Synology NAS Setup Guide 2020 - Build, Setup, RAID, Volumes IP and Shared Folders

[@robertstephen4605]

I've just bought a 412plus, and it's not coming with any instruction, so thank you for this video. You are an absolute Godsend. I'll be following your instruction to the letter.

[@andrewparis2075]

This video is a godsend. I am not a sophisticated network administrator and I followed this at every step, successfully. Only issue was mapping the drive, which I did following Synology's instructions.

[@jimdowell1729]

same problem!! can you point me to where syn's instructiosn are?

[@blym3271]

Not a techie, and This was a life saver. Followed every single step to complete my set up. Thank you so much, appreciate sharing this video with us!

[@bartvandenpoel2469]

I have a 207 from 2009 - and it kept working brilliantly for years on end. Really good thing. I installed it in my cellar. Although I now use dropbox for backuping my data at home. If you have a need for backups, it's a really good device.

[@antunkatona5674]

An amazingly detailed video! I suppose there is no need to even ponder about which NAS to buy now. Thanks so much! Cheers!

[@paulvanoort6043]

Thanks a million for this clear explanation! Very straightforward but exactly the things you need to understand right after unboxing. Excellent!

[@scotterill503]

This was absurdly straightforward, succinct and helpful. Big thanks!!

[@hammockmonk]

Brilliant. I just got the 220+ and your video makes setup a breeze. Thank you!

[@dollhausenx]

Anyone else breath a sigh of relief at 13:50 when the camera finally achieves focus on the screen and you can see what he's doing?

[@Devo_gx]

Thanks for this! I just picked up the 220+ myself and still learned something as I haven't used one of these before

[@haroon420]

Can I like this video twice? Very grateful for this. Thank you.

[@markdouglas8073]

You are my new best friend. At least as I wait for my NAS to deliver.

[@sprocket8934]

This is great, appreciate the clear directions. Comment for the boost.

[@cnfcomps]

Thanks for this fantastic video. Very straightforward and to the point!

[@SundaravadivelPonnambalam]

please add a description regarding link aggregation on a unmanaged switch (switch does not have an option for link aggregation). My question is "can i connect 2 ethernet cables to the same unmanaged switch?" and what is the setting i have to choose for link aggregation? i.e Adaptive load balancing or anything specific.

[@jasonashtonsmith9584]

Thank you so much. I watched a couple of your videos recently and it has made setting up a NAS really easy. Thanks

[@stevenkorrell8726]

Thanks this was a great video and help for me to setup my NAS!!!!!!!!

[@raydoetnietmee]

Thanks very much for the effort to put up a series. I'm no absolute beginner but this helps to make sure I don't miss/forget anything. Question though: isn't it advised against to use "admin" as administrator user for security reasons?

[@mobayguy]

Excellent Video - Helped me to step through the setup and navigate the options that are best for our environment. Really helpful 👍🏻Thanks

[@mcmcd1950]

Thank you very much for making this video. I enjoyed all your Synology unite reviews. This video was the missing piece to the puzzle of setting it all up. Thank you and Happy Holidays to you.

[@edgarkoskeemusic806]

Thanks a lot for your help. Now I can carry on loading the whole bunch of audio & video files on it. That´s lot of work I guess.

[@Ron-ce6he]

Nice video! I was clueless how to do this before watching the video. Many thanks!

[@nuxwarboy6385]

Just great. Clear, concise progression to completion. Wish I'd had this when I purchased my DS214+. About to buy a DS720+.

[@bjorngylemo]

Hi, just found your vidoes and I think they are very useful. I have a question, in this video you connect the NAS to your router, but can you also connect the NAS directly to a computer via a crossover network cable?

[@cmak3383]

This was a great help. Thank you for walking us through this.

[@nascompares]

Thanks for the feedback and kind words Curtis.

[@DimitrisL]

thank you for the great video! just a note...on Mac the right click to map the shared drive is not available on the Assistant. one needs to go to the Finder to add it from there.

[@MiguelKolar]

Hello Dimitris L. Can you please write me how do I do this? Thank you

[@garysiatka3943]

This was an awesome video. You have been a great help in helping me choose a NAS and help to set it up

[@Navii_24]

Thanks for this video. Helped me with shared folders and am now able to see them on my local PC.

[@eticocr]

very nice and straight forward tutorial. I am new to this and already setup up my first NAS ds220+ with SHR with 2 8TB HDD, I have not created a volume yet but I wonder what is the best option if single volume or multiple, any ideas or examples If I want to use this NAS mainly for HOME keeping my data, photos and Videos available but eventually explore other capabilities like connect survelliance cameras or use it as a Plex? I am open for ideas or guides?

[@Tanquen]

13:50 - SHR will take half the RAW drive space???

