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I started my channel 29 days ago and I currently have 43 subscribers. Right now I film and edit on my phone but an working towards getting the EOS 4000D in a few months time .
TIP: If you're just looking for a NAS solution to access your data on the network and not redundancy, many modern network routers have a USB port that will turn your external drive into a NAS. You can then access that drive anywhere on your network.
@@ImmodderNation That is a great tip, especially for anyone who might want to make an external drive accessible to the home network, without having to drop $700 or more on an NAS specific solution. And it would be a great way to utilize all those external drives. I wonder if you could plug all those external hard drives into an external USB hub, then plug the hub itself into the USB port on the router, thus allowing everyone on the local network to access ALL those hard drives as well. That would be pretty cool if that would work, and could conceivably resolve the issue of redundancies and data mirroring to ensure you have back ups of your back ups, as it were. And since they had already purchased those external hard drives, the only extra cost might be for a USB hub with between 4 and 7 USB ports. (And those hubs can be had relatively inexpensively, from my research and buying my own in the past. I bet Wish dotcom sells USB hubs for practically nothing these days. And, if they don't, I know Amazon and Walmart do.)
Think Media definately a great tip you should pin this, I found your ideas interesting but probably not for me at the moment, but after reading this comment the first thing I did was to check for a USB on my router, good stuff
@@techronmattic5876 Technically, yes you can. With a powered USB hub. The problem is that once you map the drives on your network, you could only use one drive at a time due to bandwidth limitations of the hub. I encourage you to try it for yourself.
As a certified network storage engineer, loved this video! Your explanation of what a NAS is and how it works was excellent! I might share this video to some of my non- technical people! Thanks Sean!
I'm glad he touched on the difference between "Redundancy" and "Backup" How many people actually backup their NAS? Probably none... People always mistake "Redundancy" for "Backup". They're NOT the same. Multiple drives in a RAID array gives you greater fault tolerance but if your array gets wiped out by malware, ransomware, etc. Its all gone. At the very least, get an external USB drive that matches the capacity of your NAS and setup an auto back up routine to back up your entire array to that external drive. AND PLEASE USE THE PROPER DRIVES DESIGNED FOR A NAS OR DATACENTER. I've had the same two 3TB WD Reds running in my DS212+ for the last 10 years with Zero issues. Only issue is capacity (I'm too cheap to spring for larger Reds). Aside from straight network storage the CPU is just fast enough for me to also run a DNS, DHCP and Media Server all in that same box.
You can operate as NAS as a backup rather then a mirror, effectively just image dumping to it. But yes your typical RAID mirror is there for up-time, drive fails redundant copy takes it place while you swap out the bad one. Well unless its RAID 0 then your just F'ed.
OMG! I am one of those "multiple external hard drive" content producers who suffered a failure 3 days ago. I'm still in shock. So this video could not have been timelier! Thank you for explaining so completely. I now know what direction to go into, and how to change my production process so I never have to go through this emotional pain again!
J.L. Chapman I think you need frequent cold backups. Raid on a NAS is at most a hot backup (you shouldn’t take it as a serious backup either). Raid is only about uptime. You would still need to cold backup things.
You can certainly share your internal/external hard drive of your tower over your LAN. Most motherboards even support a RAID array of 0,1,10 that you can then share out over the network. All you have to do is configure the hard drive/s in the array you want, then use windows to share out that drive. As long as your tower stays online and connected to the network, you should be able to access the data from the wireless network from your laptop.
With the new routers, you can use ext drives to make a NAS so it is just as safe as buying a NAS setup. I have always gone by the 3-2-1 backup. 3 copies of all data 2 copies locally and 1 copy off-site. It has saved me at times.
Hey Sean, I an old guy in lockdown that's coming to this from a non-techie viewpoint. I'm just starting to tell stories (ambitiously in multi media) and my learning curve is steep on everything. I've just upgraded my PC, and the future that I'm clawing my way into, is obviously your past. I just want to thank you for your clear, articulate enlightenment. You are very helpful. Thanks Jim
I am probably older than you but I do have a tech (non-computer) background. This is the video that convinced me to get a NAS solution to replace my failed Airport Time Capsule. I just bought a Synology 220j and two Seagate 5200 6 TB drives. Wish me luck.
As a Data guy, it's nice to know about more big scale storage devices like NAS which you excellently explained in a way that is easily digestible. Thanks Sean.
The video is a good introductory video on NAS. One point of consideration with a NAS is to have it and the network gear (router or wireless router) on an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS). A sudden loss of power can be a little messy with a NAS. The network gear up will let you finish so you can shut down properly for a long outage.
@@mr-vet Since we travel in a RV full-time as digital nomads, we have an upgraded power system that includes LiFePO4 (Lithium) batteries, inverter, generator, and solar. Out RV provides uninterrupted power when we are connected to power in an RV site or when we are disconnected. Our power system provides a solid power source for our key information systems while we travel.
Excellent information on the NAS system. Since I am new to content creating I use smaller portable external hard drives to store my data that I carry around, and a larger hard drive that I back that data up on. I have considered a NAS, but don't really have a need for it now. I will be upgrading to one in the future though!
