**Setting Up a Home NAS Server**

The process of setting up a home NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server is a relatively straightforward one, thanks to the ease of use and extensive documentation provided by manufacturers such as Synology. In this guide, we'll walk through the steps involved in setting up a NAS server using the Synology DiskStation series.

**Encryption**

Before we begin, it's essential to understand that security is a top priority when it comes to data storage. Encryption plays a crucial role in protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access. The good news is that Synology's NAS servers come equipped with robust encryption options, including AES-256 encryption. This ensures that your data is protected even if the server itself falls into the wrong hands.

To get started, we'll click on "Edit" and then "Shared Folder". Here, we can restrict access to our shared folder, deciding who has read-only or read-write access. For example, if you want to upload photos from your children's devices, you can set up a custom permission level that allows them to share their files with the rest of the family.

**Sharing Files**

One of the primary reasons to invest in a NAS server is to create a centralized storage solution for all your digital files. With our Synology DiskStation series, we can easily share folders and access them from any device connected to the network. In this example, we've created a shared "My Media" folder that anyone can access from their PC or Mac.

To test this setup, we'll connect to the server using another device on the network. Opening File Station, we can see our shared folder listed, allowing us to browse and access its contents. This feature is perfect for sharing files with family members or collaborating with colleagues on large projects.

**Backup and Syncing**

Another key benefit of a NAS server is its ability to automatically backup and sync data across multiple devices. For this example, we've set up our server to back up each of our libraries in Final Cut Pro as soon as they're created. This ensures that our files are always up-to-date and protected against data loss.

To test this feature, we'll connect to the server using another device on the network. Opening Network, we can see our shared folder listed, allowing us to browse its contents and access our backed-up files.

**Using the Package Center**

The Package Center is a treasure trove of applications that can enhance our NAS experience. From antivirus software to media streaming services like Plex, there's something for everyone. One of my favorite features is the ability to run virtual machines directly from the server, allowing us to test and learn about different operating systems without affecting our main device.

To access the Package Center, we'll navigate to the "Package Center" section within our NAS server. From here, we can browse through a vast library of applications, selecting ones that interest us and downloading them for easy installation.

**Virtualization**

With our Synology DiskStation series, we're also able to run virtual machines directly from the server using the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). This feature allows us to create and manage virtual environments with ease, perfect for testing new operating systems or running multiple devices simultaneously.

To get started with virtualization on our NAS server, we'll navigate to the "Virtual Machines" section within the VMM. Here, we can browse through a list of available machines, selecting ones that interest us and launching them for use.

**Conclusion**

In this guide, we've walked through the process of setting up a home NAS server using the Synology DiskStation series. From encryption to virtualization, we've explored some of the key features that make these devices so powerful and flexible. Whether you're looking to create a centralized storage solution or simply want to try out virtualization, our NAS servers have something for everyone.

