I have owned my 4-bay Synology NAS for several years and still learned new things from this great video. Thank you, Max. You are definitely the man for this job and I appreciate your efforts here very much. Anyone with an NAS unit should take the time to watch this very well produced video. Keep up the great work.
Very well explained Max! Thank you very much. I purchased a Synology DS713+ nine years ago and recently upgraded to the DS 1621xs+ and I'm in love with that machine! Huge shout-out to Synology for providing us with the great hardware and user-friendly, very stable and reliable DSM software!
very good. I'm also a long term home user - and I'm on my 2nd NAS now, nd use my original as the backup tp my current active one. Learnt a bit too! Very clear speaker and explained everything really well. Great video. thanks
I’m very close to purchasing a Synology system but have one hurdle I hope it can over come before I do. As a home user and everyone in the house with both an iPhone and an iPad, I want to easily perform a full backup of our iPhones and iPads from time to time. You explained the time machine for our MacBooks, but how can I do our iPhones and iPads? Thank you for any help and any Synology experts advice!!
I am retired, worked 55 years at Eglin AFB, 84 years old. I am getting a two bay system from you next week with plans for six bays all SSDs ,each 8 TB.
Worked my way through getting a VM running with Home Assistant, then getting Blue Iris to connect... no easy task. Go to add a Zigbee dongle to find out that Synology dropped support on most devices, less USB storage drives, in DSM 7.0. Hit a dead end. Will need to find another home for Home Assistant on another system. When a company simply drops support for something like this it tells me that they will have no problem dropping support for other things in the future. Accordingly... my confidence level also drops. You can keep singing that song about all the things you can do with your Synology NAS... but, my NAS will not be the first thing I think of when I need to create a solution in the future. It can stay being a file server... that is unless they drop support for that too.
Awesome presentation, thank you. I ordered two NAS servers and I’ll be setting one up for me and one for a family my member. This tutorial was very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you for the great video. My sense is that in case there are budgetary concerns when initially setting up a NAS, one can opt using SHR instead of RAID-5 so it can start with 2 HDD units (in mirroring) with the outlook of easily expanding to 3, 4 or more (depending on device type) as data needs grow.
I found SHR / SHR2 with BTRFS actually slightly faster and a bit more efficient than Raid 5 or Raid 6. Not sure why it was reported that it may not be as efficient. There are a lot of videos comparing SHR and traditional raid and as far as it goes I would say the average consensus is they are virtually identical
As a newer user of the last 6 months. I went with SHR. I’m not concerned at all much with the daily data transfer much. I send stuff to my NAS 99% the time vs retrieving stuff from it and with Sonology Drive also on my PC in folder so I also have a mirror of sorts for regular files on my PC also. But in my initial setup with a DS1520 I went with all 4 TB drives in affordability as a newer user. My goal was as I can pickup more affordable higher capacity drives to swap each in when I can easily to replace the current drives. And for me personally in how I use my NAS as purely storage that is still the plan and why I went with SHR setup.
just purchased a ds1522+.. was a little confusing selecting a "compatible" HDD but i think i settled on something that will work. This video was very helpful !!
Thank you Max-Synology an excellent introduction. I'm just at the beginning on my NAS journey - for me a 2 bay device is the way to go. Thanks again Max
Hi Max, I have a question about what you mentioned at 37:27 about having a different user that connects to the computer that doesn't have admin credentials. How would I go about setting that up?
Please store the time stamp so that you can skip the known topics. Thanks for the great hardware! Synology and AVM are, for me, the companies with the best products (hardware and software). 👍
The UA-cam video is broken into "chapters" that you can skip through. If you hover your mouse over the chapter segment on the time line it shows what he is talking about in that segment of the timeline. No real reason to store timestamps when it already has chapters.
Can the NAS be setup to create backup ups of certain file and folders and be storage for other files and folders? I am a photographer and want all my document type files backed up while my photos stored so that I can access them for my photography work flow.
