Should I make a video on HOW to create your own NAS? Like, with a raspberry pi????? Replace your mountain of hard drives: bit.ly/3dhfHiG Protect your data: bit.ly/3wWrVW1 *Sponsored by Synology Get a NAS --------------------------------------------------- Synology 2-Bay: geni.us/FGGB (Small) Synology 4-Bay: geni.us/4El2i (my FAVORITE) Hard Drives: geni.us/HtyQL Crazy Cloud Storage (Google Workspace): bit.ly/3h9Xkxt 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck membership: bit.ly/3riRhek SUPPORT NETWORKCHUCK --------------------------------------------------- ➡️NetworkChuck membership: bit.ly/3riRhek ☕☕ COFFEE and MERCH: NetworkChuck.coffee Check out my new channel, bit.ly/nc_clips 🆘🆘NEED HELP?? Join the Discord Server: discord.gg/networkchuck STUDY WITH ME on Twitch: bit.ly/nc_twitch READY TO LEARN?? --------------------------------------------------- -Learn Python: bit.ly/3rzZjzz -Get your CCNA: bit.ly/nc-ccna FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE --------------------------------------------------- Instagram: instagram.com/networkchuck/ Twitter: twitter.com/networkchuck Facebook: facebook.com/NetworkChuck/ Join the Discord server: bit.ly/nc-discord 0:00 ⏩ Intro 0:45 ⏩ What is a NAS?? 1:41 ⏩ Why use a NAS instead of a hard drive? 2:22 ⏩ 3 Reasons why I use my NAS!! 2:23 ⏩ Reason 1: I Ran Out Of Storage!! 2:36 ⏩ Reason 2: I'm Scared!! 3:03 ⏩ Reason 3: I need access to my data everywhere!! 3:26 ⏩ BONUS Reason: I want to do COOL STUFF!! 5:55 ⏩ Why use a NAS instead of the cloud? 6:16 ⏩ I'm Scared!! 9:04. ⏩ Hybrid Cloud 12:31 ⏩ How does the NAS connect? 13:31 ⏩ How to access your files outside of your home? 14:56 ⏩ Why this?? 16:41 ⏩ Backup Feature!! 18:01 ⏩ Time for Fun! 20:08 ⏩ Synology Drive! 21:40 ⏩ Get a NAS!!! AFFILIATES & REFERRALS --------------------------------------------------- (GEAR I USE...STUFF I RECOMMEND) My network gear: geni.us/L6wyIUj Amazon Affiliate Store: www.amazon.com/shop/networkchuck Buy a Raspberry Pi: geni.us/aBeqAL #loadbalancer #kemp #homenetwork
Man, you're awesome. I'm an IT guy myself and teaching IT subjects to non-IT persons can sometimes be challenging for them. If teachers taught lessons the way you did in your videos then we'd have smarter folks around doing/teaching this stuff. Hats off to you, dude!
*_" I'm an IT guy myself and teaching IT subjects to non-IT persons can sometimes be challenging for them. If teachers taught lessons the way you did in your videos then we'd have smarter folks around doing/teaching this stuff."_* I ensure you that he's anything but a good teacher, starting with his whole weird attitude, and you should read what many people on Reddit have to say about that.
I think old PC is taking more power than small Synology NAS. Also Synology is expensive because of own apps not because of hardware. They have many own apps well made that works always whenever you need them. They are just worth that money. You can built own NAS for free with free stuff but questionable is the quality of it, in free aps you don't have warranty of working.
if you make money as entrepreneur on the web, I mean even if you are an accountant or web designer, a good system to backup your files is required and even less costly than a real container.
Dude, I have been a Software Engineer for the last 39 years. Seen and dealt with many IT guys. I wish we had someone like you. You're just awesome. Love your videos!
Chuck I think you hit the nail on the head. I just took a 2 TB hard drive that I had laying around that was from my previous system, and I bought a Synology DS120j. I'm almost wishing I had done this sooner. I just need it mainly for personal reasons, so the fact that it's very entry level doesn't bother me. Everything is working extremely well.
Hey Chuck. I just want to thank you for inspiring me to do networking. I'm just a delivery guy and I just felt like I needed something more. And thanks to you, I'm well on my way to doing my CCNA exam.
I got given a Synology RS3614xs+ that was being thrown out. I'm backing up my PCs on it and running a Minecraft server in Docker. I've also modded it with noctua fans so it's really quiet now. Love this thing.
Get a NAS, yes absolutely. Oh and one more thing to consider, you can crack open the external cases and „harvest“ the harddrives. This will save you money when starting out with a NAS, especially cool if using Synology Hybrid RAID, because it allows to mix different harddrive capacity. I advise to avoid 2 bay NAS systems, if possible, because expanding a RAID1 is expensive with bigger drives. It is better having 4 x 3 TB in a RAID5 than 2 x 8 TB in a RAID1.
I just love watching your videos. The excitement you show while teaching us the viewers, it's just awe-inspiring. Thanks to you and your videos.. At the age of 59, I decided to start a new journey in my life. I just got a Technical Support Fundamentals certificate and one for introduction to Linux. Thank you, sir.
Totally agree with this! I moved from about 4 external drives to an 8-bay NAS with off-site mirroring a year ago, and it has made all the difference. SO much better now, faster, more accessible, more secure and redundant. Love it!
Thanks! Don’t stop producing content. Please. From a Long time, listener and first time poster. You have all my likes. I recommend this video to everyone who is looking into a NASty setup.
Also beware, if you're using extremely large disks, you may want to consider RAID 6. It would take too long to get too into it, but chances of data loss increase the longer it's sitting rebuilding that new drive. It has apparently been an issue with RAID 5 and the ever increasing sizes of drives, there's many videos about this on youtube, some explain better than others.
Backup is an implementation detail of restore. Tell your audience to periodically test they can restore from backup. Sometimes you find your backups have been silently failing. Also RAID-6 >> RAID-5 especially when you don't have offsite backups. Love synology products. I like your channel.
