Synology DS1621xs+ Unbox & Setup

just checking to make sure everything is good before we jump in and get started here it's been a while since i have done a live stream and so just wanted to check since i have done a live stream look at that there it is that's all i needed a little bit of confirmation that it is working what's up it's jared with state of tech and we are going to set up a new storage device and the reason that i wanted to do this as a live stream is because it's been a long time since i've done a live stream uh hey uh we've got a comment yes first first you are first congratulations um it's been a while since i've done a live stream and i wanted to talk about the nas storage solution that i've been going that i decided to go with so we're gonna do a setup here um we are going to upgrade it as well as it comes right out of the box because it just wouldn't be a uh a good setup video if we weren't immediately upgrading the ram and immediately putting in a solid-state drive for a um uh for the what is it it utilizes that for buffering data there's a better word for it but anyways that's what i'm going to upgrade so i've got some drives here and the drives are what i'm going to install into this nas so let's pull those out and get those ready i have uh my cabling already ready and a power strip nearby so let's talk about why i'm going to local storage when cloud storage has gotten to be very affordable there's a couple of reasons why i am switching from cloud storage back to local storage or i guess you could say kind of a hybrid of the two so the main reason is cost and speed now i live in montana and the internet is decent where i'm at but it's not fast enough to really act as a good storage solution when i need to access files often so the problem with that is if i have a lot of data that i might not necessarily need for a while i would put it on a storage device which right now is google drive and the problem there is that it's very slow for me to redownload that data and so i want to be local and local requires local storage and i've had a synology nas before and the synology nas was great and the reason that i moved away from it was it just it wasn't what was getting a little old i'd had it for about five or six years but it also wasn't fast enough as a local storage solution technology has changed things are much faster than they were and that is why we have decided to move to a nas so i have some drives here um they came wrapped like so and uh i could switch camera angles here so i'm just going to make it easier for me to do that so i have some 10 terabyte terabyte you can see you can see it's been a while since i've done a live stream because the words are just not flowing freely from my mouth so i have some 10 terabyte iron wolf pro drives these are nas drives uh that are designed for this type of use case and i have four of these drives i decided to go with four of them i actually need more storage than what this is going to provide but in the process of getting back to using local storage i'm going to do a cleansing process and go through a lot of the data that i've been saving over the years that i just don't think i need anymore i definitely need to pare it down and uh and get away from you know just having so many things saved like old footage for videos and stuff that i'm i figured maybe i would use at one point um and i just you know i i need to get rid of a lot of that data that i'm not utilizing so let's grab the box that the nas is in right here and we'll go ahead and pull that sucker out so i decided to go with the six bay uh because the drives capacities are getting larger these days and the uh the cost is coming down on the drive capacities um these 10 terabyte drives were not too terribly expensive which was great and so i decided to go with those because i'm still gonna have two more bays available for uh for those drives and then i also can then upgrade those drives to higher capacity versions so let's get this out of the box here or the box that's within the box so here we are with the disk station ds 1621 xs plus uh there is a more entry level version of this the reason that i went with this version is because of the um the faster processor uh the expandability and also this has uh it has a faster input output for data transfer and there is another version that is significantly cheaper i believe it's just the 1621 model and uh though that model is way cheaper i'm not going to get the same data transfer rates out of that as i would with this model and the data transfer rates are really what's most important to me okay so let's get this out of the box here try to do this in the most graceful way possible without breaking anything all right so here we go it is small so the last i had a six bay before um it was an old version i can't remember the model number i did have an older version and then i think i upgraded to a 12 bay and had a 12 bay model that had about 42 terabytes of available storage in it um and that was a lot i i uh stored everything locally and then eventually ended up backing up most of that to the cloud and then getting rid of the synology that i had so the reason that i decided to do that is because i was going to start working from home about two and a half years ago and i wanted uh i didn't want an ass sitting around at my house just spinning hard drives all day long i felt like that was kind of a waste but now fast forward to this year i definitely need more storage so let me switch cameras and we're going to just kind of fly around this unit here and take a look you can see from the top down it's not a huge device you know this is my iphone 12 pro max for uh for scale i guess you could say it's not a huge device it's nice it's going to be very uh easy to put this on a shelf keep it kind of stored away so it's not