This video rocks! This private server keeps my data safe from hackers. Used to stress about cloud storage security, but not anymore. Thanks for sharing this awesome solution! 👍
Thanks for the introduction video. I've been looking for a home solution and stop buying SSDs and Portable HDDs for my media clips. The Synology product looks great too!
Nice review, Kim. As an old techie, I've gone from floppy backups to iomega to CDs to USB Thumb drives to external drives and Cloud. I hadn't considered a home server. I wonder what we'll be using 15 years from now that will make this all obsolete? Ugh, it's so hard to keep up and you do a great job explaining. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the kind compliment Bob! At one point I did think that physical servers were going to go away when Cloud was gaining its popularity, but I'm starting to doubt it though because of the 3-2-1 Backup Rule. Also, when we're using Cloud, it's most often someone's physical data center HAHAHA. I just hope that as hard drive space increases, so will the speed when it comes to restoring from a backup or image.
Hi Kim! quick question: do you happen to know if I can connect to my NAS and Synology from outside the U.S.? I’ll be living in Peru for a little while, and I’m curious if I can still sync to the main server with my credentials and bring my hard drive along. Just to give you some context, I work with a radio station where we share audio files for collaboration, and since the company is based in the U.S., I want to ensure I won’t run into any issues accessing those audio files on my RAID. Thanks a ton for your help!
@lisas.cerdafernandez2941 Hi Lisa! Thank you for your question and a little background to help me understand it better. Yes, you can definitely connect to your Synology NAS from outside the U.S. There are 2 ways of doing this: (1) Synology QuickConnect and (2) VPN setup. I currently use the VPN setup with OpenVPN since I want more control of our privacy/security, and I was able to upload my images just fine and view files as needed when I was in Japan. Hope this helps! 🙂
@albertor30 Yes, HDD's are supposed to last longer than SSD's, which is why I have a 8TB HDD as a backup. Currently, I have 2 4TB SSD's for a quicker write/read speed of the main files and an 8TB as a backup of the files on the SSD's.
I think these things are over-complicated and mostly for people who do IT administration as a hobby. A great big external drive, and a backup (or two) great big external drive is a lot more generally useful for the average user.
@reindeer8890 Agreed that the average users don't need this! Honestly, I didn't think that I'd ever need one until I started doing TH-cam, and my files were getting out of control when I was backing them up to the external hard drives to clear space from my laptop. HAHAHA With that said, I think a NAS is more for anyone who is working with lots of LARGE files and doesn't want to have a stack of external hard drives to go through.
This video rocks! This private server keeps my data safe from hackers. Used to stress about cloud storage security, but not anymore. Thanks for sharing this awesome solution! 👍
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!
Great video and good luck, very informative. I have liked & subscribed
@mtandiz Thank you so much! 🙏
Thanks for the introduction video. I've been looking for a home solution and stop buying SSDs and Portable HDDs for my media clips. The Synology product looks great too!
Agreed! It does! Yeah, if you're look to consolidate your external hard drives, then a NAS is the way to go, especially for home use.
Nice review, Kim. As an old techie, I've gone from floppy backups to iomega to CDs to USB Thumb drives to external drives and Cloud. I hadn't considered a home server. I wonder what we'll be using 15 years from now that will make this all obsolete? Ugh, it's so hard to keep up and you do a great job explaining. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the kind compliment Bob! At one point I did think that physical servers were going to go away when Cloud was gaining its popularity, but I'm starting to doubt it though because of the 3-2-1 Backup Rule. Also, when we're using Cloud, it's most often someone's physical data center HAHAHA. I just hope that as hard drive space increases, so will the speed when it comes to restoring from a backup or image.
Hi Kim! quick question: do you happen to know if I can connect to my NAS and Synology from outside the U.S.? I’ll be living in Peru for a little while, and I’m curious if I can still sync to the main server with my credentials and bring my hard drive along. Just to give you some context, I work with a radio station where we share audio files for collaboration, and since the company is based in the U.S., I want to ensure I won’t run into any issues accessing those audio files on my RAID. Thanks a ton for your help!
@lisas.cerdafernandez2941 Hi Lisa! Thank you for your question and a little background to help me understand it better. Yes, you can definitely connect to your Synology NAS from outside the U.S. There are 2 ways of doing this: (1) Synology QuickConnect and (2) VPN setup. I currently use the VPN setup with OpenVPN since I want more control of our privacy/security, and I was able to upload my images just fine and view files as needed when I was in Japan. Hope this helps! 🙂
Why did you use SSD instead of HDD? The HDD aren’t supposed to last longer ?
@albertor30 Yes, HDD's are supposed to last longer than SSD's, which is why I have a 8TB HDD as a backup. Currently, I have 2 4TB SSD's for a quicker write/read speed of the main files and an 8TB as a backup of the files on the SSD's.
I think these things are over-complicated and mostly for people who do IT administration as a hobby. A great big external drive, and a backup (or two) great big external drive is a lot more generally useful for the average user.
@reindeer8890 Agreed that the average users don't need this! Honestly, I didn't think that I'd ever need one until I started doing TH-cam, and my files were getting out of control when I was backing them up to the external hard drives to clear space from my laptop. HAHAHA
With that said, I think a NAS is more for anyone who is working with lots of LARGE files and doesn't want to have a stack of external hard drives to go through.