DSM 7.2 Beta is out now! Doing a living forum post over here with my experiences! forums.spacerex.co/t/dsm7-2-beta-synology-has-finally-released-the-dsm-7-2-beta/71?u=will Will not be able to do a video on it for a while, during my move!
You're a good man and I thoroughly enjoy watching your content. Yes that certificate thing is very annoying but you explained it brilliantly, thank you.
Here is a question you probably never heard. First, I just purchased a Synology NAS, It is an entry level with just 2x18TB in Raid0. I back up everything to encrypted internal style drives in a HD Dock using VeraCrypt to mount the drives and use FreeFileSync to copy my data from my Direct Attached Storage. Example: Take a 6TB drive from Firesafe - insert it into HD dock. Mount the drive with Veracrypt. Sync a portion of the DAS to the encrypted drive. Dismount the volume and drive and move to the next drive in firesafe. This method works well and fast for me. and I leave time for myself to do this every Sunday morning. Now I have this new Synology NAS that I am using as a Movie Media Server for the whole house. Right Now I am backing up the NAS through the computer that has the HD Dock attached. With all that said. I think it would be very convenient to connect my HD Dock direct to the NAS and "Sync" directly . The trouble is I have no way of mounting an encrypted drive to the NAS. Is there a Synology version of Veracrypt? so I can mount a drive in a HD dock directly?
I have been in networking for 30 years. I have multiple Cisco and other certifications but I always learn something from your videos. Keep up the good work and I am rocking my DS920+ (not 923+ thanks to you) and loving it. I mostly use it for Plex and backing up my wife and 2 daughters MacBooks. You rock man!!!!
I just started my career in Networking and I have a CompTIA Network+ certification and i'm learning a lot from these videos too. That's why I love IT and Networking. The learning never stops and there's always something new.
Hey man, I just got my 1st Synology NAS, and i've only seen a handful of your videos on Synology NAS's, but you have been instrumental in helping me with setting up my NAS and securing it. Thanks
Your "Bank of America" explanation was very very clear. I already knew it. But as I am a teacher here in The Netherlands, I always look at the way people explain things, you did this very well!
Hi Will, Just wanted to say thank you for all these informative videos! You got me set up with my first NAS. The timing in releasing this video was uncanny as I just searched up some issues im having to find your good self again.
Thank you, Will. Because you asked, I would love to know which of the programs plays back and shares home video files (from DSLR or Phone) smoothest ? Synology photos or Video Station? Thanks!
Your videos on the Synology have been so helpful!! Your channel is my “Go to” source for everything NAS! But that exposed wire running from your TV is distracting!😂
Hello, I’m a big fan of your videos and I appreciate the insights you provide. I’ve noticed a small detail which, if corrected, might enhance the viewing experience. The Apple logo on your Mac tends to collect fingerprints and other smudges, which can be somewhat distracting during your demonstrations. It would be wonderful if you could give it a quick clean before filming. This minor adjustment would definitely help to maintain the overall aesthetic of your videos. Thank you for your consistent quality content, keep up the good work!
Another excellent videos for us NAS newbies. Many thanks. The forgot password was very interesting. I use a program called Keepass and while setting up my NAS I put my passwords etc into this program. Hopefully won't forget them. I look forward to the video of setting up remote access via VPN
Hey SpaceRex!! Excellent video. I am surprised that space expansion in an existing Volume was not a common question. So, here's my question - say I have an existing Volume in SHR 1 having 2 - 2TB drives. So if I want to expand this to 4TB, how do I plug in 2 - 4TB drives to expand the volume? Will really appreciate if you can take this question in your 'common questions 2.0' video? Thank you
yes, I'd find that useful too with expanding 1TB raid 0 DS220j two bay NAS to higher capacity by replacing the current x2 1TB drives to greater. I really should have researched better to start with and bought higher capacity drives in the first place.
Hello, just read your comment and I can share my own experience. Some years ago I purchased a DS218j (entry level 2 bay NAS) I started with just 1 x 4TB WD Drive, some years later I added a second WD 6TB drive and it simply rebuilt/copied my first drive (SHR) however it could only use the 4TB storage. So recently I’ve been researching a new NAS to replace my DS218j and found Synology are selling their own branded drives so in preparation for NAS upgrade I purchased their approved 6TB HAT3300 Drive and swapped the 4TB to my new Synology Drive, again, it simply rebuilt my storage pool and now I have 6TB of storage. I’ve been retired for 10 years and struggle with this technology but I love my Plex 😊
Dear SpaceRex, thank you for your valuable comments on NAS. I would like to ask you, how to access my NAS (in my home network), when the internet connection does not work. I know that it is rare case but it can happen. How can then control my Synology NAS?
I have alot of problems not directly to nas, but right opening appropriate ports on my router. Surveillance Station, Backup to another offsite Synology Nas. Can you explain and show this in detail? Thx.
Great video. Am I to understand that anyone who can get to the little pin on the back of the NAS can reformat all my drives just by holding a button for 10 seconds??!!
so the first one is a soft reset. Then you hold it again for a hard reset. if they had physical access to the NAS they could destroy the data on it much easier by just dropping it on the floor
Thanks for this. Would love to know how to remotely connect to my NAS with decent speed if possible. I use it primarily as a backup for my work (wedding photography) but I would like to back up to it from home (it’s at a different location- my studio)
Is DDNS safe as a method of connection out of local network? As well as opening port 5001 to access from outside? For Synology Drive and Synology Photos on the go.
Do you have a video where you back-up a pc to a remote Synology NAS? I would like to back-up the laptop of an older relative to my NAS, i have a ton of space.
