This was generally a great overview of good practices in setting up a NAS. Not just for business but for home use; any situation where you have multiple users. Well done again Will.
I've had a 918+ for about 7 years now and just had it as a home setup. I'm now thinking about hosting my own website and really have it setup properly and your videos have been great. Currently backing up my files to an external drive to wipe the NAS and start fresh! Thank Will for the content and detailed videos!
Will - your channel has evolved so much. You have absolutely HANDS DOWN the best Synology content out there. I own an IT business and deploy Synology all the time and yet, I never fail to learn something from you. You cover everything in just the right amount of detail. I normally create separate Synology accounts for every NAS. Do you recommend I just use my Synology account and nest all of my client NAS devices under that for easier management?
I really appreciate the depth of information you present in your videos. Being new to Synology your channel has saved me many, many hours of trial and error. There is however, something I haven't been able to figure out: I have multiple wordpress websites and I don't know where to begin to set them up so each unique domain name gets to the right website. I was thinking this could be done in container manager, but I just don't understand this (I haven't done IT stuff for over 10 years). Could you do an in-depth video on everything required to do this from DDNS, ports, containers, etc...? I know from searching the internet for this information that I'm not the only one that is stuck. Many thanks!
GREAT Video! How can you test the encryption key that was created in the early step where it was downloaded for us to save? I wouldn't want to find out it was a bad file when I needed it.
@SpaceRex Can you go into greater detail about "Record File Access Time"? For most things you explain the reasoning for a setting being a particular way quite in depth. I did try searching the answer on my own and from what I found on Synology forums and Reddit was mostly a couple people suggesting to leave it enabled with the logic that you dont want to hack away at system functionality for a slight bump in metadata size. Would really like to know your thoughts on the subject and the reason for your recommendation to disable it.
so i basically use Dropbox as my "server" and our 12 employees log into it, what i want to do is backup/mirror my dropbox, ALL users, even their dropbox main folder, trying to figure out if Synology is the way to go, and how to go about that . this video is Synology as main server, and then backup that to cloud, HD. or another NAS....ideas??
Great video! I have a pair of RS1619xs+ set up in high availability mode. That model doesn't allow Volume level encryption. Do you think it is advisable to set encryption up at the shared folder level? How much of a performance degradation is there? Does the encryption provide protection for anything other than physical theft?
I really just need a video explaining this for dummies, me. I just got the DS923+, 4x 4tb drives. I have it all connected and setup. SHR-2 RAID selected. All I want to do is backup my internal PC drives into an automated daily backup. I'm not going to use any offsite storage. I just want my 4 drives backed up into my NAS. Do I use the Hyper or just the Drive Client app? I have one drive for Design, Music Production and Video Projects. Drive 2 is only music samples that plugins use. 3rd drive is mostly documents, 4th drive is general, photos, personal docs maybe some MP3's. The only thing my NAS will be doing is performing daily sync backups of those 4 internal drives. Suggestions please.
Hi, thanks for your helpful videos. Does there exist an easy sync of multiple NAS, where my NAS creates a safety copy on my parents NAS and vice versa? This would be cool.
What about using Synology Drive Sync to sync to another NAS off-site? This way, you have High Availability-- in case NAS1 dies, NAS2 is ready and waiting. Then, snapshots can be enabled on at least one of the NAS'. I think this is technically a 3-2-1 backup as well.
So Synology drive share sync is not bulletproof in my experience. It sometimes has issues where a file might not sync, but goes undetected. I only use it as an offsite if the person will be using it to access files and can test
Probably a stupid question, but why only recommend SHR-1/2 for drives less than 16 TB? Just setup my first NAS with 16 TB drives chose SHR-2… should I wipe and start over?
Rex, random question here about iCloud Keychain passwords and quick connect URLs. I have 5 of my own synologies. And I manage 5 clients each with 2-3 Synology servers. And when I use iCloud Keychain to store my admin login they always override and get confused with different logins. I know this has something to do with how quick connect URLS work. And the all get connected to the same keychain entry. Is there a trick to work around this? And/or have you heard that Synology is trying to work on a solution for this in the near future? This may be good for a video. And/or can you quickly offer a tip or words of wisdom in this comment. Thanks , as always , for all the fantastic videos. - Eric ZORK Alan & Sweetie [ 🤣Professional🤣Poets & Bed 🛏️ & Beer🍺 Vloggers ]
I'm having trouble with the email notification. I used to be able to use the synology mail service as Will suggests in the video, however after a hard drive migration(from 920+ to 1522+), it stopped working. The test email is said to be successfully sent, yet I never received the email. I had to use the gmail for the time being (same email that the synology email server should send to). Anynone know how to fix this? Thanks
Hi there - I've just setup my Synology 923 - Im a video editor and have a direct USB C cable linking my Synology to my mac - is this the correct way fo doing it?
