Best Home NAS Solution – Personal Storage for All Your Data

Hi there today I’m unboxing a Synology DiskStation so this particular device is a math server so I bought this to host a lot of the YouTube footage I crew now the device itself has two bays in there can’t be expanded with any expansion units so you’re limited to two bays in terms of capacity those two bays each of them can host up to 12 terabytes so in total, you could actually plug in 24 terabytes in terms of processor you’ve got an Intel Celeron dual-core 2 gigahertz processor and 2 gigs of ram on there which is expandable to 6 gigs so let’s have a quick look at the packaging comes in a basic package nothing more on there few details on the back some info there the file-sharing anywhere access cloud synchronization multimedia mobile support surveillance backup and data security basic features on this okay so let’s open it up see what we get in the pink Cape to the actual drive itself and a box containing other bits and pieces so the u.s. Power cable power adapter ethernet cable quick installation guide and some screws okay so I laid out all the items you get in the packaging except for the power cable because it’s a u.s. one so I’ve got my UK one here so quickly show you the items so power adapter you get with it let me show the actual output on there so 12 volts 5 amps 60 watts feel quality seems fine nothing much to think about on this one and this cable seems reasonably good quality Ethernet cable wise see how much you get on there reasonable amount and seems quite good quality okay and then you’ve got a bag of screws when you install the hard-disk okay in terms of quick installation guide just pictures to this nothing too complex that you take the cover off get the cradles out for the drives and the installs dryer there you go just the show and connectivity wise how to connect it up just showing connect straight into a Rooter and then you can connect the router into your PC so network wise is a Gigabit Ethernet on there so you can fully utilize that if you’ve got key connect gigabit connection on your router or if you’ve got a switch which supports that sort of speed okay so let’s have a look at the actual dispassion so model is ds2 one eight plus so in terms of size it’s very nice and compact let me give you the dimensions very quickly so around just a little bit over 23 centimeters and this way we’ve got about ten and a half-ish and in terms of piked this is without the pads at the bottom it’s about sixteen and sixteen and a half with the actual pads at the bottom so the actual pads obviously stop it from slipping just keeps it firmly in place ok actual front of it I can show you that cover pops off protective film on there so we’ll say that all that’s where you’re presented with status land disc one and disc two and that left tree just fits straight on there it’s got some rubber around the edges there and it just sits in to the corners just to keep it covered I thought there’d be hinges on there take it off I guess they’ve done it this way in case someone snaps it I guess this is the easy way to do it let’s show the actual station itself so two cradles here you could actually push that down and pull it out and that’s what your hard disk sits in to screw points out the side if I couldn’t show it clearly there you go there and there and I show inside you might you have to see just the connector in there so that’s fine USB connection point there two buttons obviously power button there okay so if I move it around I’m just gonna cover up the serial number at the back we’ve got two more USB points there and all the USB points are USB three then we’ve got a Gigabit Ethernet there and we’ve got a locking point for using one of those cables to lock it to something so the cables you use for a laptop and if I show there you can see the PowerPoint and you’ve got an eSATA point there okay another thing just to show just over here is actually a reset arm on there and the button here which is C is actually open nothing else that’s all you’ve got and I’ll show you the other one coming out so you just push it up and it slides out simple as that push back in take the other one got a bit of logo on their show animal plasticky build seems okay terms of rigid rigidity fairly rigid a say in terms of storage I’ve bought two of these drives so this is the Western Digital red Nazz hard disk so both of them are four terabytes each and what I plan to do is have it mirrored so let’s take out the cradle first of all and the next thing you want to do is pull off the sides so what it is the sides actually have a little bit of plastic pointing out so that secures the the disk into it so if I pull that off and pull that off it’s just a matter of just pulling like so and then take the hard disk and the connectors are obviously at the back so this is the position you’d want to put it in make sure it sits in firmly okay no movement in that and then you could just push this in after you’re done okay and the same with the other side push that in and there you go in position now the actual instructions they sort of highlight there’s some holes here and you can actually use the screws to screw into place but they don’t line up with the hard disk so not a major issue and if I show it is secured