Right on. There are too many choices. What apps and folders should be created/used for desktop backup, tablet backup, phone backup. For documents and for photos. For the family.
Thanks for the video, I have a concern regarding the option "Enable data checksum for advanced data integrity" when creating Shared Folder, whether or not I should check it because it won't allow making any change to that after creating the folder. Thanks!
Hi! I will have total 4x14Tb HDD's for my NAS. But for now I have only 2x14 Tb (another two I'll have in couple months). What Raid should I choose now on first install, to not have a problems in a future when I'll add another two HDD's to my NAS?
If you have hard drive backup to save your data, what happens when the NAS electronics fails completely. Can you swap your drives out to a replacement ( synology) unit. What steps would be needed.?
Nice video, BUT it's now a 2023 and the Asustor/Control Center appearance looks much different than what you shown in the video. I was wondering if there is or are you planning on updated this video to stay current with what is now shown and operate? Thanks for the video however. Also: You mentioned how this NAS can do more than just be a backup. Me personally, I'm trying to set it up as a back up, but also a personal cloud, so I'm trying to find how I would need to set it up for that. My wife wants to be able to cloud our photos and movies, for example - and I see there is a BUNCH of different apps available for many things, so how would you set up something like that with those apps? And then there is a topic of security, can you set it up with end to end encryption? Are there any monthly fees involved in this personal cloud? How to set up these kind of things would be very helpful. I hope this helps for future videos, I look forward in seeing more.
I bought a DS220 to complement my 1-bay QNAP and had a big problem with the whole Shared Folders thing. With the QNAP, I had a icon under Network in Windows Explorer; if I clicked it I could see the various sub-folders in it and could read/write to them. On setting up the Synology, I now had a under Network and I could see the various sub-folders I'd created but I COULD NOT read/write to them. After much eugoogling, I learned I needed to make those folders Shared Folders under This PC in Explorer, which ballooned from the 8 default Windows entries to 15. Grr, not pleased. After a week or so, however, I happened to try accessing the folders in the Network again and, lo and behold, I could now read/write to them directly! Como chinga?! Of course, it then took more eugoogling to find out how to delete the Shared Folders in This PC. You do a good job of explaining a lot of this stuff but my set-up was not as easy-peasy as you make out here. Other that that, the NAS works great.
je possède un 2-bay... et je ne peux plus l'utiliser.... il était une fois, long time ago, c'était of, mis maintenant... et il manque le français dans vos explications
This is a fantastic video. After going into the site and reading more I homed in on the ds220+ or ds720+. In Amazon, they add discs as a "buy this with" kind of thing. The second disc is always like 1T or 2T while the main disc is 4T or 8T - is the second disc limited in size? Is this how the raid works? If anyone knows - I'd love to hear an answer. Secondly - in my country, the voltage is 220 - I would assume that the Amazon product would come as 110 voltage. Is the Synology product dual voltage? Can I just add a simple adaptor to the plug or do I need to convert the voltage to 110? If this is the case, I'd have to try to buy from some Amazon or electronics store in Europe. Thanks ...
The series is called Synology for the Home User but then you use enterprise size NAS units as examples of systems available. How many home users need an 8 bay NAS? Why not just focus on 2,4 and 5 bay NAS’s which the home user is likely to buy.
I don't understand why setting anything up with email notifications requires actually setting up my email account on the NAS. I don't want it to be the email server, so I don't get the purpose. Can you clarify?
How can I sync folder on Android mobile with nas ? There was an app dsCloud but it stopped working about a year ago :/ Is there a way to set auto-syncronization between mobile and nas ?
Thanks so much for this video! I'm not too tech savvy and this was super helpful. I'm a photographer using Synology 213J 2 bay for 5 years now, and it's finally reaching its capacity. What shall I do next? I use the files on those drives daily ... Could I just add another 2 bay system like DS 220j (8TB)., and use them both simultaneously? Would it be a pretty straightforward set up (probably not for me:)))? Thanks for giving me an advice!
