This series is amazing and still relevant. I just bought an AS6508T and the series has been a significant help. One thing during setup, start the ACC once the LED screen mentions 'Initialize Unit'. Note that it might take a while for ACC to find your Asustor, took 10 minutes on my home network before ACC found it. Also, in Windows 11, you might have to manually allow ACC to go through the Firewall. I had too. If ACC can't connect to your Asustor, use a web browser to access the installation.
YOU ARE EPIC!!! I was in Japan and fought with this thing for hours. You got me there in 30 minutes. Absolutely awesome and can't wait to view the other videos!!!
Regarding Static vs Dynamic IP; I would suggest simply leaving the NAS as dynamic and then on the DHCP server, simply reserve that address permanently for the NAS. That way, as long as the DHCP server remains, the address will act like a static IP and if you replace your DHCP server, you simply let a new Dynamic be assigned and reserve the new address for the NAS.
I'm going to be quite irate, however, if my new drives are not here about the same time! (I have ordered a pair of 4 TB NVMEs, and a pair of 14 TB Ironwolf Pro drives...; with any luck, but the time I need to expand storage or add new drives, the 14 TB drives should be $150 in 3-4 years time! Or maybe the 20 TB units will be the new sweet spot...!)
For security reasons never use your admin account to map network drive. If you do so and you computer is hacked by a ransomware, all you nas files will be encrypted and LOST. Use a secondary standard USER account (read only permission) to map the share to a windows Net drive.
I agree, I use the admin account for these videos in order to ensure no unexpected barriers in the recordings, but you are right. I should highlight this more often.
@@navin4479 Uh yeah, this ^^^... Noob here...Same question... The process of mapping a drive is independant from a user access? so if my pc is hacked then whoever is accessing my mapped drives can only R, not RW, but I can still RW by accessing the already mapped drive with my admin account which is RW?
👍These are the best tutorials ever, thank you so much. Finally, I can use my Nas. Super helpful, well done, and easy to follow.
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Thanks a lot for this video, and certainly for the entire serie of it! I look forward to have the time to watch them and learn how to use properly my little NAS ^^
Thanks for the donation buddy! Apologies for the slightly slow reply on this, just got back from Computex and catching up. Thank you for taking the extra step to donate and support us (me and Eddie) for the videos and articles that we make. It is genuinely ENORMOUSLY appreciated and I am always constantly humbled by it. Keep being awesome and have a fantastic weekend Dara!
Hi bud! Quick Message. Can you fire me an email on robbie (@) nascompares (dot com), it’s regarding bit of fun content I am working on for the channel and I am inviting those that donated to the channel or regular supporters/commentors along. Can really fire it here in the comments. Cheers in advance and look forward to hearing from you! p.s. Reading this message back, it sounds REALLY SPAMMY! Sorry for the cryptic nonsense and believe me, this is legit...I hate seagulls… I pronounce Router right/wrong….. quid… knicker…. Etc. I hope this convinces you I am me! *triggers existential crisis*
And *now* you've made me spend another $1200 total (with shipping/import taxes, etc) on 6 each 10 TB WD Red Plus drives....; the 40 TB usable RAID 6 (w/6 ea 10 TB drives) will fill the bays of Asustor 6706T; hope to not need to mess with it for years!
Looking forward to this series mainly to see if I need to do anything different with my setup. I love my Asustor Nimbustor 4 with the only disappointment being the Asustor photos software does not have AI to allow me to sort photos on things like facial recognition as does Synology and QNAP. On a personal note, thank you for your assistance and answering my NAS questions on your help forum.
so yeah of course i didnt get the exact same thing as you guys did. story of my life. the cord i got with my NAS only connects to the USB port in the router.
Went through the auto setup of a flashstor. Saying all drives are green instead of drive 1 mot being included as in the video. Also “Create” in Volume is greyed out. Wondering if a mistake was made in the setup.
FYI, for anyone who's curious. I have a Nimbustor 4 and I started with two drives, before expanding to three (in RAID 5) and now four. I don't remember how much noise it made when it was only two. However, with three drives it was very noisy and seemed to be constantly accessing. A short time ago, I added another 4GB of RAM and the fourth drive and now it's quieter than I can ever remember it being. I suspect two and four are the sweet spots. I have no idea how this would work if one or more was an SSD.