with the actual plastic clips at the side so if I now ensure that ends that way and this is the way it goes in there you go clip straight in let’s do the same with the other cradle get that other hard disc out and install that okay there you go and again screw holes don’t line up and let me just show that in the instructions they’ve been expected to be like that and there you go pull the clips off put it in and then screw from the bottom that’s a bit of a surprise okay so now that’s in make sure it’s the right way round so that way round there you go okay the next stage is let’s get this plugged in and powered up so powered Apter here got cable obviously with my UK plug here I’ll plug it in in the background okay it’s got power going to it now and Ethernet cable so I plug that here in like so plug the other end into my Ethernet port and this end goes straight in there okay and to pair it on just click here okay the device is powering up we see I’ve not got a lan connection plugged in at the moment I’ll plug that in in a bit I just wanted to show it pairing up initially okay status light is flashing and disks are shown green okay so if you click it once nothing happens it doesn’t power off anything just got a hold on to it then it beeps and then it gracefully shuts down let’s give it a moment to shut down good thing to know so if you accidentally come up to impress it it’s not just going to power off something they don’t pad off okay so I’m at my computer now and what I’ve done is I’ve got an app on my phone that can do a scan of my local land and from that I’ve established that the IP address of this disk station is that so see if I hit return give it a moment and that’s what we’re presented with so let’s click setup install this station manager DSM is the operating system running on Synology nas install the latest DSM for new features and security fixes okay let’s click install now all data on the disk one two will be removed during installation are you sure I want to proceed yep because the drives are new no data on there okay so installing this station manager your dis station will be ready in approximately ten minutes please do not please do not turn off the power during this procedure okay formatting system partition let’s give it a moment just to complete okay so now this is what we’re presented with it’s tied up for the first time and we can give the server a name so I’m gonna call it Maz – one user name let’s call it geek Street and I’ll type a password in as well okay so next it’s preparing storage space okay I’m gonna say never to that okay DSM update and maintenance protect your dis station and important data install the latest DSM version automatically install important updates of DSM automatically notify of DSM updates and install them manually okay one smart test to check the health of your hard disk periodically yeah that’d be good enable bad sector warning for drives number of bad sectors 50 okay okay I’ll install them manually so I want to be notified and let me install manually so I’ll go for that let’s go for next okay so it needs setup quick connect quick connect makes it’s easy to access your Synology without port forwarding okay so let me skip this stage for now install Synology recommended packages these packages will help you get started with DSM effortlessly okay so moments video station media server audio station download station drive and hyper backup okay let’s go next terms and conditions privacy statement okay let’s click Next let’s take a quick guided tour of DSM okay share my Synology allow me to locate it fire find nope let’s just leave that as that okay device analytics technology needs your help to enable improve its usage experience okay no thanks to that ok tip one access all built in and install packages from main menu ok tip to discover more applications at package Center tip three more settings are available at control panel DSM help offers comprehensive articles to help you find information you need quickly and easily DSM help will automatically launch each time you login ok that’s fine there you go ok package Center let’s click on that ok your dis station is working well now as one there’s my IP address and there’s the uptime okay so that’s good to see file station clicked it multiple times this close one of them okay home drives their photos and video location ah create new shared folder that’s what I want hide this folder in my network places hide subfolder from users without permissions enable recycle bin restrict access to administrators only how to sell recycle bin empty in schedule ok encrypt this folder encryption key confirm key your key manager is not installed yet initialize it to managing encryption keys and mount shared folders automatically ok I’ll leave that for now don’t want to encrypt it enable data checksum for advanced data integrity ok file self-healing and file system scrubbing are available to ensure data integrity ok let’s go next there you go and that’s how much is available three point four nine terabytes click apply there you go there’s the accounts on that at the moment and you can give it access so it’s got read/write permissions at the moment you can restrict it if you want click OK ok and there you go so that’s open up control panel and we’re in