I just got my DS1522+ 2 weeks ago. After the first week of utter despair and frustration, thinking I might as well write it off as a very expensive shotgun target. I found your wonderfully mastered instructional videos...I'm on course now, and am a patron of your art, Thank you!
Just bought Synology recently, I never used one before, watched all your tutorials, they are great and professional, could setup everything thanks to You. Thanks a lot, greatings from ITALY
Nicely done video. I've been in IT, both on the hardware and software side for 35 years. I had most of this stuff nailed, but you never know when you missed something. In this case, the big one for me was snapshots. Missed it completely. I use Synology exclusively for home use, and help friends with their setups. I have my own data backed-up lots of ways, so I wasn't overly concerned, but having the snapshots is useful for quick recovery. I'd love to chat sometime and compare notes on backups.
Thank you so much for the detailed video. I've had a Synology DS1019+ with a DX517 for over a year and am still learning thanks to videos like these. Well Done!
This was a nice video. Nothing earth shattering. Just good solid suggestions. I found myself logging into each of my three NAS and checking each one for each suggestion. Found a couple items that needed updating. Nice job.
Another great video! Your channel was one of my primary sources for information when I was shopping for and comparing different NAS solutions. Love your easy to tutorials and have followed them since day one.
Will, you saved me a ton of work trying to figure all this NAS stuff out. Your channel is invaluable. Thank you and keep up the good work! Hope your channel becomes the first and last stop for all things NAS.
I just setup my Synology DS1821+ which is in addition to my DS419slim. So, I am not new to NAS, but still learning more and more. I liked the first video and will be checking out additional videos.
Great video! I always dread going into DSM to toy around with settings like I have any idea what I'm doing. This put a couple things into clear perspective for me. Thanks!
Another excellent video. I have a DS1520+ at home and a DS920+ at my son's house. They each provide backup capability for the desktop systems in their respective households, and they back each other up with Hyper Backup. I also use Synology Photos, and will be setting up Synology Calendar for shared calendars without Google. I had already configured most of the things that you suggest, including Quick SMART disk tests, but I had missed Extended SMART disk tests. I also learned to setup a scheduled task to empty recycle bins. I have two small corrections for your users. At 14:32 you say that SONOS uses NTLMv1 authentication. I think you mean that SONOS S1 software uses SMBv1 (I've read that SONOS S2 uses SMBv2), so I don't think anyone needs to enable NTLMv1 on their NAS. The second area appears at 18:31, where you say that people with unstable power from the grid might not want to enable Restart authomatically when power supply issue is fixed. This is a non-issue if you have your NAS plugged into a UPS, and everyone should have a UPS. If you have power fluctuations (it doesn't even need to be a total power failure), you could lose the integrity of your volumes and RAID won't help you. I have a 1500VA UPS powering my NAS, Ethernet switch, Verizon FiOS box, and my router. The NAS is also connected to the UPS via USB so that the UPS can command the NAS to shutdown when the UPS batteries get low. This setup gives me about 90 minutes on battery power, and keeps the NAS running and online to the Internet so it can possibly finish a Hyper Backup task to the remote NAS and then shutdown gracefully. The router's AC adapter is plugged into the UPS, and a low-power extension cord (www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DST8ZCY/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) allows my router to be upstairs. The low-power extension cord is easier to install than 120VAC, it is safer, and won't cause interference in nearby Ethernet cables (since it is DC). BTW, 1500VA is overkill since you really only need to power your NAS long enough for it to shutdown gracefully.
Thanks! I was already doing everything in your video except Active Insight, which I just setup. I have two separate full backups of all files in the air gap (one copy on-site, one copy off-site). I've had a complete system failure and data volume corruption due to a crash during a "change RAID type" operation. Had to get an entire new Synology replacement though maintenance, migrate the main volume, re-initialize the data volume and recover everything from backup. BTW, "Change RAID type" is a very risky operation, as Synology doesn't have any checkpoint/restart or recovery ability. You're almost better off double-checking your backups, then re-initialize and recover from backup instead of doing "change RAID type".
Great video. I've been following you for quite some time and have all of the options set that you covered. It's good though to go back over it again. I'm on my 3rd DS920+, the other two failed due to faulty backplanes and your tutorials have saved me.