Like Hansel and Gretel, I've been learning about NAS units by picking up little bits of information here and there. Had I started here, I might not have gotten lost in the woods as often as I have. :-) Excellent basic intro to NAS, and while it may bug some folks, as a professional educator (retired), your repeats of important points is a strength to your presentation.
As a small TH-camr and Hobbyist, I’m still using external hard drives for back up and redundancy. USB powered 4TB at ~$100 makes it super easy. I have one external I travel with and 2 I use for back up and redundancy. I fully get the benefits of NAS, but it’s still too pricey for me - and a 6 bay unit is only using 3 drives (truly) because of the one for one backup. Great video. I may get there (NAS) one day. Cheers.
"6 bay unit is only using 3 drives" That's only if you set the RAID to mirror. If you set to other RAID levels, it spreads the redundancy more thinly, so to speak. See for example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels comparison table of space efficiency.
NAS is the way to go for long-term storage. One power source, redundancy, less clutter, no rat's nest of wires, shareable. I love that Synology has expansion units. We initially did the 5 bay, then realized how quickly it filled up and added a 5 bay expansion with 3 10TB drives. Still room for two more drives!
Synology has very poor compatibility with hard drives. If you want to use Western Digital drives under 10TB go ahead. QNAP works with pretty much all available drives but I'm not certain I want to spend that kind of money on something that will either break in a few years or become antiquated. I wish there were decent DAS options but it looks like there is no market for those. I just want storage that I can share between my different computers. A friend is telling me to get a router and program it so the computers can talk to each other. It's less then ideal but will save money and looks like the least bad option. He also says I could build my own computer for much less then a NAS and program it to do that job. Bloody computers. I world run by tinkerers.
Hey Sean! I found your channel about 2 months ago; about the time I took the plunge and started my YT channel not knowing how to do any thing relating to video, editing, social media, etc. You and Video Influencers have become my go to source for advice! Thank you so very much, I really appreciate you, and the advice you share, as well as the inspiration!!!! Thanks a lot!!-Jason
Sean, nice video. I have the DS920 with 20 tb. One thing I would of mentioned is the Drives used. Standard drives aren't designed for 24/7 but NAS drives are and cost slightly more!
Hey Sean, I have a daily Podcast/TH-cam show and with 1050 episodes data has become a challenge for us. Although we are quite organized, we've got 10 x 5TB Seagate external hard drives to house our data. A buddy of mine in a FB group just linked me to this video and my mind is blown. Instead of keep buying hard drives, I'm going to get one of these NAS systems. Your description here sounds like it solves SO MANY of my Dropbox/hard drive dilemmas. THANK YOU!
You can also use an old computer as a nas if you have one lying around. Not going into details but there are tons of tutorials available here in TH-cam.
Love the NAS, love the USB drives, my solution was something else, I used a torrent based system on three locations, works very well for shared files. First started with BitSync (2013), and then moved forward.. Blows away this solution.
Excellent video. What I don't like about NAS is that everything is on-site. If my house burns at night, we lose the NAS, Camera, Phone, and backups. My router gives me a 3.0 USB connection to hook a hard drive to. In business, this sounds marvelous but for home, I think a 10TB drive with 1TB cloud back up of important stuff should work fine. Finally, I know what NAS is and can do. This video is very much appreciated.
Don't know why but I really dug this video. There is a level of genuity to it. That and the fact that I never even thought about a NAS solution. Even though I have access to one.
Hey guys. TH-cam content creator, Synology DS214+ user, and frequent lurker. Remember that redundancy only works if one or two drives fail, depending on the array. It's possible for more than one drive to fail at a time, meaning you could lose all of your data. This is why redundancy is not a replacement for a backup like Sean said. Good intro to the world of NAS storage.
I've needed this video for a long time! Storage and backing up has been one of my challenges. Thanks for the tips Sean! As always, much appreciated!! Aloha~
I've been putting hard drives in Pelican 1300 cases for over 10 years now, using a hard drive dock to back up footage and mirroring it with FreeFileSync. I keep a "copy" in a storage unit away from home. I don't have remote access necessarily but I don't need it :)
You can share an HDD in the network!! I can't see the problem with that!! Nas is a nice solution for large data usage from multiple people. I mean, if you need 50 TB of storage, you can only have a NAS.
This was SOOOOO useful. THANK YOU! First video of yours that I’ve come across and I’m so grateful for your video explaining this in a really straightforward way🙏🏾
tHanks, I have a great system using my Triple Drive method of making backups.....But your video teaches me what the next level could be! Great fun to watch.....tHanks again. (My videos are so boring, people have often suggested I store them on old faulty dying drives....as a way to help society on a whole).
