There are not many tech enthusiasts who can explain things plain and simple to masses. You can and it’s awesome. I watched several of your videos and understood everything. Thank you, you’re a lifesaver 👏

I love our Synology NAS! I never would have got it set up without your videos! Thanks for all the great content!

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Another great video. You have the ability to explain this complex topic very easy. Congratulations !!!

Love your straight forward, no nonsense video.

Thank you for this tutorial. I just purchased a NAS and I am preparing to set it up.

Really good points, especially the one about security and port-forwarding 👍

i've owned a 5 bay Drobo for years and lately wanted to see if there was any firmware updates and notices that their company website is offline and was not too happy with them shutting shop. So i started investigating a suitable upgrade and came across your very informative KZread videos, and made the switch to the DS723+ for me it's more than sufficient as a home user. I need it up an running and will go though your vault of videos to configure it. Keep up the good work.

Hi Will, i have recently discovered your channel as i research the topic of purchasing my first nas proper. well some time back, i have owned a single drive buffalo linkstation, but i now want to step up to the big league. your content and your videos are proving to be a very valuable resource packed with great tips and advice. in a few of your videos (ones i have watched) you have made reference to having a mariadb instance available in your homelab. a couple of my docker containers make use of their own database instances and i would love to see you make a video on how your are leveraging mariadb in your own homelab setup (does it/will it run on a synology ?). cheers for the content, time now to watch the linked video on raid options

NAS is a great upgrade if you own so many external HDDs lying around and want to consolidate your files. Also with SHR you can get some form of redundancy. Just don't expose to the internet, disable default admin profile and you're good to go. Also get a UPS that can communicate to your NAS because rebuilding drives can take hours or even days.

@andrewa3216

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean by 'dont expose to the internet' -- most people running a NAS want to be able to connect to it via the internet (access photos, docuements, etc). As long as you read the docs and only open ports specifically for NAS use you should be fine.

@mikeptech7655

Жыл бұрын

ya but what if they are not NAS-TYPE drives? like seagate 3TB barracuda or Tohisba x300 WD Blue 2TB , blacks, etc... I dont have any NAS type drives but have several drives laying around

@chrishalle1982

Жыл бұрын

And how can i stream my music when im driving my car without exposing my nas to the internet?

@andrewa3216

Жыл бұрын

@@chrishalle1982 Look into installing tailscale on your synology. Sets up a VPN from single devices to your NAS. No ports required to be opened at the router

@nrikhy2793

Жыл бұрын

UPS ??

One thing I would add about the DAS: Do your research. I have a WD MyBook DAS and its functionality is limited by the firmware of the DAS not playing nice with the BIOS/UEFI. If you have a DAS expanding your memory locally, it likely will be via USB cable into your PC of choice. Boot from USB is a thing on most systems, and on some like mine (Lenovo) even if you de-prioritize and disable USB boot (moving it to the bottom of the boot order under SATA, DVD, etc., it will still try to boot via USB. Not sure why, but it results in me having to disconnect the DAS USB in the back of my pc every time it starts up. So every time I boot up, restart, or even restart during an update, I have to make sure my WD DAS is disconnected. What's more, if I saved a restorable image on my WD DAS and wanted to connect it, wipe my PC, and restore from that point in time snapshot USING THE SOFTWARE THAT COMES WITH THE WD DAS TO DO SO, I cannot. Because wiping and restoring involves cycling the power with a connected DAS, it has gotten stuck in the process every single time and I have to cancel the restore. Best case scenario, I plug this into a different PC with a thumb drive or other removable storage as well, copy over the image I want to restore from and use that as the restore USB without the fancy Acronis or WD software. It's garbage.

Thank you, this was helpful. I'm new to NAS and considering a 4 bay Synology (DS920+). I already have two 4 bay DAS boxes for backup.

I love your honesty and clarity in the message. THANK YOu

Thanks for putting this video together. I am a 25 year veteran IT professional. I work with the MUCH bigger RAIDS. But I am unfamiliar with these smaller newer devices. I just purchased (hasn't arrived yet) a 2 bay NAS to drop a pair of 18T's into for a media/movie server for the family. SO the kids can watch their favorites on one TV and other watch something else. The Data is already backed up via other means and all I need for it to do is stream movies. My plan is to do a RAID 0. I am investigating the best fie system to use. something with as little overhead and latency as possible as I wont be serving outside my LAN.

