Synology for the Home User | Synology Webinar

welcome to private Cloud for the home user my name is Max Holmes and I'm a technical account manager for Synology my team specializes in providing product education support and recommendations to businesses and home users just like yourself today is a very special presentation that we created specifically for our home users Synology creates a lot of products for businesses but we still love and highly value our home users we're always excited to teach people about Synology products but this time we're going to use a little bit less of our regular technical mumbo jumbo however even if you're pretty technically Savvy you'll probably still learn a thing or two about Synology we're going to be learning about what an ass is what it does how it works and then we're going to give you the tools to choose your own Nas that fits your data requirements and goals finally we're going to dive deep and walk through a start to finish setup of a Synology Nas so let's start basic what is Nas well Nas is an abbreviation for network attached storage the network attached portion means the device is connected to your home or work network devices that are on a network have the potential to see and communicate with each other devices you might already have in your home that are network attached are computers your phone or even your TVs now if you've ever casted a screen from one of your devices to your home TV that's only possible because both devices are attached to your home network so they can communicate over it the last letter in the abbreviation seems pretty straightforward storage well Nas is a storage device it's a hub for all your personal files making them pretty easy to access by devices on your network now consider this example for yourself have you ever tried getting a photo from one computer to another you probably ended up emailing it to yourself or uploading it to the cloud and then downloading it again on the second computer now if the file is on your Nas the transfer would happen with a couple drag and drops so where does the data go on a nasp well just like a computer it goes on a hard drive and in most cases multiple hard drives and these drives are loaded into the front of the nas the nas unit itself comes in varying sizes and capacities from a couple Bays to devices that can take a ton of hard drives let me show you a couple in front of me I have two Synology nasas of different sizes on my right hand side I have our ds720 plus model this is a two Bay Nas now my left hand side are ds1819 plus model and this is an 8-bay Nas now to install a hard drive in a NASA is pretty straightforward all I have to do is remove one of the drive trays and install a hard drive into the tray using the included Hardware after the hard drive is installed in the tray I just reverse the order Slide the drive right back into the nas now Synology makes NASA's have a lot of different sizes and shapes and even some really big stuff in fact if you're a video production company and have an extra thirty thousand dollars lying around you might want to consider one of our full flash arrays which is loaded with ssds and been for a production environment and this isn't just a big hard drive on a network storage is just the beginning a Nas can actually do a ton more you should kind of think of a Nas like a mini computer it actually runs its own operating system now at home your PC probably runs a variant of the Windows operating system or if you're a Mac User then you're probably running Mac OS now synology's operating system is called disk station manager which we usually abbreviate as DSM because it's kind of long becomes license free with all our Nas units and it's what gives Nas its vast amount of functionality that a regular external drive just doesn't have now within disk station manager we download software through what we call our package center it's like our own built-in App Store but the software's in it are free so it's kind of not like the App Store in that way Now by installing software to the nas we're customizing its functionality to suit our own needs we'd be here all day if I started listing off what a Synology Nas can do common functionalities of a Nas start with basic data storage sharing and security but they go way further than that into things like media servers surveillance systems website hosting and in fact more than you could even imagine all from a single nasp but most importantly and above all a Nas keeps your data safe we'll come back to data security in a minute there's a lot of ways to store your data in this day and age from your phone your computer there's a bunch of cloud services maybe you throw all your files on a USB drive every month well why is a Nas the best option well there's some serious advantages to having an on-premise storage it's lightning fast reliable secure and it's the most affordable if you're like me you've probably accumulated a lot of data over your life and losing that data would be absolutely catastrophic and we often don't think about it until it's too late data reliability is so important because your data is irreplaceable now Synology makes your data extremely reliable by creating redundant systems within the nas that prevent data loss in the event of a hard drive failure now we also need to backup our data to prepare for the event of a total failure or some sort of malicious attack now creating that redundancy lies in the ability to have a Fail-Safe on the system hard drives that are in a Nas are configured so that we can lose certain drives without losing all of our data now this configuration is called raid we're going to learn a little bit more about raid later for now let's use your home computer as an example if you lost your computer's hard drive you'd lose all the data if that data was on a Nas losing a hard drive wouldn't cause a total data loss since our hard drives are in a raid configuration we can lose a hard