Sean I want to correct you on one thing I love your videos I’ve been following you for a couple of years if someone could not afford to buy a NAS system for backing up you can actually get an external hard drive I connected to a router on your network if you have that option on your router and make it into a network thing like you’re talking about Because I’ve done it
I think these are great ideas... i for one while waiting on my NAS 1618+ also ordered a WD MyCloud HomeDuo... Same idea as it has the protection of a raid configuration and it was only 300+ bucks... My plan is to have that in one place as it is plenty of storage and the Synology 1618+ at work... I will keep those extremely vital files on both. This is a great learning curve for me as i do networking for PLC's on equipment... Now to save the programs and have access from wherever i am. I have had my computer stolen before and it is horrible to start completely over.
This is the first video of yours I’ve watched. I found it super interesting and helpful. I do 24/7 live streams and have a massive storage problem when streaming/recording at 5000kbps x 6 different streams. I’ll defiantly look into a NAS. Thanks for the awesome video!
Great video, and the Synology NAS unit is a great idea, however, it's certainly not bulletproof. I had a 4 drive Synology NAS unit set up as RAID using 2 Western Digital NAS 3TB drives. They were mirrored and everything worked fine until one morning when I could no longer access my data. Turns out that their was a problem with WD drives that they failed to tell the public, and I lost ALL of my data. It was unrecoverable, and I found out later that Western Digital was sued over SMR debacle in HDD. So you might want to mention to people to stay away from WD RED NAS drives. Fortunately, I had an older backup on a Seagate IronWolf drive and was able to recover 80% of my data, but it costs me a weeks work.
One thing he didn’t seem to mention is: if you’re savvy enough with tech, you can make your own NAS through a very basic desktop case that’s designed to hold as many HDDs/SSDs as possible. Stick a server OS, motherboard, etc on that, boom you got a yourself a NAS. Much more upgradeable one too, as you can swap out the cpu, psu, mobo, etc. and the average case can hold 6 drives easily, so I’m sure you can find one with more slots for cheaper. Also, you can easily set these up for raid configuration easily, whether it’s RAID 1, 0, or 1+0.
Thanks for the information!! I have been struggling with this issue for months and it is getting paralyzing. Guess what? I am getting an NAS in 2 days and I chose Synology!!! Thank you again!!
im not subbed to your channel or anything, but i think its cool that 4yrs ago you commented just started my channel, idk you but im happy to see your channel at 1mil subs, clearly you worked hard and thats inspirational
Thank you so much for providing useful video about back up. Please let us know how can we back up in two different locations. Different location may have a different network. Similarly please make another video that can explain how can we back up in two different location which help to get data if one location is completely destroyed.
wow he hit all my concerns about the NAS he is explaining. Still another one is better in my mind as a 20TB upper limit for the entire NAS compared to Synology with a 12TB per drive upper limit. To his question of the day most of my data is just games while i am getting into the hobby of 3D editing blender files are not adding up to terabytes in size. The current storage solution of mine is a few internal hard drive then 2 USB 3 external ones. The 10TB one should last me a while after which i am going to check out which NAS will be better as i would have used all the USB ports that will still work while all the others are working at the same time.
I was highly considering buying a nas as I'm expanding beyond my hard drive and tired of paying streaming services. I've had drive crashes before on external drives and this would save that. I have a ton of old drives and I could just reformat them. Off site options you can use family member houses, as I don't have a lot of family in the area I would leave with this sort of thing I use a lock box at a bank.
I have 2 918+ Syno's, when I bought my first, it was a one bay NAS and one of the first models from Syno. And it was ok for backups, nothing more, because we were talking a max 100Mb network. Then I bought a few years ago a 918+ and it changed my workflow drastically. Now I have 2 of these connected as master and slave in RAID10 and both a hot spare eSata drives to fill up my HD's to the max (all 8Tb Ironwolfs). And one USB drive from 4Tb for archiving purposes. I'm into music, so big mixes and sounds take a lot of disk space. I have a Dell server as well, but this annoys maker is more off than on. Because the Syno's are quiet.
The thing is you can share your drives between computers by setting up the sharing options and then the files on the drive you want to share across your local network.
Good Morning, Awesome video. I hope the world is listening, people just don't get it; when it come to a backup solution. They consider a backup is just keep buying hard drives and storing data on them. Until one day one of your hard drives decides to stop working, or you drop one of your external hard drives by accident; bye bye data! I'm a Die Hard Synology user. I currently using a Synology DS718+ 2-Bay NAS, DS1019+ 5-Bay NAS, and DX517 5-Bay Expansion Enclosure, I think I'm up to 68TB; and I'm not finished yet. I'm not gonna slow down until I get to 100TB. Don't wait until you loose your data to start a backup solution.
Hobby work, and some professional. Most of the professional work does not require me to come back to the data at a later time. Would like to switch to a NAS setup in the future mainly just for the ability to have my own cloud storage.