[@thomasbeehler]

Really appreciate this video. Thank you very much. Fantastic overview.

[@tapocketa]

Really concise, no waffling and really useful. Thank you!

[@dakdur1126]

I’m having such massive difficulty with this on my MacBook Pro!! We need an everything guide for setting up on Apple products

[@courtreinland6285]

Can I network a printer off of one of these? Seems so much easier than networking a printer normally.

[@brookegreene3666]

Thanks for all you great videos. I wanted to connect to my pc but can't find the assistant. New to networking. Thanks

[@PhilHibbs]

I would love to have multiple storage pools, so I could have a couple of TB of media that I don’t care about losing, and the rest in an SHR for stuff that I do care about. Can it do that?

[@Zordos]

Your video is very informative and I bought a DS220+ for Plex and for backups. I am trying to follow your guide as close as possible in order to do things the right way, as I have never owned or used a NAS before. I just want to use it for my plex, internal network and not external access and for backup of all my PCs at home. This being the case, I am a bit confused as to How I should go about doing the storage pool and volume. I want to use one of my 8 TB drives for Plex movies and the other 8 TB drive for backup of the drives. So do I use SHR, although I do not want to mirror anything? or do I select SHR and do two volumes?

[@murfeezlaw]

Thank you for the video. This was very helpful in setting up my NAS. I followed your steps. Does that mean that when I copy items to the mapped drive they'll be backed up on the second drive automatically?

[@mpm5629]

Do you have an installation how to video for Synology Disk Station DS420J ?

[@mihalisvranakis579]

Thank you! Your videos have been a great help to me! But, in this case, when I set up my D220j, SHR and volume were created automatically and I had no agency! When I logged in, everything was preconfigured! Any ideas why? Thanks again.

[@ChoicesHabitsAttitudeLuck]

This is my problem. My router is in the basement and would be needing a very long cable to have my NAS upstairs in my bedroom. Any suggestions?

[@dktraveller8364]

I've followed several of your video tutorials and set up my DS220+. Can you help please? I have created a shared folder on the NAS and mapped it to Z : on my PC and I want to use this folder to be my main working folder for photo editing with photoshop and luminar. I also want to be able to show those photos on my TV on the same network but the TV will only see the 3 Media Server created folders "photo", "video" and "music". I don't want to have to copy the photos from the shared folder to the media folder. Am I missing something? Thanks for a great series.

[@steel-r_ua]

Great! Thanks, very informative! You are getting not bitter, but better! :) Must be hard to talk so long in one go, I've watched your video in few takes)

[@ks2401]

Absolutely fantastic. I was so puzzled by various setups because I do use a NAS from 2015, but that is a simple My Cloud from WD> I upgraded to this 720+ after watching your reviews and unboxing videos.... and I am glad I made that choice. My only concern is : My MacBP Says Synology assistant needs to be updated and I cannot use it from my MBP. However, I am able to use the Web Interface and it is okay for the time being. I loved the way you have explained various choices on RAID. Thank you so much. Would love to see your other videos on how to set up backups and sync and media servers. Please feel free to share links if these videos already exist.

[@H_Raja]

Any reason why two LAN cables in box not used for quicker transfer?

[@flora_vlog4427]

After I set up this as your video in my PC; Do I need to set up the same thing in my Mac Pro notebook?

[@kzy-ngakyaw]

Great video. Thanks for that. Can i link the expansion unit on this NAS?

[@juanrozo7781]

Thank you so much for making this video! It was very helpful.

[@Theo2482]

Great video, thank you! I have one question. Can we use a usb Wi-Fi adapter one one of the NAS usb ports to wirelessly connect the NAS to the router? In my office the router is quite remote to my PC and it would be very helpful not using use any cable to connect the NAS (which will be placed on top of the workstation tower) to my router. Thank you a lot!

[@Peacemaker2]

Nice video! I wonder if it is possible to have 2 drives (e.g. a 2TB drive and a 4TB drive) and then use raid1 on the whole 2TB drive and party on the 4TB drive and that the remaining 2TB functions as JBOD? I'm looking for a setup like this but can not find info on this.

[@jormol]

Did you find an answer to your question already? Also interested in this!

[@Peacemaker2]

@@jormol didn’t really research it enough yet

[@ejharrop1416]

Thank you and I have had my NAS for a very long time and this is a good start for me to get back on it. I hope to make it my home cloud someday.

[@delmixedit]

This was helpful all the way up to getting access on a MAC. There is no option to "Map Drive"

[@AaronMakesThings]

Thanks! Exactly what I needed to watch.

[@blackcoalboy]

Been waiting for this, Brilliant great job.

