🔴Affordable yet Powerful NAS from Synology - So EASY to use and way more than expected.

0:00 hey guys this is Peter and today I have something pretty cool for you it is a well affordable network attached storage solution this one's from sonology there there are leaders in network attached storage devices take a look at the disc station that's right here on top right so you see multiple discs that looks like 10 discs there's processors involved it has a ryzen processor it has memory it's running programs it'll also run you well in this case $6,000 this is on the other end of the spectrum look at this 219 4 tabt this was designed to be well an easy to use look first line says scan a QR code to begin no storage or networking expertise is required and this is just a fun unit to use so think of it as a cloud storage device but it's on premise it's at your

0:47 house you know a lot of us use the cloud to back up pictures whether it's from our phones and well we've been filling them up over the years and guess what they were really nice to give us five gigs at the beginning uh some companies are now giving you 12 like Google but that fills up rapidly and then while I'm paying Dropbox uh paying $100 to Microsoft although they give me a terabyte worth of space and Office 365 and I'm also paying Google because I ran out of space this allows you to take control of your data again you can download all the data you have at all of those instances and get back some of your freedoms again so you're not going to be beholden to one company the other because you happen to have cloud data

1:32 there uh maybe you have three iPhones in a row and you'd rather switch over to an Android regardless of which Cloud you use regardless of whether you have PCS or Macs let me just show you this thing here it's on my PC and I just went to this site portable bsy.tv you may not have the codec that's the coder decoder to open up some of these files like a Word document boom but this will do it for you watch a movie I sent this out to some friends boom you can watch this too this is this one's free on the

2:18 web it's the Tony Alva story it's fantastic take a look for that um let's see cloud services I backed up my one drive I was paying $100 uh a year here just to have this one drive thing granted I got Office 365 but there's other ways around it I can back up all sorts of clouds I can back up my Dropbox good my Google Drive good uh Microsoft oh and it'll do um where I have a page on how to do your iCloud iCloud photos it's just a little bit different here go to the app tell it to back up your photos not only will it back up all of your past photos but all of your future ones as well it's a better way to use the cloud you can offload from the cloud

3:03 but I know what you're thinking wait but the cloud was my backup cloud is a terrible backup look at your terms and conditions it's called Cold Storage it's really inexpensive storage and they are not backing it up from Microsoft to Apple to Dropbox they're saying your data is put up there and we are not responsible for it it's up to you to back it up this enables you to back it up but if I'm telling you to offload how do you back up this well there's two ways to do that either you can plug a a USB port into the back and back up this drive or the best deal that I've seen on the web if you wanted 4 terabytes to back up your 4 terab disc let's see Microsoft only goes up to a terabyte Google goes up to 2 terabytes for 100

3:50 bucks and apple you can go all the way up to 12 terabytes but 6 terabytes would do it $359 a year you can do the same thing with sonology using their backup $59.99 it backs up your 4 tbte disc and yeah it's going to be 59 bucks a year that is by far the best deal going uh you don't actually need it though uh you can actually back it up with a drive it yourself I just like having access to this stuff you know when it's in the cloud it's always available and I can share it with my friends and family well I can do exactly that now here's the the files right so if I wanted to share this with somebody all I need to do is click on it and I can get a sharing link boom

4:35 that's all it's going to take to to share it let's see to I think I have a sharing link all right already I'm going to edit my sharing link I can choose the link protection I can require a password I can give it an expiration date some really great features here um I'm going to show you some other ones that are you're going to like let's see when you go to another view called photos it looks like this I can organize my photos I can organize them by trips so this is a trip to Joshua Tree uh I can choose to share this whole trip and it comes out with a link there's even a better one I really like this one if I went on a trip with people I can create a photo request link which means I'm going to share my

5:20 photos with everyone but I'm also allowing them to upload their photos so we can kind of collab and this is kind of a collab space that is pretty darn cool cool really some great features for a drive that is 219 I've been really shocked by this thing it is pretty cool it's going to pay for itself it's going to liberate you it's going to allow you to uh conglomerate all of your different clouds I have dropboxes and I don't even know why I have uh Google storage I have a lot of storage up there I do have some stuff my father recently passed away his stuff's on an Apple Drive I going to go and log into that and yank the stuff down down so we can close it down because obviously he doesn't use it anymore uh let me show you how this works on my phone here's my phone let me