**Additional Resources**

For more information on setting up your own home NAS server using Synology's DiskStation series, be sure to check out the manufacturer's official documentation and tutorials. Additionally, the community-driven website sign ology offers a wealth of resources and guides to help you get the most out of your NAS experience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys the CTA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all-new sine Allah GDS one zero one nine plus this is a network attached storage device otherwise known as an ass now I've been wanting to get one of these into my possession for a long time there's a lot of stuff that we can do with this but in this video we're gonna do a quick unboxing I'm going to give you an overview of the hardware specs then we're gonna do a quick and simple setup on the NASS itself I do have more videos planned coming up in the near future like setting this up as a Plex server we can even use this to serve our roms to different platforms like the Raspberry Pi or our PC and then there's the whole case for virtualization on this so I do have more videos coming if you're interested in seeing any of that definitely keep an eye on the channel so here it is the disc station ds1 zero one nine plus from Synology this is a five Bay Nass has a quad-core CPU eight gigabytes of RAM it does 4k h.264 and 265 transcoding so you can use this as a video or a media server and like I mentioned it's also easy to set up virtualization on something like this if you're interested in picking up an ass for your home or the office sigh Knology has an awesome selection system over on their website I'll leave a link in the description just estimate the storage and what your going to be using one of these for and they will recommend one of their units for you with an ass like this you will have to provide your own drives now for this video here I only have three six tear by Aaron wolf Seagate drives and that's what I'm gonna be using I do have a few more on order so I can fully stack this thing out but in this video we're just gonna be dealing with three six terabyte drives it does support 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch hard drives this model also offers two M two slots on the bottom for storage cache now this is gonna allow you to access the files that you normally use most a lot faster running them from an MDOT two so in the box you're gonna get two shorter ethernet cables I do recommend getting something longer depending on where you're gonna place this we also have our hundred and twenty watt power supply some extra screws for the 2.5 inch hard drives if you opt to use them and our hard drive Bay keys moving on to the specs our CPUs the Intel Celeron J 34 55 this is a quad-core CPU at 1.5 gigahertz but it will burst up to 2.3 for short periods of time as for the built-in hardware transcoding engine h.264 hvc h.265 HEV c mpeg-2 and vc one for unsupported formats you can always download a third-party application from their package center and I'm going to show you how that works by the end this model came with 8 gigabytes of ddr3 pre-installed there are 2 4 gigabyte sticks this is so dim Ram and you could upgrade it to 16 gigabytes down the road if you really wanted to 5 Drive base like I mentioned 3.5 or 2.5 will fit for a total of 70 terabytes with the 5 drives that's 5 14 terabyte drives actual usable space will vary depending on how you have everything formatted and set up to m dot 2 slots on the bottom for storage cache this will make accessing files that you normally access the most much faster to rj45 gigabyte Ethernet ports on the back 2 USB 3.0 ports and 1 eSATA sine ology has made hardware and software set up on this unit very user-friendly we're going to go over installing a couple drives right now and then we'll dive right into setting this up on our network the hard drives I chose are CJ iron wolf six terabyte drives I'm gonna install three of them now I'm actually waiting on two more to come in the mail but as of right now when I get this set up I'm only gonna have around 10 to 12 terabytes of storage the other six terabyte drive is going to be used as backup installing drives is very easy just use the provided key to unlock the bay we're gonna pull the bay out so we don't need any screws now you could use screws if you really wanted to they do provide extras for you but all you really need to do is Mount the hard drive in the rack make sure it's flush and then we're going to snap the locks back into place you once everything's set up we're just going to slide it back into the server lock it down now you can use the key to relock it if you want to now they won't come out unless they're unlocked I'm going to pull these out so we can get a look inside of here real quick basically it's just a custom i/o board in here with SATA and power so your drive will connect right into those slots I'm going to go ahead and install my other two drives and we're almost ready to power this thing up so I have my drives installed properly all we need to do now is plug it into an Ethernet source this is coming from my router and we'll also have to plug in the power we're gonna turn the unit around and press the power button so this could take a little while to boot up the first time we do need to do some setup I'm gonna move over to one of my PC's that's on the same network we're going to connect to this we do have some setting up to do and I'm gonna walk you through it now all right so now that we have the hardware set up everything's plugged in and powered on we're going to head over to a PC on our home network and we need to do a little bit of software setup I'm just going to open up Chrome and I'm going to type in HTTP find sign ology calm it's gonna search the network and find the NASS as you can see we just click connect we're gonna have to agree to the terms here you can go ahead and read through this if you want I agree okay since I installed my own drives I'm gonna have to install the dist asian manager DSM I'm just gonna install now I