An Idiots Guide to Buying Your First NAS Drive

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[Ice_]

This video pops up as I am searching for a NAS for the first time.

[nate]

"Sometimes a smaller tool is better." 8:57 😂

[jfalcon]

Really helpful! It is clear that you put a lot of effort in being informative in your video series, which is much appreciated. Thanks.

[robertmoore]

Great video very informative for someone who is new to the world of NAS.

[nassimabed]

The first five minutes of this video confirmed two things for me: One, Synology is the last thing I need. Two, it is not a NAS that I need.

[DamienRundell-byuw]

Such a helpful video, thanks so much!

[wernerkarl]

very pleased, great video - thank you man !🙏

[TopDog]

I appropriate this clear and useful overview.

[jkennan]

Thanks, this is extremely helpful and informative.

[dustindavis]

This video must have been made in part by some of my recent questions. Lol Thank you for the help and very quick response to my emails.

[marcelijzerman]

Watched so many videos and you're the first one to mention that a raid setup actually increases the speed. Probably a rookie question but no one talks about it. I was never interested because I thought speeds would always be limited to max drive speed of a sata drive.

[alexsarbu]

21:35: "that's not a switch, THIS is a switch!"

[Zaxarian]

You have the best intro “I’ve seen his face and he doesn’t look terrible” 😂😂

[DimitrisPatrikios]

Damn all that info at once! great job! I am planning to buy a 2 bay NAS to be connected to my laptop whenever im at home. But i also would like to use it as a medium to send my files to my clients. What do you think is the best? maybe this Synology 2 Bay NAS DiskStation DS720+ ? Thanks!!

[packman]

I thoroughly enjoyed your video, very informative. I have an environment with VMWare esxi and two VM's, about 2T storage on the host. I would like to be able to create multiple restore points for each server and be able to set up a secondary site for redundant backup. My question is which system or systems would you suggest I look at with an eye towards being able to have test VM's, and a secondary site for redundant backups without killing production bandwidth?

[Fredisaviewer]

Hello, Thank you so much for the efforts you put into your videos. I've watched a couple and I'm just learning about NAS and what would best suit my needs. In this video you talk about two different topics that I am curious would somehow combine to work together. You had explained what the USB ports are for and that different types of peripheral devices can be connected to the NAS. At another point in the video you mention that some NAS can use SSD's (specifically NVME's) in order to copy the most used data to in order to serve those files to be accessed and used at the highest speed possible.
So my question is this. I have an external drive right now that's drive is an NVME. It connects via USB or Thunderbird 3. Would I be able to connect this via USB to a NAS where the NAS could exclusively utilize it to copy the most used files to in order to make them accessible and useable faster than the rest of the storage on the NAS?
Thank you again for the time you put into your channel!

[travellerseko]

Thank you so much for your perfect explanation for newbies. Now I decided not to buy a Nas due to noise because I live in a small flat.😞

[tobid]

I‘m in IT and looking for a NAS for a while. So I read and watched a lot about this stuff and stumbled about this video just to prove myself that I already knew everything.
But I was completely wrong. There were so many important aspects mentioned I didn’t think of. I can only recommend this video to everyone who is going to buy a NAS.

[ryanparrish]

Great video and great information as always! I know this is an old video, but what hard drives were used for the sound test? Not necessarily brands and models, but class. I know on the 4th one you said it was using enterprise drives, what about the other 3? Were all 4 using NAS class HDD's? I'm using 7200 rpm pro series drives and they are loud, but don't seem as loud as #4 in your video, but they may have seemed louder since you were using a microphone, and I couldn't hear #1 in the video at all. I will be buying another NAS soon and relocating my old one and adding the new one to a room I spend a lot more time in is the reason I ask. I will also start adding larger drives to the old NAS soon so a drive classification to look for that makes less noise would be helpful.

[kingjiannan]

Hi! Thanks for all your awesome videos on NAS ! I’ve bought a Chinese brand NAS - Zspace Z4S. Spec looks great. Not sure if it will work in Australia. Any ideas ? Thanks !