18:49 I have my Synology power supply backed up with a UPS which I generally would recommend. There are UPS (uninterrupted power supply) that can communicate with the NAS via USB and the NAS can shut off if the battery runs low.
A little trick I've learned with email notification, learn the email address of your cell phone. Use that as a secondary email for notifications and it will text you without having to use a text service.
Awesome vid. Wish I had seen it before my last drive upgrade, LOL. Found out then that the biggest hog to my drives was the migration files from the prior upgrade.
10 logon attempts within 5 minutes, means that a malicious user is allowed to test 9 passwords every 5 minutes without being noticed (blocked). From a security perspective, the best thing (apart from 2FA) you can do is to expand the time limit for example 12-24 hours. And of course lower the attempts. 5 is more than enough. It's 2023, please use a password manager people! Great video overall!
Do 9 guesses per 5 min. You still have 6,634,204,312,890,625 (95^8) possible passwords with only 8 carectors assuming you have mixed case / special characters. This would take 4 million years to guess doing 10 passwords every 5 min
@@SpaceRexWill Can't argue with maths. However, we discuss about humans, if you know your victim you will not have to test all (95^8) combinations. Have in mind that the word "Password" is in the top 5 of the 100 worst passwords used, for two consecutive years. Anyway, my proposal is based on password management best practices. nothing more nothing less.
Very usefull information, thanks a lot ! The only thing I did not catch total is the snapshot replication, how it is done and how to setup it for for the averaged user...
I liked the video, and i dont know if this is a common problem among other people, but if you could switch to darkmode on the UI would help guys like me, the brightness triggers my migrane HARD! but like i said! good content!
Very helpful video. One thing though. Disabling SMB1, in and of itself, will make SONOS unable to use a Synology NAS for your music library! Maybe this should have been mentioned along with the other settings that mess up SONOS.
19:05 Another case where you don't need it would be if you have an UPS and a powerchute virtual machine that can take care of that for you while having a graceful shutdown on top of it.
Great video my friend I do appreciate the hard work. One thing you could of mentioned is the use of MFA, Microsoft authentication app or google authentication app. Cheers.
Great content!! 👌 Whats the best way to completely disconnect a NAS from internet? Should I set up a small travel router as a closed wifi network to stream content to devices? Thoughts?
you don't disable the built-in admin account. Set a really long password (64 digits) write it on a piece of paper, put that piece of paper in an envelope and lock it in a safe. if you do and you forget the password to your account or get locked out, then the only way to get back into the synology without the built-in admin is to reset which may also cause a loss of data. Dont enable SMBv1, even for Sonos, not worth the potential depending on what data you have on your Synology. Also don't enable NTLMv1. There aren't any modern systems that can't use NTLMv2 or higher.
The process to do a soft reset (password reset) is really non destructive. The only thing it does is reset the network config, set the admin password to blank and flush any stored encryption keys
@SpaceRexWill there are situations where it isn't quite so easy. While I agree with you not to use the built in admin on the regular, creat a separate one and ALSO create a regular user that does not have admin privilege. There is no reason to have constant admin level access to everything. People do that, so people like me have jobs. Always use separate accounts. Treat the built in admin as the break glass account and secure it as such
Not directly related to this excellent video, but I'd love to have you discuss the elephant in the room regarding use of the BTRFS file system. The net is divided on whether this is a reliable file system. Half say it's great, the rest say it's not designed for RAID etc and should not be trusted with your data. Given your consulting experience, it would be fascinating for you to produce a discussion video on this topic.
So if you checkout my BTRFS video I talk about this. Synology does not use BTRFS RAID (different then BTRFS File System) this is the one with the issue with RAID [RAID5 write hole]. Instead synology uses MDADM for RAID, then putting BTRFS on top of this built RAID volume. TLDR synology BTRFS is safe
Are you employed by Synology? Do you have thoughts or suggestions on how to best position the product. I'm considering working for the firm out of their new NA office.
Your videos have been so helpful on my journey with my NAS, thanks a lot! Quick question about disabling the admin account. If I log in with a new (administrator) account, how to I manage to access the "home" folder. I now obviously have a new folder under "homes" but I want to have access to the admin-folder (home). Is that possible? I tried to give my new account all the rights and it still doesn't show me the home folder. Thanks a lot!