drive or two without losing all our data now the other half of our reliability strategy is backups a backup is a copy of your data which is stored in a different location or on a different device this creates layers of recovery options in case one of the backup devices is somehow rendered useless now if we had a second Nas off-site our data would be safe in the event of a natural disaster or maybe a virus that rendered the NASA useless one of the largest advantages to a Nas is its ability to rapidly read and write data the secret to a Nas data speed lies in a topic we've already mentioned the network attached element of our NASA abbreviation now your NASA is plugged into your home network we call this network here of Lan or your local area network land is a connection between all the network devices in your home when two devices communicate over our home network they're communicating directly with each other through the wiring or the Wi-Fi in our home this direct connection is extremely fast now when we send data into the cloud we send it out of our Lan and over the internet this causes a serious speed reduction as the data has to bounce between a bunch of various servers and cables throughout the entire world now even if your home network is really fast once the signal is sent out into the Internet it's basically out of our control it's at the mercy of the connection speed of each server it bounces between now here's a comparison of transfer speeds between our home computer and the cloud and from our home computer to our Nas we're talking a thousand megabits per second to our Nas and on average only about 70 into the cloud now that's only if your internet provider blesses you with 70 megabits upload speed in the first place that's double what I get at home so let's visualize this difference yikes that's not even close so say I wanted to upload a 4K version of my favorite movie I want to upload it into the cloud and into my nasp assuming I'm in the United States and I have an average internet speed if I was going to upload my movie to the cloud I'm looking at over three hours of transfer time now to my Nas 15 minutes and on top of that uploading and downloading files to a Nas is super easy check this out all right so I have DSM open in a browser here and I have this suspiciously named upload me text file so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click and drag it into the dasp drop it and the upload process starts the downloads just as easy we just right click hit download you can see it pop up at the bottom of the browser and eventually pops up on our desktop it's pretty simple in addition to physical security a Nas is a master of cyber security too now within the NASA industry Synology is known for having the best track record for cyber security our products are even approved and extensively used by the US government so you know they've got to be safe Synology does not take data security lightly it's a top priority for us and we spend a ton of our time testing our hardware and software for vulnerabilities but aside from Synology doing their part owning a Nas gives you the power to prevent unwanted access to your data block malicious attacks and generally keep your data under your own control the disk station manager login system employs the latest in password confirmation standards as well as end-to-end encryption while data's in transit and since connections happen over Lan and not through a third-party server there's no middleman who could potentially spy on your data we access our Nas using a username and password credential and once logged in users can perform various tasks and access data we can control what each user does within the nas by setting up user permissions now at home we might set up our user profiles kind of like this we have an unlimited access admin account that can do anything on the nas including install software change network settings delete users admin stuff now our parent user might be able to view all the files and data on the nas but maybe not install software or modify settings finally our children user is the most locked down and the children can only look at what's in the children's movies folder Now setting up user permissions goes hand in hand with our next topic which is malicious attack protection let's say our computer gets hit with a ransomware attack and it starts encrypting all of our data now since the computer is connected with the parent user's login details the virus only got access to what the parent user could access now in this case the documents photos and videos folder were infected however since the parent user didn't have access to the backups folder the infection was unable to spread to the backups from there recovering our data is as simple as logging in as our admin user and restoring our files from our non-infected backup folder all right some of you might be thinking the cloud can't be hacked so my data is obviously safe there well the cloud is usually a good way to prevent attackers however a 2020 survey by security magazine showed that over 80 percent of companies have experienced a cloud data breach in the past 18 months now as an individual and not a business it's true you might be less of a prime target but there's a little bit more to the issue what we are considering is data ownership once your data is in the cloud you can never be certain who's accessing it if the data is hosted on a third-party cloud service they might have the rights to read your data or even provide it to their affiliates in this case you become the product let's say I just went on a hike with my friends and afterwards one of us uploaded our pictures from our hike to a cloud service now right away that service starts scanning the photos and Mining them for data they find out the brands of clothing we were wearing our age group our location they can even draw conclusions about race gender income and relationship orientation now this is the start