@ipick4fun27

Жыл бұрын

I'm in same boat. Just need space what I can access anywhere on my network that it's not going out side to the internet. Stupid phones are filling up fast. Backing them up only means putting them away where I can't access them. So NAS would be good option for easy access.

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

2 18TB in RAID0 ? You must have a lot of time putting that back together once 1 drive crashes and you loose everything

@TheCynysterMind

11 ай бұрын

@@dummyload7803 It took me 2 weeks to put it there to begin with. I do not regret it either...The unit has been rock solid. AND I have loved using some of the other features... Like the VPN Server & Synology Drive Client. But I get your point... I will probably be looking to upgrade to a 4-6 bay next year.

Thanks. Yep, I think I'll get the four bay when I upgrade my 720+ in a couple of years time. Btw, for anyone who's interested, for backups I use the USB Copy package- not sure if it was you or someone else who recommended it. Simple and easy to copy the desired shared folders monthly to a portable USB drive and store off site.

Thank you. Very helpful and honest.

Very informative, thank you!

Thanks for the great info.

Great Will thanks a lot as usual

Again, very helpful!!

Fantastic video (coming from a tech enthusiast that worked as a Security Engineer)

I got a 2 bay 4 years ago, now wishing I had gotten a 4 bay. I’ll probably build one when it comes time. Just bumped it up to 18tb disks for more storage space.

I sort of fall into the first category, because when I bought my NAS 12 months ago, I got a 2 bay Synology NAS DS220J. Although I have not used the space as I have only used close to a 1TB of the 4 available. But subsequently I have started digitising my DVD/ Blu ray movies, and TV series to stream them. So Now I am thinking maybe of eventually upgrading the NAS. I have more or less closed the NAS down so I can only access it through my Home network, not from the wider world.

go for 4 bay NAS.... now you tell me.! I enjoy all your video. Thanks from Seoul.

@liam4184

3 ай бұрын

yeah, my 2bay is now full up. major regret.

@negueba235689

13 күн бұрын

@@liam4184 If you have a 2bay NAS example 2x 8TB, cant you just upgrade to two 10 or 16TB ect, ??

@liam4184

13 күн бұрын

@@negueba235689 Yeah you can. Just a lot of money to double it up, and then you have two harddrive that are useless.

Some great info Will, that cable behind your TV is really making my OCD kick in

Great video, to the point.

That was a great roundup; always enjoyed and appreciated. A topic for a future video perhaps - opening ports on a NAS vs opening ports on a router and best practices. I still find the whole thing a bit confusing but fortunately, I don't need internet access to my home network. And a question : I would like to backup my Synology NAS to my QNAP NAS using Rsync. IIRC, that uses SSH which requires a port to be opened. Does that create much, if any, risk to a home network not connected to the internet ? ( The alternative, which I currently do, is to use an old PC with FreeFileSync backup/sync software to act as a backup agent between the NAS's. It's free and easy but is one more machine on the network. )

@kekesed97

Жыл бұрын

I think LAN side connection should be pretty safe, because LAN side hacks would require a backdoor or hard access to your network if you don't open any port to WAN. Use a non administrative user to do the connection. Or use other backup solution like Syncthing.

@DavidM2002

Жыл бұрын

@@kekesed97 Thanks for your thoughts. I'll create a separate user for the Rsync / SSH.

@Dmitryzakharov

11 ай бұрын

@@kekesed97 backdoor is your phone and any smart device connected to your network(ip-cam, etc).

Great video!

Point 1 , so right! I came to that really quick lol. 🙏

Good video. Nicely divided into chapters. I will get a Synology today. Not sure about RAID. I need a lot of space, calculated my need at ~14 TB or a bit more. Movies, series, music, game ISOs, ebooks, comics.

