everybody thrown from tested and this is Gunther hello contested who usually
works behind the camera but I thought it would be fun to have them in front of
the camera with me today because we want to do a video about the current state of
Nazz storage it's a technology that's been around forever we've actually a
long time ago like seven years ago we did videos about NAS articles will and I
used to build their own nest boxes it's a lot easier now it's so much easier now
and I recently got this guy in from Synology because do you use a Synology
yeah I have the older version of this 5-day model a little bit older basically
the same thing Joey uses Synology and actually we use an 8 base analogy here
are tested office as our primary means of file backup and media serving because
we run through increasingly more files larger file and couple terabytes a month
at least absolutely so we want to just talk about
what I'll talk about my usage of this this is the 1019 Plus which came out
this past year some of its features and how we each differently make use of this
black box storage so if you followed as you may know that 1019 plus is kind of
an upgrade over the scene ologies very popular 9 18 plus model is a 4 Bay okay
that's box the naming conventions are a little wacky I know totally wacky
because it's not just about the number of drives x10 what does that mean
because it only see five base here but apparently can also buy a separate
attachment that they have that gives you up to ten days of storage but anyway
like the things that you're really choosing when you're looking at it as
are really between the brands like how many bays how many bodies what sort of
gigabit connection it has on the back exactly the activity which includes the
ethernet and also USB he sat up all that jazz of credibility and also it is a
computer right so it has a processor and it has RAM in this case it uses an Intel
j-class CPU it's a seller on I believe 34:55
which is also the same one that was in the 918 so the very
standard cheap low-power model so quad-core 1.5 gigahertz up to 2.3 and
this one has eight gigs of ram to dim models that you cannot upgrade and
that's and also the interface right because you're also choosing between
listings it's really important for me totally important because a lot of not
only the front end that you use like you know this analogy has like a very very
popular very diaz names DSM software it's so the web browser you type in your
bookmark opens up a OS style graphic used to look graphic user interface in
your web browser that's really easy to navigate and for me that's super
important because I don't want to spend time connecting to some sort of
command-line interface this thing takes all of the trouble away and just makes
it super simple toy it's like drag-and-drop you can do file access
there it can do Bay management there and I can also do backups and their packages
they have so many the whole library of their suite of third-party first party
and third party applications that then let you do things like run your own
cloud it makes it feel like it's using a regular PC but really it gives you the
functionality of a server so you could host your own website if you wanted run
backups on all of your different drives and drives that you're connected to
backups to the cloud if you're using a service like glacier with Amazon or what
do you use why I use Beckley's and you can also use this and pump up to a third
party storage it's just we're done didn't see it was is kind of important
when I found interesting because in my previous news boxes I would build them
up and I would put them in my like server closet right where my my router
was where I have a big switch and that's where kind of live I never really touch
it or or you actively engage with it this is a device that I found that I
have at my office yes in my in my in my big not because I'm swapping these but
because there's so much extra expandability
I'm always plugging in USB keys or plugging in you know a big USB 3 Drive
that I work drive right that would reuse my laptop I'm done with that I need to
back it up plug it in and it automatically can dump it onto this raid
what I find that's really nice thus analogies can read exfat ntfs
what's it called for max journaled they can read all the different hard drive
firm formats so if you're working across platform which we often do with
different people and you come to your home PC and it's a PC and you have a Mac
Drive you can just pop it into this it'll read it really easily and then if
you have a seeking application built in it can just sync it easily to your drive
on your main PC which is how I like to work and that's actually how we use our
big 8 base Knology here at the office to write we have its full 8 bays are full
and and it's all redundant but really our archives are on big to tear by 4
terabyte 60 of our hard drives that that are marked and then when we need to
access those files we can just plug into a hot shoe and then pull from that yeah
that's a base the phonology itself isn't big enough to host all of our files it's
just an intermediary to hold all of the assets that we use on a regular basis
important documents and then any files that we foresee we're gonna need to use
within like the next couple months right and then once we get to a point where
we're done with that project it's been published everything's on the Internet
