How to Setup a Synology NAS for the First Time | 4K TUTORIAL 

This is the most thorough video on setting up a Synology NAS! Thank you for doing it! I could never ever have set mine up without this tutorial.

Hey man, I just bought a Synology NAS for the first time last week and your RU-vid tutorials have been the best I have seen. I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your efforts in making the entire process an absolute breeze! Cheers!

Thank you! I am 70 and had never set-up a NAS before, but everything went smoothly thanks to your clear instructions. I ran your video on my iPad while setting-up the NAS on my iMac. My only problem was that my password manager failed to save my main log-in password and I thought I would need to reset. Luckily, I was able to retrieve the password with some digging. Next time I will start with a simple password that I write down several times, then change to a strong once once everything has stabilised. I really appreciate your video. I could not have set up my NAS without it.

Wow great job sir. You are a life changer. I followed your setup with my first ever Synology purchase. You were clear, precise and took it step by step. Thank you for not skipping through what I'm sure is boring for you. I have a lot of weight off my shoulders now with concerns about the setup. I'm looking forward to my continued education through your videos. I just wish RU-vid allowed email address so we could connect easier. Thank you again for all your hard work. Gary

Super helpful. I’m 60 years old and not tech savvy and I didn’t have any trouble following this and getting my NAS set up and working 😎😎😎Thank you!

Thanks for your time doing all these tutorials. Another NAS noob here and I'm learning a lot and finding more and more things to read up on and learn about before my hardware arrives.

One of the best tutorials Ive seen on this stuff - thanks!!

My NAS is a DS1520+. Before I bought it and doing all the research watching all the vids and reviews I was worried it be noisy. I'm using regular Iron Wolf drives and the damn thing is QUIET!. It is so quiet I can't even tell it's even on and running with my hands on top of the drive unit. So I'm impressed by that. I watch at least 2 other different NAS Channels than this one and Synology itself. So I'm glad you are all different and it works. Here on this channel as a newer user, I feel I get to learn what the software is, how to configure and use it or why to use it. And it's been quite helpful though sometimes takes a while to understand. But the videos are just great!

Thank you for the no fluff, easy to follow guide to setting up my new nas 👍🏻

Just received my DS220j, I can not wait start installing after having watched your tutorial. Thanks Man!

Will, your channel is amazing. The topics are relevant and interesting. I hope you will grow this channel and continue to make more excellent videos to share. Your instruction is simple, straightforward and easy to understand. Also, your recommendations are sound, and are obviously made with a lot of experience behind them. Thank you!

VERY good! You make the best tutorials and it's obvious you talk about what you DO know. Not like many others. Pal, you were born to teach! Thank you!

Hey Mate , Thanks for the tutorial , I just setup my 4 Bay Synology NAS based on this tutorial you put together. Great resource for anyone new to NAS and networks . Much appreciated 👍

Thank you, great job. Went back and checked y 3 year old nas to update with your advice, and will apply what you've shown here to my new NAS.. Thanks again!!! 3 years ago and new nas - it was all so bewildering :)

Clear and concise. Thanks so much for creating these videos! Everything on your channel is awesome.

I have to admit, at first I skipped and went to other videos, BUT... I'm glad I came back, your videos are nothing short of AMAZING... def had to SUB.. and will be checking out more Videos. Great Job, and THANK YOU!!!

Just started messing with SNAS drives. Love your videos so far! Probably the best I've seen on youtube for SNAS tutorials.

Wow Holy Cow! This was, you are incredible!! Just bought my Synology 220j. Just bought 2 segate irinnwolf nas drives. Now you confirmed my hope fully good choice. I just found you tonight here just in time as I set this all up. Wow!! Thank you Going to be watching for those shirts someone mentioned😊

Thank you so much for creating this video. It was exactly what I needed to get setup.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and simplifying the process of setting up my Synology drive! I have a ton of questions, I am sure I will find the answers to, across your other vids! Thanks again 😎

thanks very much for posting. Just bought a synology NAS and sure helped me a ton. Thanks!