Hi i am havin gserious difficulties to down load pictures, it take for ever , is there a way find out if my Nas DS200J is properly set up?? a very frustrated user :(
I use the wd red, make sure they say "nas" on them. If you choose any other brand, just make sure they are for a "nas" system. "Nas" hard drives are designed to be accessed 24/7 with low heat. I'm not a computer person.....I just read a lot..... 😂
I had a drive go bad in a WD MyCloud, and in that case I found WD was good in providing a replacement drive under the warranty. Got a new drive from them and the RAID rebuilt itself. So I bought drives directly from them for my Synology in the hopes they will continue to provide good customer service like I experienced that time.
So i assume there is some sort of HDMI out for a monitor hook up on these units? Sorry, I’m a complete novice asking the most basic of questions. In short, I’ll need any kind of basic monitor? Edit - question was answered. You access through any other networked connected device with a monitor - laptop, pc, etc Great tutorial
Wouldn't it be easier, and more secure, to use a netbios name (or mDNS) to access the NAS rather than going out to the cloud to use quickconnect? Not sure why you didn't show how to do that considering it is a more common way to connect to devices on the internal network and also supported by 99% of home/domestic grade routers.
Nice easy intro video, thank you. Plenty of other independent videos out there on these products, for folks that desire a slightly more critical review. But generally reviews seem good. I was an end user of a Synology NAS on a not-for-profit board and it was good, so got one for home use. These seem accessible to home users, and a step up from the Western Digital RAID boxes you can't customize. Worth pointing out this is a hardware server and you can still run an Ubuntu software server on a VM on one of these if you want. Max/Synology, curious why you go RAID5 rather than SHR, can you do a video on the details of that decision making process please? Like the rare fictional scenario that Synology is bought out by Musk, you all take your huge cheques and run, and Musk discontinues the brand. Would data recovery be easier from RAID 5 or 6 in that scenario, or is SHR open enough to allow us to access and migrate our data?
Overall, good resource. Thank you. The user scenario around the 20min mark was a miss, however - Max’s mom and a business with hundreds of users.. I expect 90% of people watching this video are somewhere in the middle.
I feel like the speed of uploading is very disseptive here. I watched a video of a guy who stuff took hours and it wasnt even that much. DOesnt the speed rely on the optional upgrades of RAM and other stuff?
I'm so naive. I bought a 220+ thinking I bought a device to safely store my files at home but what I really bought was the privilege of having yet another company require me to sign up for software, for the device I just bought, and also bombard me with requests to pay for their monthly cloud service, presumably because their equipment isn't that good after all.
This is so weird, he talks about 3rd party clouds being bad, but yet, Synology themselves even says you should back up your Synology NAS to the cloud (3rd Party) incase you system were to fail, you always need to have a backup of your backup.. So you cant say you should get a NAS to avoid the the actual cloud and use only your cloud at home. If your cloud at home fails, thats it..
Anyone, may I have some questions? - What if I create a shortcut from a video in a folder that I created in my HDD from Windows 10 and then put that HDD into Synology NAS. - The question is that can I still run the video from that shortcut since I created it on the Windows 10 on my PC?
One glaring mistake in this video: at 19:05 you say "RAM numbers are not a performance metric." This is patently false... AND contradicts what you say at 18:45. RAM is indeed an influence on performance. And the continuing explanation at 19:20 is also wrong.
Except…. What they don’t tell you. They released an update in the last year which not only stops previously supported 3rd party RAM working in the NAS Expansion slot But they have also caused the NAS to crash and corrupt data with this tactic! Be very careful but this is shady tactics and given the ram was perfect well over a year, then an update showed this issue and a check on the previously supported ram shows it unsupported now…. Synology did this to push their own RAM which is 3 times the prices of others on the market.