of an advertising profile built on me and my friends now I know this sounds like a plot to a sci-fi movie but this is actually reality now keep in mind that regardless of your own choice if your photos are going into the cloud you could be making the choice for your family and loved ones without them even realizing it so how easily and quickly could you get your data back if you needed to well Cloud providers have control over the cost of your data even though you own the data they can change their subscription pricing at any time and force you to pay more to get access to your data imagine the time it would take to get all your data off the cloud since all the download and upload happens over this slow internet I hope your internet's fast all right I don't want to make the cloud seem worse than it is while there are a lot of advantages to having an on-prem storage like a Nas the cloud does have its perks it's actually a great way to store backup data and not have to worry about managing any hardware because they're going to manage it for you and since you only use your backups in a data emergency the difference in speed to the cloud for a backup doesn't really matter as much for this exact reason Synology is hyper backup software was designed with the ability to send data right into the cloud but if you want the easiest way to send your data into the cloud you should consider Synology C2 service now it fully integrates into DSM and with a few clicks you can start backing up right to the cloud so later on when we're setting up our Nas I'm going to show you how to send some backups into the C2 cloud and last but not least there's cost now if you're not currently storing all your own data you're probably stuck paying for a subscription or some sort of Licensing let's talk about some of the prices of Synology software and features well okay there isn't actually much to talk about since Synology software is license free that means you get various software packages updates technical support all license free you purchase the hardware and that's it data storage isn't a short-term need you'll likely spend the rest of your life storing your data somewhere at first it might not seem like a lot but subscription plans add up quickly in the long run that cloud service that seems cheap is going to start costing you because you're continuing to pay indefinitely now you're probably thinking this seems too good to be true I need a Nas so how do I choose the right Nas for my home Nast units come in a lot of different Hardware configurations so when we're choosing a Nas for ourselves we need to think about some of our personal requirements there's a lot of specifications to consider and sometimes this can get a little advanced let's break it down to the major specifications to consider when we're choosing a Nas pick the right Nas we're going to consider how much data we have how demanding of tasks we need our Nas to perform and how fast our data is growing so take a second to think about it how much data do you have now if you're not sure we can figure out some rough numbers with a little investigating let me show you some quick tips on how to get an idea of how much data you have on your computer okay so in Windows I'm going to right click my family photos folder and I'm going to go down to the properties at the bottom of the menu now we'll see that there's a size parameter this will show us that the folder is 195 gigabytes in size we can do a similar thing with our hard drives on our computer so in the this PC section of windows will go to our hard drive in this case it's named local disk C right click properties and we'll see under use space this hard drive has 243 gigabytes of view space and that's how much space we'll need to back this up even if you're confident in your current data needs I always recommend my clients think five years into the future now if you're a home user your data could easily double small businesses can see tripling data and larger fast growing companies sometimes see unexpected exponential growth you wouldn't want your Nas to fill up and then have to buy another one now since we're already talking about data this is a good time to learn about raid now I mentioned raid a little bit earlier when I was talking about Hardware redundancy remember redundancy is the idea that there's always a Fail-Safe on the system and in the case of a Nas that's done using what is called raid or random array of independent disks rate is a technology built into your Nas that allows you to configure groups of hard drives to work together half the advantage of raid is increased performance we can split a larger file up into smaller pieces and distribute it between multiple drives this effectively makes the drives work together and increases speed significantly the redundancy portion of the raid Advantage depends on which configuration we choose raid 1 is what we call a mirrored configuration we have two sets of hard drives that are identical and any data that goes on one group also goes on the other so if we lose one group we always have the mirror to fall back on this could be two drives two sets of two or two sets of four our next example grade five this is actually the most common raid setup for a Nas and it's the one I recommend to my clients most raid 5 requires at least three hard drives and allows for any single drive to fail without losing all the data this rain also increases performance because we have the data split between multiple drives nearly identical to raid 5 is raid 6 which provides an additional Drive redundancy on top of raid 5. so we have two drives that can fail without data loss now for this we need a minimum of four drives total finally we have synology's hybrid raid technology which allows us to RAID hard drives of different sizes now this isn't possible with traditional raid types and like raid 5 we can also lose a single hard drive without a total data loss but shr should