There are a few different options for cloud flair. If you just use their CDN then quick connect will be better, though both basically the same security. If you use their proxy tunnel with authentication then that would be more secure then QC as you are only allowing allowed users to even see the NAS. There are similar offerings to this by both TailScale and Twingate [note twingate has sponsored the channel in the past]
Hi Will. Could you possibly make a video on how to create a valid self-signed SSL certificate authority without using a third-party service? As I understand, it is a somewhat involved process. Also, I thought I knew everything about my NAS, but today I learned about the soft reset feature. Thanks!!!
So the problem is any self signed certificate, will NOT be considered valid unless you trust the root authority. Then every single browser will also have to be told to trust it. I have only done it once and it was a real pain! Might look into it for a video though thanks!
Can I schedule my second - backup - nas to turn off after hyper backup has finished? Now, I can trigger PowerOn, and then say Enable auto poweroff "10 minutes" in HDD hibernation tab. But sometimes NAS do not turn off for hours after hyper backup (vault) completed the job and nothin else is running on my second nas.
I just bought the Synology DS1522+ 5-Bay NAS, based on your recommendation (over the new DS923+). 1. Which of your videos would you recommend I use as a starting guide to getting set up? 2. I got the 60TB Iron Wolf combo from B&H, which should effectively give me 48TB of usable storage in RAID 5. Which SSD's (or is 1 enough..?) do you recommend to install on the base? 3. I'm a videographer / photographer. I have a couple fast external sandisk SSD's to edit from... I was planning to use this as my backup and cloud storage. It's still unclear to me if I CAN or cannot edit directly from this thing. Any thoughts on this? With the new updates to be able to use the SSD's as storage instead, does that change anything? Thank you!!!!
Are you saying that we should NOT use our admin account and totally didable it? On my NAS, we have an ADMIN, and ADMINISTRATOR. The administrator is disabled and admin is active
just installed 7.2 on my 920+ and 220j. Question since I have these 2 Nas, what would you recommend best way to use them together or individually what would be best way to use each nas. my 920 has 4 - 4TB drives giving me 12TB, my 220J has 2 4 TB drives chain together creating 8TB.
Could you do a more detail insight about Synology Active Backup for Business and the functionality compared to other backup-solutions like Veeam Backup Free, Acronis etc. (not snapshots)? For example: I cannot find any 'Health-Functions' for the backup like Health-Check, Checking if the Backup-chain is still functional etc.
I have been meaning to do a video on that! But yes you can do the heath checks on them, its called 'backup verification' from KC Backup Verification If Backup Verification is enabled, a scheduled trial run of the restoration will be performed in VMM for a configured number of seconds. This process will be recorded into a video for your reference, so you can confirm that the backed up data can be successfully restored in case of sudden disaster.
@@SpaceRexWill looks like it is only available for Servers and not personal PCs. Anyway this is not the place to discuss it here. I would like to see a video about it. Maybe you should do a quick survey before who backups personal PCs and who backups industrial (is this the right term? sry my english is not the best) servers etc. based on the survey I would make a video about comparing the most used backup-solutions.
Hey man 👋 i like to your channel as a lot of information is given . I am planning to buy a one synology ds923+ but before that i am also considering to make my old pc into nas . So i want to know that can i get the same performance of that if i use it on old pc nas or is there a benefit if I purchase one unit synology nas.
So you should actually be able to get more performance out of an old PC build, assuming its not too old. Desktop CPU's from 5 years ago will out pace the CPU's in most NAS units. The downside of building it yourself is ease of use
And where is the problem? I have a domain with a little vserver so i can download a valid certificate for my domain and then i direct a subdomain to my nas. I wonder if your traffic gets encrypted when a false certificate is used or if the browser just connects over https but never encrypts enything because the encryption/ decryption key is wrong.
Self signed certificates still have full encryption on them that cannot be decrypted without the private key stored on the NAS. If a browser did not encrypt the traffic then the NAS would refuse the traffic as it would be http traffic on an https port
Thanks! New question... What are the implications of changing the name(s) of my NAS? Will it "break" package settings that were setup using the old name?
@@SpaceRexWill I changed the name of one of my NAS and it broke my hyper backup. I have a 920+ and a 923+ Hyper backup was still looking for the old name. I had to edit the hyperbackup destination. So I suspect that changing the name will break any routine that uses server name and not address. This apparently happend because during setup, I let hyper backup find the destination NAS. Instead I should have typed in the address. Lesson learned... Never rely on the convenience of synology "finding" things for you. Now I am wondering where else I may have done this.
Hi, following your previous video about Mac Drive integration and ran across this error. Any suggestions? (I was going to attach a photo, but I can’t figure out how to this message)
Thanks which nas would you recommend with this on for redundant storage? The same one or can i also buy cheaper version and use it for redundancy? Thanks!
@@SpaceRexWill Ah, it looks like it shows in /Home only, not under /Homes. And my FileStation icons are tiny so I didn't even notice it on the small folder icon. Not sure where I set my icons to tiny. Thanks.
The question I have is how do you setup a persistent secure connection between an on-site and offsite Synology NAS’s with the ability to setup ongoing Hyper Backups from onsite to offsite. I tried Tailscale but it disconnected after about 7 incremental backups and I could never get them to connect again. Is there another more reliable way. Youll probably do a whole video just on this too. 😉
So I have an openVPN server that automatically connects clients NAS back to the house. I have not had an issue with Trailcale disconnecting before. Did you follow these steps to keep the bridge open? tailscale.com/kb/1131/synology/#enabling-synology-outbound-connections