out in the open um here we have the six bays uh where we will slide the drives in um you know simple uh power switch uh lan connections status and alert icons are leds on the front and then we also have a usb a connection on the front for connecting external drives if i needed to dump a hard drive or maybe some memory cards or something like that from a camera directly on here i could do that um on this side just simply the logo which also acts as an air vent and then on the back of the device here we've got some big fans for airflow we've got some usb we've got a kensington lock we've got the 10 gigabit which is what i wanted i wanted to be able to connect this to a switch and then connect those directly to the computers that are going to be doing some video editing and then we also have some lan connections couple esatas um and an expansion port here as well so what's great about this is that you can also expand the um the memory so we're going to go with 32 gigabytes of memory which is going to max that out and then we're also going to put an ssd in which is going to give us a more cash buffer space essentially so that data transfers and things can be done even faster so i have realized that i failed to prepare myself with a screwdriver so i'm going to grab a screwdriver really quick here while uh you stare at the wall i'll take two seconds just to let's cross the room here just to grab the screwdriver and i have a screwdriver so we're going to remove the bottom panel of course the screwdriver is not working it's too small there we go and here we have our ram so before doing anything i'm just going to change out the ram so we'll pop that one stick out and we have two replacements uh this is from arch memory it was recommended as a suggested replacement for synology i bought this off of amazon i'll include the link in the description below in case you're watching this and deciding to do something similar um this memory they they say on the synology website to use the appropriate memory uh in the past you know i've bought i've done memory upgrades and laptops and and whatnot and i've picked the same exact specs and it's worked just fine but something on a device like this synology uh where it could be very much configured to work with just specific manufacturers and so i decided to go with this particular manufacturer because it was recommended and i didn't want to have any problems it was a little bit more expensive than uh other ram of the same um specs and so that part was a little frustrating but nonetheless sometimes you pay a couple extra bucks you avoid the headache and and that's worth it so that is why i decided to go with this ram there we go i'm going to put the old ram stick in here in case i need it for something later on and we are done here so we can put the door back on and then we can move on to installing the the ssd and then move on to install the drives now in the past i've configured a couple of these synologies before it has been a few years but i've i've configured a couple of them before it doesn't necessarily matter whether you or it hasn't in the past mattered whether you install the drives ahead of time before powering up and configuring uh the device or not because uh from what i found when you power up the nas the drives are kind of unrecognizable they need to be initialized and and then they need to be added into the appropriate raid configuration that you're you're going to go with and in the past i just went with the synology raid configuration it worked out really well it utilizes one of your drives as a drive with a single disc fault so if one of your drives goes out then it's fine because your data is spread across all the other drives and it even does smart things like early detection of those issues i've never had a drive fail inside of my synology in the past but i have had drives uh degrade and the notifications that you get then prompt you to um of course get new drives and replace those drives so there should be uh here it is a little door key for uh for those drives i'll probably need those screws that are in there as well to mount the drives possibly to the uh um to the caddy so we'll go ahead and pull one of these out um just to see if it's oh i don't need the key for that so i'm unlocked already so with these drives uh let me switch cameras so you can get a better view with this with this drive caddy it has little pins that that indent into the screw holes the mount holes on the side of the drive so there's no need to use any screws to mount drives there are some holes in the bottom i'm sure you can utilize as well but we're just going to mount them that way so right over in here this is going to be kind of hard to see i'm going to try and show it to you is where your nvme drives would would mount there's two slots back in here for nvme drives i feel like i could show this to you if i just turn on my iphone flashlight and shine it down in there yeah you might be able to see it it's kind of hard to see it but there is a two slots for nvme drives there and i opted to just go with a single one terabyte nvme drive which i'm going to install there um for that extra performance so this is a a hynix sk hynix drive hynix is a memory maker i'm most familiar with them is making the type of memory for either ram or a lot of the graphics cards the high-powered gpus run hynex memory and so i thought hey let's just go with a ssd an nvme ssd that is a hynix brand and see how that goes it had a lot of good reviews on um on amazon and so why not i guess i didn't need the knife for that so we're going to go ahead and get this out of here and slide it right in it looks like it's going to be really easy just to kind of slide it right into the slot there and it snaps into place very nice so we'll get that out of there slide it right in all right here