@@AOJOPhotography I have no idea how it works. It just changes the RAID striping from three drives to four. In my case it took about 40 hours to complete.
@@AOJOPhotography If you are planning to do this you should have all your data backed up on another storage system for ‘just in case’… I didn’t need it though.
I tested an ASUSTOR 8-bay unit recently, then returned it when I discovered that the firmware was dangerously awful. The Model AS6508T is prone to failure, and attaches to the network LAST in the boot process! So remote administration software can only communicate with it when everything has gone perfectly. How lucky do you feel?
Thanks for your detailed video. But I wonder if others have the same problem as I have. first of all if I try to install the latest ACC it says "unsupported protocol. Only HTTP and FTP protocols are supported" I got around that by clicking the download button underneath that tes and not on the right side. Means it downloaded an older version. But when I open the ACC it reconizes my NAS but i can do nothing there. It doesn't look like your ACC. On the bottom when I try to enter it sends me to a link on their website where is says I need to register. But there is no link to register. Only on the online support site there it says "reister" but again itdoesn't me a link to register! Fazit: I never seen such a USER unfriendly NAS system..I am thinking about to give it back and go for another brand. Terrible experience
Terramaster is going to release their all new TOS 5, new PC client, new mobile app, and more other backup and data sync applications. Would you make a review about them then?
Wish I would've known this video exited before setting up. I'm in a hamster-wheel-of-death with the whole ID thing. Would resetting the device to factory defaults be recommended? So I went ahead and did the reset, and for the second time my browser locks up on the registration page @17:40 (eternal "LOADING"). In the event anyone actually reads this and knows what to do, your help would be appreciated since I can't find help at the Asustor website.
I have a brand new AS3302T with 2x 6TB Seagate Iron Wolf HDD's and cannot initialize it as Raid 1. When choosing 1-click set up I have only the option "maximum capacity" resulting in a Raid single configuration. When choosing custom set up I can only choose the single option (JBOD, Raid 0 and Raid 1 are simply not selectable). Also, after set up as Raid single I cannot change it into Raid 1 via management option. Why is it impossible to set up my NAS as Raid 1? Are there any requirements related to the HDD's (formatting?), or to Windows 10 or BIOS?
When installing control centre, half way through installing it on win 11 it says i need to restart to continue the install, i restart and then starts install again, then tells me to restart etc.. what can i do?
On the same network and could not find. I'm fearing that I have to return this. This product is adding up to a 1 STAR product for actually existing with no documentation and does not connect. Finally connected with the IP on the screen and it wants me to log in and I have no username or password. Thumbs down all around
Omg, I love u are so detailed. I don't even know what half of these equipments are called, but thanks to your visual explanation, it really helps.
This series is amazing and still relevant. I just bought an AS6508T and the series has been a significant help. One thing during setup, start the ACC once the LED screen mentions 'Initialize Unit'. Note that it might take a while for ACC to find your Asustor, took 10 minutes on my home network before ACC found it. Also, in Windows 11, you might have to manually allow ACC to go through the Firewall. I had too. If ACC can't connect to your Asustor, use a web browser to access the installation.
Thanks so much for clearing things up for this newbie!
Absolutely superb. Well covered and well described. I've already discovered where I made some mistakes in set-up of my NAS. Thanks so much
YOU ARE EPIC!!! I was in Japan and fought with this thing for hours. You got me there in 30 minutes. Absolutely awesome and can't wait to view the other videos!!!
I've been called many things in my life, but EPIC is not one of them! Thanks blud!
Greetings from Okinawa!
Very comprehensive and detailed. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for doing this! I gave up and stopped trying months ago with my new NAS, but you've got me back on track!
Regarding Static vs Dynamic IP; I would suggest simply leaving the NAS as dynamic and then on the DHCP server, simply reserve that address permanently for the NAS. That way, as long as the DHCP server remains, the address will act like a static IP and if you replace your DHCP server, you simply let a new Dynamic be assigned and reserve the new address for the NAS.