only be used when budget is the top priority as the performance of a traditional raid is generally better we also have shr2 if you want that raid 6 redundancy of two drives now in a quick comparison table you can see that all the raid types are similar but each strategy has its own pros and cons so we understand how much data we have and how many hard drives we need to set up a raid now we need to understand how powerful our Nas needs to be to perform our desired tasks now the power of your Nas which affects the responsiveness and workload capabilities is largely contributed to two pieces of Hardware your CPU which can be thought of as like the brain of your Nas and the ram which is kind of like its short-term memory now a faster CPU contributes to increased responsiveness of user inputs and tasks it also allows the nas to perform more intense tasks more quickly such as handling a lot of cameras or maybe hosting a website more RAM increases the number of tasks that can be run at the same time without decreased performance it also helps the nas handle larger data okay so you've bought a computer before you've probably seen these numbers CPU speed is expressed in gigahertz the higher the number the faster the processor but there's also core count the more cores a CPU has the more it can break a task up between cores and finish it faster now unlike CPU Ram numbers are not a performance metric there are storage capacity and RAM is rated in the gigabytes now generally more RAM is better however you won't see any performance gain if the system itself doesn't demand more RAM it's kind of like if your office desk was twice as big you might be more productive but if it was 10 times as big it probably wouldn't help at all Ram is the same way now here's a NASA configured with my mom in mind she's been taking Family Photos since I was a little kid and she needs somewhere to store them safely so I chose a two Bay Nas and since it's a two Bay Nas we're going to be setting it up with raid one she needs four terabytes of total storage so we need two four terabyte drives since raid one clones the data onto a second Drive now this Nas comes with a 1.4 gigahertz dual core processor and four gigabytes of RAM which is plenty for a Nas that's just going to be used as a Secure Storage now let's go polar opposite inspect something really powerful for a large business so for this business we're looking for over 500 terabytes of storage we're going to need to get a Nas configuration that will take 36 16 terabyte hard drives in order to meet this goal the CPU is a 12 core 2.7 gigahertz CPU so it's going to be running some intense business software finally we need a whopping 128 gigabytes of RAM since this NASA is going to be hosting virtual computers and a lot of them if you still need help choosing a Nas there's a Nifty tool on synology's website we can go down to the bottom of the page and select Nas selector in the bottom left hand corner for this demo I want to pretend like I'm a big business so let's select business or Enterprise next I'm going to say we're going to be using the nas for data backup and then I'm going to say we have 20 to 100 users but our concurrent users are under 100. and then throughput which is how much data we need to move on the nas at once let's put that at the maximum a thousand megabits per second or over now because of these parameters it's going to recommend us nasas from the Xs and Xs plus series which are more like medium to large business you can see there's a DS model and an RS model so let's refine this I'm going to go up to select more features and I'm going to select we want a rack mount unit and let's say we want it to have upgradable Ram too so now that we go down we see the DS model is eliminated now another cool tool is our raid configurator raid calculator tool so we get to choose hard drives and see how they interact with different raid types and what available space they yield then based on the raid we set up it'll recommend different Nas models here's the ds-920 plus this is actually the Nas I have at my home before we jump into setting up our Nas let's quickly outline the topics that we're about to see first we're going to unbox our Nas we're going to install some hard drives we'll attach the provided cables in order to get it on the network then we're going to jump into a computer where we'll discover the nas on the network we'll go through installing our operating system disk station manager and after that we're going to finally be able to log into our Nas for the first time we'll then create our storage pool and volumes where we set up raid We'll add some user accounts install some software and finally upload some data all right so let's get our Nas set up here I have a ds1520 plus Nas it's a five bay NASA with a four core processor and eight gigabytes of RAM inside we have an accessories box which contains things like the nasus power adapter hard drive installation hardware and a network cable in addition to the hardware we also have the nas unit itself the only thing we're missing is hard drives now Synology NASA's support the traditional Spinning Disk hard drive as well as a solid-state drive now your home network probably has a gigabit connection and won't take advantage of an SSD so we recommend a traditional Spinning Disk hard drive now in this Nas I'm going to be configuring raid 5 with three drives remember raid 5 means we can lose one hard drive without losing all of our data so let's get these installed into our Nas installing a hard drive into a tray is pretty straightforward all we have to do is set the hard drive in the tray and make sure it seats all the way to the bottom that way the holes on the sides will line up then we fasten the hard drive in place using the included brackets there's one on each side once they click into place the hard drive is ready to be reinstalled into the nas slide it all the way in click to close now that our hard drives are