Oddly enough i wanted to buy one, i cant find one at store level, so many computer stores, yet none of them actaully sell in a store. Western digital sells at store level, dont understand why synologys competitors are smarter in sales, synology really need to review there sales. tried to buy one online for a good price and my order was rejected with no reason, so now i have to pay more for the same thing ???, SYNOLOGY please, review on how you sell your products.
If you're a regular home consumer considering a NAS, here's my advice: DON'T. After using a NAS for 12 months, I’ve found the technology isn’t ready for home consumer use. Even basic usage -like backing up files-require diving into overly technical menus, dealing with a clunky user interface, and navigating obscure settings. If you run into any issues you are screwed. The Synology help center takes days to respond, so resolving a simple problem can turn into weeks of frustrating back-and-forth. Posting questions on forums results in overly complex, jargon-filled answers-or more often than not, people just telling you you're an idiot and that you’ve "done it wrong." I've had my unit for a year, and have tried multiple rounds of support and adjustments, and it still transfers files painfully slow and freezes when handling larger files. I hate it with vengeance and just want to smash the stupid thing with a hammer. I really wish I’d just gone with two large hard drives for backups instead.
Ok. I feel a "bait and switch" coming on. First he says that you only pay for the hardware and all of the software is free. Then he says that you have to pay for their cloud and in this remark section someone stated that they had to pay for the backup service. Please forgive me as I am a totally green novice to this, but he can't have it both ways. Either the software is free or it is not. I would like to know before I jump feet first into this stuff.
Why does Synology update software and remove functionality ? Absolutely stupid idea !! That is the main reason i am moving towards a Linux server with Nextcloud
Photos doesn't have a working privilege system on DSM7! after 4 months since publication! Why on earth are you speaking to home users about the "wonderful Synology NAS" then??
the new 9.0 version of surveillance station is crap. downgrade to 8.x version is not possible. The new version is extremely complicated and viewability is bad. timeline function is lost, merged into the live view with a complicated handling. Bring back the old version
I have owned my 4-bay Synology NAS for several years and still learned new things from this great video. Thank you, Max. You are definitely the man for this job and I appreciate your efforts here very much. Anyone with an NAS unit should take the time to watch this very well produced video. Keep up the great work.
Very well explained Max! Thank you very much. I purchased a Synology DS713+ nine years ago and recently upgraded to the DS 1621xs+ and I'm in love with that machine! Huge shout-out to Synology for providing us with the great hardware and user-friendly, very stable and reliable DSM software!
as the new owner of the 220+, this is perfect timing...
very good. I'm also a long term home user - and I'm on my 2nd NAS now, nd use my original as the backup tp my current active one. Learnt a bit too! Very clear speaker and explained everything really well. Great video. thanks
I’m very close to purchasing a Synology system but have one hurdle I hope it can over come before I do. As a home user and everyone in the house with both an iPhone and an iPad, I want to easily perform a full backup of our iPhones and iPads from time to time. You explained the time machine for our MacBooks, but how can I do our iPhones and iPads? Thank you for any help and any Synology experts advice!!
I can tell you this machine complements icloud, not replace it
I am retired, worked 55 years at Eglin AFB, 84 years old. I am getting a two bay system from you next week with plans for six bays all SSDs ,each 8 TB.
At 16:04, He said RAID is "Random Array of Independent Disk" ... when did this change from Redundant to Random?
Want to understand more about the cloud backup. If I make any changes like edit a file in cloud backup, will it sync back to the NAS?
This is a great video that covers all bases. I love my Synology NAS. Best tech purchase by far!
3 years ago I bought a used DS 111 with 2 TB in Germany for 50 Euro. Works well, reliable - never expected that
Worked my way through getting a VM running with Home Assistant, then getting Blue Iris to connect... no easy task. Go to add a Zigbee dongle to find out that Synology dropped support on most devices, less USB storage drives, in DSM 7.0. Hit a dead end. Will need to find another home for Home Assistant on another system. When a company simply drops support for something like this it tells me that they will have no problem dropping support for other things in the future. Accordingly... my confidence level also drops. You can keep singing that song about all the things you can do with your Synology NAS... but, my NAS will not be the first thing I think of when I need to create a solution in the future. It can stay being a file server... that is unless they drop support for that too.