we go all right so i'm going to switch to the top camera just so that you can kind of see what i'm doing i know that the lighting is not optimal for actually seeing uh inside here it's probably going to make the most sense for me to pop a couple of these out so that i have more room here there is number one is closest and number two is furthest so i'm going to go ahead and seat this in to the number one slot and then make sure this lines up snap it into place it's as simple as that so now i have the one terabyte nvme installed which is great that is dialed in and ready to go and so now i can start the process of uh putting in the hard drives and then we can actually power this thing up and i should be able to show you on screen the setup process and uh we can walk through that together because it's going to be interesting there is a new version of the synology software dsc i believe is is what it's called their software and um it's version seven and there's some really cool things that their software does for data storage one of the other issues is that for for all of us that use google photos um for photo storage which i've been using google photos since it uh since it came out and i've been referring tons of people to use google photos as a backup solution because they offered free backup of your photos but that's going away in june i don't know if you heard the news but that's going away in june and we will no longer get free backup i know it was too good to be true in the first place and uh that has come to an end now for most people with a standard google account you will probably be fine with um you just continuing to use i couldn't hear what you said google photos pardon my watch um you'll continue to use google photos you'll probably be fine uh because the high quality compression to the images should probably just be fine and it'll take you a long time to run out of storage space but in the instance that you do it's going to chip away at the free data that you get and then on top of that you have to pay for extra storage and i have a lot of photos backed up i'm a photographer i take a lot of photos and i just have a lot of stuff on in my google photos and so having to pay for that it's going to cost me a lot of money eventually and it's just going to continue to cost more and more as i continue to add more and more content to uh to google now on top of that when you store video on google photos the video is not nearly as high quality as the photos and that's unfortunate because i i like to back up the videos as well that i take and i want an easy way to back those up so synology has an app of their own that well they used to have two apps they had a photos app that was kind of like a basic google photos slash eye photo competitor i guess you can say um and then they had an app called moments and moments was the app layer that goes along with your um or at least i think it was called moments it might have been called something else but they had two apps and then one of the second app allowed you to organize and use kind of ai functionality and stuff to do some neat things that that are very similar to what you can do in google photos well they just merged both of those into a single app and added lots of really really great features and so basically you can have your own google photos locally and the ai that does all the cool things like facial recognition and automatically grouping photos uh into categories by person and like all those cool things that google does with their tech you can do locally and you're not sending all of your data to google anymore so the privacy implications are just amazing and the ability to to do that all locally without sending all that data i mean how many photos have i taken where there's like people in the background and google's ai is trying to identify them and all this stuff and you know it's i don't know i just don't feel as good about that anymore with all of the you know privacy stuff like all just all the crazy things going on i i want to have more control over that information and so with synology and the software that they have developed that runs locally on your nas you're able to back up all of your photos and all that stuff and still have a lot of those cool features that you uh that you want to have because it's you know 2020 2021 we have all these cool things that our our devices can do um and prior to synology and other services that are coming out you would kind of be locked in to using google or using apple's icloud or using you know some of these uh large companies solutions so i love the fact that i'm going to be basically storing all of my stuff locally now and and of course i can create backups and all that stuff so that if i have an issue with my synology something big happens i'm not losing all of my data i do have a plan that i'm working on for backup of the synology but i like the idea of having more control over my data and all that stuff so um rusty's asking does it also do color recognitions so from what i understand like it's actually it gives you more control than uh than google does in google photos um i'm playing with a new app here so what i'm trying to do is send your question onto the screen oh look at that i could do it there we go so um does it do color recognitions it has a lot of different options for search so i should be able to search photos by things like color i can uh search based off of what camera i i took the photo with so that's good for me because i have some cameras i have different smartphones and stuff that i use and so i may remember oh i took that photo with my iphone 11 last year and uh and so you know maybe i want to search by that and look and see you know uh photos that were only taken with that camera there's a lot of neat things that this app does and i've i've probably