For the Empty Bin Task, I accidentally hit yes to "do you want to enable recycle bin for all shared folders"... how do I undo that? Or is it okay to have checked yes for that?
Ok. So I boughht the 4 bay NAS a couple of years ago. I purchased it with 2 drives, leaving the other two empty. I just bought an additional 2 drives. So my question is, can I just insert those 2 drives into the bays and it will automatically add or expand those drives to my overall storage pool? Or is there a process I need to do to make that happen? Or can you do a video on this please?
@SpaceRex - can You do a video on "how to extend Synology lifespan" with tips that can help extend the life of the hardware. For example enable power schedule to power of the NAS at night if it's not used. Thanks
What about daily quick smart tests and weekly/monthly long smart tests? Is it too much? I've read that quick smart tests don't do much, just test if the drive is alive and well; long tests take a while, but even then the read/write commands take precedence so there will be little impact on the users.
Hello! You say in Active Insight section that you can setup email notification through active insight. But I cannot see any such option in my active insight. How should I do it?
Synology is amazing but the only problem that i have is when sharing a public link they try to download and it doesn’t work!! What’s the problem here? 😢
Great videos for newbies, I have a question though. I ran the data scrubbing last night and I got a notification saying successful ran task. Does that mean the data was good or just the task was completed? Is there somewhere I should get checking the results on these tasks? Thanks for all you do!
Hmmm actually not sure. Either way for sure you know your data is good now. I am not sure if they would tell you if they found any errors that they fixed
thank you a million for this video , it really help for a nurd in IT. Got an issue when trying to follow point #5 scrub , I cant enable it say"RAIDI & ext 4 not supported" any comments ?? thanks
Weird, when did you build the storage pool (which DSM?) I think some older ones setup the non expandable (single volume storage pool) option which might not be scrubbable
Do you also recommend all those settings, when using SSDs as storage? I might buy a NAS in the future and since I can only place it really close to where I am sitting everyday, I need it to be quiet.
Question, why does my nas pop up under locations with a blank file icon? Everything seems to be working fine, but when I first got my server running it had a different icon and now it's just a blank file. Thanks!
In synology back up for business, where do I select a folder that I do not want included in my daily back up, eg "my pictures folder", this folder is extremely large and seems to make the back up time very long, would like to have a separate back up for "my pictures"
Love your videos, Ben! Been following you since early days (2013/14?) on Instagram and you’ve only got better and better! Learnt a lot from you about all things photography, thank you!
I have a small home network with just 2 users. On the Allow List, I set the range of my network devices as : 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 . But, since my router is 192.168.1.1, I'm wondering if I should start the range at .2 just to keep it difficult for any bad guys that try to come through the router.
wasn't sure how to get in touch with you, other than here. Have been having a small issue with my nas recently and have found many others experiencing it. I get a notification once a week regarding the Drive database was updated, and a restart is suggested. Everything looks good before/after the restart. However, it has happened about every week for a month. Like I said I've found others experiencing the same issue. Any ideas??
Thanks for the video spacerex! I have a question, on my synology photos app, it wont let me play videos for some reason and it just says. "ERROR Unable to play the video because your certificate is invalid. Please go to More > Settings to enable Play content over HTTP." I did this but it still doesn't work, any ideas?
I think you can if you've got bttrfs, but definitely not with RAID1 and ext4, which is kind of a shame for anybody that wants to use one of these for their primary storage device.
What is the snapshot he says is a better solution ? I can't hear the words. PS: I have a DS220J, so not sure if I can do a snapshot there, but I'd love to have it !!
the problem with recycle bin is that on both Mac and Windows, the Bin empties automatically. But the default behavior on Synology is different, hence the confusion
Is it necessary to even have a recycle bin on a shared folder if I have frequent snapshots running? EDIT: have a recycle bin but have a task to empty it at the same interval (or longer) as the snapshot schedule?
I just got my DS1522+ 2 weeks ago. After the first week of utter despair and frustration, thinking I might as well write it off as a very expensive shotgun target. I found your wonderfully mastered instructional videos...I'm on course now, and am a patron of your art, Thank you!
Appreciate that you not only demonstrated the changes but explained WHY as well as instances we might not configure a particular setting
Just bought Synology recently, I never used one before, watched all your tutorials, they are great and professional, could setup everything thanks to You. Thanks a lot, greatings from ITALY
Finally, someone also says that changing password policy isn't effective at all.