Thank you for this content, clear, concise and made it easy to get my NAS setup done. Cheers Max!
I am newbie in NAS and loved this video. Thanks Max,
Awesome presentation, thank you. I ordered two NAS servers and I’ll be setting one up for me and one for a family my member. This tutorial was very helpful. Thank you.
Just what i need to follow after doing a system restore, thanks.
Beautifully clear description.
Survelillance station requires licensing per camera after 2 cameras. 13:32
26:50 - General guide on organising volumes would be great, especially after introducing encrypted volumes.
Do any have some ideas and advice?
Thank you for the great video. My sense is that in case there are budgetary concerns when initially setting up a NAS, one can opt using SHR instead of RAID-5 so it can start with 2 HDD units (in mirroring) with the outlook of easily expanding to 3, 4 or more (depending on device type) as data needs grow.
I found SHR / SHR2 with BTRFS actually slightly faster and a bit more efficient than Raid 5 or Raid 6. Not sure why it was reported that it may not be as efficient.
There are a lot of videos comparing SHR and traditional raid and as far as it goes I would say the average consensus is they are virtually identical
As a newer user of the last 6 months. I went with SHR. I’m not concerned at all much with the daily data transfer much. I send stuff to my NAS 99% the time vs retrieving stuff from it and with Sonology Drive also on my PC in folder so I also have a mirror of sorts for regular files on my PC also. But in my initial setup with a DS1520 I went with all 4 TB drives in affordability as a newer user. My goal was as I can pickup more affordable higher capacity drives to swap each in when I can easily to replace the current drives. And for me personally in how I use my NAS as purely storage that is still the plan and why I went with SHR setup.
Purchased and doing this course, thank you for creating this content 🙏
just purchased a ds1522+.. was a little confusing selecting a "compatible" HDD but i think i settled on something that will work. This video was very helpful !!
Would you do a step by step video for certificates and Synology Mail.
Thanks for a great presentation. I have 4 Synology NAS. Shared this with my family.
Thank you Max-Synology an excellent introduction. I'm just at the beginning on my NAS journey - for me a 2 bay device is the way to go. Thanks again Max
Wow, a good tutorial. I did not fall asleep! A little confused but well done. I'm glad I bought this thing but wish I watched this first:(
Hi Max, I have a question about what you mentioned at 37:27 about having a different user that connects to the computer that doesn't have admin credentials. How would I go about setting that up?
Thanks, Max! Great tutorial and intro into details.
Thanks, very straightforward and clear cut.
Please store the time stamp so that you can skip the known topics. Thanks for the great hardware! Synology and AVM are, for me, the companies with the best products (hardware and software). 👍
Please!
The UA-cam video is broken into "chapters" that you can skip through. If you hover your mouse over the chapter segment on the time line it shows what he is talking about in that segment of the timeline. No real reason to store timestamps when it already has chapters.
@@EsotericArctos Thats great! 😊 Thank you. 👍
Can the NAS be setup to create backup ups of certain file and folders and be storage for other files and folders? I am a photographer and want all my document type files backed up while my photos stored so that I can access them for my photography work flow.
Great video. What if you can't get past the 'CONNECT' screen, once the NAS has been found and STATUS is 'READY'?
Helpful, but you neglected to show how to back-up to the NAS, the most common use for a home user.
Right on. There are too many choices. What apps and folders should be created/used for desktop backup, tablet backup, phone backup. For documents and for photos. For the family.
When I set up my DS218j I chose to go with the Hybrid RAID. Should I now change that to RAID 1?
Easy Q. Is it better to switch two LAN cables instead of one of the DS 720+? Why?
Thanks for the video, I have a concern regarding the option "Enable data checksum for advanced data integrity" when creating Shared Folder, whether or not I should check it because it won't allow making any change to that after creating the folder. Thanks!
