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I Built a NAS: One Year Later. EVERYTHING I Learned and
I Built a NAS: One Year Later. EVERYTHING I Learned and the Mistakes
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NASes are pricey but provide a level of robustness that a beefy external hard drive or cloud storage just don’t provide. In a NAS you can configure drives into an array, meaning drives can be combined to basically form a bigger super drive, by splitting the load of data across each of the…
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Error on my part. The smaller NAS in the video is the DS923+ The number after "DS" in the Synology naming convention means how many drives it supports when you include the expansion units they sell. These add 5 drive bays. The larger 8bay one supports 2 expansion units for a total of 18 (DS1821+). In my mind, I kept thinking the smaller one had support for 2 expansions but it only has 1, hence me saying "14" instead of "9". Not sure how the 14 stuck through my script review. But everyone can enjoy my blunder now 🙃
Instructions was not clear:
Now I am unable to get out my hard drive from toilet hole 🚽
but… buying a synology and "building a NAS" are not the same thing???
Use LTO tapes for ofside back up
Build? Maybe set up a prebuilt nas😅
Obviously one downside of this system is that you cannot send/receive data to/from the NAS unless you are actually attached to your LOCAL network (LAN). This is unlike Cloud Storage where you can access it anywhere over the internet after authenticating into your account. Yes the NAS storage is MUCH faster but cannot be accessed outside of your LAN. Question: how do you handle taking a project off-site? Do you download the needed files first, then sync with your NAS when you come back home?
nobody makes a video like this unless they are paid to. So croney and very QVC.
is it possible to use a NAS as an alternative to services like dropbox for data sharing with clients and mutuals or what i as a layman assume: is it only possible to access the storage of the NAS if you're at home connected to your network?
Video editing in HDD; We don't live in 2000' mate. Nowadays PCs must have M2 for Windows, OS , 2nd M2 for Applications, SSD for video editing and HDD for data storage.
Thanks to you, I've just learned about the existence of NASs and how I've been wrong this whole time by having a bunch of removable SSDs attached to my pc. :/
Isnt technically 1 GB is 1024 MB & 1GiB is 1000 MB ? Please clear this up
I have a small Synology DS218J with a usable capacity of 3.6 TB in a hybrid raid. It's just for general storage and I use it as a Plex server for my modest media library. I use the Synology Hyper Backup to their C2 online backup service. It's not the cheapest backup service, but it was easy and it works. $100/yr for 2 TB (all I need right now) for no hassle was worth it. My biggest complaint with the DS218J is my own damn fault – it's underpowered to be a good Plex server. It won't transcode, so I have to make sure I have all my media in the right format. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't try to cheap out and I would get a more powerful model. That's on me, not Synology. Someday maybe I'll build a dedicated media server…
Wouldn't go so far as saying "Built" for plugging in a Synology unit….
Could this be used to store digital product files that customers could access after purchase?
You could use a Bank safe deposit box for offsite storage.
I literally just saw this video and own a DS923+. Sorry, but the layout and delivery of this video is terrible. Im a systems engineer and thought the "ant" and "toilet" analogies was terrible. Anyway, that said, the only point you needed to point out with 10 Gb NIC's is that its only neessary for transfer of super large files. Most people can simply use 1Gb and it would be MORE than adequate! For performance, you can install NVMe for caching which will also greatly enhance performance. As for the drives, I am running (3) 16TB drives in RAID 5.
Way too much info for average people and you covered WAYYY too many topics too quickly. You talk so fast and cover so many topics that I was laughing. Sorry… Dont blame the messenger.
SABRENT USB 3.0 4 Bay 2.5” Hard Drive/SSD Docking Station with Fan (DS-4SSD)
Is a good beginner station if you want something that is just plug and play, but it cuts down on a lot of features that normal NAS' have.
I like big NAS and I cannot lie
My off-site solution is to just image to a hard drive every 3 to 6 months, put in a fire proof safe, and store in a high quality locking shed.
Thank you for this video!
I have a suggestion:
1. Build a NAS type device at a relative's house with WoL.
2. Backup the data.
3. When you need to update the data, send WoL signal to turn the machine on.
4. Connect to the device
5. Update the data slowly via internet (cus it's long distance).
6. Turn off the device remotely.
7. Realize you forgot something and start again from step 3.
I think the 3-2-1 rule only really applies to the US because your houses are made of paper and wood. An apartment near my building burned and it was all just burnt walls, no structural damage.
Toilet? Stopped watching.
I was with you till the toilet analogy threw the video down the drain! (ya, but na, i still watched tho' lol)
I have a video production company and we use the Synology 1821+ for our editing needs with 12TB Iron Wolf drives. We use 2.5Gb connections to four M1 mac minis and one M1 mac studio via a 2.5Gb switch with one 10Gb connection on that switch for the NAS. We do not experience any lag for the most part even when editing 4K projects on all the machines at once. But we did add 4TB internal PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 Internal SSD and maxed out the memory on the NAS. I missed if you mentioned upgrading these on your 8 bay. This will be key to help you improve editing performance over the network. Also, not sure what kind of cables you are using. I think you need a minimum 5e in order to have enough speed over the cable. We are using Cat8 though I know that is overkill. We have a really short run so I didn't mind the expense.
Backup of a backup. You're overthinking it. Maybe not, but for most end users and not businesses, it's over thinking.