Bring On The TERABYTES - #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin we've been doing

some major server upgrades here at the

office first steps toward that of course

we did this tornado project a little

while ago butts analogy reached out and

uh they want sponsor a little something

special yeah so this is their ds-10

nineteen plus for something like this

because it's easy to actually configure

this to online access for we want to

throw things like finish video files

thumbnails like stuff that you know is

crucial for us uploading onto youtube

but say if something goes wrong and

we're not in the office we can actually

access this from anywhere and grab those

files and do what we have to do so we've

actually both used Synology products in

the past I actually have one of their

super secure ones that's like fire proof

and waterproof in my house I know you

have the DS 460 play and I use that more

for just media consumption I have a plex

server running on it I have all my music

and movies and I mean I'm not much of a

network geek at all but it was super

easy for me to say these things are the

simplest that they get so with a

Synology nas what we're able to do is

have all kinds of files not just videos

but primarily that's what going to work

we're going to be using it for available

anywhere anytime as long as we have a

decent internet connection the first

thing I've seen you do is get this set

up you've got it just plugged in here

but we don't have the media Seagate

actually provided these for us these are

their iron wolf Nash drives they gave us

three to terabyte drives so the ds-10 19

plus has five bays in it and right now

obviously we're using three drives so

just a test though I do let these

animals drives but with two terabytes

each this is much more for a smaller

project now in theory with five drives

mean you could load this thing up with

got probably 50 terabytes or so if you

get some of the like 10 terabyte hard

drive yeah if you really want to and on

top of that if you want to have faster

cache on the bottom here there are M two

slots so you can actually you know put

drives in there that'll help speed

things up a little more so they're of

course different ways of using the

Synology nas so one of which is just

over your local network right so if you

have everyone plugged in via ethernet

we'll test that in a second that all

works but if you're out and about you

know you're wanting to connect via Wi-Fi

or LTE or something it still does work

but we have those SSDs it definitely

does help to speed things up when you do

have the caching setup yeah it's cool

that this is properly toolless too

because it just makes it so easy to just

hop

while these if you really want to yeah

it's not super super foolproof but there

are plastic keys that kind of lock the

drives in place so if you if you want

like a light level of security so no one

just randomly snatches your drives you

can just quickly lock them in you have a

problem people randomly snatching your

drives hate having some time to time now

it doesn't boom we are up and running so

it actually is basically like a full

interface that you can use inside the

browser so to put it simply an ass is

like an external hard drive that's on

your network that can be accessed by any

of the devices on the network yeah so so

right now I'm connected via ethernet and

all these do is literally just drag and

drop a file in here if I actually open

up the cart one and I mean look at one

hundred one hundred and twelve hundred

thirteen megabytes per second so if you

want to get in you can actually do a lot

of things to really kind of customize

the way the software works permissions

all that kind of stuff but the main

thing is that it's hidden behind your

password right right as long as you

don't give someone your username or

password they won't be able to get in

and access your files of course you

don't have to set it up the way that we

are if you just want keep it on your

local network by all means go ahead but

because the main purpose of this is so

we can pull our files down from anywhere

that is a huge advantage you really sort

of the way we're thinking about this as

a replacement for cloud services right

right of course you could say upload to

any number of various cloud services but

now I do have to pay for those monthly

but on top of that you really don't own

your data with this we have full control

over whatever you want to do change

permissions we can give specific people

logins or whatever you don't have to pay

you know $20 $30 a month for whatever we

need to actually keep saved yeah and the

only two is that like I mean we have six

terabytes in here and if you actually

price out you know how much those

services cost a month in how much space

you get oh yeah actually yeah position

we load it up with like 30 40 terabytes

which is what this will probably end up

right this is gonna be nice so we

actually have the remote access setup

where right now my iPads on LTE and I

can see the the console where you can

control everything it's the same screen

that he has up here yeah and then also

what I can do is they have an app that's

kind of simplified where you can just

see the straight-up folders and files

that's much easier when you're on iOS

because with that you can just like say

download the file or transfer throw

wherever you want right and so what I

can do is actually play that same

mystery tech that he was playing and

it'll actually open up

we own VLC or even on its own app you

can choose which one I mean I can say

from my side when I'm actually on the

local network it plays basically

immediately so I think the main idea

here is that you can use this for a

different aspect for us I think we're

going to be downloading videos from it

while we're on the go and then we're

actually at you know at the office of

whatever we can very easily use the

local network to throw files back and

forth to it right you can also very

easily use this for backups and on top

of that one of the nice things is is

that because you're gonna add as many

drives as you can fit into the bays you

can also expand the storage because it

does take advantage of raid by default

yeah you can pretty much have one of the

drives go down and replace it in your

you don't lose any data and you can diet

yeah you know especially when you have

them running for long periods of time so

it's nice to have some redundancy

because obviously no backup is as good

as a single failed hard drive like no

that's not right how's that it I'm

actually dealing with a lot of 1080

files not for case ilysm you can just

stream them straight up this is

streaming right now this is not

downloaded to my iPad and it's running

off LTE and it looks pretty smooth so

unlike our very expensive server

solution this is a much better setup for

what we're actually going to be doing

with it which of course is just pulling

down files while we're on the go

no matter where we are now of course you

want 100 terabytes this is probably not

the unit for you you're talking about

like 10 15 terabyte 20 like in the

normal realm of not aka raw footage that

is being uploaded every day and this is

very much a better solution and in fact

we actually have one to give away don't

we we do it's not this exact one but we

do have yeah this once this is our baby

so it's the ds2 18 Plus which is there

to based system and see gates throwing

in two two terabyte drive so that's four

terabytes total of storage and yeah that

should pretty much offer the same amount

of stuff that's in here like software

wise why you're laughing I like it when

you do the giveaway is why it sounds so

much more legit with your to two

terabyte hard drives for free just pay

postage and shipping handling directly

to Kimberly doe no they're actually

doing that too ok cool waiting for your

angle of this give me a little bit extra

mystery tech money oh well I mean I can

always use mister

so since ken didn't plant the giveaway

we're going to make this very simple all

you do is go follow us on Twitter and

Austin Duncan as well as at Synology and

just tweet us what you want to do if you

actually win the 218 plus and two weeks

we will randomly choose a tweet and you

will be gifted with a wonderful new

Synology nuts did you do the banner way

you did the vanillite thank you very

much and of course you guys want to

check out this guy the link will be in

the description and stay tuned we're

definitely going to be doing a lot more

server and networking fun videos soon

does that sound fun

yeah she doesn't sound fun well cuz

you're gonna be doing it I'll just sit

there and laugh and follow you messed

things up