Awesome introductory tutorial, Sir! (Glad I found this guide, as i have a 6 bay Asustor Gen2 on the way within 2 weeks)
I'm going to be quite irate, however, if my new drives are not here about the same time! (I have ordered a pair of 4 TB NVMEs, and a pair of 14 TB Ironwolf Pro drives...; with any luck, but the time I need to expand storage or add new drives, the 14 TB drives should be $150 in 3-4 years time! Or maybe the 20 TB units will be the new sweet spot...!)
For security reasons never use your admin account to map network drive. If you do so and you computer is hacked by a ransomware, all you nas files will be encrypted and LOST. Use a secondary standard USER account (read only permission) to map the share to a windows Net drive.
I agree, I use the admin account for these videos in order to ensure no unexpected barriers in the recordings, but you are right. I should highlight this more often.
Thanks for the tip
But then how do u use that same user to backup laptop data to NAS. It would need write access, no ?
@@navin4479 Uh yeah, this ^^^... Noob here...Same question... The process of mapping a drive is independant from a user access? so if my pc is hacked then whoever is accessing my mapped drives can only R, not RW, but I can still RW by accessing the already mapped drive with my admin account which is RW?
👍These are the best tutorials ever, thank you so much. Finally, I can use my Nas. Super helpful, well done, and easy to follow.
Thanks a lot for this video, and certainly for the entire serie of it!
I look forward to have the time to watch them and learn how to use properly my little NAS ^^
Very helpful - thank you, sir!
Great JOB ! im about to buy Asustor AS5304T
Thank you for this video - it helped me greatly!!
Thanks for the donation buddy! Apologies for the slightly slow reply on this, just got back from Computex and catching up. Thank you for taking the extra step to donate and support us (me and Eddie) for the videos and articles that we make. It is genuinely ENORMOUSLY appreciated and I am always constantly humbled by it. Keep being awesome and have a fantastic weekend Dara!
Hi bud! Quick Message. Can you fire me an email on robbie (@) nascompares (dot com), it’s regarding bit of fun content I am working on for the channel and I am inviting those that donated to the channel or regular supporters/commentors along. Can really fire it here in the comments. Cheers in advance and look forward to hearing from you! p.s. Reading this message back, it sounds REALLY SPAMMY! Sorry for the cryptic nonsense and believe me, this is legit...I hate seagulls… I pronounce Router right/wrong….. quid… knicker…. Etc. I hope this convinces you I am me! *triggers existential crisis*
Excellent video, thanks!!
The Nas Master
And *now* you've made me spend another $1200 total (with shipping/import taxes, etc) on 6 each 10 TB WD Red Plus drives....; the 40 TB usable RAID 6 (w/6 ea 10 TB drives) will fill the bays of Asustor 6706T; hope to not need to mess with it for years!
Looking forward to this series mainly to see if I need to do anything different with my setup. I love my Asustor Nimbustor 4 with the only disappointment being the Asustor photos software does not have AI to allow me to sort photos on things like facial recognition as does Synology and QNAP. On a personal note, thank you for your assistance and answering my NAS questions on your help forum.
Thanks you for this series!!! I have it at home and cannot even see the backed up files although the disk space is used...
so yeah of course i didnt get the exact same thing as you guys did. story of my life. the cord i got with my NAS only connects to the USB port in the router.
The step at 9:50 does not work (double-clicking or clicking 'Connect'). You must click on the red 'uninitialized' box to connect.
Went through the auto setup of a flashstor. Saying all drives are green instead of drive 1 mot being included as in the video. Also “Create” in Volume is greyed out. Wondering if a mistake was made in the setup.
FYI, for anyone who's curious. I have a Nimbustor 4 and I started with two drives, before expanding to three (in RAID 5) and now four. I don't remember how much noise it made when it was only two. However, with three drives it was very noisy and seemed to be constantly accessing. A short time ago, I added another 4GB of RAM and the fourth drive and now it's quieter than I can ever remember it being. I suspect two and four are the sweet spots. I have no idea how this would work if one or more was an SSD.