I've starting watching your channel like 2 years ago and have stepped away until this past month. You have grown SO MUCH and have really improved everything about your videos. They are great! Educationally and humorous. Keep it up man. You inspire me with your depth of explanation and teaching style.
Awesome video Chuck. I've always built my own NAS systems, but I decided about 2 years ago to go with Synology. They are the way to go. I manage IT for a Broadcast company and I have moved everything over to Synology. It is allowing me to eliminate DropBox and share files direct. I put in 10GbE networking for fast edits. Hell, we cut 12 camera multicam projects off of the Synology DS1821+. I have a NAS that I built at home, but I love Synology so much that I'm saving to install a DS1821+ at home. The NAS isn't the expensive part, it is the 16TB drives I want to put in it. Then I'm going to sync my archive video server to my home so I have off-site as well as cloud backup. Your energy is justified about NAS and about Synology. Great products and all of their software packages are ridiculous easy to use. So yeah, I second your statement. You need a NAS!
This guy is a good salesman. I'm half way through, never needed more than 2 hdds and cloud backup, a spare old pc and internet. Now I've just ordered my first Nas with 63 Yoda Bytes and 3.9 Tera flops. I still need another 2.9 million bays all for my family phone pictures 😂😂😅😂😂😂 . Okay, slight exaggerations here, but, seriously, I kind of want to build a starter NAS out of my half assed network pc that I still don't need. But, it sounds fun!!! I can show my wife this video and tell her all her pictures could vanish because I'm not running a raid 5 NAS!
This is literally how we've been running our projects since covid struck and it's really good. It can technically be done using some pc as a nas too but synology cloud station has the added advantage of being able to sync with several accounts at the same time of the same service provider, all while still being a dedicated storage solution and really easy to set up. It's not exclusive to Synology though and a custom nas can be built that does the exact same thing.
Damn Chuck! You're video production/content quality keeps on getting better and better, and it was already amazing before!! Serious RESPECT my G! And to Nick too!
So true mam you are running a media & educational company very cleverly compining it sponsorships so you can grow rapidly and at the same time provide free education for your Biggggg community thanks Chuck and David bombal ❤️❤️🖥️🙏🥇
Actually no. It’s a Google Hack. Not many people know about it but if you buy a business Google account they technically are selling you a 2TB subscription however when you reach your limit it doesn’t stop you from uploading… it’s uncapped. Chuck made a video about it.
I don't know his name but rest in peace to the laughing hispanic guy. He died sometime this year. Rest easy sir. You made a lot of people laugh with your contagious laughter.
While I've never gotten ransomware. Do not forget an offline backup. Offline backup is a backup that you only plug in to backup and then physically disconnected from data. Since it's offline it can't be hacked. That way if you do get hit with ransomware even with Synology you'll be able to recover your files. Thankfully in 2023 Synology is planning on allowing full system level backups in the first quarter
Although I like Chuck's content, and how easy it is to consume and apply as a listener, I really wish he went further in-depth, like bring your own hardware. Unraid, Free/TrueNAS, for example. Yeah, it's a bit more in-depth but likely cheaper hardware (can reach more listeners), more options (video series, herro?), and open source (supporting the community). Or instead of Kemp, use HA-Proxy.
Quick comment: My main use/need for a NAS is for backups of my other PC's. Based on this video, I bought the Synology 220j, the model you mention. However, I discovered the 220j does not support the Active Backup for Business software (ABB) mentioned here. Turns out, you have to have at least the 220+ to use ABB, which I figured out after several hours of messing around and googling. I'm returning the 220j and spending the extra $100 for the 220+. I'm a little annoyed with Synology for not making that clear. Still a super informative video, thank you, even though it did me a little astray, but no worries, back on track now.
I got a DS214play back in 2015 and to this day, I still love it. The fact that I can still upgrade the OS to the latest v7.1.1 on the same hardware after is fantastic.
I know this is probably sponsored and Synology NAS is actually pretty good, we have the small sucker in our company for images. There is also another option, you can make yourself your own NAS using a computer. It's not as power efficient but for "testing if you need one" it's a good idea.
I'm more interested in doing a FreeNAS or Linux Server based NAS for the experience but things to consider is the idle power consumption of a normal PC is way up. RPi's don't give all the SATA ports needed for a good NAS PC. You can make an energy efficient build with a Ryzen APU undervolted but these newer boards don't have as many SATA ports anymore.
Using Ubuntu server with sas card connected to some disk shelves. Running mergerFS + Snap raid. This is only a backup for my main QNAP NAS. Having around 200 Tb space used at 50%. I like QNAP, but never had a Synology Nas so I can't comment on the differences!
Computer goes BRRRRR. Oooo. I wonder if you can use NOS and a purge valve to phase change cool a computer. And what the EPA would think of that project.
When I transferred all my files to my NAS. Synology is also good at checking for duplicate files as long as the file names are same from different external drives. It helped me condense all my files so I didn’t have so many duplicates as I had before.
Bought a Synology NAS recently and love how it handles backup and syncing so easily. Not only does it protect data using RAID but it also runs backups every night to an external HDD. Can't wait to learn more about its various apps and how I can put them to use.
I had bought a WD MyCloud in 2014. It was a 2 TB single drive chasis and it worked well for my needs up until last year when the drive itself started to fail. That's when I bought the Synology DS218+, a 2 drive bay enclosure. I put in 2 Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS drives in it setup as RAID 1 and ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! Very easy to manage, nice looking UI, and runs very quiet. Can't recommend Synology enough.
There is also the 3 2 1 methodology when it comes to data. You should have 3 copies of your data, 2 copies on separate devices, and 1 of those devices should be offsite. Granted, that's if you can afford it. I personally do the 2 1 method. I have 2 copies of my data. One is stored on my NAS, and the other is stored offsite in the cloud.
Best purchase getting a 5 bay synology a few years back. Only mistake I made was being too cheap on hdd size trying to cut costs, Regret not getting bigger capacity at the time, Always go bigger and grit your teeth with the upfront cost, Save you the hassle in the long run. Went with 3x8TB to start with, 1 as redundancy then added another 2x8TB several months later, Wish I had of got 3x16TB to start with then add another 2x16TB later.