only scratched the surface on on its possibilities i have um just watched a few videos and read a few articles on what it's capable of the interesting thing is going to be can i get my photo history out of google photos and into the nas so that it can start doing all those all that work and actually get me back to where i was with google photos so that's going to be the interesting thing i know that google photos is now kind of separate from google drive they used to be one in the same you can access your or not one in the same but you can access your um your google photos from your google drive account and so it's going to be interesting to see what exactly or exactly how this works so gps location as well that way if i was an x i could find it i that's another thing i think so it because it's able to read all that uh exif data like what camera you shot with what lens you used all of that stuff it's pulling in all the data from the file and actually like parsing that information i don't know if it's creating a database of it or something and then you're able to search i'm sure you know that's that's how software works but i'm sure that you're going to be able to do things like that i don't know if it's uh you know gonna create a map and i could zoom around the map or something like that uh like you can with some other software but it'll be interesting to find out and when i actually when i have a chance to do a review of this particular device i will come back and talk about those things because i know that a lot of people are going to be looking for alternate solutions considering that google photos is going to start charging and you know most people are probably going to need the second tier of uh level that google offers which right now is two terabytes and if you're in the us it's 10.99 a month for that and that adds up you know that adds up to a lot of money and it's only two terabytes really so if you're thinking okay i gotta maximize that ten dollar cost every month so i'm going to start using it for other things you know maybe you're not using dropbox anymore or something like that or you know maybe you choose do you dr use dropbox instead of google drive which isn't going to give you the google photos features but will still give you the ability to do backups i don't know you know it's it's just it's costly over time and it seems like there's no real win in it other than just to pay money yes google photos should cost money it's a great service um but at the same time i think people are starting to really reel in their privacy on things you know with the whatsapp stuff that came out and you know all this stuff with privacy people are really starting to you know be a little bit more concerned with that and this is a step in the right direction going with something that is self-hosted still has the software features that you want that are going to get you uh you're able to accomplish what you want so you don't feel like you're living in the stone ages and giving you more control over your data so we are going to slide these drives and now let me switch back to the top camera here uh we'll set this on its back um you can see here we slot in these drives and they just go in really easy we just simply slide them in like so and then boom that drives installed slide in another one make sure i'm not picking up any particulates and dropping them into the uh into the device here got a pretty clean environment in front of me but i'm awfully busy talking too so things tend to slip through the cracks when i'm too busy running my mouth so all right we've got the drives slotted in this little key here simply allows you to lock these so now i can't just you know push and pull a drive out like like one of these so i could just push it down and pop it out like that this little key locks these bays which i mean you could you could probably get into it if you really wanted to you could pick up and carry the whole thing out the door but at least it prevents accidents from happening um accidents like you know someone coming by and bumping it or something a drive popping out while it's running i don't know you don't want things like that to happen um so uh yeah this is um a 40 it's 40 terabytes but it's gonna be closer to 30 because one drive is one of the drives that's in here is basically going to be um used as a fail-safe drive because i'm going to go with the synology nas configuration or the synology raid configuration and so one of those drives is going to be kind of i don't know i don't want to call it a throwaway but it's not going to be part of the total amount of storage available um rusty's asking how's my man cave coming along with that short throw projector uh you must be of course you know following me on uh on social media like instagram or something like that um i uh just recently uh across the basement that i am in right now filming in um just got my home theater stuff set back up um haven't had it set up in a while i realize i am on the wrong camera to be talking directly to you um so i've got that stuff set up and i'm going to do a video about that because there's a few cool things there with the projector some software updates to it uh there's a black version of the projector um i have uh some home some home theater audio that i've installed and i've just got it set up and we're actually going to break that in with the kids tonight so we're going to watch something tonight probably i'm not sure exactly what uh but it's all dialed in it's ready to go and so i'm excited uh to be able to experience that so i'm going to plug this into power and i'm going to plug in my ethernet cable here and then we can power this thing up got power connected grabbed my ethernet cable which we will slot in to the lan 2 port because uh this particular cable is not um 10 gigabit uh and i