Nicely done video. I've been in IT, both on the hardware and software side for 35 years. I had most of this stuff nailed, but you never know when you missed something. In this case, the big one for me was snapshots. Missed it completely.
I use Synology exclusively for home use, and help friends with their setups. I have my own data backed-up lots of ways, so I wasn't overly concerned, but having the snapshots is useful for quick recovery. I'd love to chat sometime and compare notes on backups.
I just got the 1522+ and without Spacerex, I would have returned it. Dude you are 5 Stars!
Thank you so much for the detailed video. I've had a Synology DS1019+ with a DX517 for over a year and am still learning thanks to videos like these. Well Done!
This was a nice video. Nothing earth shattering. Just good solid suggestions. I found myself logging into each of my three NAS and checking each one for each suggestion. Found a couple items that needed updating. Nice job.
Hey thanks! Exactly what I was going for!
Another great video! Your channel was one of my primary sources for information when I was shopping for and comparing different NAS solutions. Love your easy to tutorials and have followed them since day one.
You completely hit the spot of things I needed to know right now. And you explained them so well. Thank you so much!
Will, you saved me a ton of work trying to figure all this NAS stuff out. Your channel is invaluable. Thank you and keep up the good work! Hope your channel becomes the first and last stop for all things NAS.
thanks man! Thats my goal too!
I just setup my Synology DS1821+ which is in addition to my DS419slim. So, I am not new to NAS, but still learning more and more. I liked the first video and will be checking out additional videos.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for this! Synology arrives tomorrow, excited to have some good storage game again. Love all your videos, very helpful to me.
Great video! I always dread going into DSM to toy around with settings like I have any idea what I'm doing. This put a couple things into clear perspective for me. Thanks!
Glad I could help!
Another excellent video. I have a DS1520+ at home and a DS920+ at my son's house. They each provide backup capability for the desktop systems in their respective households, and they back each other up with Hyper Backup. I also use Synology Photos, and will be setting up Synology Calendar for shared calendars without Google.
I had already configured most of the things that you suggest, including Quick SMART disk tests, but I had missed Extended SMART disk tests. I also learned to setup a scheduled task to empty recycle bins.
I have two small corrections for your users. At 14:32 you say that SONOS uses NTLMv1 authentication. I think you mean that SONOS S1 software uses SMBv1 (I've read that SONOS S2 uses SMBv2), so I don't think anyone needs to enable NTLMv1 on their NAS.
The second area appears at 18:31, where you say that people with unstable power from the grid might not want to enable Restart authomatically when power supply issue is fixed. This is a non-issue if you have your NAS plugged into a UPS, and everyone should have a UPS. If you have power fluctuations (it doesn't even need to be a total power failure), you could lose the integrity of your volumes and RAID won't help you. I have a 1500VA UPS powering my NAS, Ethernet switch, Verizon FiOS box, and my router. The NAS is also connected to the UPS via USB so that the UPS can command the NAS to shutdown when the UPS batteries get low. This setup gives me about 90 minutes on battery power, and keeps the NAS running and online to the Internet so it can possibly finish a Hyper Backup task to the remote NAS and then shutdown gracefully. The router's AC adapter is plugged into the UPS, and a low-power extension cord (www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DST8ZCY/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) allows my router to be upstairs. The low-power extension cord is easier to install than 120VAC, it is safer, and won't cause interference in nearby Ethernet cables (since it is DC). BTW, 1500VA is overkill since you really only need to power your NAS long enough for it to shutdown gracefully.
Thanks! I was already doing everything in your video except Active Insight, which I just setup. I have two separate full backups of all files in the air gap (one copy on-site, one copy off-site). I've had a complete system failure and data volume corruption due to a crash during a "change RAID type" operation. Had to get an entire new Synology replacement though maintenance, migrate the main volume, re-initialize the data volume and recover everything from backup. BTW, "Change RAID type" is a very risky operation, as Synology doesn't have any checkpoint/restart or recovery ability. You're almost better off double-checking your backups, then re-initialize and recover from backup instead of doing "change RAID type".