installed we're ready to power up our Nas last but not least we're going to install our AC power adapter and then from a router or network switch into the nas our ethernet cable that's all there is to it all right here I am on my home computer and if you didn't already know we connect to our Nas through a web browser now what I'm going to do is discover the nas on the network by going to find.synology.com so once we're on that website it's going to automatically start searching our Network for attached Synology devices now once it's done you'll see it'll pop up the information about the nas so here's our ds1520 plus now under status it says not installed because we haven't installed the operating system so let's go ahead and hit connect and we'll install the operating system now and throughout this process you're going to be pretty familiar with a lot of these procedures because they fall in line with General software installation we'll see some downtime some loading stuff like that a lot of terms and service okay so now here's our welcome screen we'll hit install and it'll start the installation process so it's going to warn us that our data on our hard drives are going to be wiped because we're installing for the first time but that's okay because these are brand new hard drives now this download setup restart process is fast forwarded but usually it takes about 15 minutes all right so the first setup procedure we need to do is give our device a name a name that the device will be shown as on the network so I'm going to say home user Nas here just so we know what it is then under admin account we don't want to use admin because that's not secure and very easy to guess I'm just going to use my first name it's a little more difficult then I'm going to use a good password that I can remember and continue on through the setup now this is our admin account remember I'm going to have it automatically install updates for me not change this setting and finally if we already have Synology products I can sign in with my existing Synology account here but for demonstration purposes I'm going to create one now to show you how easy it is basic account creation information you've seen this before subscribe to our newsletter and then the last part of this is it's going to send us a verification code via email which we need to enter here pretty simple I'm sure you've done this before okay so now that we've signed into our Synology account or created one it'll link the account to the DSM so if we ever have to interact with our account from within DSM we can do that here it's going to ask for a quick connect ID this is the ID we use to connect to our Nas remotely but I'm going to skip this for now we're going to set this up later okay so now we're in dsm-7 the first prompt we're going to get is to create a storage pool and volume because there's nowhere to put data right now and we don't have a raid set up if we just have a bunch of hard drives in the nas so I'm going to hit create now it's going to jump us into the storage creation wizard so we see this little infograph kind of explaining storage pool versus volume a storage pool is a group of hard drives and it's the layer we set our raid up on and the volume is like a bucket for our data within the storage pool we could have multiple volumes for different purposes but usually one volume is plenty now here it's going to ask us what type of raid we want to set up our storage pool in like we said earlier we're going to use Raid 5 which is a single hard drive redundancy so I'll hit raid 5 here and then we can give an optional description just to help us differentiate between our storage pools and volumes so I'll say main storage pool we'll select the drives we want to put in the storage pool generally you're just going to select them all here's the usable capacity after the raid and finally it's going to say how much of that usable capacity do we want to give to our volume and in this case I'm just going to hit the max button because I want to give everything to the volume and use all our space great volume description also optional I'm going to say main storage volume instead of pool I'm going to leave the file system as btrfs this is our recommended it has great features it's a great file system overview of our settings finally now that we're creating raid it's going to warn us one more time these hard drives are going to get wiped totally fine these are brand new drives okay so now we're going to see our storage pool and volume pop up in our storage manager if we expand these we'll see some details like the hard drives that are part of it the raid type and we're also going to see this optimizing in background the parity that creates the redundancy in the raid actually takes time to build so we'll have to wait a little bit for this and the rail the nas will run a little bit slower but that's okay it's only temporary all right so let's go to file station this is how we interact with files and folders on the nests like our data if I'm going to open this guy up I'm just going to say there's no shared folders what are you trying to look at well that's true what we need to do is set up a shared folder to put data into this is how we categorize so I'm going to say okay let's do that and it'll take us back into control panel into the shared folder creation wizard now we need to create quite a few shared folders for different types of data so what I'm going to do is back out of this and show you how we got here in the first place so we can do it again later so let's exit these out I'm just going to go to control panel here on the desktop and then the shared folder category cool that was easy so now we'll hit create and we can create a shared folder now before I continue I want to let you know this is a good time to think about how you're going to organize your data now at home I have shared folders for different purposes like photos videos documents that kind of