[@CGPT76]

Off topic, very nice vintage watch there! Had one myself in the 80's!! Going to build a NAS in my home, because of this beer flu thing, it's going to be very handy for my kid and wife because schools will close again soon. But because of the budget I think I'm going for 220j .

[@aliservan7188]

Just boughs a 1621+ with 4x10Tb drives. I want the majority to be used for media, but I need 1tb for web hosting, 2TB for my backup from my laptops and 2TB for encrypted cloud storage. Can all this go on one volume or do I need to fence off? I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed.

[@SebastianMoreno82]

Can you use SSD SATA drives instead of HHD SATA Drives for the NAS ? and would that make working from the NAS directly for Video editing (connected via cable) faster?

[@Doctor9Raccoon]

can you run game servers on it ? ex: a csgo server or a valheim server ??

[@emdejong]

Hi, this is a very good tutorial for a first time installation. Wish I had seen this kind of tutorial some years ago when I set up my first NAS. Now I replaced my old NAS 1513+ with a 1520+ and just transferred my old set-up, which I now regret. It has one storage pool and one volume and five hard disks. Last week I installed a service called Roon Audio which recommends to put the Roon server on a separate volume on a SSD drive. I want to free up one disk, replace it with a ssd drive and make a volume 2 on it. I could not find how to do this. My alternative strategies are: 1. Start a fresh installation (I have a backup of all data); 2. Find a way to change the current installation from one volume into two volumes. 3. Keep a sub-optimal installation (from the Roon server perspective). After hours of internet searching I did not find a clear solution. Do you have an advice which strategy to follow and how to execute it? Thanks, Eric de Jong, Netherlands

[@sanchitkumar4246]

Can i backup 1 tb data out of 10 tb hdd to second hdd of 1 tb in synology nas 224+?

[@ShadyShadow92]

Is there a possibility to create a folder that can only be reached via your local network and not via the internet? For example map1 that I can access anywhere via my mobile or pc ad my moms home. but I can only access Map2 when I am on my wifi or cabeld network at home. So that if my account were hacked, people wouldn't be able to access this data from map2 from outside?

[@J0ELtheNOOB]

Hi, thank you so much for this video guide, it is extremely thorough! It's my first time setting up a NAS system and I would not have been able to do it if not for this video (considering the manual from synology wasn't very helpful). Having said that, when I tried to click on "map drive" in the synology assistant, for some odd reason the buton/option is greyed out and I can't create the drive on my local pc. I tried running the software as admin and still the same, do you know what may have caused this? Thanks

[@pavoutsinas]

is it possible to have no raid and just have each drive used individually?

[@mickm7422]

Thanks for the video, very helpful. Will there be any issues with using two drives that were set up in RAID 1 from another NAS?

[@tahirotahir]

Can I use my two 8TB SATA drives in it? Means, is there any HDD size limit?

[@srfurley]

Three weeks ago I set up a DS420+ running DSM 7.0. I have the two Ethernet ports bonded using LACP. If I go to Control Panel/Network/Network Interface and look at the Bond1 interface it tells me that the MTU is 1500, both for the bond and for the individual interfaces. I cannot find anywhere to change this, the edit button just lets me choose different protocols for bonding the ports. I would like to be able to use Jumbo Frames; is this not possible?

[@ericjeschke8163]

Such a great video. Thanks so much.

[@nclawnorder7559]

HELP! If I have a Synology DS920+ NAS, PoE cameras, 8 pack license, personal computer....what other hardware do I need to complete my surveillance system? The Cat6 from all the cameras need to go into a switch before going into the router? Thanks in advance!

[@AppleiOSGenius]

you skipped the quick connect do i register or not?

[@jimdowell1729]

having trouble with mapping the shared folder. i did the steps and it said the wizard completed basic configs, but the shared folder didn't pop up on my pc window on my local machine. can anyone help here? when i click on 'network' i can see my nas, but now in the 'this pc' tab in windows explorer. thanks!!

[@Lawi_Jake]

Can we use SSD instead of HDD? Also, is the RAM upgradable?

[@jellebolijnlive]

@nascompares I bought the 220 nas and a 14tb hdd. I want to add an extra 14tb hdd later (in 1 or 2 months) but I already started using the NAS. Can I then copy the data already on HDD 1 to HDD 2 and create a raid setup anyway?

[@camdenwoodworrks]

What's the process for upgrading to a larger drive set. Say I install 2-4Tb drives now, later I need to upgrade to 2-10Tb drives; is this possible?

[@cheryz65]

I would like to know the answer to this question too. Is it possible?

[@komrad40]

Thank you Mate

[@nascompares]

No worries

[@os2baba]

Where is all the metadata stored? Admin Id, apps db like for moments? How can I back that up?

[@davidwragg]

Thanks - great video - really helpful - thanks!