My only question is what is the benefit of a NAS over an external hard drive ? Watched a lot of different videos and the only thing I can see would be simpler expansion. Question is for someone that is just ripping movies and TV shows using Apple TV is a NAS worth it ? My old external is dying so I just was looking at option, but the NAS systems seems to be a lot more in price for benefits I don't think I will use.
A Nas is much much more that an external drive. But for the sake of simplicity, a Nas is an external drive that…. Will constantly test the disk and warn you when it’s about to fail Will be accessible from any computer on you local network Will be accessible from any PC anywhere in the world Your files , movies, music doc etc will be accessible on your mobile phone or tablet remotely using its app. You can use it as your own cloud You can use it to clone your existing Dropbox, Google Drive, one drive, Evernote accounts etc You can host your own email accout You can host your own website You can use it to host and archive your surveillance camera footage You can host your own chat / texting platform You can automate backups to another drive, the cloud or another NAS You can give others remote access to specific files You can create your your own photo archive similar to that of Google with all the capabilities You can use it to host other external drives and Printers. It can give old legacy printers the ability to have Airplay for wireless apple devises to print to them Easy to expand storage or migrate storage. This is only about 20% of its uses.
Question for you. I just got a second synology NAS but i want to keep the first one online. The first one uses port 5000. is there a specific port i need to use for the second one or does it not matter
Basically every time you open a file, it records the time it was opened last. Very few programs ever read this, and it means that every read also has a write to disks. This just slows the volume down and makes snapshots less efficient as they have to record a change, even if there was no change
This is not a beginner question but if ANYBODY KNOW PLS! Is there a way to hide shared folders from Users without permission. Im talking being invisible from them even seeing the folders? the "Hide subfolders and files..." does not do this.
go to your control panel in your synology, shared folders, then on each share you want to do this, check the box that says " Hide sub-folders and files from users without permissions" That should do it unless you want to hide the whole share. If you want to hide the whole share, either the above also works or you have to do with SpaceRexWill said and check the "Hide this share in "My network places" That should work, though i don't bother with using them myself.
Great stuff for us with small businesses👍 Now if I can only figure out how to stop working without pay 70% of the year funding foreign wars and elitist limitless spending😁
synology = waste of time, they have 108TB volume limit, now with 24TB disks and more that limit will be reached really fast, soon Seagate 32TB are here, so even 4 bay synology wont even have enough volume for those drives.
Hi SpaceRex. Thank you for such useful and interesting content. Please help, how can I solve this problem that haunts me: I can’t connect to the NAS/DSM (DS 423+) via DDNS from the local network (both via wifi and cable). Via local ip, synologynas.local, find.synology - everything is fine. But if you enable VPN in your browser, then I can log in without any problems as I wrote above (local network, DDNS by IP DDNS and by host name). I turn off the VPN - the same thing again. This problem follows me... Thanks in advance
This was generally a great overview of good practices in setting up a NAS. Not just for business but for home use; any situation where you have multiple users. Well done again Will.
This is awesome. Great video for the archives. I've been using Synology since 2009 and still picked up some tips.
I've had a 918+ for about 7 years now and just had it as a home setup. I'm now thinking about hosting my own website and really have it setup properly and your videos have been great. Currently backing up my files to an external drive to wipe the NAS and start fresh! Thank Will for the content and detailed videos!
This was an excellent and very informative video Will. Thank you Sir.
Will - your channel has evolved so much. You have absolutely HANDS DOWN the best Synology content out there. I own an IT business and deploy Synology all the time and yet, I never fail to learn something from you. You cover everything in just the right amount of detail. I normally create separate Synology accounts for every NAS. Do you recommend I just use my Synology account and nest all of my client NAS devices under that for easier management?