thing but you get to decide your own fate here so I'm going to click create shared folder and the first folder I'm going to create is the documents folder so let's just put documents in here and just like the volume and storage pool we have an optional description field I'm going to say personal documents and files we don't have to do this I'm going to leave the rest of the settings default once again encryption no encryption let's leave that default a lot of the time these default settings are the best for a home user advanced settings default here's our overview of what we're about to create with the name and what volume it's on pretty simple now we can give user access or deny access here at the end of The Wizard but we can also go back into our user settings and set this up later so for now I guess I'll give no access to admin and guests since those users aren't going to be used so hit apply and our documents share is created so in fact at this stage we're ready to go into file station and actually upload and download data into the documents share it's usable but you know before I do that there is going to be one more person using my Nas and that's going to be my girlfriend so let's create a user for her and go control panel user in groups and then we'll see a list of the users that are here already so by default there's an admin and guest user and they are disabled because they're common names and the more common a name the less secure so our Max user down there is actually our admin in this case so I'm going to click create and do create user this is where I'm going to enter Alana's name because that's going to be her username so I'll say Alana here and next this is pretty important when Alana logs in she's going to want to change her password so what I'm going to do is generate a random password that she'll log in for the first time temporarily and then she'll change it to something she can remember now we can assign her to a group here which is a set of permissions like admin actually no I don't want to give her admin let's take that off we don't need her to change settings on the nas okay so here's the documents folder we can give permissions to I mean I think she should be able to use documents so let's give her read write on this and finally this is a quota how much data she can upload and download we don't want to limit any of this kind of quota type stuff application permissions whether or not you deny access to a single software or not another one this is a upload download speed limit if we only want them to upload or download a certain speed also unlimited there's only two users so it's not going to create a big issue all right so the Alana users created you can see it there under admin and in fact at this stage it's ready to be logged into she can log in for the first time and start interacting so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to create a second share but this share I'm going to name development and this is only going to be for my personal coding files I'm not going to give Alan any access to this because I don't want her to mess around with my coding so what I'm going to do is hit no access next to the permissions on Alana and that will mean her account will be restricted from accessing the development folder so to demonstrate this what we should do is log out of our Max user and we'll log back in as Alana so once we log in as Alana we can see the difference so we'll just put our username in here we'll use the temporary password we assigned because she hasn't logged in yet and once we're in DSM it's going to say hey welcome to DSM well that's only because this is the first time she's logged in so now in file station we'll see no access to the development folder we only see documents which we did give her access to and this is how we create that security level we can also see she has no access to a control panel this is the type of security we need to employ to prevent viruses from accessing our backups okay back to the max user which is our admin we need to mess around with our control panel okay so now we have some shared folders volumes Etc we need to connect to our Nas remotely so right now if you look in our browser you can see we're connected with our local IP address now that's bad because it's hard for humans to remember IP addresses numbers are way harder to remember than words so our quick connect in control panel and external access is going to give us a word to connect with instead of a number so what I'm going to do is enable Quick Connect here and our Quick Connect ID can be something unique of our choosing now it can't be a duplicate of someone else's so it might interfere but let's try to do something unique so I'm going to say Max home Nas there's probably not another Max home Nas okay now I'll hit apply it's going to search the Quick Connect database to see if it's a duplicate so it wasn't so it's going to say registering it's going to put our information in and finally we'll get a link to connect to our Nas remotely now we can put this on our bookmarks bar and we can just click this to log into the nas anytime this is how I connect normally so we'll go home we can also go quick connect.2 this is the Quick Connect website and then enter our Quick Connect ID we can do this anywhere in the world Hotel a friend's house from our phone we use Quick Connect with a lot of our apps here we are quick connected right back into our Nas so let's enter the max credentials once again bam we're in the nas okay so the last thing let's install some software we're going to click package Center and you'll see it in this all packages category there is a ton of packages I mean you can get lost in this but for the demo I'm just going to use our hyper backup package which is one of our backing up protocols that will push data into the cloud so I'm just going to hit install and it'll go through the regular installing process like downloading unpacking that