understand this could take a little while depending on your internet connection I mean it shouldn't be too bad just let this finish up it's going to format the system it's going to install this proprietary operating system they have to the NASS and then we can finish with the initial setup when DSM is fully installed the unit will reboot you'll be brought to a screen that looks like this we need to create an admin account you're going to create your server name username password and you're also going to confirm the password I'm going to go ahead and do this dsm update and maintenance install the latest dsm version automatically that's what i want you can choose something else if you like to so i leave both of these check run smart tests to check the health of the hard drives periodically and enable bad sector warning for drives i just leave it at 50 click Next I do recommend creating a sign ology account you can skip it if you want to but I do recommend doing it I've already got an account but I'm gonna skip this for this setup video we're all set and I usually leave this unchecked click go and here it is on the initial setup you'll get some tips that pop up I do recommend reading through them there's a get started with TSM DSM and packages read through everything you can if you've never messed with one of these before everything you see running on screen is being pulled from the server it's running in a browser I'm just gonna press f11 to full screen I think it looks a little better like this now it's time to set up our storage we don't have any volumes available even though we have three six terabyte drives in this unit we need to set them up so we're going to head over to the top left hand corner main menu storage manager from the overview menu we have three discs available there are two slots that are free so we can add two more disks later on down the road we want to go to volume there's no volume in your system we need to create one so we're gonna click create there's two ways we can go about this you can go custom you can go all out with this setup or you could go quick this is gonna be super simple for anyone who's just starting out with this and it's gonna work fine for 99% of the people out there that just want one of these in their home to back up movies home videos photos even security cameras or work on something like this so I'm gonna go with quick this is gonna use sine ologies hybrid raid SHR so I'm gonna click Next from here I'm gonna stick with SHR now you can go with SHR too but the problem is you need four drives I only have three in this system so I'm gonna go with SHR next as you can see all of my hard drives are selected what this is going to do is create a twelve terabyte storage solution for me and I'm gonna have six terabytes of backup protection so I'm gonna click Next all data on the newly added hard disk will be erased are you sure you want to continue now this isn't going to erase the DSM that we installed this is just gonna partition and erase our hard drive so we can use them as storage I'm gonna click okay we have two formats that we can choose from btrfs or ext4 I recommend btrfs so to sign ology so that's what I'm gonna choose you can go with ext4 if you want but some of the advanced features will not be available so I'm going to click Next we're gonna take a look at how we have this set up before we click apply and it looks good to me I'm gonna have about 11 terabytes of storage with that extra 6 terabytes as backup click apply if I had one extra 6 terabyte drive I could do 12 terabytes of storage and 12 terabytes of backup but I only have three drives right now so we're gonna be doing it this way we now have the array set up but we need to create a shared folder I'm gonna go ahead and close this down and head over to control panel from here shared folder make sure shared folder is highlighted and we want to create now you can name this anything you want I'm just going to go with my media description location we only have one s HR available so we're gonna go with that ten terabytes hide this shared folder in my network places hide subfolders and files from users without permission enable recycling bin restrict access to administrator only in my house I'm the only one who's gonna be accessing this and I'm the administrator so I'm just gonna go ahead and click Next if you'd like to set up encryption you can check this set up an encryption key and confirm the key I'm gonna leave this off for now and click Next enable data checksum for advanced data integrity this is part of SHR and I want to leave this enabled I'm not a big fan of file compression over network so I'm gonna leave this unchecked you can even enable a shared folder quota I'm gonna leave this unchecked also now remember this is just a quick look and setup video if you want to go all out with encryption that's totally up to you there are tons of tutorials online but I wanted to get this out of the way to get you up and running as fast as possible click apply edit shared folder we can restrict access to this folder here I don't mind if my guests get on here I'm really not gonna have anybody on this server anyway but you can always no access I can have no access for myself I can read and write from the admin I'm just gonna leave these all unchecked it's really up to you and if you create another user on this account it'll be listed here so if you have kids and you want them to upload their photos here you can set it as custom you can give them no access at all read and write or read-only and there it is we now have a shared my media folder if I go to file station we'll see it right here so we now have a shared folder set up this is my media I can access this from any PC in the house I can drag and drop photos videos or whatever I want in here and access them on every single computer that connects to this Nass one of the biggest reasons I wanted to get one of these in the house was to backup all of my videos I do all of my work in Final Cut Pro on a Mac and I'm gonna be able to automatically backup each one of my libraries as soon