@@NetworkChuck in a 3rd world country such as me i dont have that money many others as well. In fact most of your views are people from 3rd world countries cz they wanna learn for free such as me
@@Veri7a I just used an old desktop with old HDDs and a software RAID 6. It works well and if something goes wrong, I usually just back up what really important and rebuild the RAID with a new used drive.
2013ish, rackspace open-sourced their hardware design for storage using common off the shelf parts and consumer grade drives. Many people improved on it so there should be plenty of information for anyone looking to roll their own diy style. There are even some open-source operating systems that provide a lot of the features talked about in the video. I suggest people give it a shot if nothing else but for the experience.
Recently got into the NAS game. Ended up with a DS918+ with 4x4TB, upgraded to 16gigs of RAM (don't need it though) and 500gb SSD cache. That sucker is awesome! I experimented with a smaller DS216+ and a QNAP TS-469 pro. Even thought about building my own NAS... What convinced me to go with the solution I took is the combination of ease of use and SHR. RAID 5 is really nice and I can get that on any NAS, but the ability to upgrade the HDDs while they are in use is really awesome and (to my knowledge) kinda unique. So, whenever I run out of the 10TB useable space, I can buy 2 bigger drives and put them in (one by one) and let the volume grow. This is so great! Also, keep up the great work on this channel, love it!
I get it. I replaced all the external drives I had with a Synology NAS. I even busted open most of my external drives, removed the hard drives, and put them in my NAS until I got around to upgrading to larger drives. I set mine up as two volumes, each using RAID5. One uses the local drives in the NAS and the other volume uses just the drives in the expansion. That way I can lose a drive in either or BOTH and still be up and running.
@@schrodingersmechanic7622 That might be ok safety wise, it still is bottlenecked as hell by the pi. And a pi with power, usb hub, case and whatnot does cost almost as much as a cheap NAS. The former is based on USB, the latter on a SATA connection. And that is not what the thread starter wrote. One hd alone and a raspi is a recipe for desaster.
You made me so much more excited learning all tech stuff when initially I was dreading it while going to school for it. Thanks for your enthusiasm and engaging videos !
well shit..... sold.. I'm getting a synology nas for my businesses. one of my locations crashed because my generator failed to turn on and my ups didn't have the capacity to sustain till electricity returned and I lost so many customer and production data earlier this year. time to make the investment. good video
I don't see an issue, Ive been buying HDDs just fine. WD Red NAS drives and WD Blue regular drives are plentiful. Chia doesn't even work well with HDDs, you need Enterprise-grade SSDs for that to work efficiently.
Just bought a basic 2 drive Synology NAS with a view to replacing a failing Windows file server for a client. I'm blown away! Easy to set up, creating an account gives you remote management from a browser and a few £'s get's you hourly cloud backups to the Synology ecosystem. Now looking at something a bit higher up in the range (with BTRFS for example) for my own use. I've gone back to mainly using Mac's and the integration is excellent, just 'click and connect'! I'm bound to find problems but so far, it's a great product.
Just bought a synology ds218+ possibilities are endless... only just scratched the surface of everything it can do this video gave me some ideas thanks Chuck
You don’t have to own a business to have a NAS. Anyone can buy and use one for their specific needs. I got one to not only back up my PCs which are several. But importantly to store all my digital media which number into lots of actual physical CDs of music and movies since the 90s.
I picked up an old PC from the side of the road and turned it into a NAS with the drives I have laying around. Shoutout to my late uncle who was a garbageman. He used to get PCs off the side of the road and when we visited his house, I'd.....test them and modify them or add stuff to my rig lol. That hobby turned into my desire to get into cyber.
NAS with a hard "S"? Been in the industry since way before Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network appliances were a thing, and have never once heard NAS pronounced with a hard "S". We enunciate it like "NAZ." Not claiming that Chuck is saying it wrong, just first time hearing it phonetically.
Agreed BUT. Odd though. It's spelt NAS (network attached storage) and not NAZ so in fact it should be pronounced like it is spelt... NAS. No wonder so many people struggle with the English language :-)
I have a new DS1520+ which has 5 drive bays. It’s damn quiet I barely know it’s even on unless I notice the led lights. However, the drive is set to go idle sleep kinda when no network activity as my Main desktop i put to sleep when not at home. So the DS NAS is basically asleep and not consuming much to hardly. It’s when I wake up the main Desktop that the NAS wakes up.
@@ardentdfender4116 1)you can change the brightness of the LED's. 2)If you're running apps or services, chances are higher that I won't go to sleep, or power on every 15-20min. Because there are changes being made to the NAS OS
I really think Chuck should have made this video without the full influence of Synology so He could talk about other options like OpenNAS, Proxmox, etc.
Back in the day, I worked for a company that used IBM midrange systems. One day I arrived and the IBM tech was there waiting for us to open. He said that our computer system had sent a message saying one of the hard drives was failing. There he was with a new hard drive. Being a hot swappable RAID 5 array, he was able to pull out the failing drive and pop in a new one without shutting the system down. No one noticed a thing except a slight speed reduction as the array rebuilt itself with NO loss of data. You gotta love RAID (and expensive IBM service contracts.)
Raid 5 has not been recommended for years now. Especially with huge disks like 8tb. The time it will take to rebuild is huge and in that time you are risking losing a second drive which takes everything out. Raid 6 is a better option.
I can watch these videos all day long, repeat, try myself at my home and repeat again. So much helpful and useful info. Network Chuck is more my guy. Messor is helpful for testing. Network chuck is real life!
I recently had a small "heart attack" moment. Returned from a business trip and discovered a storm had knocked out my storage drive. Everything I've done over the last 30 years? Gone. Thankfully, I was able to recover the drive to a new one. But is has me thinking about data recovery. Off the bat, I have an old RDX-1000 and a couple of 1.5TB cartridges, but that will only hold me for so long. (Esp. since I've started a TH-cam channel recently) I'm thinking a NAS is in my future. Thanks for the Synology demo. I know they are a good brand, and now I see why.