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

well, in my thinkng RAID is a must. I am even so "paranoid" that i use RAID 6 On a 12x12 you kinda loose 24T but 2 drives can die and your stuff is still not gone. Dont know how long it will take to rebuild a RAID 6 but i hope i dont have to find out

Hi, I've been using the Drobo 5D3 for a long time, I like the workflow and speed of the drive connected directly onto my Mac via Thunderbolt 3 whilst I edit a lot of 4K videos almost without any lag. Unfortunately, we all know by now what happened to the company and it's gone down. I need a replacement and what I understand is that the Synology has the capability of being connected directly unto the Mac via a Thunderbolt 3 to ethernet adapter. Do I need any other additional add-ons and will this work as well?

Thanks for the point by point for us nubies. .

I am curious on your thoughts of using two 2-bay NAS units and sync these to provide two NAS network storage units (redundancy) and full backup capability. I have been using this setup and feel the chance of both 2-bay NAS units failing at the same time is low and, in this case, I have four synced hard drives from which to recover my data. I am not a data hoarder so over time I just increase the capacity of the hard drives if storage volume starts to become a problem. You make the point very well of reminding everyone that a NAS unit is not a "backup" but with this setup I believe it works better than a 4-bay NAS unit at a little more in price. Any thoughts?

You got me, rethinking whether I need a NAS for my small home music studio, where it will essentially just be me at one Does the NAS have a big advantage over DAS if I want to add a couple surveillance cameras through my ethernet switch?

Thanks great video

Thank you so much for all your videos - this really helps! I'm using a Drobo and moving everything over to Synology. I'm hoping to use a 10gb ethernet adapter to be able to backup my photo shoot libraries from commercial shoots to this archive for long term storage. They can be pretty big with TIF files and raw files. So I use a local copy to work on while I backup to the archive and also a seperate External portable drive for each year of working. Along with this - I use Backblaze to have an offsite version that always backsup while I'm sleeping. I'm new to NAS and wondering if it's possible to backup to BackBlaze using this? Wondering what you would recommend. Thank you! x

To add to the RAID discussion, I messed that up on my first NAS. I saw the options and said to myself "I'm familiar with RAID-5" and chose that. This was a mistake. If I had chosen SHR1, I would have had the same initial storage, and would have had the ability to replace drives with higher capacity HD's later to increase my storage space. So ... I wasn't able to do that with RAID-5. That's now been rectified, but it was a major pain in the brass to fix it.

@DavidM2002

Жыл бұрын

You're not the only one.

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

In the same boat funny enough!

@mario-sz

Жыл бұрын

You are a lucky man. Not every Synology supports SHR. Highend1621xs + does not have SHR .... no comment ........

@rainerbehrendt9330

Жыл бұрын

@@mario-sz I use SHR-1 with a 1511+ and DX1510 (10 HDDs) for around 11 Years. Started with 2 TB Drives and over the Years going to 4 and now 8 TB Drives. Nice Feature. The next replacement of one 4 TB Drive for an 8 is already in sight. Takes a long Time (around 5 Days, but that's okay for me). Next step are 16 TB Drives. I don't know the Hardware Limit of the old 1511+. According to Synologys HDD List that would be 6 TB Drives but why not?

@victorblakey4260

Жыл бұрын

I have a 4 bay symbology NAS, running RAID 5. Initially I set it up with 2 x 2TB, and 2 x 1TB domestic disks. 1 disk died, and I replaced them with 4 x 4TB NAS disks, and increased the storage space, during the upgrading process (DSM offers you the option as you replace the drives). It took me most of a day to actually swap out the old disks (shutdown 1 disk, remove, swap, repair volume, wait, rinse, lather, repeat)

I got a DS920+ and I set up port forwarding between the two network cards and I have two network and wanted to use my DS920 as brigde, buuuuut now have I forgotten where to set it up in the control panel. I remember that I needed to have a name and not an IP for the forwarding to work and I did ste it up and when I now ping that name do I get a response though a little delayed as it seems like the other NAS on the other network is the one responding. Can you or anuone give me at hint to find this feature again as I would like to set more up and change the port number and name ? I do hope I am making sense 🙂

Yea, I may need to re-evaluate considering more than just having 1 drive for a backup in case of a failure. I may decide to go to a 2 drive Raid. Thanks for the info.

