Making the Most OVERKILL NAS - Testing 8TB SSD Cache, 10Gbit LAN, 72TB!!

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This has been something I've been scared to do, but finally did... I built a NAS. Ugreen sponsored the video, but maannn I was gonna do this anyway so I was like "sick". NAS's are extremely useful for backing things up, making a vast, central storage system, and to run any personal server-related things at all times. They are also extremely customizable and can be very budget-friendly.

So we took this thing- maxed out the RAM, went to 10Gbit network, gave it 72TB, and used SSDs to basically eliminate any issues that hard drives have. I honestly love this thing and since you can customize SO much and is SO easy to set up- I think a NAS is a great solution for almost anyone, especially when you can share it with others. It's awesome and I hope you enjoy!

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==JOIN THE DISCORD!==

0:00- I'm Scared...
1:54- What is NAS?
3:40- NAS is whatever you want it to be mannn
4:30- Setting up the NAS is ez
8:48- Upgrading to 10Gbit NETWORKING!
13:46- 10Gbit is WILD
15:45- 64 GB of RAM might be too much lol
19:15- SSD Cache
22:20- HDDs plus SSDs is bonkers
26:02- Everything a NAS can do

[Bluepandaiscool]

i feel like ugreen have been sponsoring every youtuber on the planet rn

[Alpha]

A few points: RAID 5 is unsafe with large (> a few TB) drives, which makes it effectively obsolete. If you lost one, you would be unlikely to be able to rebuild the array without encountering a read error on one of the remaining drives. RAID 5 is also always unsafe without a battery-backed write cache. RAID 6 or RAID 10 would have been a better choice here. They would also give much better write performance.

[CRBarchager]

I've been using NAS for the last 10 years. It makes my life so much easier and faster. The fact that I don't need to remember where I have a file og a movie since it's all on the NAS is great and I can access it from anywhere. Currently I'm still on an old Synology NAS from 2016 but thinking of upgrading in the future. It works so I'm not in a hurry.

[pouyapanahianfar]

This is more helpful than many NAS videos on YT. well done and well deserved.

[LeonAlkoholik]

Such drives are always handy to preserve relevant YouTube channels, just to reupload, once content is getting lost

[rut]

Bro used the Hard G less than a min in

[xavengarcia]

Really recommend RAID 10 with as much space as you have!!! RAID 5 will have terrible rebuild times and write performance. 😁👍

[M_CFV]

This is one of your best vids so far, very cool process and im tempted to get one. The 6 bay having a much stronger CPU is tempting

[MrBasforce]

Its super cool to see how quality and your content are changing over time
you're doing good mate, keep it sick!

[GameOver]

I got a 2 disk Synology running since 2014. Still recieving updates for it. Thats important for me when choosing a NAS

[iRemainNameless]

Great video Vex. Really appreciate your content I listen to after work. One day I'm going to buy a killer gaming rig for Star Citizen and your content is helping me alot. Thanks again!

[monkeyshome]

love your enthusiasm you remind me of how i was in the late 90's and throughout the 00's keep up the good work matey

[xellaz]

I have backed the 6-bay and 8-bay UGreen NAS on Kickstarter. I already have a 10GbE network and been using NAS'es for years (Synology ones). Can hardly wait to get mine! 😁

[orozcocris]

that speed drop is the cache of the drives is being used up. at first its fast but then it slows because you are limited by the write speeds to the drive vs writing to the cache

[frankyfreestyle]

14:34 that image is pure perfection lol

[damzelfly]

I got that same Zyxel switch.
But the one with 2xSFP+ Port
The one disadvantage for me is the power consumption.
Its like 2x of any other switch.

[kiaan]

and your is on the internet but for downloading or upload stuff to the internet but if you upload data from your PC to the NAS it will be on your local network which only can be acceessed if you open the port for it so that port can be acessed anywhere if you hvae internet on the NAS and the client(The PC or laptop) to do this securely make a VPN port forword the port and set it to not have a dymainic ip address it changes when your network goes down or it gets disconned and set it to a static local/private ip address so it doesnt change and connect to it from another network like airport wifi and you can access your local stuff on your local ip

[AdamPayne]

This review has been the best one I’ve seen so far.. thanks mate.. it’s just a shame that Australia isn’t on the pre-order list!

[Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein]

Use iperf3 to test the raw connection speed between 2 devices.

If you use Linux use NFS instead of SMB, SMB sucks.

[timelyraccoon]

this video was very informative and very cool. I can finally see why it can be useful and awesome to have. I kinda wish I had one now 😅