I bought an old Dell R720xd 12-bay server with a 6-core Xeon, 96GB of RAM, and 36TB of drives in it for £400 ($502 USD) from someone on facebook marketplace a while back. Apparently it was originally the CCTV server for a power station!! Stuck TrueNAS Scale on it and now it runs everything for me. Pihole, Jellyfin, Qbittorrent, Nextcloud, several VMs, VSCode server, Gitea (private git hosting!!). It's my most favourite toy I own currently, even though it utterly chews through electrons. The only thing I still run on bare metal is my Home Assistant setup because I felt like that should have dedicated hardware since it's in charge of some real mission critical things like lighting and heating in the house. I'm not sure it makes sense to call this kind of setup a "NAS" though since that is just one of the many things it does. Tons of fun though. :)
I just got the Pi for making my NAS this morning. Already have an 8TB WD drive to connect to it, and I've heard that you can use up to 8 using hubs though performance will suffer due to hardware limits of the Pi, but performance is unimportant here. I'm simply gonna use the Pi NAS as storage for a monthly automated imaging of the internal drives on all my devices in the house(computer, laptop, tablet, all the family's stuff) to make sure I can get up and running again with minimal data loss if any drive fails. I also have a secondary safeguard that I do once every six months and takes an entire day. I leave it with a friend, it's in case my house is somehow destroyed by weather disaster or accident. This is purely old school stylin'(as in for as cheap as possible), I back up my system and media drives using spanned images over multiple optical discs. As I say, it takes an entire day and entire spindle of discs near enough, but it's peace of mind that I won't lose too much no matter what happens.
I have two Synology NAS'es and they're awesome! All my local PCs and laptops are connected to them and can share and backup files seamlessly. Synology is a bit expensive compared to other similar brands but the apps that comes with it are solid.
Chuck, the video is pretty basic about NAS but good for those who don't know about the benefits. It's a bit more in depth to mention this, but is an EXTREMELY important function of file integrity, and that's the make sure to get a NAS that has ZFS file system functions and supported ECC memory. Data rot, bit flips, and random corruption is a big deal in file integrity. A rudimentary NAS won't protect against those things, yet they are a very real threat to any kind of long term file integrity. It needs to be mentioned, although it likely would require is own video in itself to get into the details.
Hopefully you have a good panel with no corrosion on bus bar or lose a neutral drop to 90 volts blow out all electronic refrigerator, appliances. Make shore you have surged protection. I seen a lost neutral destroy electronic, and I noticed surge protector blow out and save some TV electronic. With out surge protection destroying, garage door, refrigerator, stoves, computer and so on
19:37 IP address censoring fail -- "Not Secure" warning pushed the IP past the censorship bar! haha Loving the videos. Hoping to up my home network soon, and I'll bet your videos will be helping me! =D
Wish i would have ran across a video like this long ago. I've been dealing with an overload of external hdd for so long. I'm in the middle of finally setting up a server at home with a backup in my storage unit for off site storage. I agree a NAS is a must have whether you are a "regular" person and definately a must for a business owner.
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Should I make a video on HOW to create your own NAS? Like, with a raspberry pi?????
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0:00 ⏩ Intro
0:45 ⏩ What is a NAS??
1:41 ⏩ Why use a NAS instead of a hard drive?
2:22 ⏩ 3 Reasons why I use my NAS!!
2:23 ⏩ Reason 1: I Ran Out Of Storage!!
2:36 ⏩ Reason 2: I'm Scared!!
3:03 ⏩ Reason 3: I need access to my data everywhere!!
3:26 ⏩ BONUS Reason: I want to do COOL STUFF!!
5:55 ⏩ Why use a NAS instead of the cloud?
6:16 ⏩ I'm Scared!!
9:04. ⏩ Hybrid Cloud
12:31 ⏩ How does the NAS connect?
13:31 ⏩ How to access your files outside of your home?
14:56 ⏩ Why this??
16:41 ⏩ Backup Feature!!
18:01 ⏩ Time for Fun!
20:08 ⏩ Synology Drive!
21:40 ⏩ Get a NAS!!!
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Someone must've had too much coffee over past week :D But coffee and your charisma makes this so much more entertaining
Ok yea I do need a nas for my projects but my budget doesnt allow me
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YES, Please do! I've been considering building a NAS using OpenMediaServer and all those USB drives we all have!
Man, you're awesome. I'm an IT guy myself and teaching IT subjects to non-IT persons can sometimes be challenging for them. If teachers taught lessons the way you did in your videos then we'd have smarter folks around doing/teaching this stuff. Hats off to you, dude!
It's because he is always energized and enthused
*_" I'm an IT guy myself and teaching IT subjects to non-IT persons can sometimes be challenging for them. If teachers taught lessons the way you did in your videos then we'd have smarter folks around doing/teaching this stuff."_*
I ensure you that he's anything but a good teacher, starting with his whole weird attitude, and you should read what many people on Reddit have to say about that.
@@PeteDunes reddit sucks. Op comment still stands true. He did a great job explaining NAS.
Synology was too expensive, built my own using an old PC and UnraidOS. Works amazing, I love it
That's awesome!!
There are some advantages to having the appliances, but you went the right route for you. That is commendable.
LTT
@@cyrill_va Same! It's so useful, I can access all my files from anywhere and have them sync across my computers!
I think old PC is taking more power than small Synology NAS.
Also Synology is expensive because of own apps not because of hardware.
They have many own apps well made that works always whenever you need them. They are just worth that money.
You can built own NAS for free with free stuff but questionable is the quality of it, in free aps you don't have warranty of working.
"You need a NAS right now"
My bank account: don't even think about it
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if you make money as entrepreneur on the web, I mean even if you are an accountant or web designer, a good system to backup your files is required and even less costly than a real container.
“You’re not that guy, pal. You’re not that guy.”
The cheapest route? Get a Raspberry Pi 4... and connect it to an external HD.
step 1: get an old computer you dont use
step 2: install freenas on it
Dude, I have been a Software Engineer for the last 39 years. Seen and dealt with many IT guys. I wish we had someone like you. You're just awesome. Love your videos!