Synology have come such a long way. Luv Synology 👍👍👍👍
Incredible video! Thank you so much for this guide. Do you talk about what hard drives/ssd and raid to buy for the NAS in any of your videos?
Amazing! Thanks SpaceRex
Thanks again for a great video.
Would be cool to see someone do videos on setting up synology with an erp/crm stuff that's actually game changers for small biz.
I really appreciate the depth of information you present in your videos. Being new to Synology your channel has saved me many, many hours of trial and error. There is however, something I haven't been able to figure out: I have multiple wordpress websites and I don't know where to begin to set them up so each unique domain name gets to the right website. I was thinking this could be done in container manager, but I just don't understand this (I haven't done IT stuff for over 10 years). Could you do an in-depth video on everything required to do this from DDNS, ports, containers, etc...? I know from searching the internet for this information that I'm not the only one that is stuck. Many thanks!
Very useful information! Thanks!
GREAT Video! How can you test the encryption key that was created in the early step where it was downloaded for us to save? I wouldn't want to find out it was a bad file when I needed it.
Awesome video! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Thank you!
@SpaceRex Can you go into greater detail about "Record File Access Time"? For most things you explain the reasoning for a setting being a particular way quite in depth.
I did try searching the answer on my own and from what I found on Synology forums and Reddit was mostly a couple people suggesting to leave it enabled with the logic that you dont want to hack away at system functionality for a slight bump in metadata size.
Would really like to know your thoughts on the subject and the reason for your recommendation to disable it.
so i basically use Dropbox as my "server" and our 12 employees log into it, what i want to do is backup/mirror my dropbox, ALL users, even their dropbox main folder, trying to figure out if Synology is the way to go, and how to go about that .
this video is Synology as main server, and then backup that to cloud, HD. or another NAS....ideas??
Great video! I have a pair of RS1619xs+ set up in high availability mode. That model doesn't allow Volume level encryption. Do you think it is advisable to set encryption up at the shared folder level? How much of a performance degradation is there? Does the encryption provide protection for anything other than physical theft?
I really just need a video explaining this for dummies, me. I just got the DS923+, 4x 4tb drives. I have it all connected and setup. SHR-2 RAID selected. All I want to do is backup my internal PC drives into an automated daily backup. I'm not going to use any offsite storage. I just want my 4 drives backed up into my NAS. Do I use the Hyper or just the Drive Client app? I have one drive for Design, Music Production and Video Projects. Drive 2 is only music samples that plugins use. 3rd drive is mostly documents, 4th drive is general, photos, personal docs maybe some MP3's. The only thing my NAS will be doing is performing daily sync backups of those 4 internal drives. Suggestions please.
Hi, thanks for your helpful videos. Does there exist an easy sync of multiple NAS, where my NAS creates a safety copy on my parents NAS and vice versa? This would be cool.
What about using Synology Drive Sync to sync to another NAS off-site? This way, you have High Availability-- in case NAS1 dies, NAS2 is ready and waiting. Then, snapshots can be enabled on at least one of the NAS'. I think this is technically a 3-2-1 backup as well.
So Synology drive share sync is not bulletproof in my experience. It sometimes has issues where a file might not sync, but goes undetected. I only use it as an offsite if the person will be using it to access files and can test
@spacerex Why should you increase your hard drive size once it has reached 50% to 80% capacity? You mentioned this at 3:40 of the video?
Is there a subscription fee with synology for accessing a synology nas remotely?
Probably a stupid question, but why only recommend SHR-1/2 for drives less than 16 TB? Just setup my first NAS with 16 TB drives chose SHR-2… should I wipe and start over?
Hi there, can you please explain how Microsoft Windows users can access their folder without having to manually type in their credentials every time.
what would be the next step up from the DS1522+ (6 to 8 drives)
Rex, random question here about iCloud Keychain passwords and quick connect URLs. I have 5 of my own synologies. And I manage 5 clients each with 2-3 Synology servers. And when I use iCloud Keychain to store my admin login they always override and get confused with different logins. I know this has something to do with how quick connect URLS work. And the all get connected to the same keychain entry. Is there a trick to work around this? And/or have you heard that Synology is trying to work on a solution for this in the near future? This may be good for a video. And/or can you quickly offer a tip or words of wisdom in this comment. Thanks , as always , for all the fantastic videos.
