Why my NAS is extremely useful! | UGREEN NAS does change my workflow

[@BritoWorx]

2:54 your dog was definitely trying to get your attention lol. Nice video btw I got this same unit added 4 4tb HHD and using it as a back up device for all my photos, videos, content etc.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

He's always trying to steal the show haha. How do you like yours?

[@GTphotofilm]

Thanks for the video. Any clue about what’s the power consumption on idle and when the hard drives are working? Thanks

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

Thanks! I'm not sure but I would think it's pretty small amount

[@crankyfloridian]

Getting one for Christmas, can you maybe make a video where you go through the setup and tweak it? I think your system is great. also one more question how much RAM did you install? or are you just using the 8GB it comes with?

[@Max_Edits_LSC]

To add to this, I upgraded my NASync to 64Gb of Corsair Vengeance 4800Mhz RAM (make sure the size is for a "laptop" and not a PC) and installed 2 4Tb Samsung Pro 990 SSD's.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

I'm currently just using the default RAM and it's been fine. I think you can upgrade it? I'm not really sure this is where I'm a total noob about this lol

[@pureheartvisuals]

Dustin, I’m curious what kind of speeds are you getting on the NvMe inside the NAS 2000mbps ? 3000mbps ? I’ve been buying Thunderbolt 4 enclosures and adding NvMe to each for this reason. I would love to move to something like this longterm

[@godxavier]

Trying to use your code but it’s not working. Takes to Amazon but no discount is given.

[@flatripley]

Okay, I think we need one of these. All our pictures and videos are on this hard drive that’s super annoying to access. I bet you $100 I won’t be able to set it up myself though 😂

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

That's the biggest reason why I love having one. I bet you could! It really is easy to set up. It only takes a couple of clicks

[@fickleevolutionlogos46849]

What do I get the dxp2800? Do I need to purchase and memory or is it all there. I am New to the Nas world.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

The smaller one might be fine for your needs. You have to but the memory separate yes

[@chadk21]

Thanks for the video. I'm currently debating between the Ugreen and Synology. Just upgraded computers and got NVME memory in enclosures on a mac mini. I have an old Drobo 5N that's still barely working, but I can't stand the copy speed, and of course, the company is dead anyway. I also need to figure out an offsite backup. A NAS won't help much if it goes up in a fire or flood (or stolen). Definitely need to figure out my offsite backup.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

I use a synology through work (my boss manages it though) and honestly I don't think you can go wrong with either ugreen or synology. I've enjoyed using both and don't really see a big difference between either

[@everettwinterlast]

Why are we using 2.5inch Hard Disk Drives at all when M.2 Nvme is so much smaller & faster? I would love to hear your response.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

SSDs are more expensive and those bigger drives are mostly just for storage I'm not editing directly from them so speed is not really something I need

[@everettwinterlast]

@DustinArmstrongPro Makes sense. However, HDD's usually tend to last longer than SSD's right? At some point you're still going to need to replace your eventually failing HDD & cloning your whole data library from one HDD to another takes a long time, so shouldn't everyone at least consider spending the extra money on SSD's only for their NAS's since when one SSD eventually fails, there will be another SSD as backup & you can just quickly clone the backup SSD to a whole new SSD, & do this method for hundreds of years+?

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

@everettwinterlast8704 that's the great thing about a NAS. Depending how you set it up, but you can just replace a drive that fails or is failing and it'll automatically restore everything. No need to do any cloning or anything. Sure if you can afford SSDs those are the better route but as an example an 8 TB SSD can cost $650 or more where an 8 TB HDD cost $150 or less

[@everettwinterlast]

​​​​​@@DustinArmstrongProSo interesting how you said "you can just replace a drive that fails or is failing and it'll automatically restore everything. No need to do cloning or anything" I've never heard of this before! But now I feel better about buying a NAS even though I don't understand what process is happening. What should I type in on KZbin to better understand this "restoring" when replacing a failed or failing hardrive? Also since my data library is about 1Tb, I can get NVMe SSD's for a very fair price. However the problem is that Ugreen's 2.5inch + NVMe SSD NAS is an affordable $400 while Ugreens cheapest I could find NVMe only NAS is $1000 so $600 more for a far more futuristic looking NAS only/not hardrives, which doesn't sound fair at all to me. I hope more companies will make fairly priced NVMe only NAS, or Ugreen will somehow offer a cheaper NVMe only NAS that doesn't make NAS itself the price culprit & not the hardrives for people who only need 1Tb - 2Tb.

