I NEEDED to STOP Using Google Drive: Switching to a NAS

You call this a 6/10 on difficulty scale? Nah 4 at most there are way harder homelab you can deploy this is a 2 if its Synology or qnap literally plug and play

I am a data hoarder as well and download movies and series very for many years now. For a long time I used an external hard drive. It was something that I used not enough because it was a hassle. A few months ago I finally decided to buy a 2-bay nas from QNAP. Since then it is my favorite item! My movies and series are way more accessible from at home or anywhere in the world from any device via plex or the qnap apps.

OK! I've just invested into a NAS for my photo business and it's driving me nuts! I cant seem to work out how to even get my library into my NAS!! Im a complete noob t this!

Great if your rich

If I have a NAS plugged into ethernet, and my pc is plugged into a separate ethernet outlet in the same house, do I then have direct connection to the NAS storage from my pc or do I need to connect them alternatively?

I'm thinking about getting one, and was just wondering how that works :D

Gotta be honest....I literally stopped watching when you showed your newbie NAS was $1000..

Stop saying NAS like that!! FFS my ears are bleeding.

This is absolutely brilliant. I don't remember the last time I watched a video from beginning to end. You are the lecturer I wish I had. Hehehe!

TIL there is a way to mis-pronounce NAS. :D Solid vid though.

I bought the Synology DS1522+ a few months ago as a private user. And I love it. I first had two 12 TB drives in SHR. Then three. And today I bought my numbers four and five12 TB drives. I experimented with it. Editing not yet, however VM Linux and Windos. (and removed it again). I have backuped my Macs via Timemachine to it and my Game PC via Active backup for business, and made my photo and film library. In a few months the daugther of my sister is getting maried. We are going to make a folder with a QR code, so guests can upload photo's and video's to it until a certain time after the wedding, so I can give them to the happy couple. I wanted to share a large file with a friend. I just made a downloadlink for a day. Etc, etc, etc. It is such a powerfull tool.

Did I need it? Probably not realy. Was it worth it? Absolutely. But I must say, I like to experiment.

Thanks for your nice video. And I dod not want to start over to count the times you said NAS. But based on 6 times in a minute, it would be around 84 times.

As a lifetime geek and lover of all tech toys, I've wanted a NAS for years. Now at 71, with a few extra bucks from the sale of a family property, I took the leap and got a Synology DS1821+ this week. Still waiting on my 6 10Tb disks, but I set it up in test fashion with a pile of old castoff drives from my hoarding closet. Working as a field service engineer for 40 years, I had some networking experience, but retiring 10 years ago has faded a lot of that knowledge. Currently working my way thru some old Network+ manuals from 15 years back, and plowing thru stone age concepts like NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, etc. But the basics are coming back to me. Planning to use this NAS to store lifetimes of scanned and digital photos, family documents, my CNC and 3D printer files,and my wife's massive hoard of digital sewing, embroidery, and quilting files. Also reserving the two remaining NAS drive bays for Synology's Surveillance Station. Sad commentary on modern life that I plan to outfit my front yard like a video studio. Thanks for a great video. I may just show it to family members who keep asking, "whats that black box on the desk for?"

I have a Synology RS819 rack mount with 4 4tbs Iron wolf in a RAID5. I do backup the NAS, using HYPER BACKUP every night and pay Synology C2 Cloud space as a secondary backup. My photos and docs are priceless to me and I can’t risky it. I run PLEX with my music and Movies, use Synology Drive, Synology Photos. Best purchase…

I use around 10 gigabytes a month !!

Me too.

Did you have to upgrade any of your home networking setup to take advantage of the 10Gbps connection?

37: nas
5: noz
2: naz
1: gnaws
total: 45 times ;-)
(great video btw)

I have the Synology 1019+ 5-bay with 5 WD 8TB Red drives in SHR-1. Then I use hyperbackup with an external 20TB drive to keep an additional backup. I don't keep all data offsite like I should but what I have is good enough for me. I highly recommend Synology. Its very easy to setup and use and you can do a lot with it.

