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fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to

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learn more all right guys so today I'm going to be talking a lot about storage

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and backup and whenever you talk about these topics you have to talk about the

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32 ones of storage what are the 32 ones of storage well have three copies of

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everything that you deem very important have two different formats for that data

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and have at least one of those backups being offsite that is essentially one

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working copy one locally backed up or remotely backed up copy and at least one

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off-site copy not near sight as in quite

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a distance between you and that copy this is for very important data if

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you're just a home user so stuff like tax records or family photos or wedding

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photos or anything that you deem extremely important another thing to

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note is that raid is not backup raid's got your back

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if you have drive failure and it provides fault tolerance for those

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drives but it cannot protect you from user error file system corruption

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natural disasters and many more things raid is awesome at keeping your system

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stable and keeping uptime high but backup is only actually a backup when it

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is an additional copy of the data not the working copy simply putting all of

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your data onto a Nas and using it from there doesn't make it a backup that

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makes it a working copy with fault protection on the drives for home users

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accomplishing a 321 setup isn't actually that hard you can back up your important

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files to something like flash or optical disc storage locally and then just have

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Dropbox or something like Dropbox sync your files offsite but for those looking

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for a more elegant and scalable solution there's definitely more options in the

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nas space now because I have recently moved a lot of my backup data from

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inside my tower to a sonology Nas I've been discovering a lot of really cool

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stuff about it this video is going to focus on soni's DSM software but we'd

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love to hear what you guys have to say about other Solutions and what other Solutions you might want us to check out

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like free Nas or something like that if you're wondering what model of Nas you

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should get in the sonology space you can check out the sonology nas selector it

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can help you figure out things based on user count data size and a ton of other

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metrics now before we go any deeper to get the most out of this video it will

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help to have a basic understanding of what both raid and Nas mean check out

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these Techquickie videos here to learn a couple things about raid and hopefully

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check out this video here to learn things about Nas although Linus doesn't

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have this video done yet so hopefully it'll be ready by the time you see this

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all right so now that we've got all that taken care of let's get started

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installing the drives is going to be quite easy with the quick start guide

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once they're in there you can either go to find. synology.com to find your Nas

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through the browser and begin setup or you can go to Sony's download page input

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your model and download the sonology Assistant which is a desktop application

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that will help you find your Nas and will allow you to manage it through your

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browser monitor its resources through the desktop application and other cool

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stuff before we move on I'd like to show off Sony's raid calculator it's a super

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useful tool that'll help you figure out exactly how much usable storage and

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other things you'll have when running different Drive raid and shr

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configurations you can find it by going to the bottom of syy page and just

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clicking on raid calculator now I know I know I made you all learn about these

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different raid levels and now I'm not going to be using them sorry I'm going

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to be using sonology hybrid raid or shr

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I find it cool because it allows you to have raid likee redundancy while mixing

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and matching your drives of different capacities once you have it set up you

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can expand it as long as the drives you're adding are equal to or greater

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than the size of the smallest Drive in your array so for example we would be

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able to add anything that's 500 gbt or above because I have a 500 GB Drive in

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my array unlike other Rish Technologies Soni realizes that you might not want to

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stick with techology forever and be stuck in this one raid configuration on

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this one device so they allow you to recompile your data on any PC running

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Linux that's because this is not a proprietary solution this is a solution

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based on a Linux raid setup and they have a guide for doing all this which is

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awesome all right so once you're inside and you found your Nas you just got to

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select a few simple options you can decide whether or not you want to clean or migrate your data and then you want

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to decide whether or not you want to download the latest DSM software which I

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do recommend or if you want to manually install it later on if you do want some

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specific patch for some reason so up your admin account and name your server

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next and then decide whether or not you want to have sonology hybrid raid volume

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installed if you're not going with Sony hybrid raid do not select this option if

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you are make sure you do once that's all done and we log in the first thing we're

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going to want to do is create user groups and users because using the admin

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account is not going to be ideal this is very straightforward so I'm not going to

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show the entire process but I will show just the creation of an employee user

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group and naming of the description but from here on out it's just selecting

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things like what apps and folders they have read and write access to now all we

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have left is to set up our drive volume so honestly like with most anology

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software if you just read the text below the options it's going to be really straightforward and your biggest

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question is going to be one dis fault tolerance or two dis fault tolerance

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these line up with raid five and six and if you watch Linus's video on that

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you'll know which one will work best for you all right now to the fun stuff we're

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going to install some apps there's a wide range of apps in the store

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including everything from running your own small website or business

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to audio and video managers that are actually quite simple but make your life

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a lot easier installation and setup of these apps is quick and easy and a lot

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of the core apps like I just said the audio and video manager and a few other

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things have mobile components as well next up is the mobile app pairings which

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seem stable which is good but personally

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I feel like their usability and UI could use some work and the feature list seems

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fairly limited just to show an example of this I'm inside of a folder in my my

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app right now and I can select play all and move it to shuffle from there but it

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doesn't work for all songs unless you have every single one of your songs

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inside one individual folder you can tell at the top I'm not selecting

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anything funny you can only select by genres or folders recently added

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composers stuff like that not everything and at the very top I have it selected

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on Library the only other options are stuff like downloaded songs and playlists not everything just to cap

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things off here there's a few things that I really appreciated over the time

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of using this Nas that I'd like to go over in no particular order first off

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and my personal favorite out of all of these is the share links you can take

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any file that you have and create a share link for it uh you'll notice here

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that I'm running a local IP but if you make this Nas publicly accessible and

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give it some sort of domain or something like that that can change very easily

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there's tons of different options for sharing this and different levels at

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which you can share it so different permissions based on like social networks or people that have access to

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the nas already or QR codes and how long this link will actually work for tons of

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different options and a great feature to have on a Nas next up is Cloud sync so

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with Cloud sync you can actually use it to sync up with a few different Cloud

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Solutions but in this example I'll be using Dropbox after a simple

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authentication process there's really not much more to set up and this is a

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great way to have off-site synchronization and backup of your

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different really important files last but not least is Quick

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Connect Quick Connect allows you to access your Nas outside of your home

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home network so far everything that we've been able to do is simply tied in

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within our network if you register a my dis station account and then select a

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quick connect ID that's pretty much all you need to do to be able to set up

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quick connect if you're worried about quick connect and want to do everything manually if you go to external access

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you can see all of the manual things you have to do there and then configure your

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rotor a little bit and then you're good to go there are guides on how to do this

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on Sony's website so it won't be too hard but it will take a little bit of

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manual intervention all right guys that's a

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wrap I hope you guys like this video be sure to let me know what other Nas

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Solutions you might want me to check out in the comments down below like and

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