Excellent advice, thanks Will. I like your style - straight to the point.

EXCELLENT. thank you!

Thanks for the straightforward and clear explanation tutorial. I was afraid setting up NAS before as I'm not tech savvy, but your tutorial helps me a lot!

Thank you for the effort in putting this video together to help us get started. Much appreciated.

Excellent tutorial, straight to the point and very informative!

Just got a DS418. Your video was great in helping me setup the NAS. Thanks!

Thank You very much for posing this. It made setting up my first NAS a breeze.

This was great. Thank you so much!

Excellent. Very comprehensive. Thanks for your efforts. Helps a lot.

I could not have set my NAS without this tutorial. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Here again, exceptional presentation! Thanks much!

First time NAS user, this video was great! Thanks buddy

excellent video, very well done informative, and concise!

Great job , your videos are very easy to follow and are a lot of help. Thanks! keep it up!

NICE NICE one!!! this is the best tutorial for Synology i have seen yet!! nice work and thanks!! :)

What a great explanation. Thank you very much brother.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot!

Will, I think that's your name, lol, THANK YOU for the video. I just got my Synology 1621+ in the mail and I followed your instructions. Thanks you are a real life saver. Now, I am watching the PLEX video next. Thanks again.

Thanks so much! Just setup my 1520+ and, after some network issues, we have it running!

Great info! Thanks for this!

Thanks. I used this video as a tutorial and my NAS runs perfectly now.

Really great video, thanks!

Another very useful tutorial. Thanks!

Really well done, this video is very easy to follow and and explains everything. Thank you

Very thorough easy to follow on tutorial thanks a lot.

Thank so much for making it simpler. Best video to make things work for you.

Never rewinded a video so many times. Thanks for the great video.

thank you! this was really helpful

Very nice video, you are a great teacher.

Nice video, easy to understand, thanks 🙂

Very, very useful, as the initial setup to get a working volume was a bit confusing for me. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this video. I purchased my very first Synology (DS220j) so I can get rid of my Drobos. And thanks for showing me how to set up on a Mac. By the way, nice Aloha shirt.

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Thanks for this good and use full tutorial

This was fantastic! Just perfect! As a request, folks like me would probably want to know how to set up Time Machine, too.

Super helpful! Thank you!

Thanks! This was very helpful :-)

Awesome! Thank you for this great video!

Thank you for that simple explanation

Amazing tutrial!

great tutorial! Thank you!

Excellent video, very clear instructions. A+

Thank you so so much for your amazing video!

fantastic tutorial - help me setup my new nas. thank you!

Well done, that was great! I like this guy!

Great tutorial man! You are a life saver

Awesome tutorial!

I appreciate it, thanks Tod

Perfection, thanks a lot!

Morph cut master over here

Best Synology Tutorial thanks

Tnx bro! You are the best!!

Hell yeah man thanks

Thank you for your help. I basically set up my Synology NAS by only following your tutorial

great video...thanks

Amazing!!!! Thank you

Dude! So helpful, thank you

very helpful

Cople of useful hints! Thanks for good video!

Awesome Explain

thank you!

Wow that was very helpful ! I just purchased a DS920+ and now I see its not Add HDs and go Thanks for the very clear walk through .

Thanks!

thx a lot, my first Synology NAS is one the way

thanks man nice and easy pace thanks 0

Thank you so much!!!!!!!