- Eric ZORK Alan & Sweetie [ 🤣Professional🤣Poets & Bed 🛏️ & Beer🍺 Vloggers ]
I'm having trouble with the email notification. I used to be able to use the synology mail service as Will suggests in the video, however after a hard drive migration(from 920+ to 1522+), it stopped working. The test email is said to be successfully sent, yet I never received the email. I had to use the gmail for the time being (same email that the synology email server should send to). Anynone know how to fix this? Thanks
Hi there - I've just setup my Synology 923 - Im a video editor and have a direct USB C cable linking my Synology to my mac - is this the correct way fo doing it?
My only question is what is the benefit of a NAS over an external hard drive ? Watched a lot of different videos and the only thing I can see would be simpler expansion. Question is for someone that is just ripping movies and TV shows using Apple TV is a NAS worth it ? My old external is dying so I just was looking at option, but the NAS systems seems to be a lot more in price for benefits I don't think I will use.
A Nas is much much more that an external drive. But for the sake of simplicity, a Nas is an external drive that….
Will constantly test the disk and warn you when it’s about to fail
Will be accessible from any computer on you local network
Will be accessible from any PC anywhere in the world
Your files , movies, music doc etc will be accessible on your mobile phone or tablet remotely using its app.
You can use it as your own cloud
You can use it to clone your existing Dropbox, Google Drive, one drive, Evernote accounts etc
You can host your own email accout
You can host your own website
You can use it to host and archive your surveillance camera footage
You can host your own chat / texting platform
You can automate backups to another drive, the cloud or another NAS
You can give others remote access to specific files
You can create your your own photo archive similar to that of Google with all the capabilities
You can use it to host other external drives and Printers.
It can give old legacy printers the ability to have Airplay for wireless apple devises to print to them
Easy to expand storage or migrate storage.
This is only about 20% of its uses.
Question for you. I just got a second synology NAS but i want to keep the first one online. The first one uses port 5000. is there a specific port i need to use for the second one or does it not matter
what is "record file access time frequency" good for? And what does it do? thanks
Basically every time you open a file, it records the time it was opened last.
Very few programs ever read this, and it means that every read also has a write to disks. This just slows the volume down and makes snapshots less efficient as they have to record a change, even if there was no change
@@SpaceRexWillthank you. That means that Synology should set it to "never" as default.
This is not a beginner question but if ANYBODY KNOW PLS!
Is there a way to hide shared folders from Users without permission. Im talking being invisible from them even seeing the folders? the "Hide subfolders and files..." does not do this.
You have to hit 'hide folder from network' but this will hide it from everyone. They would have to manaully type the folder name to get there
go to your control panel in your synology, shared folders, then on each share you want to do this, check the box that says " Hide sub-folders and files from users without permissions" That should do it unless you want to hide the whole share. If you want to hide the whole share, either the above also works or you have to do with SpaceRexWill said and check the "Hide this share in "My network places"
That should work, though i don't bother with using them myself.
Go to Control Panel -> File Services and Check „Hide Shared Folders from Users without permission“
Thank you for reply... Yeah okay you mean by using the CMD+k and smb://x.xx.x.xxxx/sharedFolder@@SpaceRexWill
Great stuff for us with small businesses👍
Now if I can only figure out how to stop working without pay 70% of the year funding foreign wars and elitist limitless spending😁
How come you don’t have Blue LED lights in the background? You’re not a serious TH-camr then💁🏼
So tired of the LED aesthetic
synology = waste of time, they have 108TB volume limit, now with 24TB disks and more that limit will be reached really fast, soon Seagate 32TB are here, so even 4 bay synology wont even have enough volume for those drives.
I’ve emailed you a few times to see if you are watching this Ugreen situation? They have potential to disrupt Synology
Hi SpaceRex. Thank you for such useful and interesting content.
Please help, how can I solve this problem that haunts me: I can’t connect to the NAS/DSM (DS 423+) via DDNS from the local network (both via wifi and cable). Via local ip, synologynas.local, find.synology - everything is fine. But if you enable VPN in your browser, then I can log in without any problems as I wrote above (local network, DDNS by IP DDNS and by host name). I turn off the VPN - the same thing again.
This problem follows me...
Thanks in advance