Well, if you are caught up in a pack of mediocre or dumb it-persons.... maybe you are one yourself ... (no offense)
@@swedishpsychopath8795hmm maybe you're dumb(no offense ofc)
Chuck I think you hit the nail on the head. I just took a 2 TB hard drive that I had laying around that was from my previous system, and I bought a Synology DS120j. I'm almost wishing I had done this sooner. I just need it mainly for personal reasons, so the fact that it's very entry level doesn't bother me. Everything is working extremely well.
Hey Chuck. I just want to thank you for inspiring me to do networking. I'm just a delivery guy and I just felt like I needed something more. And thanks to you, I'm well on my way to doing my CCNA exam.
How'd it go?
Update?
How was it?
It's been 11 months....if you haven't done it...keep at it. don't give up!!!
it's been 3 years.. update mf?
This guy is amazing. I love his enthusiasm and ability to explain why something is important to to people that they have no clue they even need
He has the best personality for an IT techies. I would love to meet him in person. 😊
I got given a Synology RS3614xs+ that was being thrown out. I'm backing up my PCs on it and running a Minecraft server in Docker. I've also modded it with noctua fans so it's really quiet now. Love this thing.
Get a NAS, yes absolutely. Oh and one more thing to consider, you can crack open the external cases and „harvest“ the harddrives. This will save you money when starting out with a NAS, especially cool if using Synology Hybrid RAID, because it allows to mix different harddrive capacity. I advise to avoid 2 bay NAS systems, if possible, because expanding a RAID1 is expensive with bigger drives. It is better having 4 x 3 TB in a RAID5 than 2 x 8 TB in a RAID1.
I just love watching your videos. The excitement you show while teaching us the viewers, it's just awe-inspiring. Thanks to you and your videos.. At the age of 59, I decided to start a new journey in my life. I just got a Technical Support Fundamentals certificate and one for introduction to Linux. Thank you, sir.
Waiting for the the next episode of Linux for hackers.
The series is freaking amazing
Totally agree with this! I moved from about 4 external drives to an 8-bay NAS with off-site mirroring a year ago, and it has made all the difference. SO much better now, faster, more accessible, more secure and redundant. Love it!
Thanks! Don’t stop producing content. Please. From a Long time, listener and first time poster. You have all my likes. I recommend this video to everyone who is looking into a NASty setup.
Also beware, if you're using extremely large disks, you may want to consider RAID 6. It would take too long to get too into it, but chances of data loss increase the longer it's sitting rebuilding that new drive. It has apparently been an issue with RAID 5 and the ever increasing sizes of drives, there's many videos about this on youtube, some explain better than others.
EXACTLY, thank you! SHR2 is the way to go. I am gonna convert to it from SHR1 shortly.
I converted a Synology NAS with SHR1 to SHR2 with 8 16TB drives. It took about over 30 days to convert. I was on pins a needles while that was going.
We are slowly, but surely going to a "You need a HOMELAB RIGHT NOW!!"
Great video, btw 👍
You do need a homelab right now!
more like a data center
not like we don't, I know I'm surely gonna need one
Backup is an implementation detail of restore. Tell your audience to periodically test they can restore from backup. Sometimes you find your backups have been silently failing. Also RAID-6 >> RAID-5 especially when you don't have offsite backups. Love synology products. I like your channel.
I've starting watching your channel like 2 years ago and have stepped away until this past month. You have grown SO MUCH and have really improved everything about your videos. They are great! Educationally and humorous. Keep it up man. You inspire me with your depth of explanation and teaching style.
Awesome video Chuck. I've always built my own NAS systems, but I decided about 2 years ago to go with Synology. They are the way to go. I manage IT for a Broadcast company and I have moved everything over to Synology. It is allowing me to eliminate DropBox and share files direct. I put in 10GbE networking for fast edits. Hell, we cut 12 camera multicam projects off of the Synology DS1821+. I have a NAS that I built at home, but I love Synology so much that I'm saving to install a DS1821+ at home. The NAS isn't the expensive part, it is the 16TB drives I want to put in it. Then I'm going to sync my archive video server to my home so I have off-site as well as cloud backup. Your energy is justified about NAS and about Synology. Great products and all of their software packages are ridiculous easy to use. So yeah, I second your statement. You need a NAS!
This guy is a good salesman. I'm half way through, never needed more than 2 hdds and cloud backup, a spare old pc and internet. Now I've just ordered my first Nas with 63
Yoda Bytes and 3.9 Tera flops. I still need another 2.9 million bays all for my family phone pictures 😂😂😅😂😂😂 .
Okay, slight exaggerations here, but, seriously, I kind of want to build a starter NAS out of my half assed network pc that I still don't need. But, it sounds fun!!! I can show my wife this video and tell her all her pictures could vanish because I'm not running a raid 5 NAS!
This is literally how we've been running our projects since covid struck and it's really good. It can technically be done using some pc as a nas too but synology cloud station has the added advantage of being able to sync with several accounts at the same time of the same service provider, all while still being a dedicated storage solution and really easy to set up. It's not exclusive to Synology though and a custom nas can be built that does the exact same thing.
Damn Chuck! You're video production/content quality keeps on getting better and better, and it was already amazing before!! Serious RESPECT my G! And to Nick too!
So true mam you are running a media & educational company very cleverly compining it sponsorships so you can grow rapidly and at the same time provide free education for your Biggggg community thanks Chuck and David bombal ❤️❤️🖥️🙏🥇
I have had my 8bay Synology Nas for 5 years and it's great. Cameras, files, more.
I have been running NAS at home since the 90-ties. Honestly, I don´t understand how people can live without it.
watching this for validation as my new drives preclear on my first server. very nice
there is no more Google Drive unlimited storage, not even on the most expensive plan you can get.
He appears to have a grandfathered plan. There used to be such a plan, but it appears people took complete advantage of it.
@@codenoob9325 Wonder if there is anything under "education" that is cheaper / more storage.