don't think my router has a 10 gigabit either so yeah so we're going to power this guy on [Music] fans go up for a test and and it should after a few minutes of going through its cycle uh let us know when it's ready um i'm not sure off the top of my head what ip address this thing's going to automatically connect to typically you connect to your synology initially by connecting to the ip address and you log in go through the setup process and then you can actually create a more memorable url for connecting to which makes it really easy for you to connect to it even remotely and i'm sure it does some pass through with synology but it was very useful especially when i was somewhere else and needed access that was weird i think all four of those drives uh did something it sounded like it was playing music but i think it was just all four drives like doing something at the same time that was kind of funny um so i will need to figure out what the ip address is here so i'm gonna just continue to chat here for a second while i figure that out so i haven't been producing as much content on youtube as i'm sure many of you are aware if you've been around 2020 was definitely an interesting year and um i have some plans moving forward and this nasa i've actually been sitting on for a couple of days because i wanted to do this live stream and i wanted to be able to get on here and chat with some of you and and do this project together but moving forward i have some other interesting things so we got a beep that usually means that it is uh it has now gone through the boot up process and i should probably be able to connect to it um so i need to look here and see i'm looking for the device in my ip range and so far it is not there let's go ahead and refresh just a couple of times and it should populate here pretty soon lots of devices you know you've got your google homes your apple tvs your my thermostat a couple of printers kids devices i mean it's crazy how many uh devices you can end up with connected to your network um so land 2 is flashing and that is where this is connected so i should be able to see this here anytime in the ip address range but i am not yet oh there it is okay so i've got the ip address i'm going to go ahead and pop that in and let me get the screen back up here and we are going to go to the screen share google chrome yep you should be seeing my screen now so hopefully that continues yep there we go all right so we're on the setup screen now we've got a welcome message and i just simply click on setup i need to install the latest dsm so i'll go ahead and do that we'll go ahead it says all data will be removed that's fine this is the process in which it's going to initialize those four drives and prepare them for uh being a part of this disk station and then i can go through the rest of the setup process so in in continuing the talk about using this as a replacement for google photos synology has their own apps that i'll be installing on my phone and then also my wife's phone and those apps will allow me to back up my photos in the same way that google photos did google photos when you open it on an iphone it would run uh and and back up those images if you're on an android device it just backs them up in the background and that is going to be a really nice process for keeping those things backed up uh also through one of their apps i can access any files that are on this remotely now i of course have to make sure that it is powered up and that there is a good internet connection running to it but i can access any of my files anywhere which is a really nice feature being able to uh do that and have access anywhere um so uh so yeah rusty thanks for uh thanks i you know yeah i've been i'm traveling with my family last year we traveled um a lot uh which was great early this year we relocated to montana so there's just a lot that has been going on and i mean you know um i love doing youtube but i love a lot of different things but family is first and i'll never you know um prioritize something over my family uh so rusty is saying uh this thing is huge let me see if i can oh there we go nope nope whoa look what i did now you're full screen bud um so uh uh what do we got going on here how do i get rid of that i was just trying to put your text up and double clicking on it is a no-no in this app so rusty you're saying i did a uh my wd my cloud eight terabyte made the mistake of doing a mirror and only used four ran into the four terabyte pretty quickly yeah so um that is kind of my situation is that i i've ran into limitations with standard drives i've been utilizing like the pocket-sized ssds for external storage for my laptop and and that's just been kind of getting me by if i need access to files for editing a video or something like that they're going to live on one of those two terabyte drives and you know i've got to keep them plugged into the laptop um if i want to go from one computer to the next it's a process and i just i decided that's just not something that i i don't want to continue on with that and i have an employee starting in uh in the middle of next month and he's going to need access to video files to help me with the video editing process and all that stuff so yeah that that is why i'm moving to something like this it's a more robust setup um i see we've got two likes thank you so much if if you're watching and you're enjoying the banter and the uh and the video so far make sure to smash that like button for the youtube algorithm i think is what people say so i appreciate that right now we've got uh the the nas restarting it's got about seven minutes left on that and so i figured during that seven minutes while i wait for this to complete its process we can just talk about tech and things right now um so i pre-ordered the galaxy s21 ultra and that