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

I would instead look at backing up to an external hard drive! That way if the file system gets corrupted you will still have a backup

How much space does the btrfs snapshots take up? I have my NAS ready for this setup, but have not activated it, because I don't know how much space or will eat up.

If we back up a back up, does that make it a front up or back down? If a 4 bay nas dies, does it take the drives down with it or do you mean back up so in case of fire or something like that?

May I ask how would synology work if i migrate my HDDs there I have like 5 HDDs whit capacities from 4 to 8TB,...

With smb can't you just enable auto block after a certain amount of tries

If you use basic instead of raid0 or jbod do you need multiple storage pools?

Great summary. Best part the video is at 5:37.

I'm completely new to this and all of the videos that I am finding seem to be in a super technical language. Primarily i want to manage my blu-ray and DVD collection . Can someone recommend some videos on this subject in English?

Good tips ;)

Easily the best synology channel on youtube.

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

When I started out a year ago, I bought the DS220j and set it up with EXT4... no BTRFS as an option, had it about a week and the DS220+ went on sale so I bought that and returned the 220j. I wish now that there was an easy way to convert it to get the extra benefits.

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

do you really need them then ? Just asking

I have disabled my default admin and guest account. I already knew I'll be using btrfs file system since I use this also on my Linux PC and knew the benefits. I have also enabled 2fa for better security. Recently, I have configured my hardware firewall in a way that unless I'm using a VPN (with a specific ip address I configured before hand), I won't be able to connect to my NAS. My NAS only have one port open to the Internet but if anyone tries to connect to it without the VPN I specified, it will not even respond and would appear to be offline (not closed) as to trick the other that it doesn't even exist. 😎

I have the ReadyNas, Buffalo and lately tried the Synology. My goal is just to store movies and pictures in the server and I can access them in all my TVs, PCs, phones and tablet. I also like to download these files when I am travelling. The ReadyNas is the easiest on to setup for that. The buffalo takes more time to setup. The Synology seems like the most powerful of all but is difficult to set up and after loading 2.4T of files in to a 16TB NAS, it started to go in and out. Do not know the reason, might be indexing. Trying to use Kodi to access the server ends up in failure. A firestick + Kodi works much better for older TVs. Their support is very light also. After a week, finally gave up and return the system. I have seen many of your very good tutorials but there is no way to control the unstable TV media server access (File access from PC is OK).

A Raid 1 setup for a 2bay nas is correct. I have upgraded my 2 bay nas from 4TB to 12TB. Now as the end of life of this nas appears I am looking for a 4 bay nas that and raid 6. Unfortunately, with my current NAS, the raid setting was lost twice. Which took ages to rebuilt.

totally agree.. 2-bay NAS was the biggest mistake i recommend 5+ bay even when you don't use it. ssds become cheaper and cheaper and you'll need the bays

Hey man, just saw your video, it si great! I am doing 3D renderings, video, phography...like every single project is gigabites...and want to make even more stuff...and I want also ssd for my textures, footages that I use in comp, so as I go through the video maybe with 2 slots is not for me? Where do I attach the ssd? If I buy with 2 slots and I put 2 HDD do I have extra space for SSD?

Great content! Question, about speed, I use a DS720+ with 2x3TB storage, and I've set it up like you suggested to use it with Lightroom (based on your video). But when connected, i feel it's not "loading" fast. I have apple M1 devices and a wired connection, so that isn't the issue. Is it possible the disks are (to) slow? Would this be any better if I swapped them for SSD disks? Thanks.

@rubberonasphalt

Жыл бұрын

surprised no one gave you an answer yet, but yes, disks types matter. If you can afford multiple ssd, yeah, you'll definitely see faster transfer speeds. But its expensive. Even if you upgrade to the fastest HDD, for NAS storage, you'll also see a difference. Not SSD speeds, but acceptable for most applications. Old HDD and SSD can degrade over time, so performance will diminish over time, depending on usage

@studiojege287

Жыл бұрын

@@rubberonasphalt Thanks for the reply! SSD looks like overkill, so maybe upgrade to fast HDD. Any recommendations?

