel is out of date and Google Drive blocks access due to security concerns, unfortunately. You may be able to use rsync, however, by installing the MetaRepository as I noted in the video then look for package "random tools" and then that should give you rsync to use over CLI (through SSH). Otherwise it doesn't seem there is a simple GUI way to do it.
What if you have a camera and you'd like to directly store photos on a server, enabling access to all the files from other computers whenever you need them? I'm not referring to creating backups but rather an automated method where you configure the camera app to save images to a designated folder on the server. How can this be possible ?
Good question. That is what a NAS is designed to do. Just create a shared folder and store them on there. It will be accessible from any device with a network connection.
@@paradoxmax NFS and SMB are just the file sharing protocol. Pretty much all NAS devices can use either an SMB or NFS share. Windows typically favors SMB, Linux favors NFS. But it's available for both OS's.
Thank you so much for sharing your review! I had to watch it before buying one myself. 🙏
I went ahead and bought the ZyXEL NAS326 myself a few days ago, and I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed. Setting it up was an absolute nightmare, and I couldn't even connect it online because the device wasn't found automatically on Zyxel Cloud. Even manual attempts to connect it failed. 🙅♀
Moreover, I had no luck with the connection to Google Drive and Dropbox either. It seems ZyXEL hasn't updated their services, making it impossible to sync with those platforms. The instructions mentioned two mobile apps - xCloud and Zyxel Drive. However, the first one is no longer supported and redirects you to download the second one, which is outdated and incompatible with newer versions of Android (mine is Android 10, which is far from the latest).... Essentially, it can only be used as a local storage device, making it far from the ideal advertised NAS solution. 😵
After several painful hours of frustration, I ended up returning it and opting for a Synology unit instead. Let me tell you, the installation and setup process for the Synology unit was an absolute breeze in comparison. 🔝
Work good Plex for stream 4k 60 fps? Have you tried it? (Sorry for my english)
If it does not have to transcode, it will work fine.
hi, did you manage to sync google drive with the nas?
The app provided by Zyxel is out of date and Google Drive blocks access due to security concerns, unfortunately. You may be able to use rsync, however, by installing the MetaRepository as I noted in the video then look for package "random tools" and then that should give you rsync to use over CLI (through SSH). Otherwise it doesn't seem there is a simple GUI way to do it.
What if you have a camera and you'd like to directly store photos on a server, enabling access to all the files from other computers whenever you need them? I'm not referring to creating backups but rather an automated method where you configure the camera app to save images to a designated folder on the server. How can this be possible ?
Good question. That is what a NAS is designed to do. Just create a shared folder and store them on there. It will be accessible from any device with a network connection.
where can i find this or set it up ? and is NFS the same thing ?@@htwingnut
@@paradoxmax NFS and SMB are just the file sharing protocol. Pretty much all NAS devices can use either an SMB or NFS share. Windows typically favors SMB, Linux favors NFS. But it's available for both OS's.
No firmware update anymore sadly
The latest one is from this November. How frequent do you need the updates to be for this weak, slow, cheap NAS?
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