should be here i believe next week so i'm pretty excited to get that uh the two phones that i've been utilizing of course the iphone 12 pro max and i have the note 20 ultra here and those phones are great um my primary of course is the iphone i've tried again switching back to android and making that my primary but just being on the apple ecosystem with the uh with my laptop my ipad we've got apple tvs in the house my kids have apple devices and monitoring their devices um and making sure their devices are are operating appropriately and that they're operating them appropriately i need to be connected to an ios device for that um i got my kids apple watches earlier this year uh rather than getting them phones we're we're not planning to get our kids phones uh until they're early teenagers and so with the watches um i felt that was a good option because we could stay connected to them they could reach out to us if they needed us and uh there's there's still that connection there but it's not a big screen for them to look at that they can install games and stuff like that on um so rusty still with the note 20 20 ultra and the fold 2 you've got all three of those that's awesome so the fold 2 i've been really interested in but i know that there's limitations to it that would drive me bananas mainly just the camera not being as top-notch as the camera on the the highest of flagship phones that are available i got to to play with the fold 2 at ces last year when they they had it you had to wait in line and they only had a couple of them to show people and it was pretty cool to um to experience that but i just i haven't bit on one yet i think i would really like it because i think the ipad mini is like the perfect size portable tablet my ipad pro i love it but it's too big to just take with me everywhere where an ipad mini is but an ipad mini is outdated it doesn't have the um uh it doesn't operate with the latest apple pencil um i don't know i just i don't i don't want to buy another one for myself i have them for my kids that's great um but uh yeah the fold two is definitely interesting um xavier says if you normally use iphoto oh boy i really messed up on resizing uh resizing this uh this thing i'm gonna have to go into the settings and figure out what i did with this overlay thing um if you normally use iphoto how you back up and how can you organize that in synology i only use apple devices um and can you show the image of the app for mac um so so iphoto you know just another storage option as far as photos go synology has an app that you can install on your mac and so your photos that are in iphoto can be backed up to the synology device itself and then you could either continue to use iphoto if you want to utilize iphoto as your interface and just utilize the synology as a backup solution or you can move over and just use the synology keeping in mind that all of your your every image you're going to be accessing is going to be remote now because the i don't believe their application keeps everything local i think it sends it over the synology and everything happens on the synology itself so it's a little bit different of an experience if you are running low on storage uh and you you tend to have a lot of photos in your iphoto library and you're always having to like clear some some photos out to make more room something like this might be a great option um this is obviously a larger capacity synology they make synology devices with two drives and so uh you can you can put two like eight terabyte or four terabyte drives in there set the uh the um the synology raid option so that they're still uh you're you're basically ghosting your data to one of the other drives so if one drive goes bad you don't lose you know access to all of your data that's that's what i'm doing with this particular device and i may when i get it back into an office and and this probably goes with me to the office i will probably be getting a smaller synology device for my home and that is the one that i will eventually uh you know push all of my personal stuff to photos videos all that stuff and then i'll utilize this one more at the office so uh so we'll see um all of this experience will will be i will talk about it in a review when i do a review of this of this device it looks like we are ready to continue setting this up uh steve sweet i have a ds 1520 with 40 terabytes awesome um i can't remember the model the two different models that i had before uh before this model i can't remember the model numbers all right so server name now in the past my server name was called hmg nas for hill media group nas i'll probably uh just call it the same the same thing because it's very simple um username i need to see here so i'm just gonna go ahead and use the uh the suggested password here and i'll update it off camera so that that way um you know my password isn't public information but very easy so this is the quick connect id i briefly talked about this a little earlier the quick connect id is awesome because it makes it easy for you to connect to your nas from any other computer i i know i have let's see a synology account um so in a quick connect id let's see here let me try this because it's asking for an email address um quick connect id i could change all this stuff later but we're just going to go ahead and see if it will log me in authorization required so probably means that my password was incorrect so i'm just going to go ahead and set this up the way that i would want to anyways see so we'll just go ahead and change that change that that that and hit next and we'll save that privacy statements all that good stuff next next next the media group's already in use of course it is because it was the one for my old nas so i can't use that ah that makes me think i should just oh no i'll just um uh i'll