Top 3 reasons to have a NAS in your home

this is a nun sponsored video that contains products provided without charge by the manufacturer for demonstration purposes all opinions are my own while I was recently helping a couple in my neighborhood with a home computer issue I mentioned that we might have to reinstall windows and restore from a backup surely you have a backup I got a blank stare I also noticed they had photos and video clips of all their three kids scattered all over their desktop and in random folders how do you find a picture you're looking for she said it's a nightmare if this situation sounds familiar to you stick around and I'll tell you how I solved it in my house welcome to handy dad TV I'm Chris Hyder your virtual dad in the cloud and today I'm gonna convince you why every home needs a device like this this is a network attached storage device or Nazz for short an AZ is a specialized computer with no keyboard or monitor and it's designed to plug into your network and simply provide centralized storage and other services to everyone in your house now this demo unit was sent to me by Synology several months ago so I've had plenty of time to play with it now this nas has four drive bays that currently have 4 terabyte drives the storage capacity can easily be expanded by replacing them with bigger drives or getting an expansion unit that adds 5 more drive bays if needed why so many drives redundancy your car has two headlights for a reason they're pretty much guaranteed to fail at some point but you can still drive with one headlight similarly a disk drive contains moving parts that will eventually wear out and suddenly without warning the disc crashes and you'll lose all your data now in AZ like this has multiple drives for redundancy as well so a drive can crash without losing any data you can even swap out a bad drive and replace it with a new one without ever powering down so let's go through my reasons why you need this cool technology in your house the first is file-sharing an as provides a big shared disk that's available to all the devices in your household so when you want to share a file between computers no need to look for a jump drive here it is just drag and drop a file to your nas and open it from the other computer and no worries if you're away from home this nez allows you to access files remotely - even from your phone or tablet I've been scanning bills since 2001 long before banks and utilities offered paperless billing and now that they do I still download every statement because most companies only keep them for a couple of years mine as contains a copy of every bill credit card statement health insurance claim tax document and every other business-related piece of paper that I ever received in the mail it's really cool to be able to pull up my car as maintenance records when I'm standing at the oil change place and they're trying to upsell me for something I know I did recently now you may say Chris I can do the same thing with Dropbox or Google Drive and I'd say you're right you can get a few gig of storage for free but you'd need a paid monthly account to hold everything I do but the main issue there is privacy cloud services are vulnerable to hacking and I prefer to store my files on my own device the second reason you need an as in your home is to backup your computers whether you have one computer in your house or 10 you can reserve a portion of your nez to act as a backup drive for each of them because the NAS is always on you can set your computers to automatically backup at night or in the background without even having to think about it and if you're a Mac user like me then as work seamlessly with Time Machine so you won't lose any important files if little Johnny drops your MacBook in the pool using an as for backup eliminates the need for all these external hard drives which can easily get lost or damaged or have read errors when you need them the most trust me it's happened to me my third reason you need an AZ is to organize your home media an AZ becomes your home media hub so you can keep all your photos and videos and even music securely in one place Synology has a built-in app called moments that automatically or all my family photos so I can easily find them when I need to it uses artificial intelligence to recognize faces and objects in my photos so I can not only search for a person by name but I can also combine a name with key words such as dog couch or beach although Synology has a built-in app called DS video for organizing and watching your home movies on your nez it can also run Plex which is what I use to organize and watch all my movies in my house I've imported my entire DVD and blu-ray collection into Plex on mine as so it's like having my own personal Netflix in the house I also imported all my home movies from when I was a kid when my wife was a kid and every home movie of my kids into Plex we can now watch those priceless memories without ever having to search for a tape and hope that it still plays now you may say Chris I don't need an as I can do all that with iCloud or Google photos and I'd say you're right but again movies take up a lot of space so would you rather be paying for that space every month or make a one-time purchase of a nez and let's not forget the whole privacy situation there are tons of photos and videos all over the internet that were hacked from cloud services just ask Jennifer Lawrence or Kate Upton Selena Gomez and Hathaway Emma Watson Miley Cyrus Rachel McAdams Rachel white Reese Witherspoon

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Length: 6min 0sec (360 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 30 2019