COMPLETE Guide to Synology Drive - Create your OWN CLOUD

In this video, I will be walking through how to set up Synology Drive. You can use Synology Drive to set up your Synology NAS as a cloud, similar to Google Drive or Dropbox.

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#nas #synology

TOC:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Installing the packages
03:26 Team folders
08:01 Personal folder
10:19 Synology Office (documents, spreadsheets, slides)
12:31 Sharing document links
13:42 Desktop / mobile interface using QuickConnect
20:05 Backup task
21:53 A note on opening ports for remote access speeds
22:52 Advanced feature options
25:39 Conclusion

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[schwiptsgaming]

Great video! I just got the DS224+ and I am using it for personal use, Plex Home Media, NFS, and also to replace all the cloud services I got spread out across over the years. I have zero experience in any of this and your video was clear and easy to follow. Do you have a video for automatically sync/ backup iPhone?

[MisterPikol]

love your vids, recently got a ds1515, as the new models are a bit too expensive for me, and I need more bays. also got an expansion for cheap. 10 bay, whoo !

[Djiemeel]

So sorry I never Subscribed while I used some of you're video to upgrade my knowledge.
Have subscribed now.
Please keep informing me. Love the real and total explanation of the topics u visit/explain

[broken_bike]

As usual, great job presenting the information! I am looking at using Synology Drive on a file system that has been running for about 5 years. I'll admit to being a bit of a curmudgeon with a lot of things and I have, for a long time, maintained the opinion that you (or anyone) should just use mapped shares / mapped network drives. This doesn't work for mobile users at all, and DS File (for iOS is a bit clunky). Having had mapped network drives for a long time with my Synology, I have users where their folder structure starts in "/home/" (technically "/homes/user/") rather than "home/drive" (technically "/homes/user/drive". Initially, I thought that I would need to move all of the user content from "/home/" to "home/drive". Synology seems to have figured this out and offer the ability to "Convert" each users "home" folder. Converting is a one way trip, and Synology tells you so. It is not well documented, and a moot point for anyone starting off in a version post Synology Drive 3.1. I would love to see a blurb on the conversion and how users of older systems can deploy Drive!

[wesc]

It really is a good system. Just a few things for feature parity would seal the deal completely for us. I would love the ability to host the Syn. Office/Drive apps on other servers instead of on the NAS itself. Toss them into a container anywhere and point them to the storage. I know they're relatively light, and I'm literally the one person in the multiverse that wants this. :) But we could isolate the storage network better that way. And I really want offline disconnected mode for all the PWAs, similar to Note Station. If you or anyone else smarter than me has done any work in those areas, you are hired.

[DBR]

I say it on almost every video I watch of yours. You have the absolute best beard ever! And excellent video content also! 😂😊

[xnvgstq]

Hi will, great video. I suggest you to explain that using 6690 port for the synology client, it usually doesn’t connect to the drive when you are on a public WiFi and you must set a vpn. It’s one of the main difference with GDrive or Dropbox

[yesmanhk]

have it install and now i know all of the feature, thank you. will you able to talk about the trust device on DSM 7 . how to add your home laptop as a trusted device on the account setting? thanks

[titangrosso]

I am new to nas so i really appreciate all your videos. You are awesome explaining! Thanks so much. If you read this and can answer one question i have i would be grateful. DSM 7.2 comes with disk hibernate on with 20 min. Do you recommend disabling hibernation on disks? If not how much time do you use regularly? Also i will be running a plex server. Thanks in advance!

[nezaralzien]

Excellent video, what is the difference between two-way sync and one-way upload in terms of deleting files from local computer?

[ckenisell]

Fantastic video. I am considering switching from Google Drive to Synology Drive after watching this.
1. The one feature that I really like about Google Drive is when using the web browser to view my files, I can open Office files in Google Docs or Google Sheets. Does Synology Drive have that kind of capability?
2. A feature I wish Google Drive has: When storing a photo (jpg or png), I would love to be able to get a web URL for that photo. I use a lot of online forums and I can't host my photos there. I have to upload to Flickr and use some web trickery to find the URL for each photo to embed into forums. Can Synology Drive be a solution for this?
3. How does the Android app work for this? If I am on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, can I easily save files to the Drive from within other apps? For example, if I have a PDF and I'm in the Acrobat app, can I share that pdf to the NAS Drive from within Acrobat?

[danilorodriguez]

Great video, I do have a question, I am missing a lot of thumbnails from Synology Drive indexing, is there a reason for this to happened? How can I get thumbnails generated?

[mcsoo]

Is there a way that we could change the default cloud storage from Google Drive to Synology Drive? Such as Whatsapp storage and the default photos. what about replacing the icloud?

[jefawk]

10:49 "other than the fact that I can't type it works (great)" 🤣🤣

[Yothlan]

One question: what about the Synology Photo "photo" home folder? I have both Drive and Photo installed (DSM 7.2) and the home/photo folder shows up in my Synology drive, which bothers me a bit. I don't mind it much but I see it as a waste of resource that both applications index the same folder, and it also questions what happens when you set up a backup task and you tick both Synology Drive and Synology Photo: will it backup the photo folder twice? I'm quite perplexed really, it doesn't feel wrong but it looks messy.
Thanks for the great setup video as always!

[johndegroot]

What you explained, is this the same idea of de beedrive with 4tb? I now have the DS114, is this useble for this? Thanks

[robertshowe]

I'm thinking of taking a job with synology and now after so many of your videos I am convinced I am making the right choice. Thank you so much for these. I'll continue to reference them as well. BUT I am curious if you see this, where would you focus with your deep dive to start? Thanks again.

[drmajedmalak]

can you please show us how to install PACS in Synology system..

[JeremyTaylorNZ]

Would be good to see the same thing but for TrueNAS Scale and NextCloud, including safe off-local-network access

[ttweed]

Great refresher video! I have a question regarding the Synology Drive Client software ... if the server package is updated, several times it has happened to me where I have to re-download/install the Synology Drive Client for syncing to work again. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my setup or if it is truly an issue with the server/client software works. Is there a way to either push the Synology Drive Client to the client computers or notify the users they need to update their client software?