update this later well that's fun maybe i oh maybe i used to ah there was one called hmg i'm using all the same names that i've used in the past uh there the number one okay let's just get through this and get this done so that i can get logged in are you kidding me how many of these um that's pretty specific you would think all right we'll change this later that better work all right finally all right so we are essentially in the user interface here i'm just gonna go ahead and finish going through all of these little deals here it's giving me all the tips and all that good stuff over here we have the system health right now none of these drives are initialized so none of these drives are ready to go yet i need to add them to the system so if we go into file station here this is where i would access any shared folders or anything for accessing uh based on user account level and all that good stuff control panel allows me to basically change and access anything the first thing i should probably do is make sure that i have the latest version here and it says it's up to date and it's not the dsm version 7.0 yet so i'm guessing that maybe the uh the dsm 7.0 hasn't been fully released yet i know that uh the last time i just watched some videos on it that came out about a month ago and they said that it's uh it's coming and so i assumed that dsm version 7.0 was live but apparently it's not quite live yet so with that you know it's it's uh it's coming at least all right so system is healthy we've got four unused drives as you can see here on the overview we'll go into the storage pool where we want to create a new storage we've got better performance or higher flexibility so better performance is good uh for single volumes um max number of drives is 24. higher flexibility is good for multiple volumes uh and allows for flexibility in space excuse me allocation now i'm not going to need multiple volumes on this and what that means is that maybe breaking all of this storage space up into different partitions like you would partition a normal drive a hard drive um i can partition this up by creating different storage pools and and have i guess storage silos would be a way of saying it when i access the nas from my computer i would have multiple drives showing up which which might be interesting but for me i can also manage that stuff on a user account level basis so i'm going to go with better performance i've got the different raid options here the one that popped up was raid 5 that's what it's suggesting provides fault tolerance and increased performance a minimum of three drives is required it can sustain the loss of a single drive which is what i want there's also several other raid options in here as well uh and so i'm just looking at all these options here i'll click next uh we've got the different drives here which we will click and drag into place like so hit next and all the data on the drives will be erased that's totally fine total capacity is going to be 27.27 terabytes that is not a lot considering i've got 40 terabytes of drives in here but knowing that i have a single drive fault tolerance level uh that is what i want because spinning hard drives i don't trust i don't trust them i could say i don't trust them any farther than i could throw them but i feel like i could throw one of these drives pretty far and i don't trust it that much so i'm definitely want to make sure that if one drive fails it doesn't take down all of the data that i have i still have two more slots i can still upgrade these drives to 18 terabytes i think drives are available that size these days they're pretty expensive but i could still add two more 10 terabytes in here or even add in a couple of 12s or whatever as i need more storage so what we're looking at now is the process it's going through by verifying the drives in the background you can see it's a very slow process this is not something that i'm going to sit and wait through with all of you because this will probably take uh several hours so it's going to go through this complete check and with this complete check when it's com when it is complete i will have access to all of that storage space and then when i go and look at the overview here we'll uh it'll say you know everything's ready to go and i can access all of that so in here you can see i've got my four drives they are those seagate uh 10 terabyte iron wolf drives i also have my cash device in here which is not yet installed so what i need to do now is go into my ssd cache it says please create volumes uh before creating ssd cache okay that's cool um but i'm not going to be able to do that i don't think until this process is done that's kind of what it's looking like let's see there's no volume in your system um well i can go maybe this is what i need to do i need to create that volume first um let's see file system supports advanced features including shared replication blah blah ax force widely used in linux yeah i'm um i'm just going to go ahead with the btrfs file system um we'll go ahead and just call it storage pull one i can always rename that later and hit apply and now i should be able to apply that ssd cache that drive to this but it may make me wait until the drive for that volume is completed see it's still creating that volume here and verifying the drive still oh okay now it will let me so read only cache uh use one or more ssds um to accelerate so if i had a second ssd i could do read write cache which is better so i don't have two drives in there right now but i am just going to go ahead and choose the only option available we'll go ahead and select it says it's not listed as compatible so you know whatever that's one of the reasons why i bought the ram that was recommended for this i did not buy the ssd that's recommended so hopefully hopefully that will be that