as it's created but for now I just want to show you that we do have access to that server on this other PC or this Mac we're going to go to network it's listed right here we can connect as I'm just gonna put in my username and password and here it is that's the shared folder we just created I'm just gonna go ahead and drop a couple thumbnails in here and that's it now these are backed up on my home server I'm gonna move back over to the other PC we're just using and we'll be able to see each one of these thumbnails on the server as you can see all three of those test thumbnails are on the server I can browse them from any PC in my house as long as it's connected to this server so everything that I just showed you was a super simple setup there are countless things that we can do with this Nass and one of my favorite parts is the package Center from sign ology from the package Center we can download easy to use applications so here's active backup for business there's antivirus I would never use McAfee but it's there if you want to calendar audio station Plex Media Server so we can set this up as an in-home plex media server and it works really well I do have a video on that coming up very shortly so keep an eye on the channel one of my favorite things to do with this is actually virtualization now this does have 8 gigabytes of ddr3 built in it's not the fastest processor in the world but if you want to mess around with a different operating system and you don't want to set it up in VM on your PC you can run it directly off of this Nass inside of a browser for instance the virtual machine manager I'm just going to go ahead and install it when it's finished installing we can open it from here or from our little app section and this makes it super easy to run a virtual machine on the server so we'll click Next I'm going to use this volume it's not gonna use the whole volume but when we set up our virtual machine we can choose how much space we want to allocate for it open V switch ARP ignore I'm just gonna click Next and yes Microsoft Windows Linux or SCI knology virtual DSM I'll be messing around with some Linux stuff in the future so keep an eye on the channel one of the things I've really been thinking about doing was setting up Linux and then installing retropie on it and running it from an ass so if you're interested in seeing that let me know in the comments below I think it'll run pretty good and you could actually access this from a cell phone so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching like I mentioned in the beginning sign ology has a full nasa lection service over on their website so you can go through and just find out what Nass is good for you they pretty much have everything you're ever gonna need from a single drive Nass just for photos in the house all the way up to a giant corporation size server if you guys are interested in seeing anything running on this unit like in virtualization or anything else just let me know in the comments below I will be doing a full Plex tutorial coming up very shortly and like I said I think I'm gonna try running retropie on here links for everything mentioned in this video are in the description and like always thanks for watching youwhat's going on guys the CTA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all-new sine Allah GDS one zero one nine plus this is a network attached storage device otherwise known as an ass now I've been wanting to get one of these into my possession for a long time there's a lot of stuff that we can do with this but in this video we're gonna do a quick unboxing I'm going to give you an overview of the hardware specs then we're gonna do a quick and simple setup on the NASS itself I do have more videos planned coming up in the near future like setting this up as a Plex server we can even use this to serve our roms to different platforms like the Raspberry Pi or our PC and then there's the whole case for virtualization on this so I do have more videos coming if you're interested in seeing any of that definitely keep an eye on the channel so here it is the disc station ds1 zero one nine plus from Synology this is a five Bay Nass has a quad-core CPU eight gigabytes of RAM it does 4k h.264 and 265 transcoding so you can use this as a video or a media server and like I mentioned it's also easy to set up virtualization on something like this if you're interested in picking up an ass for your home or the office sigh Knology has an awesome selection system over on their website I'll leave a link in the description just estimate the storage and what your going to be using one of these for and they will recommend one of their units for you with an ass like this you will have to provide your own drives now for this video here I only have three six tear by Aaron wolf Seagate drives and that's what I'm gonna be using I do have a few more on order so I can fully stack this thing out but in this video we're just gonna be dealing with three six terabyte drives it does support 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch hard drives this model also offers two M two slots on the bottom for storage cache now this is gonna allow you to access the files that you normally use most a lot faster running them from an MDOT two so in the box you're gonna get two shorter ethernet cables I do recommend getting something longer depending on where you're gonna place this we also have our hundred and twenty watt power supply some extra screws for the 2.5 inch hard drives if you opt to use them and our hard drive Bay keys moving on to the specs our CPUs the Intel Celeron J 34 55 this is a quad-core CPU at 1.5 gigahertz but it will burst up to 2.3 for short periods of time as for the built-in hardware transcoding engine h.264 hvc h.265 HEV c mpeg-2 and vc one for unsupported formats you can always download a third-party application from their package center and I'm going to show you how that works by the end this model came with 8 gigabytes of ddr3 pre-installed there are 2 4 gigabyte sticks this is so dim Ram and you could upgrade it to 16 