I develop software professionally. My main 2 computers use a high speed NVME SSD on the computer where the program resides (my new computer uses a SSD that can read at 4.5 G per second) It is still much faster to access data that is local rather than external or NAS (normally at least 10 times faster). My backup is on an internal hard drive (not as fast as SSD but much cheaper). My second backup is using a USB 3.0 connection to an external hard drive. If my main computer goes down, I can just plug my external hard drive into another computer and the just carry on. The best part is that this setup cost me less than $100, years ago for the external drive and I used an older hard drive to backup the M.2 NVME SSD on the main computer. I love the idea of a NAS but if your backup needs are only at the end of the day and not more than 4-6 Terabytes, I end up with 3 copies of my data, one of which is external and easily connected to another computer and best of all it cost me less than $100. (I setup a batch file and only backup the files that have changed that day) No NAS solution comes close to that level of safety, speed or cost. I think a NAS might make a great solution if you want to share data to multiple computers at the same time or have a library of videos or pictures that need shared to multi devices.
Very informative thank you so much for explaining NAS and taking the time to make this video for people like myself trying to research and learn. All the best! Subscribed!
Great video. But nas with raid is about uptime rather than backup. I currently have a single drive nas which sync my photo folders on my PC, and I use a portable drive to backup what's on the nas. There are 3 copies of my photos. I was think about getting a file server with ZFS or snapraid.
In order to keep the costs low I normally backup my files in LaCies Hard-drives of 4TB and purchase more as they get full. I use two hard-drives one for Daily basises storage and one for redundancy, I consider the quality of LaCies hard-drive good and reliable at least I never had a problem before. The cost of each hard-drive here in UK is approximately £100. I am happy with the current solution although I consider purchasing one of the Synology NAS solution in the near future.
I would agree NAS is more powerful and hard drive redundancy but they are more complex and as such there are a lot more points of failure in NAS than a simple external hard drive. For example setting up Ethernet is a lot more complex than USB with is plug and play. Also the operating system software running on the NAS could crash and if so you may not be able to access any of the hard drives without sending in the entire NAS unit for repairs. NAS has a motherboard which could have components fail separate from the hard drives.
Good comparison video. More information on how to access on the road would be good. Also, a comment was made that a NAS cannot be stolen, whereas an external hard drive can be. The NAS in the video looks like it can be stolen IMHO.
I think it was really interesting to hear about this from a creators perspective, but I urge people, if the nas sounds interesting to you, look into it. There is so much more that they can do
I am just actually excited to setup a home server and how because of it I can save really large files on it and how easy it will be to access them as in the server is an entertainment station and a workstation server
Lol de-complex-ify... all facts, great info. I personally own 4 Mycloud Western Digital Nas drives, 1 seagate nas, and a Q-nap nas... all in different locations, and family members houses with backed up family videos and music. Great video bro! I am probably going to upgrade soon and this got me thinking of standardizing content creation for the new year to grow.
QOTD ⚡What kind of content are you backing up? Personal or professional? What is your current storage solution? Let me know! 👇 **** Check out tips about video editing computers, workflow and backing up your data in this video series ➡️ bit.ly/ThinkVideoEditing
Am doing daily vloging videos with my android. But I hope to get more gadgets as soon as possible.
I want to do professional and stuff but I can't get my editing app to work
I started my channel 29 days ago and I currently have 43 subscribers. Right now I film and edit on my phone but an working towards getting the EOS 4000D in a few months time .
Great sir . I learn a lot from ur videos😊😊😊
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TIP: If you're just looking for a NAS solution to access your data on the network and not redundancy, many modern network routers have a USB port that will turn your external drive into a NAS. You can then access that drive anywhere on your network.
Great tip! Thanks for posting this 👊💯
Of course Sean. Just incase you needed to do something with all of those external drives you have.
@@ImmodderNation That is a great tip, especially for anyone who might want to make an external drive accessible to the home network, without having to drop $700 or more on an NAS specific solution.
And it would be a great way to utilize all those external drives.
I wonder if you could plug all those external hard drives into an external USB hub, then plug the hub itself into the USB port on the router, thus allowing everyone on the local network to access ALL those hard drives as well.
That would be pretty cool if that would work, and could conceivably resolve the issue of redundancies and data mirroring to ensure you have back ups of your back ups, as it were.
And since they had already purchased those external hard drives, the only extra cost might be for a USB hub with between 4 and 7 USB ports.
(And those hubs can be had relatively inexpensively, from my research and buying my own in the past.
I bet Wish dotcom sells USB hubs for practically nothing these days.
And, if they don't, I know Amazon and Walmart do.)
Think Media definately a great tip you should pin this, I found your ideas interesting but probably not for me at the moment, but after reading this comment the first thing I did was to check for a USB on my router, good stuff
@@techronmattic5876 Technically, yes you can. With a powered USB hub. The problem is that once you map the drives on your network, you could only use one drive at a time due to bandwidth limitations of the hub. I encourage you to try it for yourself.
As a certified network storage engineer, loved this video! Your explanation of what a NAS is and how it works was excellent! I might share this video to some of my non- technical people! Thanks Sean!
Yea, especially the part when he plugs ethernet from NAS to the poor DLink's uplink port. LOL
I'm glad he touched on the difference between "Redundancy" and "Backup" How many people actually backup their NAS? Probably none... People always mistake "Redundancy" for "Backup". They're NOT the same. Multiple drives in a RAID array gives you greater fault tolerance but if your array gets wiped out by malware, ransomware, etc. Its all gone. At the very least, get an external USB drive that matches the capacity of your NAS and setup an auto back up routine to back up your entire array to that external drive. AND PLEASE USE THE PROPER DRIVES DESIGNED FOR A NAS OR DATACENTER.