I was grinning during this entire video. Synology is always the first thing I recommend to anyone.
Nice work and super helpful in getting my synology nas setup.
That was very helpful, I wish I had seen it before I pulled the trigger.
Hi! I will have total 4x14Tb HDD's for my NAS. But for now I have only 2x14 Tb (another two I'll have in couple months). What Raid should I choose now on first install, to not have a problems in a future when I'll add another two HDD's to my NAS?
Hi why in 29:30 do you not encrypt your data ?
If you have hard drive backup to save your data, what happens when the NAS electronics fails completely. Can you swap your drives out to a replacement ( synology) unit. What steps would be needed.?
how can I allow a shared drive to be present in the Mac file manager?
Nice video, BUT it's now a 2023 and the Asustor/Control Center appearance looks much different than what you shown in the video. I was wondering if there is or are you planning on updated this video to stay current with what is now shown and operate? Thanks for the video however.
Also: You mentioned how this NAS can do more than just be a backup. Me personally, I'm trying to set it up as a back up, but also a personal cloud, so I'm trying to find how I would need to set it up for that. My wife wants to be able to cloud our photos and movies, for example - and I see there is a BUNCH of different apps available for many things, so how would you set up something like that with those apps? And then there is a topic of security, can you set it up with end to end encryption? Are there any monthly fees involved in this personal cloud? How to set up these kind of things would be very helpful. I hope this helps for future videos, I look forward in seeing more.
For connecting via network, as a shared drive, how can this be done in Linux?
I bought a DS220 to complement my 1-bay QNAP and had a big problem with the whole Shared Folders thing. With the QNAP, I had a icon under Network in Windows Explorer; if I clicked it I could see the various sub-folders in it and could read/write to them. On setting up the Synology, I now had a under Network and I could see the various sub-folders I'd created but I COULD NOT read/write to them. After much eugoogling, I learned I needed to make those folders Shared Folders under This PC in Explorer, which ballooned from the 8 default Windows entries to 15. Grr, not pleased. After a week or so, however, I happened to try accessing the folders in the Network again and, lo and behold, I could now read/write to them directly! Como chinga?! Of course, it then took more eugoogling to find out how to delete the Shared Folders in This PC.
You do a good job of explaining a lot of this stuff but my set-up was not as easy-peasy as you make out here. Other that that, the NAS works great.
It works if you use a synology domain name. Other wise you get errors and you have to port foward etc.
je possède un 2-bay... et je ne peux plus l'utiliser.... il était une fois, long time ago, c'était of, mis maintenant... et il manque le français dans vos explications
Can you maybe help us solve your missing pgsql-adapter.service error? It disables video and download station too.
Thanks for the assist! 🙌😎
This is a fantastic video. After going into the site and reading more I homed in on the ds220+ or ds720+. In Amazon, they add discs as a "buy this with" kind of thing. The second disc is always like 1T or 2T while the main disc is 4T or 8T - is the second disc limited in size? Is this how the raid works? If anyone knows - I'd love to hear an answer.
Secondly - in my country, the voltage is 220 - I would assume that the Amazon product would come as 110 voltage. Is the Synology product dual voltage? Can I just add a simple adaptor to the plug or do I need to convert the voltage to 110? If this is the case, I'd have to try to buy from some Amazon or electronics store in Europe.
Thanks ...
This is amazing. I'm suspicious of cloud storage, i like having my data within my own hands
2:23 HEHE I got myself the 8 bay Looks awesome
Are there any services that the synology NAS provides, need subscription/ yearly fees of any kind?
The series is called Synology for the Home User but then you use enterprise size NAS units as examples of systems available. How many home users need an 8 bay NAS? Why not just focus on 2,4 and 5 bay NAS’s which the home user is likely to buy.
I have the ds920s will it support my two wd red pro 14tb?
Can I install DSM before I install the hard drives?
