You did pretty good for someone just getting in. FYI Setting up Plex with that particular model may not be as pleasant as you wish. That processor doesn't have on-board gpu capable of encoding/decoding video. I have a 923+ on the way but I already have a DS220+ that does have onboard, or I should say integrated graphics on the cpu. So, in my case , the DS220+ will be regulated to EMBY and such whereas the DS923+ will handle everything else, including storing the videos that the DS220+ will play.
While using a RAID setup helps with the data on the NAS, I’d recommend also implementing a backup of your data somewhere: either an external drive separate from the NAS or a cloud backup. It’s still possible that even with RAID, you could lose the data on there. Great video and overview!!
@@a_blaser yeah good call, was thinking about getting an external HD on Black Friday to plug into the usb port in the front for backup of the most important stuff. Will definitely help me sleep at night haha. Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!
@@JSLReview Try and keep that hard drive at a separate location as well. If someone breaks in or there's a fire etc. (hopefully not, but you never know), then you'll still have another copy elsewhere! There's apparently a known 3-2-1 rule in relation to it...something like keep 3 copies across two types of device in more than one location.
As a mechanical engineer and industrial designer,I have been running NAS systems in my home office since their inception circa 2008.I currently have six multi-drive NAS systems in my home office from Synology,Western Digital and D-Link.I would suggest connecting your Synology NAS to a UPS [Uninterruptible Power Supply] to protect your data in the event of a power outage.
The first rule of data safety: RAID is not backup. At the very least you should add a backup of the data you cannot loose to an external disk as well. DSM comes with several different good to great backup applications to deal with this. It's basically one of the reasons to go with Synology and not some other brand. It's all included.
Not my words. A NAS is not a backup. It's for convient shared mass storage and neat features. RAID (and other schemes) is not a backup, it's to maintain uptime / reduce downtime. They can fail / the power supply might blow up or fail (expensive ones have two), the board could fail, you might have a fire / flood, it might get stolen, it might get ransomwared. There are many strategies and it depends on how much money you have and how much you can afford to lose.
RAID5 is nice for file uptime even if a drive fails you can still use and work on it, but as people point out all the time, its not a replacement for a backup and if possible have 2-3 copies of important data on different devices
there is a chance that only the HDD case circuit board got fried, happened to me but the HDD themselves were just fine and they worked fine when i took them out completely and plugged them
@@Mae-nr7wr yeah I brought it into Best Buy tech support and they couldn’t get it to populate after taking it out of the case and used a different circuit board. But going to get a second opinion, hoping a more advanced technician can figure this out!
One thing I noticed from all videos is of this type, no one ever says what RAID actually stands for. LOL. I'm betting a whole bunch of people don't know that RAID is actually short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. That "Independent/Inexpensive" thing can get contentious in a conversation. Trust me I've seen it some 30+ years ago.
This 4 bay nas is overpriced af... Get yourself a used pc which will definitely come with more ram and a good cpu maybe a sdd... I bought mine for 100$ with a i5 8th gen, 32gb ram and 128gb ssd
That's only true if the time and effort it takes to build/configure and support is priced at zero. If someone asked you to build it for them and then be responsible for any data they put on it. Would you do it for free?
It's confusing to target this video at beginners in NAS while showcasing a maxed-out system. It would have been better to keep it more affordable and aligned with what the audience is likely to purchase. That's what we want to see.
Self-admitted NAS noob here - did I do this setup justice?
You did pretty good for someone just getting in. FYI Setting up Plex with that particular model may not be as pleasant as you wish. That processor doesn't have on-board gpu capable of encoding/decoding video. I have a 923+ on the way but I already have a DS220+ that does have onboard, or I should say integrated graphics on the cpu. So, in my case , the DS220+ will be regulated to EMBY and such whereas the DS923+ will handle everything else, including storing the videos that the DS220+ will play.
While using a RAID setup helps with the data on the NAS, I’d recommend also implementing a backup of your data somewhere: either an external drive separate from the NAS or a cloud backup. It’s still possible that even with RAID, you could lose the data on there.
Great video and overview!!
@@a_blaser yeah good call, was thinking about getting an external HD on Black Friday to plug into the usb port in the front for backup of the most important stuff. Will definitely help me sleep at night haha. Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!
@@JSLReview Try and keep that hard drive at a separate location as well. If someone breaks in or there's a fire etc. (hopefully not, but you never know), then you'll still have another copy elsewhere! There's apparently a known 3-2-1 rule in relation to it...something like keep 3 copies across two types of device in more than one location.
As a mechanical engineer and industrial designer,I have been running NAS systems in my home office since their inception circa 2008.I currently have six multi-drive NAS systems in my home office from Synology,Western Digital and D-Link.I would suggest connecting your Synology NAS to a UPS [Uninterruptible Power Supply] to protect your data in the event of a power outage.
GREAT REVIEW!
Appreciate the early view and the feedback, thank you!
Very helpful. Thank you.
@@jizhang2407 thanks for watching!
The first rule of data safety: RAID is not backup.
At the very least you should add a backup of the data you cannot loose to an external disk as well. DSM comes with several different good to great backup applications to deal with this. It's basically one of the reasons to go with Synology and not some other brand. It's all included.
Not my words. A NAS is not a backup. It's for convient shared mass storage and neat features. RAID (and other schemes) is not a backup, it's to maintain uptime / reduce downtime.
They can fail / the power supply might blow up or fail (expensive ones have two), the board could fail, you might have a fire / flood, it might get stolen, it might get ransomwared.
There are many strategies and it depends on how much money you have and how much you can afford to lose.
@@davenz000 well said, appreciate the comment!
You created your storage pool with SHR synology Hybrid RAID. This is probably better if you wish to change the drives later to larger drives.
NAS is a rabbit hole.... most go down a path that consumes them.
RAID5 is nice for file uptime even if a drive fails you can still use and work on it, but as people point out all the time, its not a replacement for a backup and if possible have 2-3 copies of important data on different devices
@@Mae-nr7wr facts!
there is a chance that only the HDD case circuit board got fried, happened to me but the HDD themselves were just fine and they worked fine when i took them out completely and plugged them
@@Mae-nr7wr yeah I brought it into Best Buy tech support and they couldn’t get it to populate after taking it out of the case and used a different circuit board. But going to get a second opinion, hoping a more advanced technician can figure this out!
One thing I noticed from all videos is of this type, no one ever says what RAID actually stands for. LOL. I'm betting a whole bunch of people don't know that RAID is actually short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. That "Independent/Inexpensive" thing can get contentious in a conversation. Trust me I've seen it some 30+ years ago.
sounds like every other sinology sponsored has video
This 4 bay nas is overpriced af... Get yourself a used pc which will definitely come with more ram and a good cpu maybe a sdd... I bought mine for 100$ with a i5 8th gen, 32gb ram and 128gb ssd
That's only true if the time and effort it takes to build/configure and support is priced at zero. If someone asked you to build it for them and then be responsible for any data they put on it. Would you do it for free?
@Jonteponte71 shut up dude
It's confusing to target this video at beginners in NAS while showcasing a maxed-out system. It would have been better to keep it more affordable and aligned with what the audience is likely to purchase. That's what we want to see.