I've had the same two 3TB WD Reds running in my DS212+ for the last 10 years with Zero issues. Only issue is capacity (I'm too cheap to spring for larger Reds). Aside from straight network storage the CPU is just fast enough for me to also run a DNS, DHCP and Media Server all in that same box.
You can operate as NAS as a backup rather then a mirror, effectively just image dumping to it. But yes your typical RAID mirror is there for up-time, drive fails redundant copy takes it place while you swap out the bad one. Well unless its RAID 0 then your just F'ed.
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OMG! I am one of those "multiple external hard drive" content producers who suffered a failure 3 days ago. I'm still in shock. So this video could not have been timelier! Thank you for explaining so completely. I now know what direction to go into, and how to change my production process so I never have to go through this emotional pain again!
J.L. Chapman I think you need frequent cold backups. Raid on a NAS is at most a hot backup (you shouldn’t take it as a serious backup either). Raid is only about uptime. You would still need to cold backup things.
You can certainly share your internal/external hard drive of your tower over your LAN. Most motherboards even support a RAID array of 0,1,10 that you can then share out over the network. All you have to do is configure the hard drive/s in the array you want, then use windows to share out that drive. As long as your tower stays online and connected to the network, you should be able to access the data from the wireless network from your laptop.
THIS^^^^^
With the new routers, you can use ext drives to make a NAS so it is just as safe as buying a NAS setup. I have always gone by the 3-2-1 backup. 3 copies of all data 2 copies locally and 1 copy off-site. It has saved me at times.
Just out of curiosity what type of work are you doing where you have to be that thorough?
@@wundo9372 schools and law firms is where they ask for that many backups
@@MikePowlas really!? Thank you it would make sense in those instances, thank you!
Hey Sean, I an old guy in lockdown that's coming to this from a non-techie viewpoint. I'm just starting to tell stories (ambitiously in multi media) and my learning curve is steep on everything. I've just upgraded my PC, and the future that I'm clawing my way into, is obviously your past. I just want to thank you for your clear, articulate enlightenment. You are very helpful. Thanks Jim
I am probably older than you but I do have a tech (non-computer) background. This is the video that convinced me to get a NAS solution to replace my failed Airport Time Capsule. I just bought a Synology 220j and two Seagate 5200 6 TB drives. Wish me luck.
Searching for new storage devices. I would love to see what you guys have upgraded to in 2022. Blessings guys thanks for all your hard work guys.
As a Data guy, it's nice to know about more big scale storage devices like NAS which you excellently explained in a way that is easily digestible. Thanks Sean.
The video is a good introductory video on NAS. One point of consideration with a NAS is to have it and the network gear (router or wireless router) on an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS). A sudden loss of power can be a little messy with a NAS. The network gear up will let you finish so you can shut down properly for a long outage.
Thanks for mentioning the UPS.
…and if you are a homeowner, an automatic backup generator. Just had a Generac installed last year. It turns on within 15 seconds.
@@mr-vet Since we travel in a RV full-time as digital nomads, we have an upgraded power system that includes LiFePO4 (Lithium) batteries, inverter, generator, and solar. Out RV provides uninterrupted power when we are connected to power in an RV site or when we are disconnected. Our power system provides a solid power source for our key information systems while we travel.
Excellent information on the NAS system. Since I am new to content creating I use smaller portable external hard drives to store my data that I carry around, and a larger hard drive that I back that data up on. I have considered a NAS, but don't really have a need for it now. I will be upgrading to one in the future though!
Like Hansel and Gretel, I've been learning about NAS units by picking up little bits of information here and there. Had I started here, I might not have gotten lost in the woods as often as I have. :-) Excellent basic intro to NAS, and while it may bug some folks, as a professional educator (retired), your repeats of important points is a strength to your presentation.
As a small TH-camr and Hobbyist, I’m still using external hard drives for back up and redundancy. USB powered 4TB at ~$100 makes it super easy. I have one external I travel with and 2 I use for back up and redundancy. I fully get the benefits of NAS, but it’s still too pricey for me - and a 6 bay unit is only using 3 drives (truly) because of the one for one backup. Great video. I may get there (NAS) one day. Cheers.
"6 bay unit is only using 3 drives" That's only if you set the RAID to mirror. If you set to other RAID levels, it spreads the redundancy more thinly, so to speak. See for example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels comparison table of space efficiency.
NAS is the way to go for long-term storage. One power source, redundancy, less clutter, no rat's nest of wires, shareable. I love that Synology has expansion units. We initially did the 5 bay, then realized how quickly it filled up and added a 5 bay expansion with 3 10TB drives. Still room for two more drives!