Great video - thanks!
I don't understand why setting anything up with email notifications requires actually setting up my email account on the NAS. I don't want it to be the email server, so I don't get the purpose. Can you clarify?
Great! Thank you!
Thanks for this video.
How can I sync folder on Android mobile with nas ? There was an app dsCloud but it stopped working about a year ago :/ Is there a way to set auto-syncronization between mobile and nas ?
Thanks so much for this video! I'm not too tech savvy and this was super helpful. I'm a photographer using Synology 213J 2 bay for 5 years now, and it's finally reaching its capacity. What shall I do next? I use the files on those drives daily ... Could I just add another 2 bay system like DS 220j (8TB)., and use them both simultaneously? Would it be a pretty straightforward set up (probably not for me:)))? Thanks for giving me an advice!
Hi i am havin gserious difficulties to down load pictures, it take for ever , is there a way find out if my Nas DS200J is properly set up?? a very frustrated user :(
ny one have suggestions for HDD Manufacturers ?
I use the wd red, make sure they say "nas" on them. If you choose any other brand, just make sure they are for a "nas" system. "Nas" hard drives are designed to be accessed 24/7 with low heat. I'm not a computer person.....I just read a lot..... 😂
I had a drive go bad in a WD MyCloud, and in that case I found WD was good in providing a replacement drive under the warranty. Got a new drive from them and the RAID rebuilt itself. So I bought drives directly from them for my Synology in the hopes they will continue to provide good customer service like I experienced that time.
So i assume there is some sort of HDMI out for a monitor hook up on these units? Sorry, I’m a complete novice asking the most basic of questions. In short, I’ll need any kind of basic monitor? Edit - question was answered. You access through any other networked connected device with a monitor - laptop, pc, etc
Great tutorial
Wow.. Max delivers 🤜💥🤛
Well done thanks made my decision to buy
Wouldn't it be easier, and more secure, to use a netbios name (or mDNS) to access the NAS rather than going out to the cloud to use quickconnect?
Not sure why you didn't show how to do that considering it is a more common way to connect to devices on the internal network and also supported by 99% of home/domestic grade routers.
Thanks. A wonderful job
It's a shame that there seems to be zero support in the UK, been trying to purchase a unit for ages and come up across a brick wall every time.
"Our products are even approved and extensively used by the US Government, so you know they've gotta be safe!"
Nice easy intro video, thank you. Plenty of other independent videos out there on these products, for folks that desire a slightly more critical review. But generally reviews seem good. I was an end user of a Synology NAS on a not-for-profit board and it was good, so got one for home use. These seem accessible to home users, and a step up from the Western Digital RAID boxes you can't customize. Worth pointing out this is a hardware server and you can still run an Ubuntu software server on a VM on one of these if you want. Max/Synology, curious why you go RAID5 rather than SHR, can you do a video on the details of that decision making process please? Like the rare fictional scenario that Synology is bought out by Musk, you all take your huge cheques and run, and Musk discontinues the brand. Would data recovery be easier from RAID 5 or 6 in that scenario, or is SHR open enough to allow us to access and migrate our data?
Overall, good resource. Thank you. The user scenario around the 20min mark was a miss, however - Max’s mom and a business with hundreds of users.. I expect 90% of people watching this video are somewhere in the middle.
I feel like the speed of uploading is very disseptive here. I watched a video of a guy who stuff took hours and it wasnt even that much. DOesnt the speed rely on the optional upgrades of RAM and other stuff?
OFC you want show user to pay for automatic backup when it's not necessary
Why RAID5 and why not SHR ?
While this may seem nit-picky @16:00 R.A.I.D. =
(R)edundant
(A)rray of
(I)ndependent
(D)isks
Not 'Random'
well done
I migliori NAS in commercio!
Very good video and great for beginners but shame you only focused on Windows & not Mac users.