My College give us unlimited Drive Storage with the College Gmail account (but for cibersec things I don't use ir for important things)
Actually no. It’s a Google Hack. Not many people know about it but if you buy a business Google account they technically are selling you a 2TB subscription however when you reach your limit it doesn’t stop you from uploading… it’s uncapped. Chuck made a video about it.
It is unlimited.... they don't impose the limit of business standard or above
I don't know his name but rest in peace to the laughing hispanic guy. He died sometime this year. Rest easy sir. You made a lot of people laugh with your contagious laughter.
This video is right on the money. Buying a Synology is the best tech purchase I’ve ever made!
While I've never gotten ransomware. Do not forget an offline backup. Offline backup is a backup that you only plug in to backup and then physically disconnected from data. Since it's offline it can't be hacked. That way if you do get hit with ransomware even with Synology you'll be able to recover your files.
Thankfully in 2023 Synology is planning on allowing full system level backups in the first quarter
I think you're right, I DO need a NAS! Can you teach us how to build one with an old pc?
Data doesn't exist unless it exists in more than two places at the same time.
Although I like Chuck's content, and how easy it is to consume and apply as a listener, I really wish he went further in-depth, like bring your own hardware. Unraid, Free/TrueNAS, for example. Yeah, it's a bit more in-depth but likely cheaper hardware (can reach more listeners), more options (video series, herro?), and open source (supporting the community). Or instead of Kemp, use HA-Proxy.
If he did that he wouldnt of got a free nas.....
I didn't even wait for the "hack the TH-cam algorithm" line to like this one. I'm a simple man.. You had me at "NASty"
Quick comment: My main use/need for a NAS is for backups of my other PC's. Based on this video, I bought the Synology 220j, the model you mention. However, I discovered the 220j does not support the Active Backup for Business software (ABB) mentioned here. Turns out, you have to have at least the 220+ to use ABB, which I figured out after several hours of messing around and googling. I'm returning the 220j and spending the extra $100 for the 220+.
I'm a little annoyed with Synology for not making that clear.
Still a super informative video, thank you, even though it did me a little astray, but no worries, back on track now.
I got a DS214play back in 2015 and to this day, I still love it. The fact that I can still upgrade the OS to the latest v7.1.1 on the same hardware after is fantastic.
I know this is probably sponsored and Synology NAS is actually pretty good, we have the small sucker in our company for images.
There is also another option, you can make yourself your own NAS using a computer. It's not as power efficient but for "testing if you need one" it's a good idea.
You always come in clutch with these I was just thinking about making a NAS with Ubuntu Server
I'm more interested in doing a FreeNAS or Linux Server based NAS for the experience but things to consider is the idle power consumption of a normal PC is way up. RPi's don't give all the SATA ports needed for a good NAS PC. You can make an energy efficient build with a Ryzen APU undervolted but these newer boards don't have as many SATA ports anymore.
@@itjourney-novicetoexpert6121 you can add pci-e sata extension card also 😁
@@itjourney-novicetoexpert6121 freenas is awesome, i used it to make a plex server and it was damn easy
@@mehulgupta7579 I'm a debian user, I'm using openmediavault with ext4 filesystem it gets the job done
Using Ubuntu server with sas card connected to some disk shelves. Running mergerFS + Snap raid. This is only a backup for my main QNAP NAS. Having around 200 Tb space used at 50%. I like QNAP, but never had a Synology Nas so I can't comment on the differences!
My NAS has NOS.
Computer goes BRRRRR.
Oooo. I wonder if you can use NOS and a purge valve to phase change cool a computer. And what the EPA would think of that project.
NAS drag race, incoming..
noice Nos NAS
NOS is also an ISP in Portugal
@@dolex161 ayo
When I transferred all my files to my NAS. Synology is also good at checking for duplicate files as long as the file names are same from different external drives. It helped me condense all my files so I didn’t have so many duplicates as I had before.
Bought a Synology NAS recently and love how it handles backup and syncing so easily. Not only does it protect data using RAID but it also runs backups every night to an external HDD. Can't wait to learn more about its various apps and how I can put them to use.
I use a RPI 4B with a USB hard drive enclosure, using OMV as OS and I have some docker containers.
Amazing video, and amazing NAS Chuck 👍
Were you able to mount a usb drive with UASP protocol?
@@simaosilva4579 Yes, I have a 2.5 hdd enclosure with USAP, and with OMV was like mounting any other drive
What an impressive channel. It has really blown up and the success is well earned.
Way to go Chuck.
Your videos are the best, time to sit down and watch this one :D
I had bought a WD MyCloud in 2014. It was a 2 TB single drive chasis and it worked well for my needs up until last year when the drive itself started to fail. That's when I bought the Synology DS218+, a 2 drive bay enclosure. I put in 2 Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS drives in it setup as RAID 1 and ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! Very easy to manage, nice looking UI, and runs very quiet. Can't recommend Synology enough.
There is also the 3 2 1 methodology when it comes to data. You should have 3 copies of your data, 2 copies on separate devices, and 1 of those devices should be offsite. Granted, that's if you can afford it. I personally do the 2 1 method. I have 2 copies of my data. One is stored on my NAS, and the other is stored offsite in the cloud.
Best purchase getting a 5 bay synology a few years back.
Only mistake I made was being too cheap on hdd size trying to cut costs, Regret not getting bigger capacity at the time, Always go bigger and grit your teeth with the upfront cost, Save you the hassle in the long run.
Went with 3x8TB to start with, 1 as redundancy then added another 2x8TB several months later, Wish I had of got 3x16TB to start with then add another 2x16TB later.
Litraly watching this while re setting up my nas
"You need to buy a $12,000 NAS right now from my paid sponsors!"
No Chuck, stop going to the dark side...
Dude, you can pick one up for $200.
Don't get those dump 200$ Nas
Just get an old PC and convert it
It's a lot cheaper
@@NetworkChuck in a 3rd world country such as me i dont have that money many others as well. In fact most of your views are people from 3rd world countries cz they wanna learn for free such as me
To be fair if you did everyhing he said in his videos you would have enough Cisco training to have job that affords you at least a 4 bay synology.