Synology has very poor compatibility with hard drives. If you want to use Western Digital drives under 10TB go ahead. QNAP works with pretty much all available drives but I'm not certain I want to spend that kind of money on something that will either break in a few years or become antiquated. I wish there were decent DAS options but it looks like there is no market for those. I just want storage that I can share between my different computers. A friend is telling me to get a router and program it so the computers can talk to each other. It's less then ideal but will save money and looks like the least bad option. He also says I could build my own computer for much less then a NAS and program it to do that job. Bloody computers. I world run by tinkerers.
Hey Sean! I found your channel about 2 months ago; about the time I took the plunge and started my YT channel not knowing how to do any thing relating to video, editing, social media, etc. You and Video Influencers have become my go to source for advice! Thank you so very much, I really appreciate you, and the advice you share, as well as the inspiration!!!! Thanks a lot!!-Jason
I've been needing a NAS system for a while, or at least a massive backup drive. I have probably 5 external hard drives on my desk 🤣
Sean, nice video. I have the DS920 with 20 tb. One thing I would of mentioned is the Drives used. Standard drives aren't designed for 24/7 but NAS drives are and cost slightly more!
Whoa I was just wondering about this topic and here you are~
Great timing! 👊😎💯
Exactly, was surprised Sean has a video about the topic😊
I love how the description so clearly and accurately outlines the overall topic of this video... Stating how this was about.. tripods ???
Hey Sean, I have a daily Podcast/TH-cam show and with 1050 episodes data has become a challenge for us. Although we are quite organized, we've got 10 x 5TB Seagate external hard drives to house our data. A buddy of mine in a FB group just linked me to this video and my mind is blown. Instead of keep buying hard drives, I'm going to get one of these NAS systems. Your description here sounds like it solves SO MANY of my Dropbox/hard drive dilemmas. THANK YOU!
You can also use an old computer as a nas if you have one lying around. Not going into details but there are tons of tutorials available here in TH-cam.
Love the NAS, love the USB drives, my solution was something else, I used a torrent based system on three locations, works very well for shared files.
First started with BitSync (2013), and then moved forward.. Blows away this solution.
Sean you totally make the lives of new TH-camrs easier with great content!
Thank you! 😎
Excellent video. What I don't like about NAS is that everything is on-site. If my house burns at night, we lose the NAS, Camera, Phone, and backups. My router gives me a 3.0 USB connection to hook a hard drive to. In business, this sounds marvelous but for home, I think a 10TB drive with 1TB cloud back up of important stuff should work fine. Finally, I know what NAS is and can do. This video is very much appreciated.
This was hands-down the best video I’ve ever seen on this topic. Wow what a way to go!!
Don't know why but I really dug this video. There is a level of genuity to it. That and the fact that I never even thought about a NAS solution. Even though I have access to one.
Hey guys. TH-cam content creator, Synology DS214+ user, and frequent lurker.
Remember that redundancy only works if one or two drives fail, depending on the array. It's possible for more than one drive to fail at a time, meaning you could lose all of your data. This is why redundancy is not a replacement for a backup like Sean said. Good intro to the world of NAS storage.
I've needed this video for a long time! Storage and backing up has been one of my challenges. Thanks for the tips Sean! As always, much appreciated!! Aloha~
Concise and to the point. Thank you for this informative video!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Good to hear you mention offsite is mandatory for true backup, most forget this
I've been putting hard drives in Pelican 1300 cases for over 10 years now, using a hard drive dock to back up footage and mirroring it with FreeFileSync. I keep a "copy" in a storage unit away from home. I don't have remote access necessarily but I don't need it :)
You can share an HDD in the network!! I can't see the problem with that!!
Nas is a nice solution for large data usage from multiple people.
I mean, if you need 50 TB of storage, you can only have a NAS.
thanks for simplifying this, new to the concept and a lot of videos have been over my head.
This is something i need. As i make karaoke duet videos i need somewhere to store all my tracks and other files i use and access them with ease.
Huge thanks for this video. So much info packed in 15mins. It’s 2022 and this info has helped me tremendously.
De-complexify, no. Simplyif, yes. Good explanation of network attached storage.
omg, didn't understand what NAS was until this. Awesome video!
NAS Drive will be on my Black Friday shopping list for this year ~!
This was SOOOOO useful. THANK YOU! First video of yours that I’ve come across and I’m so grateful for your video explaining this in a really straightforward way🙏🏾
I have no interest in doing this but this video is informative as hell
tHanks, I have a great system using my Triple Drive method of making backups.....But your video teaches me what the next level could be! Great fun to watch.....tHanks again.
(My videos are so boring, people have often suggested I store them on old faulty dying drives....as a way to help society on a whole).
Sean I want to correct you on one thing I love your videos I’ve been following you for a couple of years if someone could not afford to buy a NAS system for backing up you can actually get an external hard drive I connected to a router on your network if you have that option on your router and make it into a network thing like you’re talking about Because I’ve done it
NAS & Surveillance HDD are designed to work 24/7, is External hdd capable of working for 8 hrs a day...