I'm so naive. I bought a 220+ thinking I bought a device to safely store my files at home but what I really bought was the privilege of having yet another company require me to sign up for software, for the device I just bought, and also bombard me with requests to pay for their monthly cloud service, presumably because their equipment isn't that good after all.
Wich type hard drives from Seagate are good for Home-users? For instance: Ironwolf ST800VN004 ?
this was a link sent to me by synology - AND IT DID NOT ANSWER MY PROBLEM.
there are 100 apps, what are they? we are so confused
This is so weird, he talks about 3rd party clouds being bad, but yet, Synology themselves even says you should back up your Synology NAS to the cloud (3rd Party) incase you system were to fail, you always need to have a backup of your backup.. So you cant say you should get a NAS to avoid the the actual cloud and use only your cloud at home. If your cloud at home fails, thats it..
It's a great video but why use the business examples when the video is supposed to be targeted to home users?
Many people that are home users also have a small home business of some kind running from their home.
Anyone, may I have some questions?
- What if I create a shortcut from a video in a folder that I created in my HDD from Windows 10 and then put that HDD into Synology NAS.
- The question is that can I still run the video from that shortcut since I created it on the Windows 10 on my PC?
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One glaring mistake in this video: at 19:05 you say "RAM numbers are not a performance metric." This is patently false... AND contradicts what you say at 18:45. RAM is indeed an influence on performance. And the continuing explanation at 19:20 is also wrong.
Except…. What they don’t tell you.
They released an update in the last year which not only stops previously supported 3rd party RAM working in the NAS Expansion slot
But they have also caused the NAS to crash and corrupt data with this tactic!
Be very careful but this is shady tactics and given the ram was perfect well over a year, then an update showed this issue and a check on the previously supported ram shows it unsupported now….
Synology did this to push their own RAM which is 3 times the prices of others on the market.
why the Hyper Backup need subscription and $$, but not free to user with synology?!!!!
Oddly enough i wanted to buy one, i cant find one at store level, so many computer stores, yet none of them actaully sell in a store. Western digital sells at store level, dont understand why synologys competitors are smarter in sales, synology really need to review there sales. tried to buy one online for a good price and my order was rejected with no reason, so now i have to pay more for the same thing ???, SYNOLOGY please, review on how you sell your products.
If you're a regular home consumer considering a NAS, here's my advice: DON'T. After using a NAS for 12 months, I’ve found the technology isn’t ready for home consumer use. Even basic usage -like backing up files-require diving into overly technical menus, dealing with a clunky user interface, and navigating obscure settings.
If you run into any issues you are screwed. The Synology help center takes days to respond, so resolving a simple problem can turn into weeks of frustrating back-and-forth. Posting questions on forums results in overly complex, jargon-filled answers-or more often than not, people just telling you you're an idiot and that you’ve "done it wrong."
I've had my unit for a year, and have tried multiple rounds of support and adjustments, and it still transfers files painfully slow and freezes when handling larger files. I hate it with vengeance and just want to smash the stupid thing with a hammer. I really wish I’d just gone with two large hard drives for backups instead.
Why won't Hyper Backup work with OneDrive ?
Ok. I feel a "bait and switch" coming on. First he says that you only pay for the hardware and all of the software is free. Then he says that you have to pay for their cloud and in this remark section someone stated that they had to pay for the backup service. Please forgive me as I am a totally green novice to this, but he can't have it both ways. Either the software is free or it is not. I would like to know before I jump feet first into this stuff.
Well, Synology ignoring issue with UPS for some reason.
Any
Why does Synology update software and remove functionality ?
Absolutely stupid idea !!
That is the main reason i am moving towards a Linux server with Nextcloud
Photos doesn't have a working privilege system on DSM7! after 4 months since publication! Why on earth are you speaking to home users about the "wonderful Synology NAS" then??
Check the latest updates
the new 9.0 version of surveillance station is crap. downgrade to 8.x version is not possible. The new version is extremely complicated and viewability is bad. timeline function is lost, merged into the live view with a complicated handling. Bring back the old version