Hello in my last video in this series
I did an unboxing of a Synology DS918+ 4 bay NAS device and
In this video, I'm going to go through the initial setup
Through the interface so in that video I showed a 4 gigabyte
Western Digital
red drive and
Something to point out when you set this up the best way to set this up is to use a small the smallest drive first
So for this NAS. I have a 2 500 gigabyte drives a 2 terabyte drive and a 4 terabyte drive, so
What I did is I installed
I'll install the system on a 500 gigabyte Drive, and then I'll add in the second 500 gigabyte Drive
and
then the 2 terabyte and then the 4 terabyte if you do it the opposite way you can't add the other drives in later and
connect them on
for the Synology
Raid system so so right now
I have the 500 gigabyte Drive in I've pressed the button and booted it
Beeped I haven't connected to my network, and I'm on my computer here, and I type in
http://DiskStation:5000
and it brings up the web interface. You can also type find.synology.com and that will also
Allow you to find
the Diskstation
Alternatively they have software called SynologyAssistant
Which you can download
I'll pull that up and
This will search for
the NAS on your
network
So I do want to
Point out I will be putting a link to a playlist in the description of my Synology
Videos that I'm making also have a link to this device on Amazon which is my affiliate account
and if you use that it helps me out a little bit and doesn't cost you anything extra and
Let's get started so I did the assistant here. It says it didn't find it. I'm not sure why
But we'll use the web interface, so we'll hit setup here
And it will say it wants to install the DiskStation manager, and I'll say install now
It's going to install it
All the data will be removed from the existing drive, I'll say ok
and
This will take about 10 minutes. It seems like it takes less than 10 minutes, but I'll probably speed up the video here
Okay so the
the NAS
Beeped and that's going through the setup here, so now we give our server a name. I'm gonna call it
DS918
I'll do a username. I'll just say my name and then password which I'll not recite on the video
And there's a checkbox that says share the network location with Synology. I'm not going to do that right now hit next
And we log in
Stay logged in
And it says congratulations, we've set up an administrator account. I'll hit next
for updates you can
Have it install automatically or you can
Install important updates automatically, I'm guessing those are security updates. Yep and
You you can have it download updates and install them manually so it looks like any of the three choices. It's going to download
The updates and then you can choose whether or not you want to install them, so
Then we have run smart test
To check the drives. I'll say okay. I want to do that and enable bad sector warnings for drives. Yes, so I'll hit next
It says we can create a QuickConnect ID account with Synology
I'm not going to do that right now so at the bottom kind of grayed out. You can see the skip this step
say yes and
Send anonymous statistical data, I'm going to say I don't want to do that right now
Okay, and then it will go through a series of tips you can read through these here
I'll close the help
There's a little monitor off to the side here it has system health and resource monitor
we can add in storage connected users different things like that and
This is all a web application that me it looks like you're on a desktop, but it's really on the web
So a couple things. It's the first time we booted so if we go to control panel here
You'll see this update and restore
So what we can do is we can
Manually update this the automatic update will update it eventually, but if you want to start off
You know with a new system you can download this I'll do this offline it's kind of boring
And then if we go into package manager
We can go to installed here, and you'll see there's updates for these two packages and this is just like using you know
IOS or Android or Windows or Mac update you just hit update and it will run through the update on those
So that's something you'll want to do probably
But what I'm going to do to get started is I'll
Set up storage on here because there is no storage set up if we go to file station
It will say there's no shared folder available
So we can go up here to the main menu on the upper left. We'll click it and
We'll see the Storage Manager. I'm gonna actually right-click on this and say add to desktop
Because I'll be using this more often, I'll click on that and
It will give us an overview of our storage. It says we have 0 used disks
0 hot spare disks 1 unused disk and
3 available slots
So if we click on volume here, we can click create
And we can say quick
and
We'll choose our disk. It's the 500 gigabyte in the actual accessible is always smaller
What next
It says it's going to erase the data. I'll say ok
Perform disk check. I've done it recently so I'm going to say no
because it takes a while and it's fine if you hit it it takes a while it just runs in the background but
Well I do want to point out if you perform the disk check