Love when videos take 2 minutes to even start
I think these are great ideas... i for one while waiting on my NAS 1618+ also ordered a WD MyCloud HomeDuo... Same idea as it has the protection of a raid configuration and it was only 300+ bucks... My plan is to have that in one place as it is plenty of storage and the Synology 1618+ at work... I will keep those extremely vital files on both. This is a great learning curve for me as i do networking for PLC's on equipment... Now to save the programs and have access from wherever i am. I have had my computer stolen before and it is horrible to start completely over.
You can actually file share using an external drive. you just have to share the folder in which you are looking to access for data use.
Thanks for breaking this down for all of us!
This is the first video of yours I’ve watched. I found it super interesting and helpful. I do 24/7 live streams and have a massive storage problem when streaming/recording at 5000kbps x 6 different streams. I’ll defiantly look into a NAS. Thanks for the awesome video!
Great video, and the Synology NAS unit is a great idea, however, it's certainly not bulletproof. I had a 4 drive Synology NAS unit set up as RAID using 2 Western Digital NAS 3TB drives. They were mirrored and everything worked fine until one morning when I could no longer access my data. Turns out that their was a problem with WD drives that they failed to tell the public, and I lost ALL of my data. It was unrecoverable, and I found out later that Western Digital was sued over SMR debacle in HDD. So you might want to mention to people to stay away from WD RED NAS drives. Fortunately, I had an older backup on a Seagate IronWolf drive and was able to recover 80% of my data, but it costs me a weeks work.
Yeah I actually ripped out the 4TB drive from my external drive case and popped it into my pc, never regretted that :)
One thing he didn’t seem to mention is: if you’re savvy enough with tech, you can make your own NAS through a very basic desktop case that’s designed to hold as many HDDs/SSDs as possible. Stick a server OS, motherboard, etc on that, boom you got a yourself a NAS. Much more upgradeable one too, as you can swap out the cpu, psu, mobo, etc. and the average case can hold 6 drives easily, so I’m sure you can find one with more slots for cheaper. Also, you can easily set these up for raid configuration easily, whether it’s RAID 1, 0, or 1+0.
Man , an old school black and purple linksys still rocking your setup. You’re lucky , mine went dead many years ago :)
Thank you! I was confused because it sounds too good to be true but really it's just simple tech.
That was so informative and well explained. I've logged in just to give you a sub.
Thanks for the information!! I have been struggling with this issue for months and it is getting paralyzing. Guess what? I am getting an NAS in 2 days and I chose Synology!!! Thank you again!!
This might be useful for me. My wife and I often collaborate on projects/videos so we've always had to plug & unplug external hard-drives.
Thanks for your advice. This is really open my mind to get my data saved. ~ Warm greeting from Bali.
I just started my channel and your advice has been amazing! Thank you
You're welcome!
im not subbed to your channel or anything, but i think its cool that 4yrs ago you commented just started my channel, idk you but im happy to see your channel at 1mil subs, clearly you worked hard and thats inspirational
I saw that too, its pretty cool, I went to check as well lol@@julianbubbles1596
I love the topic for today! I have been thinking about investing in a NAS device & this was a big help.
Audio production backing up to a series of rack mounted Glyph drives and need TB/USB-c so this was helpful in designing a raid backup solution
I'm planning on picking up a Drobo because they seem to have the easiest NAS solution. More user-friendly.
Good video. Time for a refresh on this topic.
Wow!! This tip is "priceless "!!! Thanks so much 1!🙌🎉🎉💕
You're welcome Rosie!
Thank you so much for providing useful video about back up. Please let us know how can we back up in two different locations. Different location may have a different network. Similarly please make another video that can explain how can we back up in two different location which help to get data if one location is completely destroyed.
This is an excellent video. Liked and subscribed
wow he hit all my concerns about the NAS he is explaining. Still another one is better in my mind as a 20TB upper limit for the entire NAS compared to Synology with a 12TB per drive upper limit.
To his question of the day most of my data is just games while i am getting into the hobby of 3D editing blender files are not adding up to terabytes in size.
The current storage solution of mine is a few internal hard drive then 2 USB 3 external ones. The 10TB one should last me a while after which i am going to check out which NAS will be better as i would have used all the USB ports that will still work while all the others are working at the same time.
This is an extremely simple and great video! Thanks! It completely handled my confusion on what to go with.
Just came across your channel. You have very good energy in your videos and intro and video quality is absolutely phenomenal my man !!
Very detailed video, thank for all the information!
I was highly considering buying a nas as I'm expanding beyond my hard drive and tired of paying streaming services. I've had drive crashes before on external drives and this would save that. I have a ton of old drives and I could just reformat them. Off site options you can use family member houses, as I don't have a lot of family in the area I would leave with this sort of thing I use a lock box at a bank.
Great sir . I learn a lot from ur videos😊😊😊
Luv from India
I have 2 918+ Syno's, when I bought my first, it was a one bay NAS and one of the first models from Syno. And it was ok for backups, nothing more, because we were talking a max 100Mb network. Then I bought a few years ago a 918+ and it changed my workflow drastically. Now I have 2 of these connected as master and slave in RAID10 and both a hot spare eSata drives to fill up my HD's to the max (all 8Tb Ironwolfs). And one USB drive from 4Tb for archiving purposes. I'm into music, so big mixes and sounds take a lot of disk space. I have a Dell server as well, but this annoys maker is more off than on. Because the Syno's are quiet.