I’m a data whore too. Managed to get the same Nas and it’s sooo good but I messed up putting bigger drives first. So had to take off and do my smaller ones first then add the larger tk the same volume. How many folders do you have on your volume? Out interest. ❓🙋🏼‍♀️ on for photo, video and general files? Photo, etc etc

Please be aware, I had to get my Synology NAS repaired three times, one time the ATOM CPU problem, second time PSU problem, third time motherboard broke.

Hi Jimmy, I don't know if this is your area of expertise, I kind of wish I had found our video before making my purchase, anyway I just purchased the WD 12TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra Network Attached Storage - NAS through Amazon, only it's just a two disk housing at the price of $449. which I just looked is now $529 (I got lucky). The type of data is just normal home use, pst, file that all pc's can access via outlook, stuff like that. I can only hope I made the right choice.

Speaking of data access speed, I always thought a usb 3.0 connection was faster than an ethernet connection but viewing your video and your test, that's not the case.

Great video

I shoot 3-5T a year

Started back in the day with 512G a year then 1 T

I am half way through my work year and my 5T drives are both almost full

I need a solution badly

Nice karma transition plug. Smooth n short

What does nas stand for

I am A Synology geek. Set up an 8 bay for a relatives photography studio about 6 years ago. Knew nothing about them and did it as a hobby. The system came out great with photographers logging in via FTP and wedding video serving on large screens in studio to show prospective clients.

wait so the redundancy is stored only in the 6TB drive? What happened when it fails?

Great video on the benefits of using a NAS. I have been using a NAS since the first consumer level devices were released in the early 2000s by Ximeta called the Net Disk. I currently use the Synology DS218 Play+, WD PR210 Pro, D-Link DNS 320L and D-Link DNS-340L. Furthermore, I use my NAS servers to store my engineering designs, music collection, movie collection along with photos from my drones and cameras.

Thank you very much for this share, you did great covered all the best areas. Quick question - the machine is running 24 hours a day so is it loud and does it get hot?

will you have a step by step set up , got a DS200J and dont believe i did set up properly . thanks :)

Wonderful video explaining it all. I'm new to NAS, just bought a used 2-bay unit and experimenting from there. Pretty excited to see how it'll work out.

What if my main use case it to be able to stream 4k videos from a NAS?

Google photo is so slow for videos and it sucks that most mid to high end smartphones can shoot great 4k videos but when you want to view it on your TV or projector, it's 720p and looks like webcam footage from 2000s.

Is there a solution for this? I just want to stream my videos in 4k real time.

Install 2 (read/write) m2 nvme drives for caching, it will be very noticeable performance boost. You won't regret it.

If you're willing to do a little tinkering, you can get a much better DIY NAS for cheaper.

I've had a Synology DS920+ for about a year now with 4 16tb drives. Am hosting 5 PCs and 14 cellphones as backup. I also have a 16tb usb backup plus C2 storage that runs every day. Synology is one of the best companies for tech support also!! Only drawback is that this is my 3rd DS920 as the first two had hardware is!ues

Just picked up a new Asustor gen 2 -6704 with 30 TB + 16 gig / 2 SSDs for cache 🔥rock solid raid 5

SMR harddrives are a fucking scam that harddrive manufacturers silently pushed onto everyone and most people don't even know about it...
Now we get much shittier drives while paying the same price as before, while the manufacturers can produce them cheaper and just pocket the difference.
We actually have worse harddrives now than 10 years before for example.

Love how concise and well written this video was, props!

will someone wake me up when this video finishes

@Jimmy Tries World ds620slim is the only ssd oriented that I have seen and I wanted to move to synology is it any option from them that I haven't found? mechanical hard drives are not an option, neither non synology.

Google Drive or other Cloud Storage Services are more for share files with other and fast up and download speeds.
Your Nas is limited to your internet provider speeds for online connection over nextcloud, owncloud etc.

Honest question, if you install games / program in nas and use it as external hard drive, is it possible to run it? Not via ethernet but USB port that available on the nas itself

If NAS is not a backup then what is ?

anyone got any tips for a cloud nas?

but why we cannnot connect ssd to nas to make it more superfast

Admit it.....many of you are storing porns.

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"Nas" only rhymes with "Oz" when you're talking about the rapper. Otherwise "NAS" rhymes with "ass"