Watch before Buying a Synology NAS - The 5 Most Common MISTAKES new users make!

all right how's it going y'all so today i'm going to be laying out the five most common issues i see new users making when it comes to synology nas i do consulting with synology you can argue in the description below and i also run this channel so i see a lot of it and so these are going to be the five most common issues that i see new users make and it's gonna be structured for somebody who's not even necessarily even bought a nas yet so this right here is a synology nas and we're going to be talking about mistakes new users make with it that kind of cascade into future issues so the very first one is going to be the most common and that is you buy a two-bay nas because like oh i don't have that much data and then very quickly fill it up and now you've got to expand that word if you think you're somebody who's going to end up needing a lot of data photographers anybody who's just kind of a data hoarder and now you're like hey i've got all the space i'm going to start filling it up don't just buy a two-bay nas most likely i would really recommend instead buying a 4-bay nas normally you can spend an extra 100 bucks and get a 4-bay nas and so if you do that now you can go from basically tripling your space so that is number one and if you don't understand how that works i've got a video that i'll leave a link in the description it kind of talks about how raid works so most people recommend and i tend to especially if you're not going to have a great backup solution set up your nas where it's got a redundant raid and so for most users just set up shr-1 and so that actually leads into my next point and that is they set up the wrong raid type so do some research about raid before you choose one for most users i would recommend just sticking with shr-1 shr-1 it's very simple to understand take the largest hard drive in your nas and then remove outward just pretend like it does not exist when it comes to storage and they've got a very useful raid calculator that i'll leave a link to in the description below but play around with that and kind of try to understand it essentially you take the largest hard drive in the array and pretend like it does not exist for space reasons so that means that you can also lose any one drive on the nas and still retain all of your data but if you lose two drives all the day is gone now this can be confusing but you just have to trust that the system works the one thing a lot of people end up doing is they they don't realize that this mirroring is occurring or this redundancy is occurring and so they'll set up shr-1 on a two-bay unit and now you've lost half your space and so that is a very common thing i see people running into they're confused as to why all their space is gone when right off the bat it's because it's actually used for mirroring so just make sure you kind of understand what the ramifications are for everything if you are doing that for people who do not want any redundancy in the nas at all they're like you know what i just i just need space if it dies it dies i'm not worried about it i would recommend choosing not jbod not raid 0 but instead basic basically set up a different volume for every single hard drive and that way it's going to be a lot easier to understand because if that hard drive dies with those shared folders on it they're gone all right and so that that's number two just look into raid and which one it is and just understand what that is before just clicking on it and choosing it because you can't really change it later for the most part you can upgrade in some cases but it's easier not to and so those were our first two really look at the math about a four bay unit it's probably worth it if you think you're going to need more space any time soon and then on to make sure you understand what raid is before setting up now on to number three that i see so many people do and you have to go back and i actually did this exactly as well when i first started out use bt rfs you get an option when you set up the file system for the very first time use btrfs there's two options there's bt-rfs and ext4 unless this is only used for security cameras and that's the only thing it's going to be used for use btrfs it is going to unlock so many features it's well worth it to you use btrfs so that is number three use btrfs because there's no way to just change over from ext4 to btrfs without wiping the entire thing and rebuilding and now on to number four it's going to be kind of contradictory to this channel who loves nasa lot really ask yourself do you need a nas or do you need a das so a nas is network attached storage das is direct attached storage a nas is not just two hard drives that you plug in by a usb port into your computer no it's entirely it's actually a server running into an operating system that you talk to it over the network that unlocks so many powerful features to it it's absolutely awesome so many things can be done with it but it also can come at a cost you will be getting worse performance out of it compared to a just straight rate more likely than not it does have some cool things like caching so for some users it can be faster but that is very rare and so the majority of time you are taking a speed penalty the other thing is whenever you're accessing it you more than likely are going to be network limited so the vast majority of synologies come with just one gigabit ports on the back and that is limited to 100 megabytes per second 120 megabytes per second read and write that is not particularly fast if you're over wi-fi you're now also totally bandwidth to the speed of your wi-fi not your internet speed but the speed of your wi-fi and so for most users 20 megabytes per second is probably what they're going to get with wi-fi and so if that's going to be an issue for you and you're not wired really think do i need the benefits of an ass for most people nasa's are phenomenal they're great but if you just need a hard drive look at something else look at a das just look at them at least because if you're really focused on primarily speed and only one user is ever going to be connected to the thing at a time and you just need an external hard drive essentially this is a lot of complex stuff that might not be necessary for you alright and so now finally on to number five this one is going to be a security one do not just willy-nilly open up ports that you do not understand port forwarding is not easy it's kind of complicated and a lot of people i've had have has serious issues with port forwarding now that being said port forwarding is not inherently dangerous it's just dangerous in the wrong hands so there are a few specific ports that you never ever ever should open up to the internet the port for smb a lot of the hacks that i've seen where people call me and they're like hey we got hacked can you come fix this can you make sure this doesn't happen again it's because they opened up the smb port to the internet when you do that people will just brute force their way into your nas it is just not a good idea that is the one one that actually gets people in trouble very very very often that's the only one i've seen where it actually caused clients issues but you also should be careful about any port forwarding you do unless you really know what you're doing don't open up port 22 to the network as well essentially anytime you're doing port forwarding you need to ask yourself is this set up to be run on the internet synology has a lot of ports that are set up to be run on the internet port five thousand and five thousand run one you should feel comfortable opening those up there's always a security implication with them but it's not going to directly be a huge issue so those are probably fine then there's also the hyper backup port there is the synology drive sync port those are all ports that are designed to be opened up to the internet and so those are okay too it's not like you absolutely should but it's not going to be the worst decision just make sure you know what you're doing before you start opening up ports and don't open up every single port to your nas i've seen some people do that who just get confused by port forwarding because it's really complicated and just open everything up to the nas as long as you don't just willy-nilly open up ports this is actually pretty secure you follow basic security rules like don't have a really simple password on the account and don't open up ports that are unnecessary you're probably fine all right and so now there are two bonus ones that i hammer on on every single video and that is one set of btrfs snapshots they will save your life they are absolutely awesome and two back your nas up btrfs snapshots are not backups they are essentially having the ability to go back in time but if your hard drives fail or anything like that that's not gonna help you you don't have to back up every single megabyte on your nas for me i back up maybe one percent of my nas okay it's more than that but i back up a very small chunk of my nas because quite frankly it's a lot of these archive videos you know if i lose these i'll be okay so i don't feel like i need to pay for that but for your family photos your tax documents all that crucial stuff you need to be backing that stuff up there are so many different ways to do it and i've got different tutorials for that but make sure you are backing up all right well i hope this was helpful this was really designed to be just a super basic guide for people who are just starting out with the synology nas and are looking at it there's a ton there and honestly that can get quite complicated but i've got 200 tutorials on that and you can also hire me as well there's a link for that description all right have a good one bye [Music] you

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Published: Wed Oct 12 2022