gigabytes down the road if you really wanted to 5 Drive base like I mentioned 3.5 or 2.5 will fit for a total of 70 terabytes with the 5 drives that's 5 14 terabyte drives actual usable space will vary depending on how you have everything formatted and set up to m dot 2 slots on the bottom for storage cache this will make accessing files that you normally access the most much faster to rj45 gigabyte Ethernet ports on the back 2 USB 3.0 ports and 1 eSATA sine ology has made hardware and software set up on this unit very user-friendly we're going to go over installing a couple drives right now and then we'll dive right into setting this up on our network the hard drives I chose are CJ iron wolf six terabyte drives I'm gonna install three of them now I'm actually waiting on two more to come in the mail but as of right now when I get this set up I'm only gonna have around 10 to 12 terabytes of storage the other six terabyte drive is going to be used as backup installing drives is very easy just use the provided key to unlock the bay we're gonna pull the bay out so we don't need any screws now you could use screws if you really wanted to they do provide extras for you but all you really need to do is Mount the hard drive in the rack make sure it's flush and then we're going to snap the locks back into place you once everything's set up we're just going to slide it back into the server lock it down now you can use the key to relock it if you want to now they won't come out unless they're unlocked I'm going to pull these out so we can get a look inside of here real quick basically it's just a custom i/o board in here with SATA and power so your drive will connect right into those slots I'm going to go ahead and install my other two drives and we're almost ready to power this thing up so I have my drives installed properly all we need to do now is plug it into an Ethernet source this is coming from my router and we'll also have to plug in the power we're gonna turn the unit around and press the power button so this could take a little while to boot up the first time we do need to do some setup I'm gonna move over to one of my PC's that's on the same network we're going to connect to this we do have some setting up to do and I'm gonna walk you through it now all right so now that we have the hardware set up everything's plugged in and powered on we're going to head over to a PC on our home network and we need to do a little bit of software setup I'm just going to open up Chrome and I'm going to type in HTTP find sign ology calm it's gonna search the network and find the NASS as you can see we just click connect we're gonna have to agree to the terms here you can go ahead and read through this if you want I agree okay since I installed my own drives I'm gonna have to install the dist asian manager DSM I'm just gonna install now I understand this could take a little while depending on your internet connection I mean it shouldn't be too bad just let this finish up it's going to format the system it's going to install this proprietary operating system they have to the NASS and then we can finish with the initial setup when DSM is fully installed the unit will reboot you'll be brought to a screen that looks like this we need to create an admin account you're going to create your server name username password and you're also going to confirm the password I'm going to go ahead and do this dsm update and maintenance install the latest dsm version automatically that's what i want you can choose something else if you like to so i leave both of these check run smart tests to check the health of the hard drives periodically and enable bad sector warning for drives i just leave it at 50 click Next I do recommend creating a sign ology account you can skip it if you want to but I do recommend doing it I've already got an account but I'm gonna skip this for this setup video we're all set and I usually leave this unchecked click go and here it is on the initial setup you'll get some tips that pop up I do recommend reading through them there's a get started with TSM DSM and packages read through everything you can if you've never messed with one of these before everything you see running on screen is being pulled from the server it's running in a browser I'm just gonna press f11 to full screen I think it looks a little better like this now it's time to set up our storage we don't have any volumes available even though we have three six terabyte drives in this unit we need to set them up so we're going to head over to the top left hand corner main menu storage manager from the overview menu we have three discs available there are two slots that are free so we can add two more disks later on down the road we want to go to volume there's no volume in your system we need to create one so we're gonna click create there's two ways we can go about this you can go custom you can go all out with this setup or you could go quick this is gonna be super simple for anyone who's just starting out with this and it's gonna work fine for 99% of the people out there that just want one of these in their home to back up movies home videos photos even security cameras or work on something like this so I'm gonna go with quick this is gonna use sine ologies hybrid raid SHR so I'm gonna click Next from here I'm gonna stick with SHR now you can go with SHR too but the problem is you need four drives I only have three in this system so I'm gonna go with SHR next as you can see all of my hard drives are selected what this is going to do is create a twelve terabyte storage solution for me and I'm gonna have six terabytes of backup protection so I'm gonna click Next all data on the newly added hard disk will be erased are you sure you want to continue now this isn't going to erase the DSM that we installed this is just gonna partition and erase our hard drive so we can use them as storage I'm gonna click okay we have two formats that we can choose from btrfs or ext4 I recommend btrfs so to sign ology so that's what I'm gonna choose you can go with ext4 if you want but some of