If you go from 2 drives to installing drive #3 and #4 does it re format everything ?
@@AOJOPhotography I have no idea how it works. It just changes the RAID striping from three drives to four. In my case it took about 40 hours to complete.
@@thethirdman225so when u installed the additional drives your data was still there ?
@@AOJOPhotographyCertainly.
@@AOJOPhotography If you are planning to do this you should have all your data backed up on another storage system for ‘just in case’… I didn’t need it though.
I connected using "connect to server" via mac, but the app won't connect and the control center says, "Unable to detect any Asus NAS". HELP!!
is there a way of setting up a single HHD in my NAS without erasing its contents?
Your video #6 and #7 are not available. And there is no $4 listed above. Thanks. Please advise when these are available, Chris
What is the difference between Home and User Homes? Can i store my data in these folders or i should create a new shared folder?
Once you copy files to the Nas can you delete them safely from your computer?
I tested an ASUSTOR 8-bay unit recently, then returned it when I discovered that the firmware was dangerously awful. The Model AS6508T is prone to failure, and attaches to the network LAST in the boot process! So remote administration software can only communicate with it when everything has gone perfectly. How lucky do you feel?
Should the drives be formatted first?
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Thanks for your detailed video. But I wonder if others have the same problem as I have. first of all if I try to install the latest ACC it says "unsupported protocol. Only HTTP and FTP protocols are supported" I got around that by clicking the download button underneath that tes and not on the right side. Means it downloaded an older version. But when I open the ACC it reconizes my NAS but i can do nothing there. It doesn't look like your ACC. On the bottom when I try to enter it sends me to a link on their website where is says I need to register. But there is no link to register. Only on the online support site there it says "reister" but again itdoesn't me a link to register! Fazit: I never seen such a USER unfriendly NAS system..I am thinking about to give it back and go for another brand. Terrible experience
Terramaster is going to release their all new TOS 5, new PC client, new mobile app, and more other backup and data sync applications. Would you make a review about them then?
100%. Currently their beta for TOS is on my F5 here and I'm previewing
Just a question, what if I decided to use USB cable to connect my NAS to the PC directly ?
Wish I would've known this video exited before setting up. I'm in a hamster-wheel-of-death with the whole ID thing. Would resetting the device to factory defaults be recommended?
So I went ahead and did the reset, and for the second time my browser locks up on the registration page @17:40 (eternal "LOADING"). In the event anyone actually reads this and knows what to do, your help would be appreciated since I can't find help at the Asustor website.
If each of my disks are it’s own volumes, how do I create specific folders for each of the volumes?
Question: can I mount a previus EXT4 HDD for copy and read internaly?
HVe a question the new models are comming with 2 rj45 cables ports should i connect both to my network to get better speeds or not
If each of my disks are it’s own volume, can I create specific folders that is unique to each volume? If yes, how?
which raid level for 2 bay ?
is it possible to share folders outside the lokal network?
I have a brand new AS3302T with 2x 6TB Seagate Iron Wolf HDD's and cannot initialize it as Raid 1. When choosing 1-click set up I have only the option "maximum capacity" resulting in a Raid single configuration. When choosing custom set up I can only choose the single option (JBOD, Raid 0 and Raid 1 are simply not selectable). Also, after set up as Raid single I cannot change it into Raid 1 via management option. Why is it impossible to set up my NAS as Raid 1? Are there any requirements related to the HDD's (formatting?), or to Windows 10 or BIOS?
I wish I had seagulls where I live.
oh yeah my family's a sales team
When installing control centre, half way through installing it on win 11 it says i need to restart to continue the install, i restart and then starts install again, then tells me to restart etc.. what can i do?
All good, Fixed! dont know if it was because i unzipped the file or ran it as admin. thought id leave it up here if anyone else had the issue
Does the storage volume need to be in bay one?
It's preferable
On the same network and could not find. I'm fearing that I have to return this. This product is adding up to a 1 STAR product for actually existing with no documentation and does not connect. Finally connected with the IP on the screen and it wants me to log in and I have no username or password. Thumbs down all around