Great video. I've been following you for quite some time and have all of the options set that you covered. It's good though to go back over it again. I'm on my 3rd DS920+, the other two failed due to faulty backplanes and your tutorials have saved me.
I’m glad!
How long did each of your DS920+ last before failing? As a fellow DS920+ (working fine after 1 year), this is concerning
@@pkennethv the first one was a week and the second roughly a month.
You are such a great help! Thank you!
And I totally agree with password expiration. Was proven useless a long time ago. Thank you for emphasizing it!
Thanks for the info on the minimums. I check back here frequently for information and how to. Still learning and you are a go to for information.
18:49 I have my Synology power supply backed up with a UPS which I generally would recommend. There are UPS (uninterrupted power supply) that can communicate with the NAS via USB and the NAS can shut off if the battery runs low.
Totally brilliant instruction. Made setting up my new NAS so much easier.Thank you
A little trick I've learned with email notification, learn the email address of your cell phone. Use that as a secondary email for notifications and it will text you without having to use a text service.
Lovee your athenticity and passion for this whole industry/subject!
Awesome vid. Wish I had seen it before my last drive upgrade, LOL. Found out then that the biggest hog to my drives was the migration files from the prior upgrade.
10 logon attempts within 5 minutes, means that a malicious user is allowed to test 9 passwords every 5 minutes without being noticed (blocked). From a security perspective, the best thing (apart from 2FA) you can do is to expand the time limit for example 12-24 hours. And of course lower the attempts. 5 is more than enough. It's 2023, please use a password manager people! Great video overall!
Do 9 guesses per 5 min. You still have 6,634,204,312,890,625 (95^8) possible passwords with only 8 carectors assuming you have mixed case / special characters. This would take 4 million years to guess doing 10 passwords every 5 min
@@SpaceRexWill Can't argue with maths. However, we discuss about humans, if you know your victim you will not have to test all (95^8) combinations. Have in mind that the word "Password" is in the top 5 of the 100 worst passwords used, for two consecutive years. Anyway, my proposal is based on password management best practices. nothing more nothing less.
Thank you for the detailed suggestions, very helpful.
Awesome! You always give the greatest tips. Thanks!
Your videos are incredibly helpful thanks
Awesome job with a bunch of great information! You Rock!!! Thanks a million!!!
Very usefull information, thanks a lot ! The only thing I did not catch total is the snapshot replication, how it is done and how to setup it for for the averaged user...
th-cam.com/video/P-9osuSdGGI/w-d-xo.html all of it here!
Amazing! Glad I looked for such a video 😃
I liked the video, and i dont know if this is a common problem among other people, but if you could switch to darkmode on the UI would help guys like me, the brightness triggers my migrane HARD! but like i said! good content!
Your tutorials are awesome. Thank you!
Very helpful video. Thank you!
Will: Don't forget to empty your recycle bins!
Me, a hoarder: What is a bin, precious?
Thanks very informative, have nearly all the points covered except Snapshots.
Very helpful video. One thing though. Disabling SMB1, in and of itself, will make SONOS unable to use a Synology NAS for your music library! Maybe this should have been mentioned along with the other settings that mess up SONOS.
thank you fort this video. helped me a lot configurating my new system
Glad it helped!
19:05 Another case where you don't need it would be if you have an UPS and a powerchute virtual machine that can take care of that for you while having a graceful shutdown on top of it.
Hello! Love your videos. Happy New Year! I am wondering if you have a video on updating from an old NAS (DS220J) to a new NAS (DS224+) Thank you!
Excellent video, Will - thanks so much!
Glad you liked it!
Great video my friend I do appreciate the hard work.
One thing you could of mentioned is the use of MFA, Microsoft authentication app or google authentication app.
Cheers.
Thank you! Your videos are greatly appreciated!
The man is a Genius!
Thank you, some great suggestions that I had not thought of.
Superb video...thanks for sharing your expertise!!!
Thanx for your expert advice!
Subscribed. Regret didn't have this during my first setup
Great content!! 👌 Whats the best way to completely disconnect a NAS from internet? Should I set up a small travel router as a closed wifi network to stream content to devices? Thoughts?
you don't disable the built-in admin account. Set a really long password (64 digits) write it on a piece of paper, put that piece of paper in an envelope and lock it in a safe. if you do and you forget the password to your account or get locked out, then the only way to get back into the synology without the built-in admin is to reset which may also cause a loss of data. Dont enable SMBv1, even for Sonos, not worth the potential depending on what data you have on your Synology. Also don't enable NTLMv1. There aren't any modern systems that can't use NTLMv2 or higher.