@rubberonasphalt

Жыл бұрын

@@studiojege287 Seagate Ironwolf HDD are awesome. They're basically industry standard for NAS reliability

Hey! Thank you for the video! It clarified many of the questions I had. I have a small question: If I buy a 4-bay NAS and configure it with 2 HDD as Raid 1, how easy is it to add the 2 other disks later to turn it into a Raid 10? Does it require restarting everything or is it more straightforward? Thanks!

@lamp007

4 ай бұрын

I don't know what you mean by RAID 1 to RAID 10 (don't think this is a thing). But if you are looking to just expand your volume it is pretty straight forward. When you insert the New Drives the system will detect that a unformatted drive has been connected and provide you a few options. I would Recommend going to *Storage Manager > Storage > Global Settings* and turning on *"Run RAID resync faster"* and then formatting the new Drive and/or adding it to your RAID/volume configuration.

That must have been the fastest "Hi how is it going you all" since i subbed. Ouch :D

Thank you so much! Do you have a video explaining about DAS as well?

@rabarber9610

5 күн бұрын

DAS = direct attached storage for example a usb drive. Does not require a video.

Large storage is so cheap, my personal opinion is that a two-bay NAS is fine for most home users. With a two-drive NAS using RAID 1 for data redundancy, you can have 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 16 or even 20 TB of storage space. I have been storing data to my NAS for 15 years, including a few videos, about 150 ripped CDs, and document backup from multiple computers. Still, I am using less than 0.3 TB (300 GB) of storage space. Also, Synology recommends using the BTRFS file system, which seems good for RAID 1, but even the BTRFS developers recommend against using it for RAID 5 or RAID 6.

@terryforsythe8083

Жыл бұрын

Also, even though I am using RAID 1 on my NAS, I still back it up to a DAS. I prefer doing this in lieu of doing tripple redundancy on the NAS itself (which would require a NAS with more than two bays). That way, if the NAS fails, I can plug the DAS into a computer and quickly access the data.

@christophercoronado9551

Жыл бұрын

i was wondering about the life expectancy of my synology nas, are you saying you've had the same nas for 15 years?

@terryforsythe8083

Жыл бұрын

@@christophercoronado9551 2. The first one, a two-bay, was still working when I replaced it a few years ago, but I wanted a faster processor.

@christophercoronado9551

Жыл бұрын

@@terryforsythe8083 what's 2? i have a 718+ and i'm running low on disk space. was thinking about getting bigger hard drives, but then got curious about the nas life expectancy and if i should just hold out for a nas with more bays. i've had mine for 3yrs

@terryforsythe8083

Жыл бұрын

@@christophercoronado9551 2 means I have bought two Synologys. I am on my second one. The first one was still working when I replaced it. It was just slow by modern standards.

Cautionary tale: I opened the VPN port, and quickly had some brute force attacks. I ended up setting up the firewall to block everything except the site where the other synology is connecting to the VPN from. It's not worth the stress and potential of being hacked to leave it open.

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

If your passwords are strong and you have auto block then brute force is all but impossible

@lardarse2887

Жыл бұрын

dmz

I really like the specs and price for DS 224+. I think 2 bays are enough for me. I need 1-2 TB for photos and 2TB for computer back up. 2x 8 TB drives with lots of extra room

Is there really no way to change from ext4 to btrfs? What about a full hyperbackup + config backup done on ext4, reformatting discs to btrfs and applying the backups? Will I still have to setup stuff anew?

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Yes so that is the process! There are a couple of things that hyperbackup does not fully restore, but for standard settings you should be fine!

It is a very good practice to turn on Geo IP on the firewall and block entries from all countries except your own;) DS1621xs+ does not have SHR .... no comment ........

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

None of the XS units have SHR because of performance issues. SHR can give you non uniform performance with mixed drive sizes, and synology assumes XS users want max performance at all times

Very good points, but a NAS is many times more than just a big, shared file system. Docker, VMs, and SCSI devices open a whole new world!

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Really is!

@PierreKerbage

Жыл бұрын

Docker rocks. You're absolutely correct.

my NAS just get attacked by Ransomware, about a month ago, but lucky me the virus just encrypted 2 from 8 shared folder and not the Critical folder one... bit i want to know what kind of backup more easy to setup and also secure to this kind of virus..

