STOP using Cloud Storage! Do this instead:

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• "what if your house burns down or NAS is stolen" – Most of us connect an external drive to the NAS, back up the important data to it automatically, and then put it in a Fireproof & Waterproof safe along with our passports/ wills and other important stuff. Rotate it with last month's backup drive.
  Don't have a safe? keep the external drive in your car/ parent's house.

  "Cloud providers, they don't go down" – eh… nope. Just google "google services down" and see that 3 days ago (at the time of writing this) it was down.

  "Can you backup the NAS offsite?" – 100% – you can do a NAS-to-NAS backup. So you take your nas and it gets backed up to your NAS located in your office or your parent's house. In fact, you can set up the NAS for your parents/ brothers/ sisters and you become each other's backup.

  If you want to, use CloudSyc to back up your data from your NAS to the Cloud and visa versa. So when Google goes down, or if you are locked out of your Google account, you can still access your stuff.
  You can use BackBlaze too.

  I want MY data to remain under MY control. If you don't and trust Cloud providers, by all means – you do that. Just please back up your stuff – and NOT just your documents.

  I have been in this industry for a long time and I 100% know that the same people who come up with all the excuses of why "on prem NAS is a bad idea", are the same people who will bitch and moan WHEN they lose their data and have to rebuild their entire system because they only backed up some data so they can make use of the "free storage".

  But hey, you can use whatever you want – there is no one-solution-fits-all.

• How do you have an Alabama accent and a South African accent at the same time?

• Both my backups went bye bye its very rare but drives don't spin up on 2 drives… Unlucky me

• No offense, but this is just terrible advice. You are still using one device that is prone to failure, even though you have multiple drives inside. Power surge, fire, theft etc. Not true redundancy, not a way of doing backups professionally. What if you are travelling and your internet connecting is down? and so many more ways for this to go wrong.

• THAT IS NOT YOUR OWN CLOUD/SERVER SYSTEM!!!! IT'S FUNNY THAT THEY SELL A MULTI-PORT HARD DRIVE HUB THAT PLUGS TO THE INTERNET. YOUR HARD DRIVES ARE ON THEIR SERVER AND ACTUALLY YOU ARE PAYING FOR THE CLOUD AGAIN BUT THIS TIME THE CLOUD IS WITHIN YOU AND YOU BET IT'S YOURS. THIS IS THE MOST BASIC FISH BAIT!

• Thank you so much Liron. You made my decision of creating soon a NAS easier.

• I am giving my data to synology just like microsoft with icloud or google with google drive

• Plot twist: your Synolgy Drive breaks, get lost or stolen LOL

• You need to back up your NAS to. Synology offers great options for that to.

• Instead of this, not so easy-peasy system at all, I have 4 external hard drives in two different houses.
  
  I'm not a tech kid, who is able to remove my internal hard drive from my device.
  
  Also, the hard drives in the devices I use (smartphone, tablet and laptop) are not removable.
  So, this is not an option and certainly not an easy option.

• Great video! As an outdoor enthusiast and RV lover, I highly recommend the Segway Portable PowerStation Cube Series for home backup power. Its massive capacity, armor design, and fast recharging make it perfect for extended trips or power outages. Plus, the waterproof technology ensures it's ready for any adventure. Check it out for reliable power on your outdoor adventures!

• The problem with NAS drives is when the company quits supporting the software it uses to let you access the drive from anywhere. Then you're forced to buy another new expensive system.

• Great video! As someone who loves outdoor camping and values quality family time, having a reliable backup power source is crucial. The Segway Portable PowerStation Cube Series seems like a fantastic option. With its massive capacity, fast recharging, and versatile sockets, it's perfect for powering all our devices during our outdoor adventures. Thanks for sharing this recommendation!

• You talk way too much.

• You're worried about hdd failure and come with a great idea using hdds going online… 😂😂

• why even bother? just delete everything, don't get too attached to zeros and ones

• Anyone know how to use an older Apple time capsule as a NAS system? Once upon a time you could back up your iPhone to the time capsule connected to your lan, but the huge downside to this was it had to be done via a Mac using iTunes. We all know iTunes sucks balls so this thing has sat in my closet for years. But fact is these old time capsules are a 2 TB hard drives with a built in router. Seems like if a person was smart enough they could make it was…I am not that person.

• Cool but whats the cost.

• 1. Synology offers cloud storage, its very affordable, make sure you backup your Synology NAS there as well, alternatively Cloudblaze/Ms Azure BLOB/AWS. 2. learn to use MFA with your NAS if you don't want someone gaining access to your NAS. 3. Learn how to protect your NAS from Ransomware attacks, SMB is very vulnerable to Ransomware attacks.

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• Hahaha! Your NAS still is a SPoF too! You need an external backup solution.

• I want to send very large video files to my clients. Is there a way that i can share these file, google drive? With this unit.

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• 100% should set this up, I've always been the one who says 'it's too expensive' well my drive recently failed and it cost me £600 for a company to retrieve the data (95% success) so in hindsight, it'd have been less expensive to setup a NAS for sure!

• You still need an offsite back up in an event that your house burns down or the NAS getting stolen etc. You also need the most important files with you on a flash storage and another one that is offsite just in case you are cut off from the internet.

• It's s less expensice to run TrueNAS in a VM or directly Proxmox with a ZFS pool than to buy a Synology.

• Many years ago I had local ndas and Amazon aws, now I put everything on my computer which copies to an external drive And Google drive.

• hmm. I read somewhere that disks are best kept parallel to the ground rather than perpendicular to the ground. Maybe this manufacturer knows better

• can i use it for my course videos to be streamed and not be downloadable on my website?

• Do you pay me for secure storage somewhere where i can store my NAS ?

• I have a laptop that is connected 50% of the tike to my asus proart monitor so struggling to cone up woth something that suits me for storage and redundancy. I was thinking of doing a NAS but soon we are glojg travelling in a van and the lack of decent internet at times and lack if space will make that NAS idea not doable. Whatever direction i twke, my personal, non work stuff is backed up on 4 extetnal drives (2x seperate 2 disc raids in mirror) so the chances of both going down at the same time is practically nil. Plus 1x set is in my parents loft, out of the way. Any ideas on a lightweight, slim storage method for either 2 drives i can raid or even better, 4 drives i can raid?

• I have an old Iomega drive that's about 20 years old. I stop using it about 10 years ago. Now I cant access anything on it because my computer wont recognize any of the files.
  All I get is a bunch of code at best.
  There should be a law against storage devices become obsolete, and company's charging you to access files just because they're old.

• dude you can literally retrieve that data from the broken drive there are companies that will do that for 200 usd or even less

• Has anyone lost or have been unable to locate VERY old files in Google drive or photos. I'm talking 2008-2013… Which is old for files. I used to email docs and videos to myself and then manually upload these onto drive when I started using it like 10 years ago or whenever it came out. But now it's like it's so hard to find anything from 2008-2013 backed up anywhere. It's almost like I barely saved anything from that timeframe. Granted, I've gotten better at actually filing stuff and creating better files names for search now, but it still sucks.

  Just invested in Google One, but what I'd been doing is just creating more Google accounts for more free storage before. That works too, but after 7 accounts, it gets hard to find stuff too.

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