@@Veri7a I just used an old desktop with old HDDs and a software RAID 6. It works well and if something goes wrong, I usually just back up what really important and rebuild the RAID with a new used drive.
2013ish, rackspace open-sourced their hardware design for storage using common off the shelf parts and consumer grade drives.
Many people improved on it so there should be plenty of information for anyone looking to roll their own diy style. There are even some open-source operating systems that provide a lot of the features talked about in the video.
I suggest people give it a shot if nothing else but for the experience.
Recently got into the NAS game. Ended up with a DS918+ with 4x4TB, upgraded to 16gigs of RAM (don't need it though) and 500gb SSD cache. That sucker is awesome!
I experimented with a smaller DS216+ and a QNAP TS-469 pro. Even thought about building my own NAS...
What convinced me to go with the solution I took is the combination of ease of use and SHR. RAID 5 is really nice and I can get that on any NAS, but the ability to upgrade the HDDs while they are in use is really awesome and (to my knowledge) kinda unique.
So, whenever I run out of the 10TB useable space, I can buy 2 bigger drives and put them in (one by one) and let the volume grow. This is so great!
Also, keep up the great work on this channel, love it!
I get it. I replaced all the external drives I had with a Synology NAS. I even busted open most of my external drives, removed the hard drives, and put them in my NAS until I got around to upgrading to larger drives. I set mine up as two volumes, each using RAID5. One uses the local drives in the NAS and the other volume uses just the drives in the expansion. That way I can lose a drive in either or BOTH and still be up and running.
1. Buy a hard drive and a raspberry pi.
2. Use them to make a NAS
Costs way less for home use
You obviously didn’t get the data safety part of the video.
@@schrodingersmechanic7622 That might be ok safety wise, it still is bottlenecked as hell by the pi. And a pi with power, usb hub, case and whatnot does cost almost as much as a cheap NAS. The former is based on USB, the latter on a SATA connection.
And that is not what the thread starter wrote. One hd alone and a raspi is a recipe for desaster.
TrueNAS Core is another good option that doesn't have to break the bank.
Lead us on a Synology deep dive Chuck!!
You made me so much more excited learning all tech stuff when initially I was dreading it while going to school for it. Thanks for your enthusiasm and engaging videos !
All kidding aside, your videos are great despite the overblown urgency.
well shit..... sold.. I'm getting a synology nas for my businesses. one of my locations crashed because my generator failed to turn on and my ups didn't have the capacity to sustain till electricity returned and I lost so many customer and production data earlier this year. time to make the investment. good video
@AstroCat thanks. Already ordered a 4 bay as a trial
I was going to get one then Chia happened and boom. Certainly something I need to look into again now most of the craze is over.
I don't see an issue, Ive been buying HDDs just fine. WD Red NAS drives and WD Blue regular drives are plentiful. Chia doesn't even work well with HDDs, you need Enterprise-grade SSDs for that to work efficiently.
Very good video 😊 I like your passion & enthusiasm for nerdy stuff like this! 😆
Just bought a basic 2 drive Synology NAS with a view to replacing a failing Windows file server for a client. I'm blown away! Easy to set up, creating an account gives you remote management from a browser and a few £'s get's you hourly cloud backups to the Synology ecosystem.
Now looking at something a bit higher up in the range (with BTRFS for example) for my own use.
I've gone back to mainly using Mac's and the integration is excellent, just 'click and connect'! I'm bound to find problems but so far, it's a great product.
Just bought a synology ds218+ possibilities are endless...
only just scratched the surface of everything it can do this video gave me some ideas thanks Chuck
Great VID Chuck :) - The editors comments were hilarious.
love those editor interactions... hahaha
makes me wanna start a business just to use this enterprise hardware
You don’t have to own a business to have a NAS. Anyone can buy and use one for their specific needs. I got one to not only back up my PCs which are several. But importantly to store all my digital media which number into lots of actual physical CDs of music and movies since the 90s.
“You need a NAS RIGHT NOW!” Nope had one for over 5 years now
You just got me so excited to get my NAS up and going, I have a WD Cloud Expert EX4100 that I've yet to unbox 4 years later, it's NAS time!!
I picked up an old PC from the side of the road and turned it into a NAS with the drives I have laying around. Shoutout to my late uncle who was a garbageman. He used to get PCs off the side of the road and when we visited his house, I'd.....test them and modify them or add stuff to my rig lol. That hobby turned into my desire to get into cyber.
NAS with a hard "S"? Been in the industry since way before Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network appliances were a thing, and have never once heard NAS pronounced with a hard "S". We enunciate it like "NAZ." Not claiming that Chuck is saying it wrong, just first time hearing it phonetically.
Agreed BUT. Odd though. It's spelt NAS (network attached storage) and not NAZ so in fact it should be pronounced like it is spelt... NAS. No wonder so many people struggle with the English language :-)
@@James-sc1lz do you pronounce "is" as "is" or "iz"? Yes, English is weird :-D it also depends if it is US English or British...
S is for Storage, so S sound. Just like GIF where G stands for Graphic ... oh ... (but I don't care what the author of GIF says!)
Agreed . Definitely "NAZ". otherwise you are risking an HR incident taking about your "NAS" lol.
The big big problem with NAS: energy consuption!
yeah, if you have like 8-24 drives going. I have a 2 drive that is 20w and you can turn it off at night or schedule, wake on lan, etc.20w is nothing
I have a new DS1520+ which has 5 drive bays. It’s damn quiet I barely know it’s even on unless I notice the led lights. However, the drive is set to go idle sleep kinda when no network activity as my Main desktop i put to sleep when not at home. So the DS NAS is basically asleep and not consuming much to hardly. It’s when I wake up the main Desktop that the NAS wakes up.
@@ardentdfender4116 1)you can change the brightness of the LED's.
2)If you're running apps or services, chances are higher that I won't go to sleep, or power on every 15-20min. Because there are changes being made to the NAS OS
I really think Chuck should have made this video without the full influence of Synology so He could talk about other options like OpenNAS, Proxmox, etc.