control panel you can see the shared folders file services let’s click on there enable SMB okay you got advanced as well wins maximum SMB protocol scroll down show you some of the options there FTP TFTP rsync advanced ok users groups as well you can create groups manage LDAP so if you’ve got Active Directory let’s go down Quick Connect ok so you can remotely connect to it external access don’t want that network ok networking details there DHCP ok so you need a Wi-Fi adapter to wirelessly connect and security ok firewall protection account quite a lot in there but the basic is we’ve got a share set up and ready for you ok so let me show you around the actual system see if I click here main menu shows you a number of different options here let’s go through so control panel we’ve seen this already it’s basic details there let’s close that one off let’s move on to the next one file station this is quite an interesting one so this is shows you all the shares you have and you can actually navigate throughout the data so what you can do if you wanted to is actually even create folders and things with in here so if I just do tests there you go it’s crated you can navigate within there and if you wanted you can delete and you can move data internally so I could select a folder say copy and then paste into another location so good a file explorer within the system that’s quite useful it’s going to move data around and let me show one other thing actually so I’ve also connected a USB Drive and it mounts it like this so you can go in there and if I right-click for example I can do a copy and I can paste it so you can transfer like that as well so very useful ease the internet welcome to Synology easy internet wizard okay helps you configure your network so you’d be able to access it just there over from the internet so if you wanted to do that I’m not planning to do that let’s move on some help package Center so you can install other packages or third-party packages as well see if you have a look through there you may find something of use some things seem to have a price to it okay let’s close out off resource monitor interesting one you can see the actual performance of the unit as it’s running you’ve got these meters here and the actual health of it yeah good to keep a track of it so you’ve got the overview here and you can go to the individual items one by one past manager see what tasks are running processes okay connected users speed limit so you can limit the speed on some of these connections you’ve got going on and performance alarm okay close that off storage manager this is good gives you an overview of the storage so that’s my pool of storage to discs used volume wise capacity there you go used I’ve copied some data on there and that’s how much is available protection of one disk so it’s fault tolerant so tolerance sorry so it’s a mirrored disk and that’s the two disks there and some general details about its a raid type and that’s confirming its mooing data scrubbing and configuration okay there’s details of the drives I go in there obviously gives you a health status as well which is useful and operating temperature okay let’s close that off move on to next one universal search so you can have a search for all your files log Center ok give you some details and general details like that ok let’s close that one off Oh or service let’s click on that looks like somehow securing your data I’ve not played about with this one yet come back Security Adviser ok you can say what you’re using it for protect against cyber attacks or any sort of viruses that’s found on the system okay so you can close that one off okay support center you’ve got USB copy see the actual button on the front with a C actually it’s for a USB copy so you can say where you want it to copy to be twinned copy starts and complete so that’s quite useful okay I scuzzy manager click through there nothing connected that can be closed off next one hyper backup so you can actually back up to the cloud if you wanted to if you have a service one of these services it’s useful to have actually okay next one audio station so you can stream your audio by the device so that’s quite useful go on Drive admin console okay let’s click through that shows you what’s been added if folders there you go okay download station ok quite an interesting one you can select a folder to download – yep and you can set tasks up so this is quite useful one if you want to download bits and pieces you can just set up jobs here and just pick a location where you want to download – quite useful one Drive kate shows you your storage close that off media server okay you can set it up as a media server so have your photos music and videos on their video station does video transcoding from the actual device so it’s quite useful and moments which are just the pictures that you’ve actually got on the device so that’s it quite a lot of functionality in there okay so there you go you’ve seen the unboxing setup and configuration of this Synology DiskStation very straightforward to set up nothing too complex about it simple to setup the users shares and even copy your data on there details are in the description below for anyone thinking of purchasing thanks for viewing and don’t forget to Like and subscribe…