The process to do a soft reset (password reset) is really non destructive. The only thing it does is reset the network config, set the admin password to blank and flush any stored encryption keys
@SpaceRexWill there are situations where it isn't quite so easy.
While I agree with you not to use the built in admin on the regular, creat a separate one and ALSO create a regular user that does not have admin privilege.
There is no reason to have constant admin level access to everything.
People do that, so people like me have jobs.
Always use separate accounts.
Treat the built in admin as the break glass account and secure it as such
Synology Active Insight has notifications that intruders we’re trying to access my NAS. The AutoBlock prevention worked great.
And is DSM 7.2 they are going to be getting even better!
Not directly related to this excellent video, but I'd love to have you discuss the elephant in the room regarding use of the BTRFS file system. The net is divided on whether this is a reliable file system. Half say it's great, the rest say it's not designed for RAID etc and should not be trusted with your data.
Given your consulting experience, it would be fascinating for you to produce a discussion video on this topic.
So if you checkout my BTRFS video I talk about this.
Synology does not use BTRFS RAID (different then BTRFS File System) this is the one with the issue with RAID [RAID5 write hole]. Instead synology uses MDADM for RAID, then putting BTRFS on top of this built RAID volume.
TLDR synology BTRFS is safe
@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for taking the time to respond. I will go check out your other video :)
Are you employed by Synology? Do you have thoughts or suggestions on how to best position the product. I'm considering working for the firm out of their new NA office.
haha I am in no way employed or associated with Synology so I cannot be much help here
Thanks. This was educative and helpful. 👍😃
Thank you, super helpful video.
Data scrubbing is for NAS with more than 2 drives (just a heads up)
Thought you might have a recommend and how to video on snap shots… I didn’t see it listed in the notes/comments. Thanks
Good idea here is a link: th-cam.com/video/P-9osuSdGGI/w-d-xo.html
Great content! Thanks for sharing :)
Your videos have been so helpful on my journey with my NAS, thanks a lot! Quick question about disabling the admin account. If I log in with a new (administrator) account, how to I manage to access the "home" folder. I now obviously have a new folder under "homes" but I want to have access to the admin-folder (home). Is that possible? I tried to give my new account all the rights and it still doesn't show me the home folder. Thanks a lot!
For the Empty Bin Task, I accidentally hit yes to "do you want to enable recycle bin for all shared folders"... how do I undo that? Or is it okay to have checked yes for that?
Ok. So I boughht the 4 bay NAS a couple of years ago. I purchased it with 2 drives, leaving the other two empty. I just bought an additional 2 drives. So my question is, can I just insert those 2 drives into the bays and it will automatically add or expand those drives to my overall storage pool? Or is there a process I need to do to make that happen? Or can you do a video on this please?
Some great tips here!
I’m glad!
10:40 Be sure to do this from Storage Manager, not Task Scheduler, as it doesn't have the SMART options in there.
Excellent, Thank you
@SpaceRex - can You do a video on "how to extend Synology lifespan" with tips that can help extend the life of the hardware. For example enable power schedule to power of the NAS at night if it's not used. Thanks
What about daily quick smart tests and weekly/monthly long smart tests? Is it too much? I've read that quick smart tests don't do much, just test if the drive is alive and well; long tests take a while, but even then the read/write commands take precedence so there will be little impact on the users.
Hello!
You say in Active Insight section that you can setup email notification through active insight. But I cannot see any such option in my active insight. How should I do it?
It just automatically does it!
@@SpaceRexWill ah, I see. Thanks!
Synology is amazing but the only problem that i have is when sharing a public link they try to download and it doesn’t work!! What’s the problem here? 😢
Great videos for newbies, I have a question though. I ran the data scrubbing last night and I got a notification saying successful ran task. Does that mean the data was good or just the task was completed? Is there somewhere I should get checking the results on these tasks? Thanks for all you do!
Hmmm actually not sure. Either way for sure you know your data is good now. I am not sure if they would tell you if they found any errors that they fixed
Will synology active backup for business work outside my NAS's network? Is there a good article on how to get that to work?
super useful...thank you!
