Synology NAS - How to Connect Directly without a Switch or Router using iSCSI & Mapped Drives

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[timothypritchard]

I have struggled with batching pictures to a NAS for years, always needing to find work arounds, and never understanding why it wouldn't function correctly. This video finally solved it with the ISCSI mapping! Thank you so much for this tutorial! To others with a similar issue, my problem was that pictures would not move from a local folder to the NAS automatically using a task set up in the Task Manager. If I manually ran the .BAT, the pictures would move, but with the Task Manager running the .BAT, the pictures were stuck in the source folder. Simple mapping to the shared folder on the NAS did not do the trick, but mapping to the LUN works perfectly. Years of struggling all came down to this ~8 minute fix. Thank you, thank you, thank

[edgardorivera]

This is the best feature I learned how to use since I got my NAS 2 years back. Never was to crazy about Mapping drives that lose their connects every now and then. Using Scsi was easy to set up. Got it going in less than 10 mins. You earned a big thumbs up for this one. Thanks

[CorazonDeCristoCano]

Loved it. Thanks for explaining the use and purpose of iSCSI. The first time I encountered it, I didn't understand it. This tutorial really cleared things up for me, especially the bit at the end where you explain that there's a performance difference between how client applications interact network drives vs iSCSI drives.

[krazyglue]

I’m so happy you made this!! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. Can’t wait for the Mac version of this!

[airfoilsinmotion]

So much content, so little time....somehow you make it work!
Always looking forward to the next subject.

[robert_g_fbg]

Nice overview of how iSCSI is used in Windows. And being over the 2nd LAN port, that volume should act like a standard external drive. Thanks for the insight!

[AlbertPalmer]

Very good! Looking forward to the Mac version too

[ApicalTrades]

Thank you so much for all your amazing lessons. Highly educational and highly appreicated.

[life-longpatriot]

I would definitely like to see AJA performance comparisons to a 10GbE iSCSI LUN (spinning rust no SSD cache) vs. a local NVME SSD. Very interesting video. Thank you!

[fejesgeza]

Your videos really big helps, thank you for your work.

[damirsencar]

Yes, finally you made this, thank you

[someuser]

Thank you. I have like 40 tb that I needed to move to my new NAS and transferring it over my horrible old router would of taken forever. It gave me like 10mibs speeds. Connecting it directly to the PC brought it up to 90 mibs

[bupbup]

Yoir a life saver. This helped me fix my 11.bs speeds to over 100+ thank you!

[EJHarrop]

Perfect timing I just got my new W/S with 10Gb ports. Wondering what to do next is solved. Get a cable and connect to my Synology. Cheer's mate.

[chromerims]

Super fantastic video 👍 Thank you!

iSCSI is such a useful tool. For giggles, I want to experiment with multiple boxes chained *_in series_* using iSCSI to a storage terminus. I wonder whether data transfers will degrade linearly.

10:10 -- "SAN Manager" is a better name than "iSCSI Manager, " capturing what iSCSI's about. iSCSI targets are more amenable for sharing in a HA or clustered config. Whereas it will be a troublesome affair having two users on separate client PCs as distinct initiators connected to a common iSCSI target.

14:09 -- GPT vs. MBR . . . GPT is the right recommendation. A key reason is that GuidPT has more functionality and flexibility with drive partitioning and sizing schema. As the (msft windows) world has largely moved on from MBR, only older ROM-CPU-Windows combos are incompatible with GPT. The iSCSI protocol was available prior to the popularisation of GuidPT, and even then, one could choose all-MBR to initialise one's boot drives as well as storage, albeit with MBR's 2TB limit. Whilst one can still opt to do so in 2023 today (including with a new system), these days GPT not MBR is the runaway preferred choice.

Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.

[MrOtaku]

Thanks dude really saved me a headache :)

[mjh]

Have ever done a similar tutorial video for MAC users? Would really like to see it.

[specialktt]

Hey dude, great video. Could use that Mac video you mentioned...

[MadBadNews]

Quick question, not sure if im missed it here - I don't have a wifi card in my PC just ethernet, so if my NAS is connected to the internet can it pass this through the connection to the PC or do i need a WiFI card now for my PC to have internet (as port is being used now by NAS Connection)

[donde]

Great video and exactly what I was looking for just one question. Can you physically see on your screen what exactly is in the drive videos photos etc. Let's say your looking for something and it's in this drive ?