type of thing so we'll let it install for a couple seconds and then once it's done installing that text is going to turn green okay so now we see it's running once a package is installed on a Synology Nas it automatically starts running so we could hit open here and start the software but actually we want to be able to easily access this in the future so I'm going to go to main menu and drag the hyper backup icon to the desktop and now we have it as a shortcut and we can access the software this way so we can close package Center we don't need this anymore all right so let's open our hyper backup here it is and we're going to make a backup task so I'll click the plus here and do data backup task it'll show us all the places we can send our data like a local folder or a USB drive we can do Dropbox Google Drive Synology C2 there's a bunch of stuff for the demo we're going to show you how easy it is to send data into the C2 cloud so let's hit next it's going to pop up a browser on the C2 website and it's going to ask us for our Synology email which we created at the start of our demo here we go we're signed in now it's going to say welcome and we're going to hit get free trial there's a 30-day free trial in the C2 we're going to choose a plan that fits our data let's say I need one terabyte and I want to pay monthly so let's go ahead and hit next once again generic software type stuff user agreements it's going to ask for a credit card in case we go over that 30-day period okay so here's our plan details our first payment date and finally once we hit OK here it's going to give us an estimate of our data usage but in this case we haven't backed up anything so you'll see Zero bytes used finally once we hit allow it's going to link our C to account with DSM and allow us to back up automatically into the C2 Cloud so any backups happening here are going into the cloud and they're secure even if the NASA is broken let's name this Nas backup so we can remember the backup directory name and finally we'll see we get to choose volumes and shared folders so this is the data we are going to send into the cloud we can choose individual shares or the entire volume application settings can be backed up but I'm going to opt out of this I just want my files and folders more advanced settings like schedule of backup we'll skip this for now it's going to say do you want to backup now of course we do it's a demo let's see it back up so now it's going to initialize our backup and remember we only have one text file in our document folder so this is going to be super fast but the speed of the backup is going to change based on how much data is going and remember this is going out into the internet there's a success and we can also access the data in our Nas without actually logging into DSM in a browser we can do this by mapping a NASA's share as a network drive this will allow the share and the data within it to show up in the this PC section of your computer so I'm going to open this PC and you'll see our local disk C in the bottom left so what we're going to do is Select map network drive in the top left now if you don't have this map network drive button it might be because this taskbar isn't expanded so let's expand that down and click map network drive so now we're going to give it a drive letter I'm just going to use S for Synology for the folder we're going to do two backslashes the name of our Nas another backslash and the name of the share we want to map I'm going to map the documents then we have to be sure to do Connect using different credentials because we have to connect with the NASA's login I'm just going to use the Max login and password also I want to remember the credentials so it automatically reconnects now one disclaimer here the max user is our admin user for our Nas and this is generally a bad practice you should have a separate user that doesn't have admin credentials that connects to the computer that way if a virus attacks the computer it doesn't have admin access to the nas we talked about this earlier so I'm going to go ahead and hit OK and it'll finish mapping the drive and we'll see the share the document share will show up below the C folder and it can be used just like a hard drive here's Max's document from earlier in fact I have another document Max's new document let's drag this into the share and see what happens all right looks like the copy happened but did it happen on the nas side let's go back into DSM and click file station now we'll click our documents share oh lo and behold Max's new document has arrived let's delete it we'll delete it from the PC side of course it will because the PC side is the nas side it's just linked you see the file is missing this is a great way to interact all right so let's recap what we learned we learned that a Nas is a network attached storage our Nas is filled with hard drives which are configured in raid to protect the data we can configure different speeds of CPUs and different capacities of ram both which affect our NASA's performance a Nas can perform various functions we tailor our nasus functionality by picking and choosing software from synology's package Center our Nas is connected to our home network or our Lan so users and devices can easily access and manage our data finally to secure our data we can easily back up to another off-site Nas or a cloud service for a fully comprehensive data solution still want to learn more be sure to check out our YouTube channel which is jam-packed with informational videos on Synology hardware and software in general it's a great resource you can also check out our knowledge Center where we can search an individual term and find articles related to that I'll search quick connect and find that how do I change the Quick Connect ID for my Synology nasp article below there's step-by-step instructions to achieve that goal

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Published: Fri Nov 25 2022