will be fine every one gigabyte of ssd cache consumes uh 416 kilobytes of memory modify allocated size 931 so see every gigabyte 416 modified allocated size and we'll just set it at the max we'll leave it at that i understand and apply so most of the rest of what's going to be happening now is just it going through the rest of its setup process um synology rate let's see steve is saying uh synology rate is excellent raid six equivalent uh you get the maximum capacity of the drives on bay five you could lose two drives without losing data yeah um yeah i i may go and reconfigure this uh setup a little bit as i do a little bit more research my wd cloud uses wd reds but you are using iron wolf i think yeah so wd reds are equivalent um those are nas level drives i believe they're the same as um as the iron wolf drives uh it's an nvme um the nvme drive that i put in here not a not a sata drive that's what i put in for the ssd cache um i put that drive in there because uh it does improve the quality of of the transfers i i didn't read too much into that but i've seen people do some tests and the tests were pretty impressive and like i said at the beginning of the video the most important thing for me out of this is fast read and write speeds because i want to be able to offload video footage onto this and be able to edit it over over a a lan connection i should be able to do that uh easily even over a standard lan connection um based on the transfer speeds that i know that i need but the fact that this supports uh 10 gigabit um i'm going to run 10 gigabit into a switch and then i'll be uh of course connecting our computers uh you know via a 10 gigabit as well and that's going to give me the ability to really edit quickly and not have any kind of buffering issues or any lag issues when editing video footage that is directly on the nas freeing me up from having to pocket around ssds with me all the time copy footage off of my camera onto a an ssd and then when i'm done with a project off of the ssd onto something else the process is just going to be a lot better so the process of setting this thing up is uh basically done at this point there isn't really anything else that i can do here other than wait for it to verify the drives in the background and of course i do need to go into the into the control panel and set up user accounts and stuff like that so that i can access uh this device i can also um give an account level access for my wife so that her phone's photos can back up to it as well and then i could i could probably even do that for my kids ipads if i wanted to um so i do need to go through and finish a few other configuration items here but i'm not gonna make all of you uh sit through that um it's it's not that exciting and it's that configuration process is gonna be different for everyone else so with that said i've basically done everything that i set out to do here in an hour which is fantastic i appreciate uh everybody hanging out and the questions and being able to chat with some of you um that i've seen before some of you i haven't seen in a while and so that's been really cool i look forward to doing uh more things like this um just to give you a a a taste um let me see if there's an easy i don't know if there's an easy box for me to get to but i i have gotten on the list of some of these phone case manufacturers um and a lot of them send me cases even without asking anymore um to the point where it's kind of laughable i mean i got a box that was the size of this synology's box full of cases for the new s21 galaxy phone that's coming out and i i know i shouldn't be complaining because i'm i'm swimming in cases it should be fun i have lots of phone cases but a lot of them are styles that none that i wouldn't buy that i don't think too many people there's just such a wide variety of styles i thought it would be really fun to do a live stream where it's like here's all these cases let's look at some of them let's talk about the phone while we're while we're doing this and so those are some things that i definitely want to do uh in the in the future is um some of these case videos i'll definitely be doing a live stream when my s21 gets here and i i just want to engage with all of you guys and gals more and i haven't been good at that of recent and so i want to get back into that so i appreciate uh those of you that were here hanging out pretty much the entire time appreciate all of you and i look forward to seeing you in new videos you can uh keep up with me over on instagram at jared hill of course in the description of most of my videos there are links to my social you can just easily google search jared hill and find me on all the different platforms out there i've even been messing around with clubhouse that new app that seems to be going viral it's been a lot of fun and i've been having some conversations with people on clubhouse which has been fun so if you're on clubhouse make sure to track me down on there so we can all chat and hang out in in the clubhouse app so that's gonna do it for today make sure to be subscribed if you're not to the channel because i will be doing a review and that review will include how i'm utilizing this as a google photos alternative and also how i finally configured or finalized my configuration of the nas and all that good stuff read and write speeds for those of you that are interested in seeing how fast you can read and write data over a cable on this thing good stuff like that so i appreciate you being here i hope to see you back in another video or maybe on one of the other social medias out there in the meanwhile but until then thanks for hanging out and we'll see in the next one you

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Length: 59min 52sec (3592 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 21 2021