[@Ivan99705]

Thank you, very informative and helpful.

[@RichardRajah]

great walkthrough

[@Uracas2012]

Great video thank you! Dumb question though: Can I use 4 drives and allocate 2 of them to a RAID1 array and use JBOD on the other two to have a second array?

[@killer_x_treme]

Yes you can arrange different volumes in different configurations.

[@maarten2509]

I have a Question can you at the DS920+ pro first an SSD to install and after use the HDD to install, because I have full HDD and wanna swap them to a NAS.

[@mitchellsmith411]

Is it possible to have 2 different configurations. Say 1 set of drives RAID1 and another RAID 0 (in a 4 bay synology)

[@nascompares]

Yes, this is perfectly possible. Additionally, you can set up a sync job in Hyper Backup to migrate data between them if you want.

[@mitchellsmith411]

@@nascompares Ok. thanks. I will give that a go. Mostly i just want to add an additional drive that is just for movies/tv. not bothered if the drive is lost at some point really.

[@gunthermertens7504]

what if the assistant doesn't want to map the network drive on my pc? it stays gray. can't select it, so in a bit of a pickle

[@nascompares]

Sounds like your NAS is on a different network, OR it has a different IP range. You might need to reset your network settings on the NAS to default AND/OR double check that your client machine and NAS are 100% on the same network.

[@stjohnriverton75]

Make sure you map from MYPC

[@gunthermertens7504]

@@nascompares apparently I just had to close the assistant after the configure and restart it. It was fixed instantaneously without me doing anything. LOL

[@hazimhusainal-umari6070]

Thanks, can you explain how to sync a folder in PC with Sinology NAS. I have the 2 tier NAS. They sent me instruction than are not valid. An expert of 30 years experience said after several trial days that he was not able to do. What a miserable way to sell products that are useless if not explained properly.

[@incognito6469]

Well, thanks for the tutorial. The problem is, what you show doesn't match what my DS220j produces. The 220j did some setup step automatically and not the way you show. And the drive mapping doesn't work at all! Infuriating, actually.

[@sinistarr3146]

Great video. I am running into an issue where after creating the volume using BTRFS, I am unable to map the shared folder. I am able to mount the shares via the run menu, but unable to map from Windows 10, nor Synology Assistant. I get an error that the path or folder cannot be found. Any suggestions? DS1019+ RAID5, BTRFS, Single volume.

[@sinistarr3146]

Found the cause and corrected it.

[@RicksCreativeCo]

Super Helpful, Thanks

[@vitorcrespo8]

Great Video!

[@mokuho]

It should be disconnected of internet?

[@nascompares]

You have the option to run the entire system disconnected from the internet, yeah. But you will need to connect to the internet if you want to use firmware updates.

[@mokuho]

@@nascompares thanks 👍

[@flora_vlog4427]

I cannot download Synology assistant as this app had some reputation problems and blocked by certain servers, is it safe to download?

[@rondunnett7204]

Well Done Sir!

[@damircickusic]

Nice Video, Love it. Is there a possibility to put a retro console, like retroarch on the Synology? I would like to "stream" the games right on my TV. Maybe it's possible to open the website version of DSM and klick on the "retrogames" app and play. Thx

[@nascompares]

Not on a Synology (at least logically) I'm afraid. I'm currently running a frankly isane retroarch arcade on an older TS-253A and runs like a dream over HDMI. I made a video on this last year I think. I should revisit nthis subject in 2020...thanks for the poke!

[@micha8866]

Thanks for Your chanel I lern a lot

[@DK234100]

thanks mate, very helpful video, even for novice like me.

[@yeppy013]

Why is the box in Japanese? Are you in Japan?

[@nascompares]

Afraid not. I purchased this unit for the video from Japan (pretty sure I mention this in the vid, but happy to be corrected) as it and the DS920+ were available in Japan 2.5months before the rest of the world.

[@MatHelm]

On the same InTRAnet, not "Internet".

[@bguen1234]

This video would be perfect if it were half as long.

[@insideClaw]

Good but doesn't say anything about using those protocols remotely, which is what I need right now.

[@PeterMaddison2483]

Why no mention of Linux when mentioning OS'es, you mention WIndow$ & iOS but leave out Linux or eevn naming a Linux distro!

[@wls9164]

This video has convinced me not to bother with a NAS, set up much too complex.

[@MINXC3]

I've just ordered mine. Wish me luck!

[@bjrnbratz9575]

@@MINXC3 This is your big chance to get it done, this presenter is maybe the very best I have ever seen on the net. He will hold your hand all the way. What more could you ask for?

[@blackcoalboy]

I thought you said this was for beginners??????????? You lost me when you where goon about Volumes etc.