the advanced features will not be available so I'm going to click Next we're gonna take a look at how we have this set up before we click apply and it looks good to me I'm gonna have about 11 terabytes of storage with that extra 6 terabytes as backup click apply if I had one extra 6 terabyte drive I could do 12 terabytes of storage and 12 terabytes of backup but I only have three drives right now so we're gonna be doing it this way we now have the array set up but we need to create a shared folder I'm gonna go ahead and close this down and head over to control panel from here shared folder make sure shared folder is highlighted and we want to create now you can name this anything you want I'm just going to go with my media description location we only have one s HR available so we're gonna go with that ten terabytes hide this shared folder in my network places hide subfolders and files from users without permission enable recycling bin restrict access to administrator only in my house I'm the only one who's gonna be accessing this and I'm the administrator so I'm just gonna go ahead and click Next if you'd like to set up encryption you can check this set up an encryption key and confirm the key I'm gonna leave this off for now and click Next enable data checksum for advanced data integrity this is part of SHR and I want to leave this enabled I'm not a big fan of file compression over network so I'm gonna leave this unchecked you can even enable a shared folder quota I'm gonna leave this unchecked also now remember this is just a quick look and setup video if you want to go all out with encryption that's totally up to you there are tons of tutorials online but I wanted to get this out of the way to get you up and running as fast as possible click apply edit shared folder we can restrict access to this folder here I don't mind if my guests get on here I'm really not gonna have anybody on this server anyway but you can always no access I can have no access for myself I can read and write from the admin I'm just gonna leave these all unchecked it's really up to you and if you create another user on this account it'll be listed here so if you have kids and you want them to upload their photos here you can set it as custom you can give them no access at all read and write or read-only and there it is we now have a shared my media folder if I go to file station we'll see it right here so we now have a shared folder set up this is my media I can access this from any PC in the house I can drag and drop photos videos or whatever I want in here and access them on every single computer that connects to this Nass one of the biggest reasons I wanted to get one of these in the house was to backup all of my videos I do all of my work in Final Cut Pro on a Mac and I'm gonna be able to automatically backup each one of my libraries as soon as it's created but for now I just want to show you that we do have access to that server on this other PC or this Mac we're going to go to network it's listed right here we can connect as I'm just gonna put in my username and password and here it is that's the shared folder we just created I'm just gonna go ahead and drop a couple thumbnails in here and that's it now these are backed up on my home server I'm gonna move back over to the other PC we're just using and we'll be able to see each one of these thumbnails on the server as you can see all three of those test thumbnails are on the server I can browse them from any PC in my house as long as it's connected to this server so everything that I just showed you was a super simple setup there are countless things that we can do with this Nass and one of my favorite parts is the package Center from sign ology from the package Center we can download easy to use applications so here's active backup for business there's antivirus I would never use McAfee but it's there if you want to calendar audio station Plex Media Server so we can set this up as an in-home plex media server and it works really well I do have a video on that coming up very shortly so keep an eye on the channel one of my favorite things to do with this is actually virtualization now this does have 8 gigabytes of ddr3 built in it's not the fastest processor in the world but if you want to mess around with a different operating system and you don't want to set it up in VM on your PC you can run it directly off of this Nass inside of a browser for instance the virtual machine manager I'm just going to go ahead and install it when it's finished installing we can open it from here or from our little app section and this makes it super easy to run a virtual machine on the server so we'll click Next I'm going to use this volume it's not gonna use the whole volume but when we set up our virtual machine we can choose how much space we want to allocate for it open V switch ARP ignore I'm just gonna click Next and yes Microsoft Windows Linux or SCI knology virtual DSM I'll be messing around with some Linux stuff in the future so keep an eye on the channel one of the things I've really been thinking about doing was setting up Linux and then installing retropie on it and running it from an ass so if you're interested in seeing that let me know in the comments below I think it'll run pretty good and you could actually access this from a cell phone so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching like I mentioned in the beginning sign ology has a full nasa lection service over on their website so you can go through and just find out what Nass is good for you they pretty much have everything you're ever gonna need from a single drive Nass just for photos in the house all the way up to a giant corporation size server if you guys are interested in seeing anything running on this unit like in virtualization or anything else just let me know in the comments below I will be doing a full Plex tutorial coming up very shortly and like I said I think I'm gonna try running retropie on here links for everything mentioned in this video are in the description and like always thanks for watching you\n"