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

So there are 2 places I have ever seen a synology get ransomeward : 1) they had the SMB port open to the internet (big no) 2) they had a computer connected to the NAS via SMB get infected, which then cryptoed the NAS

I was planning on RAID 1. I bought the appropriate sized drives knowing I’m getting half and a backup. How does SHR differ from RAID 1?

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

If you have only 2 drives SHR IS RAID1

My PC motherboard comes with raid. How reliable to use? Softrware Raid?

What do you recommend for a DAS?

Don’t forget to set a static IP I do mine thru lansetup in the router . Usually this is never mentioned .

Thx for this video Please lt me know this detail: I working alone with my foto-video, but need a saceure backup for all my files. When I put there two hdd in RAID1, with the SHR and BTRFS systsem file - what when one of the disk will failing? - Can I take the secound one out of the NAS and have acces to it in normal windows PC (all the drive in PC are NTFS system file) and what after this fail - buy a new drive and put it together to the NAS with the secound RAID1 copy - this will make a check and copy all files so they will be synchronized?

@jayzn1931

5 ай бұрын

It might be a little late but I hope this helps: when you have 2 identical drives and use them in RAID 1 or SHR-1 (which are different but with 2 drives only it’s basically the same) and one drive fails, you can simply continue using your NAS. All the features will work just like before. The next best option you have is to get a replacement drive and exchange that with the broken one in the NAS. If for some reason you want to use the working HDD in your windows pc, connecting that via SATA will not simply work. Even if it is unencrypted, you would have to use some programs to get BTRFS readable on your machine. But as mentioned above, there is no need to do that. If you really want a NAS, additionally or instead of using RAID you should still have at least one more copy of all the contents of your NAS somewhere else.

@TomaszTwojFotograf

5 ай бұрын

@@jayzn1931 thx, everything is clear 👍👌

Hi. I just recently bought a Synology nas. And I have a problem with the network, I can't connect to things like, idrive backup and my printer, When I write a password and a username it says that the username does not exist end Synology assistant does not recognize the nas, but SMB working good. What could be the problem?

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

1 of 2 things. 1) the synology is plugged directly into your computer, not into a network switch 2) there is a network problem. The username issue does not make since if you are able to hit the Main NAS DSM

Hi, can you please send me the link for your NAS backup guides?

does synology with 4 bays allow for a set up of 2 drives in RAID-1 and 2 as basic? I Have some documents I wish to keep for now (photos, documents, purcharsed music and movies), so that would go to RAID-1, but also I need a lot of storage for random garbage that I don't really care if one of them dies

Hello, im planning to use WD Red 4TB as file storage with Orico HDD Enclosure is that good idea can i use it like that or has to be specific enclosure ?

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

you may want to wath the video about WD drives i guess it was the same guy who brought you this video

My first NAS was a 2-bay Asustor. I outgrew it pretty quickly and I’m looking into buying another one, like 6 or 4 bay and use my old as a backup. Should I go for another Asustor (like lockerstor gen2) or switch to Synology? I’m a bit scared of Asustors recent ransomeware attacks =/

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

If it were me I would 100% look at synology

@Crazy--Clown

Жыл бұрын

Go Syn

@Spartan_767

Жыл бұрын

​@SpaceRex I heard comments about synology not supporting 3rd party drives us this true

@williamlau7179

10 ай бұрын

​@@Spartan_767the only strong desire not to "synology"., although I like 224+. Now still using a very slow wd ex2 for 9 years. Just slotted in toshiba n300 8tb, jbod with other wd red 4tb original Al hdd.

I'm behind CGNAT and have had issues getting my NAS to be internet facing via DDNS (also due to double NAT, unsuccessful port forwarding)- managed to solve it via Docker + Cloudflare Zero Trust and a spare domain name. Also good point about SHR, thought it was one of the cool things about my two-bay but I may have to redo the storage pool eventually when capacity is up. By the way, curious what watch you're rocking! Looking great, thanks again for the content. Ignore those bozos.

@roytreves3998

Жыл бұрын

Could you please elaborate on how you dealt with the CGNAT issue? We have been trying to solve this for about a year with no solution in sight and honestly it's exhausting.