6:08 open it up and all right this is my Android phone but uh you can see I have a bunch of apps on here here we go here's the two B photos and b files if I click on B photos this is my phone again look I can review things by the Year by the month even by the day uh it would is set up to back up all my phone photos uh as soon as I plug in and I'm on Wi-Fi no matter where I am it says hey it's all free now and it's not going to use any battery power let's go for it I can also see all my albums there they are I can even choose to collaborate from here some really great stuff this is one neat little Drive what a neat way to do it it's basically Cloud

6:54 space that you're able to share with multiple people collaborate with and well it's at your home and it's 219 that's just that's a really cool part there's some more pieces here oh let me show you that all right I know how to do it on this one so I'm going to go here b files and if I go over here look I can look at it as icons or I can look at them as uh other things oh let me show you some music real quick here's a PC that I'm backing up and yeah I have some music on here and what I like about this is It's flak files what's a flak file it's it's a lossless thing and if you don't have the codec you can't play it but this drive has all the codecs so that you can look at PDFs you can look at Word documents Excel files all of the

7:42 standard stuff Flack if all of them gifts it's ready to do all of that for you and if you are a Apple user they do have different uh ones here that is right here they talk about Google photos Google cloud and if you're bigger than 15 gigs here they get ask you to download these extensions for the Apple stuff but it makes it so it's not just a copy it's not just a backup it's a usable backup it's a referenceable backup and you can do it from your phone so that is pretty darn cool all this stuff is at your fingertips and it's not just this PC that's what I was going to show you let's go to system settings all right so here I can see the health of my drive how much space I have what's out

8:28 there I can also click on users and I can invite up to eight people I've sent out an invitation to my wife she's yet to accept it but I'm hope that she's going to get it so that when she comes home and her phone is on Wi-Fi it will download everything you can also say free up space and there's a nice little button there where it says hey these photos are backed up let's pull them off the phone and give you more space this makes your phone Choice more usable phones used to come with 64 gigs worth of memory and I think there was 32 actually now 64 you can't even get anymore do you want 128 or 256 or even 512 well you might be thinking well I do take a lot of pictures you don't need it CU you can empty them every time you come home and you can empty it you can

9:14 do this for your wife and for your kids and it would all be on the same drive because you can support up to eight people you'll all have your own space even if I come home and I plug in a USB flash drive it'll back up the USB flash drive external drives this is what you'd use to plug in a hard drive and back up this instance of it this is pretty cool I going to take them up on they have an offer that's out there where they'll back up everything for three months for free and you can get to get a feel for it otherwise it's $60 a year for 4 terabytes that's insane I think that's a really good deal too anyway guys take a look for this I'll put a link down below 219 hey at the end of this week on Friday what is it Friday the 21st is

10:01 National backup day so it's not only a day you should be thinking about backing up it's hard to think about it every day but guess what with something like this on your phone you're just going to plug it into charge which you normally do and you're not even going to know it but it's going to back up all of your photos this is a lot of fun to use um I think you're going to like it here let me just show you this I put this video up and all I have to do to share it is get a sharing link boom if I wanted to edit the way that it was shared before I could have added passwords and expiration dates and all of that but I simply mail a link to my friends and they can watch it here watch how difficult this is get a sharing link it's there here I going to go to an incognito window paste in that link and you're going to see it looks like this

10:48 they're connecting to my drive to my little server and they're going to be able to watch it I sent this out to a couple buddies and they were able to watch it no problem so that's fantastic I didn't think that was possible on a unit if you said is that possible I have a a budget of $300 or worse a budget of $250 how can I do this I'd say you'd have to have a PC on all the time but you don't this little b station's going to do the trick I really like this thing and I think of a number of people that I need to get uh one for in my life cuz like my mom is always running out of space she wants to know what she can do back the thing up your PCS back them up I think the document folder on every PC needs to be backed up that's where you

11:34 should be putting your taxes and all the documents you create and that's the folder you really need to get back do your photos too some people even do their music there you go anyway guys this is one fun uh unit to use I love the price point and especially like this that real no real storage or networking experience is required this thing just works it's kind of fun see you in the next one guys talk to you soon