WEBVTT 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:12.559 the CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:16.800 fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:20.279 learn more all right guys so today I'm going to be talking a lot about storage 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:24.680 and backup and whenever you talk about these topics you have to talk about the 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:29.439 32 ones of storage what are the 32 ones of storage well have three copies of 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:34.120 everything that you deem very important have two different formats for that data 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:38.719 and have at least one of those backups being offsite that is essentially one 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:44.480 working copy one locally backed up or remotely backed up copy and at least one 00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:47.280 off-site copy not near sight as in quite 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:50.879 a distance between you and that copy this is for very important data if 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:54.840 you're just a home user so stuff like tax records or family photos or wedding 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.359 photos or anything that you deem extremely important another thing to 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:02.600 note is that raid is not backup raid's got your back 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:06.200 if you have drive failure and it provides fault tolerance for those 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:10.920 drives but it cannot protect you from user error file system corruption 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:15.000 natural disasters and many more things raid is awesome at keeping your system 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:19.920 stable and keeping uptime high but backup is only actually a backup when it 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:24.439 is an additional copy of the data not the working copy simply putting all of 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:28.119 your data onto a Nas and using it from there doesn't make it a backup that 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:32.159 makes it a working copy with fault protection on the drives for home users 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:36.240 accomplishing a 321 setup isn't actually that hard you can back up your important 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:40.759 files to something like flash or optical disc storage locally and then just have 00:01:38.399 --> 00:01:45.560 Dropbox or something like Dropbox sync your files offsite but for those looking 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:49.240 for a more elegant and scalable solution there's definitely more options in the 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.520 nas space now because I have recently moved a lot of my backup data from 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:56.600 inside my tower to a sonology Nas I've been discovering a lot of really cool 00:01:54.880 --> 00:02:00.560 stuff about it this video is going to focus on soni's DSM software but we'd 00:01:59.399 --> 00:02:06.000 love to hear what you guys have to say about other Solutions and what other Solutions you might want us to check out 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:09.640 like free Nas or something like that if you're wondering what model of Nas you 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:13.680 should get in the sonology space you can check out the sonology nas selector it 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:18.879 can help you figure out things based on user count data size and a ton of other 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:22.080 metrics now before we go any deeper to get the most out of this video it will 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:26.599 help to have a basic understanding of what both raid and Nas mean check out 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.560 these Techquickie videos here to learn a couple things about raid and hopefully 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:34.800 check out this video here to learn things about Nas although Linus doesn't 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:38.360 have this video done yet so hopefully it'll be ready by the time you see this 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:41.319 all right so now that we've got all that taken care of let's get started 00:02:39.959 --> 00:02:44.360 installing the drives is going to be quite easy with the quick start guide 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:49.480 once they're in there you can either go to find. synology.com to find your Nas 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:53.599 through the browser and begin setup or you can go to Sony's download page input 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:57.680 your model and download the sonology Assistant which is a desktop application 00:02:55.640 --> 00:03:00.680 that will help you find your Nas and will allow you to manage it through your 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:04.519 browser monitor its resources through the desktop application and other cool 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:08.840 stuff before we move on I'd like to show off Sony's raid calculator it's a super 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:12.040 useful tool that'll help you figure out exactly how much usable storage and 00:03:10.440 --> 00:03:15.560 other things you'll have when running different Drive raid and shr 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:20.400 configurations you can find it by going to the bottom of syy page and just 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:22.959 clicking on raid calculator now I know I know I made you all learn about these 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:28.360 different raid levels and now I'm not going to be using them sorry I'm going 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:30.040 to be using sonology hybrid raid or shr 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:34.280 I find it cool because it allows you to have raid likee redundancy while mixing 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:38.120 and matching your drives of different capacities once you have it set up you 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:42.239 can expand it as long as the drives you're adding are equal to or greater 00:03:40.519 --> 00:03:46.599 than the size of the smallest Drive in your array so for example we would be 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:51.680 able to add anything that's 500 gbt or above because I have a 500 GB Drive in 00:03:49.239 --> 00:03:56.319 my array unlike other Rish Technologies Soni realizes that you might not want to 00:03:54.040 --> 00:04:01.040 stick with techology forever and be stuck in this one raid configuration on 00:03:58.519 --> 00:04:05.280 this one device so they allow you to recompile your data on any PC running 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:09.720 Linux that's because this is not a proprietary solution this is a solution 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:13.599 based on a Linux raid setup and they have a guide for doing all this which is 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:16.840 awesome all right so once you're inside and you found your Nas you