we go to the Synology plugin a G Drive most of the time archive everything
really nicely and then put it away and stuff like like this even though you
know this 10:19 is designed for a small office in a home use it's probably more
powerful than a single person would need yeah if you're a power user
quote-unquote someone who's taking a ton of photos if you're a photographer
videographer or maybe even a small business then I think it's right for you
but most of the time for your average user unless you'd love to watch like 4k
HDR films and have a ton hidden somewhere in a random folder on your
computer this might be a good choice for you because you use yours for a flexible
yeah yeah so I mean I'm not making use of you know 25 percent of the
capabilities you go through that package let's say I'm not running my own mail
server I'm not running on own version of
Dropbox but I am using it for a couple discreet use cases like you say I
absolutely use it as a plex server and for that the seller on ship in here does
do Hardware transcoding so transcode even in the software
transcript just because it goes up to 2.3 gigahertz it can transcode multiple
streams like two to four streams at the same time
h.264 h.265 even if you have 4k it can do that now if you pay for something
like plex pass that's the premium version of Plex you get Hardware
transcoding and that gives you much more power in terms of how many streams you
can transcode at the same time and a lot of you have time of you thinking why
would you ever need to transcode more than one video stream streaming to one
TV well I have housemates and also of other people with my login like Netflix
password exactly right and and you know now that with Sonic Gigabit Ethernet and
our internet at home I have a will get access to my plex and I don't to worry
that he's gonna be decoding a 4k file and watching at home that I can also
watch it and then also have someone another room a house watch it and it can
do if you do hardware if you do like you know almost like almost 10 streams Wow
at once at 1080p which is it's kind of kind of overboard with just the power of
Celoron on here it's not it's it's like not the newest chip but it's it's plenty
good enough there's also a little bit of an ability I haven't really used this
yet but this also if you're using like this for databases really big files you
can also upgrade with some solid state cache and VM e so I'm done two drives on
the bottom and that's something that you can upgrade the future but you know of
course have to buy those drives right as well that upgrade ability is nice I
mostly use mine which is an older model for syncing drives across my computer
and the Synology so I have a work drive setup on my main PC and then there's a
drive function on the Synology mostly like Google Drive or a Google Drive or
Dropbox it sees whatever I drop onto that and automatically start syncing it
to this as well as a backup drive that I have on the other side of my workstation
yeah takes away the headache and you can use it just like Google Drive or Dropbox
you can send a link to someone and they can pick up those files if you want to
so meteor server works great for that great for backups and automating a lot
of those backup and file management processes and the one last thing I want
use this with is whether it work as an active drive working drive or for photos
and so I move all of my photos might I have like three terabytes of photos I
dumped on here and started using this via Lightroom and you know what it
worked just as well as having USB three drives plugged in I do the same thing
right it works great and I don't the work is automatically backup those and
you in they have a hybrid raid that they just automatically manage all these if I
want to put in another drive in the future of any size oops not waste that
space unfortunately with the gigabit connection even if you're there too bit
ports here and if your router supports that you can do link aggregation which
means you a to get give it connection that's still not fast enough for video
editing off of here yeah you're gonna need a 10 Gigabit Ethernet connection
which they sell expansion slots for some of their models with it might come
standard for a couple but I'll be waiting for that to come standard before
I make my next yes and that feels it's a premium feature right now it's on the
higher end models I wish that was something I was more standardized across
all the lines but as a media server as a photo editing station and as backup I'm
really happy with the 10 19 plus you're happy with yours really happy with it
just remember that the golden rule is to have backups in three locations and even
though this bans your backups technically across multiple drives you
should always have another backup and then another backup it's always worth
paying for you know if you get a for cloud store and absolutely pay for that
as well and all those systems now work in place because you never want to have
a drive failure in the future worse feeling we'd love to know what you do
for your file management if you use an S if you build your own nests or if you
have had experiences with Synology nest boxes or other companies but as bosses
please post in the comments below or if have questions about our production
workflows will be try to share more of that in the future but thanks Gunther
thanks you