Thanks Will

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

nice vid! I get one more topic being asked by many users, which I think can be considered another "common issue" with relatively new users: expanding the NAS with bigger drives vs buying NAS with more bays (various disk capacities, and also quite often moving from 2-bay -> 4-bay, and more importantly 4-bay -> 6- or 8-bay), what's your suggestions on that?

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Totally depends on cost at the time. I am a big fan of buying a 6/8 bay and populating have the bays to start. This way you can expand over time for much cheaper

@TazzSmk

Жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill hmm good to know! any ideas if Synology is going to refresh DS1821+ anytime soon?

@BrianDavids

Жыл бұрын

@@TazzSmk I agree with SpaceRex. I'm a big fan of buying an 8 bay unit, purchase large drives, and then add as necessary. DS1821+ with 16TB drives is how I start, and every one of them now has 8x16TB drives.

Regarding the Btrfs snapshots, is it possible to set up so standard users can browse their files in #snapshot (requiring them to have access to /homes) without seeing other users’ home / files?

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

You cannot

How much better is ext4 for Surveillance Station? I setup mine with Btrfs and I'm solely using it as a NVR.

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Only marginally. I would only use this if you have ~10+ cameras

Hey @spacerex do you keep your NAS turned on 100% of the time? How do you maximise the health of your hard drives?

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

I do! The drives are designed to run 24/7 for years!

Gosh I am lost on which way to go NAS or DAS . I just want to rip my TV shows and stream through PLEX. My old external does not cut it anymore.

bro said so many things that I didn't understand and ended the video saying this was a super basic guide for noobs. FeelsBadMan

Thanks!

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Most people tend to over spec the capacity of their NAS, I'm talking about the home office and personal use. There's a lot of unused capacity out there.

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

on the other hand if you buy a 12x12TB NAs and you think you now have (in RAID6) 10X12 TB you are wrong again. You "only" have 10x10,91 TB. If you have a NAS Box that can not support a Volume >108TB you have another problem meaning you have about 1,x TB that you can use for a 2nd Volume

Hey, cool video. Have a question. I'm gonna swipe from DS220j to DS723+. Based on your tip no.3, is it possible, when I'm gonna use the same HDDs from DS220j, swipe on BTRFs without mowing data and formating HDDs? The DS220j did not allow me to use this file system from beggining.

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

well, i am a little confused by the word "swipe" even though i used google it did not come up with a term that makes sense for me. Even if i think i now what you mean then comes the 2nd confusion about the DS220J not being able to install BTRFS on it. So how am i to understand that you want to migrate HDs from a former NAS (of the same brand) to a later NAS with BTRFS ? If i recall correctly, someone tell me that i am wrong, it is not possible to change from EXT4 to BTRFS without loosing all your Files. On a Windows pc i once converted from FAT32 to NTSF. That worked quite well and surprisingly fast ... without loosing data

@1Laxo

11 ай бұрын

@@dummyload7803 I meant that I changed my old Synology from 220j to 723+ and I wanted to keep all my data on the HDDs, bud just changed the file system. Later I found out, that it is not possible, so I did it with formating one HDD, changed file system and just coppied there files and formated the other one. Bit time consuming, but worked well.....

I'm looking for a nas that will automatically download pictures from phones and other computers is a DS 418 still good

Ok i set it up as ext4 and i use it now for years witout problems🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

What about facial recognition in videos. On high end qnaps still there's no support for AI object recognition on videos, including face recognition. For me thie is cricial and the main reason why I cannot ged rid of google service. On GF it's so perfect that AI objects tagging works also on any video. How about synology? I'm concidering buing another stong power nas, having already two high configured qnaps (one with QTS one with hero). There is still no support for videos implemented in AI engine (which is used in Qsirch, Qmaggie, video statione, etc). So do not tell me that's co perfect solution. I wish it was. I am asking to decide which will be my next nas. Maybe Synology implemented AI on video cataloging on Photos. 'Cause Qnap does not.