[@pawelnovik]

Looks interesting, good that another company is joining the small server market. Just be careful with keeping one disk in reserve, a mechanical disk that has not been used for a long time may start to work worse (this of course requires a long time) - check with the disk manufacturer to see what is going on with yours, remember that server disks have a really long operating time.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

Thanks!

[@serrfre]

Very nice video I see that you have everything there, what about if somebody robber your house? Is not safer to have Dropbox? Or something that can guarantee this ?

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

I have security monitoring at my house plus a robber is unlikely to steal hard drives or a NAS because they aren't worth much. Probably more likely to just steal my computer and camera equipment but sure it's possible.

[@serrfre]

@@DustinArmstrongPro Thank you for answer Dustin, I ask you this because probably I´m gonna buy one of this for my Photography and video filmmaking business but this is my question If a robber steals this or something happens I have no remedy on the cloud? like dropbox? This is something that I have asked to the company but I have not received response

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

@serrfre correct you would not. You would have to set up an external drive (like I have) to automatically sync to the cloud as well

[@Theiphone809]

Can you share a folder for pictures and they can upload and access that one folder without accessing any other file? I just order one and I’m curious if you can give family access individually different accounts and have. Access to specific folder for their files without seeing anyone else photos . Can you do that?

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

Yes you can setup users to only have access to certain folders

[@I_like_science]

I'm very curious as to how these sponsorships work behind the scenes. It seems like they are given a script and list of specific points which they need to cover. ALL sponsorships around this device have the same content and they carefully omit the weaknesses of this nas.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

UGREEN gave me a bunch of points to pick from to highlight. I chose my favorite ones, I wrote the script myself and UGREEN approved it. Unlikely that a sponsored video will every highlight or talk about a weakness due to it needing approval from the brand so it's good to do your own research, but I haven't had any problems with how it works for me and haven't run in to any glaring issues or weaknesses that have me feeling the need to make a video separately. A sponsored video basically equals a commercial for the brand/device (not always but in most cases) unlikely you'd ever watch a commercial on TV and the brand highlights weaknesses to their product. I'm also not an expert when it comes to NAS's so I'm probably not the guy to ask what its weaknesses are.

[@I_like_science]

@ I understand, sorry if my comment came out as an attack to you or your sponsored video. I’m just genuinely curious as to how this works behinds the scenes. I really enjoyed watching the video.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

@I_like_science didn't feel attacked just explaining since you asked👍

[@christopherstark]

Does Ugreen support thumbnails for video files? Synology requires Videostation to generate them

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

I think it does? I could see thumbnails of my video files. They're small. I'd check but I'm out of town currently

[@Max_Edits_LSC]

As an editor for another KZbin channel, this would indeed, be super cool. Quick question, does it auto-sync from phone to the NAS as you take pics and vids? Update: Convinced my boss to buy this NAS.

[@crankyfloridian]

How much are editors usually paid? asking for a friend

[@Max_Edits_LSC]

@@crankyfloridian Depends on your skillset. Also, as a an editor for a KZbin channel, it's a very niche position and I have no pay scale to compare it to. But I've met other editors that started making around $40k/year.

[@TheBigBlueMarble]

No off-site storage/backup?

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

Not currently

[@TheBigBlueMarble]

@@DustinArmstrongPro I don't know what the options are for Ugreen cloud backup, but don't wait too long.

[@MarineTrucker1775]

What m.2 ssd and HDDs are you using?

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

Seagate 18TB for HDDs and 2TB western digital black

[@escape808]

I got mine from eBay brand 200 bucks cheaper than ugreen sells it. There's a ton of 4 Bay ones for 500 on there.

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

Several things. You’re as paranoid as I am about backups. Okay not quite as much as I have multiple HD downloads from my computer onto SSD’s. I’ve begun deleting the older versions manually (file by file) because I don’t trust AI or software to do it. Lol Anyway, NOT JANKY. And we’re looking at this system and your video has been the best info for what we wanted to know.

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

Glad you found it helpful! Yeah definitely need at least one backup. Some people have everything backed up at a remote location on another NAS but I don't got that kind of money lol

[@justarandomstranger6467]

You didn't need to make a whole video just for me

[@DustinArmstrongPro]

I did