There's a further step. We're going to do that you actually have to wait for this to complete
So I'm going to say no to start
File system. I'm going to do btrfs
That's recommended
And then we'll hit next apply
It'll save our configuration here and
It's creating the
volume here
The status will be right here. This is creating the file system and
This will take a little bit, and I'll probably speed the video up here until it's done
Okay, so we have the storage manager
Or in the Storage Manager, we have volume one if we go to file station now
Says there's no shared folder available
Now let's let's go through that separately
Okay
So if we go to control panel we can click on the shared folder icon
We'll hit create, and we'll give it a name. I'll name this network share
Next I'll call it DS share
And we'll choose the location as volume one and
It says hide this shared folder in my networks places, I don't want to do that. I don't want to hide subfolders
I don't want recycling bin on this you can encrypt it and
And
Then we have advanced
There's enable advanced data integrity protection. I do want that you can enable file compression
With compression if you're doing like pick cheers in video the compression may not be great
But if you are storing text files on here imagine you can get a tremendous amount of compression out of those so
it depends on the kind of file you're
Using you can always zip a file up and see if it gets a lot smaller
And if it does then it's a good candidate for using compression
And then we have an able shared folder quota, so I'll hit OK on here
And
It'll bring up the permissions. I'll just do default permissions here and
We have our share
so now we can go to file services and
We have SMB enabled
We hit apply oh actually I think those are already enabled so if we go here on the Mac
And open up a new Finder window we should see
Doesn't look like it's quite updated yet. I'll say connect to server browse
Let's see
Hmm it may take a minute for this to come up. I'm not sure why that's not coming up yet
So what we'll come back to that a little bit, so
So now we have one drive in here we want to add a second drive, so I'll go to storage manager and
I have the second Bay
populated with a hard drive that I haven't plugged it in yet, so I'll plug that in and
If we wait a second here, you'll see an unused drive show up
So now if we go to volume we see volume 1, and then if we go to manage
we can say add drives to a
SHR volume we hit next
We choose disk 2 we hit next
It says all data on the drive will be erased we say ok and
apply
And if we look down here, we'll see under disc info we'll see disc one disc two
They're the same size drive
These are actually completely different drives
But the first one is a three and a half inch drive the second one is a two and a half inch drive
But they're the same capacity
It's initializing it and then it will set up fault tolerance so
It's going to take a while it says a checking parity consistency, so it's essentially going to copy the data
From disk 1 to disc 2 it. Really isn't a lot of data, but it does take a little while to do this so
Once this is done. I can add in the third drive. I'll go up to manage and
Do the same procedure you'll see here, it says there is four hundred and forty two
gigabytes available
I'll add in the
two terabyte drive and then this will bump up to
It's around 800 gigabytes
and then I'll add the four terabyte drive in and then I'm not completely sure what the
What it will end up with but it will add more
once I have all that done I
can
I'll use the NAS. I'm going to copy some data onto it because I have a 4 terabyte drive, and then I'm going to
Complaisant 500 gigabyte drive with a 4 terabyte drive, so that's the procedure there
so I will close out of this now and
This will take a long time to have to go so I'll you know go off and come back hours later
And I check on it so
Ok so let's get back into
the file share here
we did we set up the
Shared folder in the file services if we go in the finder on the Mac a lot of times
It'll show up on the side here. It doesn't seem to be showing up so in the finder. We can go to go
Connect to server'
Will type in SMB colon forward slash forward slash?
And then the name of our server ds918. I'll hit
And I already have it stored in here, but it'll ask you for your username password you can type that in and then
The share will be open now we can say copy a file over to it
Copy the SynologyAssistant
Because it's there
And then within our
DiskStation interface if we go to file station
And we open our share. We'll see that on there now that file
So that's you know very very basic
You know functionality there so but that's all I'm going to cover in this video
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments if you like this video, please click like again
I'll put a description link in the description to the
NAS device, I'll put a link also to my playlist I have some other videos planned
utilizing this
nast and you know if there's any videos you'd like to see certainly put those in the
Comments below, I can't promise. I'll get to them, but maybe I'll be able to so
Thanks for watching, and bye