I have tons of movies and my harddrives and external are getting full, would it be nice to buy a NAS to store my movies and other files? Just wondering. 🤔

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

It’s a great use case for one. I would get one, but to start only fill half the bays, that way as you need more space you can buy more drives

The most important thing i'm taking from this video, is the simple fact i don't need a NAS, i need a DAS, and i was not aware these even existed.

While I like my Synology well enough, I probably should have gone with a simpler DAS. For some reason my synology disappeared from windows explorer recently. After hours of searching I found a video explaining that I had to check SMB boxes in the windows control panel. They were unchecked. Checked them and the synology reappeared in windows explorer. How they became unchecked is a mystery. Windows update? Dunn'o. I sure didn't change the SMB settings as I was clueless as to their very existence.

Im ok with a 2 bay nas the synology ones support up to 108 tb. I have 2 20 tb harddrives installed with shr and btrfs. I can switch to a higher drive if needed. Maybe i do when 100 tb hdds get cheaper. I use my nas with my family for audiostation chat photos drive and office and we use 2 tb at the moment so its enough.

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

well, even if 100TB drives ... if they will ever exist anyway ... becomes quite cheap i would not build a 2bay nas with 2 100TB drives. I would not even build a 4bay withthem. As of this writing i guess the biggest are 20TB and even that gives me the creeps. When you learn how these drives manage to store all these bits you may get a little nervous yourself. You can not put so many disks in that 3.5´ housing

What if I just wanted to combine 5 hard drives ranging 8 to 16 tb per drive ontonone unit? DAS would be my way to go?

@dummyload7803

11 ай бұрын

i guess you should read about DAS and NAS before you make a decission you will regret later. Personally i would always prefer NAS even if ity slower. I know there are 2.5 or 10GB solutions but if you "working pc" does not support neiter 2,5 nor 10GB than you are stuck with 1GB.

Make a backup and keep it with a friend in case your house burns down. Most don't think about that

Regarding Point 4: I only need a DAS, it's true, but there isn't a DAS with RAID big enough for what I need to store. I'm limited to 22TB dual bay, when I have an estimated 30TB to back-up. I wish that company that made grunty DAS had not gone bust. It's what the world really needs. C'est la vie.

Backup is ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY necessary. I had a drive fail on my 4 bay hybrid raid system a couple of weeks ago. When I replaced the drive the whole volume crashed. The good news is that I'd invested in a second nas which I keep offsite. All it took was to restore from hyperbackup and a couple of days for the data to sync and not one mb of data was lost. (I had about 150000 photos) If I'd neglected the backup there would have been tears or at the very least weeks of work to rebuild everything

@andrewa3216

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty sad to hear that a basic RAID wasn't able to be recovered. What is the point of running a RAID at all? Seems like wasted hard drive space when you can just use 2 NAS' and recover using your backup. Are these things RAID's known to fail like that often?

@Webpromotions

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewa3216 it's not common but it can, and does happen. A lot of people think that raid is perfect but as with any technology things can and do go wrong, so it's best to be prepared

@Webpromotions

Жыл бұрын

@Washing Up Liquid Raid is not a full backup solution. It will certainly reduce the likelihood of you losing data giving you some redundancy, but the raid still needs to be backed up, preferably off site. As a minimum backup your raid onto an external harddrive which you store offsite. The second option is to backup your RAID to the cloud or thirdly if the cloud becomes prohibitively expensive because you have so much data (as in my case), backup to a second raid system (again offsite preferably). Good luck with it.

One thing about ports. Use reverse proxy if you know how to. As far as port forwarding goes (short of using only VPN), it is the smallest opening possible, and only one port is needed (e.g https).

Regarding Point 4, shouldn't you have mentioned that you can get NAS with 10gbps or faster ports? Asking because I don't understand otherwise :)

@SpaceRexWill

Жыл бұрын

This was meant for people understanding who are just starting out with a low cost system

@Whaever_1981

Жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Thank you for clarifying :)))

It's much more secure to set up a VPN server on your network to remotely access your NAS instead of using port forwarding. Something like Wireguard VPN on a raspberry pi is way more secure.

But how to use SMB then? I do need access to my Nas from my laptop when I am away from home.

@electronicstv5884

Жыл бұрын

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