just got to 00:04:15.079 --> 00:04:21.600 select a few simple options you can decide whether or not you want to clean or migrate your data and then you want 00:04:20.359 --> 00:04:25.639 to decide whether or not you want to download the latest DSM software which I 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:29.880 do recommend or if you want to manually install it later on if you do want some 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.320 specific patch for some reason so up your admin account and name your server 00:04:31.919 --> 00:04:37.360 next and then decide whether or not you want to have sonology hybrid raid volume 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:41.360 installed if you're not going with Sony hybrid raid do not select this option if 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.479 you are make sure you do once that's all done and we log in the first thing we're 00:04:43.039 --> 00:04:48.759 going to want to do is create user groups and users because using the admin 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:52.360 account is not going to be ideal this is very straightforward so I'm not going to 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:57.039 show the entire process but I will show just the creation of an employee user 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:00.960 group and naming of the description but from here on out it's just selecting 00:04:58.479 --> 00:05:05.960 things like what apps and folders they have read and write access to now all we 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:10.039 have left is to set up our drive volume so honestly like with most anology 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:14.120 software if you just read the text below the options it's going to be really straightforward and your biggest 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:18.400 question is going to be one dis fault tolerance or two dis fault tolerance 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:21.400 these line up with raid five and six and if you watch Linus's video on that 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:25.479 you'll know which one will work best for you all right now to the fun stuff we're 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:28.039 going to install some apps there's a wide range of apps in the store 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:32.039 including everything from running your own small website or business 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:36.240 to audio and video managers that are actually quite simple but make your life 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:40.520 a lot easier installation and setup of these apps is quick and easy and a lot 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:44.360 of the core apps like I just said the audio and video manager and a few other 00:05:42.080 --> 00:05:50.600 things have mobile components as well next up is the mobile app pairings which 00:05:46.520 --> 00:05:52.560 seem stable which is good but personally 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:57.840 I feel like their usability and UI could use some work and the feature list seems 00:05:55.880 --> 00:06:01.600 fairly limited just to show an example of this I'm inside of a folder in my my 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:06.280 app right now and I can select play all and move it to shuffle from there but it 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:09.840 doesn't work for all songs unless you have every single one of your songs 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.720 inside one individual folder you can tell at the top I'm not selecting 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:17.240 anything funny you can only select by genres or folders recently added 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:20.599 composers stuff like that not everything and at the very top I have it selected 00:06:19.039 --> 00:06:25.960 on Library the only other options are stuff like downloaded songs and playlists not everything just to cap 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.240 things off here there's a few things that I really appreciated over the time 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:33.639 of using this Nas that I'd like to go over in no particular order first off 00:06:31.919 --> 00:06:38.080 and my personal favorite out of all of these is the share links you can take 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:41.880 any file that you have and create a share link for it uh you'll notice here 00:06:40.039 --> 00:06:45.039 that I'm running a local IP but if you make this Nas publicly accessible and 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:48.840 give it some sort of domain or something like that that can change very easily 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:52.240 there's tons of different options for sharing this and different levels at 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:58.720 which you can share it so different permissions based on like social networks or people that have access to 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:02.840 the nas already or QR codes and how long this link will actually work for tons of 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:07.360 different options and a great feature to have on a Nas next up is Cloud sync so 00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:11.919 with Cloud sync you can actually use it to sync up with a few different Cloud 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:15.960 Solutions but in this example I'll be using Dropbox after a simple 00:07:14.039 --> 00:07:20.000 authentication process there's really not much more to set up and this is a 00:07:18.400 --> 00:07:24.160 great way to have off-site synchronization and backup of your 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.120 different really important files last but not least is Quick 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:31.240 Connect Quick Connect allows you to access your Nas outside of your home 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:35.160 home network so far everything that we've been able to do is simply tied in 00:07:33.039 --> 00:07:38.800 within our network if you register a my dis station account and then select a 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:41.240 quick connect ID that's pretty much all you need to do to be able to set up 00:07:39.919 --> 00:07:46.199 quick connect if you're worried about quick connect and want to do everything manually if you go to external access 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:49.080 you can see all of the manual things you have to do there and then configure your 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:53.159 rotor a little bit and then you're good to go there are guides on how to do this 00:07:50.919 --> 00:07:56.080 on Sony's website so it won't be too hard but it will take a little bit of 00:07:54.960 --> 00:08:00.479 manual intervention all right guys that's a 00:07:58.280 --> 00:08:03.280 wrap I hope you guys like this video be sure to let me know what other Nas 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:07.199 Solutions you might want me to check out in the comments down below like and 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:10.599 dislike this video and be sure to subscribe if you want to comment on the 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:13.840 Forum I like reading things on the Forum be sure to do that as well if you don't 00:08:12.440 --> 00:08:19.280 like the 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