Excellent explanation. Congratulations. Keep it up
The thing is you can share your drives between computers by setting up the sharing options and then the files on the drive you want to share across your local network.
I love ur way of explaing.Easy to understand everything
Good Morning, Awesome video. I hope the world is listening, people just don't get it; when it come to a backup solution. They consider a backup is just keep buying hard drives and storing data on them. Until one day one of your hard drives decides to stop working, or you drop one of your external hard drives by accident; bye bye data! I'm a Die Hard Synology user. I currently using a Synology DS718+ 2-Bay NAS, DS1019+ 5-Bay NAS, and DX517 5-Bay Expansion Enclosure, I think I'm up to
68TB; and I'm not finished yet. I'm not gonna slow down until I get to 100TB. Don't wait until you loose your data to start a backup solution.
Hobby work, and some professional. Most of the professional work does not require me to come back to the data at a later time. Would like to switch to a NAS setup in the future mainly just for the ability to have my own cloud storage.
Thank you so much. This is so helpful and exactly the solution I am looking for. Great job and thanks to you and your great team.
I develop software professionally. My main 2 computers use a high speed NVME SSD on the computer where the program resides (my new computer uses a SSD that can read at 4.5 G per second) It is still much faster to access data that is local rather than external or NAS (normally at least 10 times faster). My backup is on an internal hard drive (not as fast as SSD but much cheaper). My second backup is using a USB 3.0 connection to an external hard drive. If my main computer goes down, I can just plug my external hard drive into another computer and the just carry on. The best part is that this setup cost me less than $100, years ago for the external drive and I used an older hard drive to backup the M.2 NVME SSD on the main computer.
I love the idea of a NAS but if your backup needs are only at the end of the day and not more than 4-6 Terabytes, I end up with 3 copies of my data, one of which is external and easily connected to another computer and best of all it cost me less than $100. (I setup a batch file and only backup the files that have changed that day) No NAS solution comes close to that level of safety, speed or cost.
I think a NAS might make a great solution if you want to share data to multiple computers at the same time or have a library of videos or pictures that need shared to multi devices.
Very informative thank you so much for explaining NAS and taking the time to make this video for people like myself trying to research and learn. All the best! Subscribed!
Good info for determining whether or not to get a NAS. BUT, the annoying cuts between slightly different framing detracts from what's being said.
thanks. that was perfect for what I needed.
Great video. But nas with raid is about uptime rather than backup. I currently have a single drive nas which sync my photo folders on my PC, and I use a portable drive to backup what's on the nas. There are 3 copies of my photos. I was think about getting a file server with ZFS or snapraid.
Brilliant video! Explained the pros and cons of a NAS server in easy simple terms. Cheers!!
Definitely great content, creative, and presentation skills!
In order to keep the costs low I normally backup my files in LaCies Hard-drives of 4TB and purchase more as they get full. I use two hard-drives one for Daily basises storage and one for redundancy, I consider the quality of LaCies hard-drive good and reliable at least I never had a problem before. The cost of each hard-drive here in UK is approximately £100. I am happy with the current solution although I consider purchasing one of the Synology NAS solution in the near future.
Thanks for the well presented information, I do not have a solution just yet,
but this is food for thought.
I would agree NAS is more powerful and hard drive redundancy but they are more complex and as such there are a lot more points of failure in NAS than a simple external hard drive. For example setting up Ethernet is a lot more complex than USB with is plug and play. Also the operating system software running on the NAS could crash and if so you may not be able to access any of the hard drives without sending in the entire NAS unit for repairs. NAS has a motherboard which could have components fail separate from the hard drives.
Just the information I was looking for! Thank you guys!
Good comparison video. More information on how to access on the road would be good. Also, a comment was made that a NAS cannot be stolen, whereas an external hard drive can be. The NAS in the video looks like it can be stolen IMHO.
Thank you so much for all the information about NAS. This video is really helpful.
Storage? Currently I use Dropbox, BackBlaze, and external drives. This NAS is interesting to learn about. I'll look into it further.
Well explain... Appreciate a lot for the video... Thanks
very helpful with comparing external and NAS, thank you!
I think it was really interesting to hear about this from a creators perspective, but I urge people, if the nas sounds interesting to you, look into it. There is so much more that they can do
Don't you just love it when they talk about all other kinds of random crap before getting to that one simple explanation at the end?
Thanks you!! This is just what i Needed.
I am just actually excited to setup a home server and how because of it I can save really large files on it and how easy it will be to access them as in the server is an entertainment station and a workstation server
Lol de-complex-ify... all facts, great info. I personally own 4 Mycloud Western Digital Nas drives, 1 seagate nas, and a Q-nap nas... all in different locations, and family members houses with backed up family videos and music.
Great video bro! I am probably going to upgrade soon and this got me thinking of standardizing content creation for the new year to grow.
Great Video.... answered lots of my questions..... Hate those external hard drives...