I am currently setting up a DS1621xs+ NAS. A couple of points for you to mention: 1. The power cord receptacle is highly recessed. Be sure when you plug it in that you completely seat the plug or you may have intermittent power, which no NAS likes. 2. When you power up the NAS, the blue light on the front panel will begin to flash. This means the NAS is thinking. Do not proceed to trying to locate the NAS on your network until the blue light glows solidly, as the NAS will ignore your attempts. 3. You should consider a UPS for your NAS, and you should get it BEFORE configuring the unit, because of #4. 4. As part of setup the NAS will need to create pools of drives. I am using 6x 16 TB Iron wolf NAS drives. As part of creating the drive pool, the NAS will want to verify the checksums on the drive, which I believe will require it to read every byte on every drive. In my case, that check ran for 24 hours straight, so be prepared to be patient. Run it overnight on a UPS ! I also have a 5 bay expansion, & I am working on adding that to the drive pool I have already created. That is basically not happening for me at the moment. Don't know why, yet... I like this NAS a lot so far, quad core Xeon at 2 GHZ, should have some serious compute to apply. I used 2x 1 TB M.2 SSD sticks (Not Synology approved), but they seem to be working well. Also bumped memory up to 32GB, that too seems to be working well. Expansions are straight forward and easy. As I currently understand the storage hierarchy, There are pool(s) of drives at the top most level. Pools are composed of individual drives. I don't know why more than one pool would be needed, or how many you could have. I do not think you can split drives across pools. Volumes are created within drive pools. I do not think there is a limit on volumes. Directories are created within the volumes, and files are stored in directories. There is also a robust permission system to overlay on top of it all. Part of the price one pays for a Synology unit is for the software apps. The NAS itself is basically a computer with a lot of storage, and capable of running apps on its own. I recognize the Mariah database, I once used MySQL. There is also a virtual machine app, so if you want to run windows or linux on your NAS, that should be no problem. Installation might be an issue, my copies are on ISO disks, and the NAS has no DVD burner/reader. It does have a USB port that may be coaxed into use with an external USB DVD unit. I am also not sure how a BTRFS file system maps into say Windows. Much more to learn.

Awesome tutorial. Now I am doing a back-up with cloud. How do I merge both hard-drives from redundant without losing any data? I have two 8TB hard-drive, one set-up as main and the other as redundant as mentioned in the tutorial. Thanks

Amazing video, thank you! I only used one NAS Drive. Once I add the 2nd and 3rd, is it as easy as putting them in and creating a Pool and Volume... or will I have to redo everything and lose what is on the NAS Drive I currently have?

thanks ! how do i add a 10GB drive with 10gb files to a NAS i have 2 of them ! without losing files on the drive . . . ( i reinstalled my computer )

Thanks bud

Your videos have been great Rex. Quick question, I am a photographer and I like to store my saved photos for my portfolio and also my family pictures. Can I just copy/paste them into the volume for backup? What other methods would you use for photo redundancy?

Thanks!A question: If i have a existing externals disks with datas that i want to put in a brand new Nas, can i?Do i have to not put the disks, do the set-up, and put it after, or put it straight at the beginning?And if i put, say, 3 disks, can i decide to not raid them, keep them individuals?I want to move from external usb enclosure to a Nas, keeping my datas.Thanks!

I'm a bigtime newbie when it comes to this but I have my Synology 1621xs+ connected directly from the 10GB port to the 10GB port on my Mac workstation and I was finally able to create a custom IP address to have those connect. But I still cant seem to figure out how to get external access? I cant set up Quick Connect. My NAS is not seeing the internet at all? How do you get external access for a NAS if its connected directly to a computer via ethernet?

Great tutorial! I wish i saw this then I was choosing between WD and Seagate to save a lot of time. Anyway, I’m glad I went with Seagate. Synology also has some health check function for Seagate which is useful. I’d love to watch a security tutorial!

Thanks Tod

Thank you for your great videos! I bought a Synology DS118 just for access externally to the folders I have in the studio (in 2 Exteran Disks and in my Studio Computer). I just don't know one thing: should I put all the data I have in those external disks inside my NAS and use NAS as my main shared Disk?; or should I make a copy of them to the NAS and use that NAS as a backup/shared disk?

Fantastic content. Can you please make a video on photo management on the nas? I find it difficult to get good performance with DS MOMENTS or DS PHOTO.. if you could cover Hardware, software, network, settings, how all should be set for best performance when using the nas as photo backup/library

I’m looking at getting a Synology NAS for my home Mac office. Does the Synology plug into my Orbi mesh router? I don’t have Ethernet running to my router for my Mac’s, just WiFi. Can I connect to the Synology over WiFi using SMB? Thanks for the help!