Back in the day, I worked for a company that used IBM midrange systems. One day I arrived and the IBM tech was there waiting for us to open. He said that our computer system had sent a message saying one of the hard drives was failing. There he was with a new hard drive. Being a hot swappable RAID 5 array, he was able to pull out the failing drive and pop in a new one without shutting the system down. No one noticed a thing except a slight speed reduction as the array rebuilt itself with NO loss of data. You gotta love RAID (and expensive IBM service contracts.)
I'm a kid looking to create fun tech projects for myself over summer break, you are amazing at figuring out how to make these tutorials fun.
Great video❗ Thank you.
WoW 🤩
I’m working at Synology, very happy to watch this review from you
Raid 5 has not been recommended for years now. Especially with huge disks like 8tb. The time it will take to rebuild is huge and in that time you are risking losing a second drive which takes everything out.
Raid 6 is a better option.
This is true, i can unfortunately attest to this
I can watch these videos all day long, repeat, try myself at my home and repeat again. So much helpful and useful info. Network Chuck is more my guy. Messor is helpful for testing. Network chuck is real life!
Getting a Synology was the best decision I’ve made as far as my data goes. Definitely recommend getting one!
I've been convinced by Chuck but my wallet says otherwise
I have a NAS. However, I made ot myself with a raspberry pi and open media vault. Cheaper :P
That's awesome!!
I've been thinking about going this route as well.
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Both are correct
@@schrodingersmechanic7622 Use some USB flash drive things
Great video. We just got 2 DS1621+ for our school and practice the 3-2-1 backup. Over 100TB of storage. Very easy to manage. Love it.
FYI. Just added another one for off site. Bang!!!!
Chuck makes an excellent companion... when he talks to you, he makes your day, very entertaining.
Three backup, two off site, one local.
This is one of the longest, most interesting ads I've seen lately.
Note for everyone: google doesn't offer the unlimited storage anymore 😔
I recently had a small "heart attack" moment. Returned from a business trip and discovered a storm had knocked out my storage drive. Everything I've done over the last 30 years? Gone.
Thankfully, I was able to recover the drive to a new one. But is has me thinking about data recovery.
Off the bat, I have an old RDX-1000 and a couple of 1.5TB cartridges, but that will only hold me for so long. (Esp. since I've started a TH-cam channel recently) I'm thinking a NAS is in my future.
Thanks for the Synology demo. I know they are a good brand, and now I see why.
I bought an old Dell R720xd 12-bay server with a 6-core Xeon, 96GB of RAM, and 36TB of drives in it for £400 ($502 USD) from someone on facebook marketplace a while back. Apparently it was originally the CCTV server for a power station!!
Stuck TrueNAS Scale on it and now it runs everything for me. Pihole, Jellyfin, Qbittorrent, Nextcloud, several VMs, VSCode server, Gitea (private git hosting!!).
It's my most favourite toy I own currently, even though it utterly chews through electrons.
The only thing I still run on bare metal is my Home Assistant setup because I felt like that should have dedicated hardware since it's in charge of some real mission critical things like lighting and heating in the house.
I'm not sure it makes sense to call this kind of setup a "NAS" though since that is just one of the many things it does. Tons of fun though. :)
the google hack doesnt work anymore
This guy always says, "You need X right NOW!"
And I always scoff at his messages, but nearly every time he is right.
Play his videos at 75% speed for a much less disorientating experience! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Dude, this is the best NAS solution video on the internet, and trust me, I dug...Well done!
I just got the Pi for making my NAS this morning. Already have an 8TB WD drive to connect to it, and I've heard that you can use up to 8 using hubs though performance will suffer due to hardware limits of the Pi, but performance is unimportant here. I'm simply gonna use the Pi NAS as storage for a monthly automated imaging of the internal drives on all my devices in the house(computer, laptop, tablet, all the family's stuff) to make sure I can get up and running again with minimal data loss if any drive fails.
I also have a secondary safeguard that I do once every six months and takes an entire day. I leave it with a friend, it's in case my house is somehow destroyed by weather disaster or accident. This is purely old school stylin'(as in for as cheap as possible), I back up my system and media drives using spanned images over multiple optical discs. As I say, it takes an entire day and entire spindle of discs near enough, but it's peace of mind that I won't lose too much no matter what happens.
I have two Synology NAS'es and they're awesome! All my local PCs and laptops are connected to them and can share and backup files seamlessly. Synology is a bit expensive compared to other similar brands but the apps that comes with it are solid.
I got a synology because of you. Then forgot that you are the reason. Until now, I saw this clip again. Thank you.
Man i can literally spend days watching your videos, thank you so much!
Configure the other Synology NASes as a backup and put them at a physical distance in case of a fire or some other stuf
22 min and 42 seconds of pure Nerdgasm, loved it!
it should be. You need Multi NAS now! 1 is none, 2 is one!
Chuck, the video is pretty basic about NAS but good for those who don't know about the benefits. It's a bit more in depth to mention this, but is an EXTREMELY important function of file integrity, and that's the make sure to get a NAS that has ZFS file system functions and supported ECC memory. Data rot, bit flips, and random corruption is a big deal in file integrity. A rudimentary NAS won't protect against those things, yet they are a very real threat to any kind of long term file integrity. It needs to be mentioned, although it likely would require is own video in itself to get into the details.
Hopefully you have a good panel with no corrosion on bus bar or lose a neutral drop to 90 volts blow out all electronic refrigerator, appliances.
Make shore you have surged protection.
I seen a lost neutral destroy electronic, and I noticed surge protector blow out and save some TV electronic.
With out surge protection destroying, garage door, refrigerator, stoves, computer and so on
19:37 IP address censoring fail -- "Not Secure" warning pushed the IP past the censorship bar! haha
Loving the videos. Hoping to up my home network soon, and I'll bet your videos will be helping me! =D
Wish i would have ran across a video like this long ago. I've been dealing with an overload of external hdd for so long. I'm in the middle of finally setting up a server at home with a backup in my storage unit for off site storage. I agree a NAS is a must have whether you are a "regular" person and definately a must for a business owner.
I'd watch these videos all day long, you're amazing man