Thanks!
Thanks man!
thank you a million for this video , it really help for a nurd in IT. Got an issue when trying to follow point #5 scrub , I cant enable it say"RAIDI & ext 4 not supported" any comments ?? thanks
Weird, when did you build the storage pool (which DSM?) I think some older ones setup the non expandable (single volume storage pool) option which might not be scrubbable
@@SpaceRexWill Thanks but my machine is barely 6 months old :((
Do you also recommend all those settings, when using SSDs as storage? I might buy a NAS in the future and since I can only place it really close to where I am sitting everyday, I need it to be quiet.
Yes I do!
@@SpaceRexWill So the S.M.A.R.T. test won't mess with SSDs?
SSD’s still have SMART tests!
@@SpaceRexWill I see. Thank you.
yes this a cool product shame they are so expensive to buy I would love one
Question, why does my nas pop up under locations with a blank file icon? Everything seems to be working fine, but when I first got my server running it had a different icon and now it's just a blank file.
Thanks!
In synology back up for business, where do I select a folder that I do not want included in my daily back up, eg "my pictures folder", this folder is extremely large and seems to make the back up time very long, would like to have a separate back up for "my pictures"
Excellent video
Love your videos, Ben! Been following you since early days (2013/14?) on Instagram and you’ve only got better and better! Learnt a lot from you about all things photography, thank you!
I have a small home network with just 2 users. On the Allow List, I set the range of my network devices as : 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 . But, since my router is 192.168.1.1, I'm wondering if I should start the range at .2 just to keep it difficult for any bad guys that try to come through the router.
The bad guys likely are not coming in with the IP from the router
As always a great video!
wasn't sure how to get in touch with you, other than here. Have been having a small issue with my nas recently and have found many others experiencing it. I get a notification once a week regarding the Drive database was updated, and a restart is suggested. Everything looks good before/after the restart. However, it has happened about every week for a month. Like I said I've found others experiencing the same issue. Any ideas??
Thanks for the video spacerex! I have a question, on my synology photos app, it wont let me play videos for some reason and it just says. "ERROR Unable to play the video because your certificate is invalid. Please go to More > Settings to enable Play content over HTTP."
I did this but it still doesn't work, any ideas?
cool, didn't know about the auto-restart on power failure setting so thank you for that. Is there a way to convert a volume to BTRFS from ext4?
There is not :( without blowing away and rebuilding from backups
I have my task schedule overnight i guess that's a good time
Another great video👌
Thanks!
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Thank you!
Thanks for the helpful video! About admin: why not to rename it to something less obvious and use this account for administration?
You cannot rename this admin account. Its a system internal account. What you do is you create a new user and just give them admin rights
Great video , Good stuff !
Great video thanks, what synology do you recommend if I also want to run a plex server on it?
920+ probably
Nice tips! However, it seems that Data Scrubbing is not supported in SHR with less than 3 drives, which is a bummer for people using a 2 bay NAS...
I think you can if you've got bttrfs, but definitely not with RAID1 and ext4, which is kind of a shame for anybody that wants to use one of these for their primary storage device.
What camera and lens are you using in this video? Dynamic range is decent.
Just got the R7 in clog3. I was pretty shocked by those highlights in the window not being blown out! Absolutely destroyed my old BMP6K
What is the snapshot he says is a better solution ? I can't hear the words. PS: I have a DS220J, so not sure if I can do a snapshot there, but I'd love to have it !!
Oh and thanks, you have great videos, super useful !! :)
the problem with recycle bin is that on both Mac and Windows, the Bin empties automatically. But the default behavior on Synology is different, hence the confusion
Yeah, and I think most people just don’t see it when they are setting it up
Ok. mine is set up in raid1. I don't understand how i could possbily need a backup. please explain
Love it!
How to sync the Nas in some city's with not same network speed?
Gold!
Is it necessary to even have a recycle bin on a shared folder if I have frequent snapshots running? EDIT: have a recycle bin but have a task to empty it at the same interval (or longer) as the snapshot schedule?
I would say disable the recycling bin
I have a 1512+ at home. So it's 10 years old. Can it still be usable these days? Can I use it in combination with the 1522+ ?
Should be ok for a hyper backup destination of the 1522+