Dump Google Drive and iCloud! Easy Private Cloud Solution!

Why expose your data to third parties? You can access your data at home and over the Internet with an easy to set up solution that requires no networking skills and limitless drive space. And with no subscription to a cloud provider. Set up a Private cloud.

In this video I show you how I set up an inexpensive NAS from Synology. I'll also explain the pluses and minuses of solutions to allow Internet access to your NAS with a little bit of networking tech.

Synology DS223

Seagate IronWolf 12TB

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[cbassoo]

Rob is the leading voice for privacy solutions and is an awesome advocate for true freedom. Thanks Rob.

[CaptainRon]

Another cool way to back up on a Synology NAS is, if you have a friend who has a Synology NAS, you can each create a secure volume on each other's NAS only accessible by you. So you can create a volume for him, and he can create a volume for you, so you both have secure "off-site" backups.

[tweedeldee]

I didn't know what top expect but was glad when you mentioned Synology. I'm on my third one. Never have used any cloud service. I always learn a lot from your videos.

[tonioyendis]

This kat really knows his stuff and doesn't waste many words or time when sharing the knowledge. WellDone!

[gsilvamartins]

Rob is the voice we all must be listening to, concerning privacy! Way to go, Rob!

[singmenowu]

Rob, you definately are the frontman for privacy on public devices.

[louishurr]

This was EXCELLENT! I’d love to see more Synology videos from a privacy mindset! Thanks you!

[iteachtime]

Thanks! Super informative. I think my knowledge of security just increased by an order of magnitude. Appreciate the good education.

[DlxyRekt]

very happy Synology photos and drive have gotten so close in performance to googles cloud stuff

[ThomasTeruel_TNT]

Thank you for this. I appreciate your directness, no B.S.

[makingwaves]

This solution depends on how secure you want to be. It is certain security issues by channeling all your NAS traffic through a third party (in this case Synology) via their relay service. And the use case here was to eliminate third party cloud services like Google, Apple, Amazon and so on. Port forwarding also has its issues, if you can't guarantee you are able to secure your NAS properly. It is unnecessary to make your NAS available to the whole internet if the use case is to make it available just for you (and maybe some family members). A third option is to set up OpenVPN against your home network, on a hardware device of your choice, and first connect through VPN, before connecting to your NAS.

[ppvshenoy]

I have installed a private cloud based on Synology and have a VPN server based on RaspberryPi OpenVPN. Have configured an encrypted backup storage for Synology NAS as well. I can now access all my files from anywhere else in the world and also provide access to those I want to. I am not a fan of public cloud storage for privacy purposes and do not want to pay for storage in perpetuity. Thanks for this video.

[somimedia]

Very informative and well detailed video. Thanks Rob. Much appreciated.

[luisdecossio]

WoW🔥 Rob this is very useful and amazing!!! imagine all the possible scenarios. thank you so much mate 😉

[belgian_groenendael]

I went 1 step further, I built my own pc in a home theatre pc case, and installed TrueNAS (it's free). Because the software was free, I was able to buy much better hardware, which translates to being able to stream HD video which was a struggle on a synology. (I got 2 synology NAS at home too)

[slamdunktiger]

So helpful, thank you for such a great explanation and resources!

[theoldbigmoose]

Thank you Rob, sure learning a lot from you!

[TheTubejunky]

Rob has the deep dive information. I wonder if there's a way he could post hardware and software "HOW to" videos. That way we cam cover our selves as much as possible without too many road blocks.

[andytidnits]

Disaster recovery. If you don't have an off-site copy you are susceptible to theft, fire, earthquake, hurricane, etc. For local backups this method is really nice. Getting a friend or neighbor to also use this method would allow for off-site backups, susceptible however to the same fire or hurricane.

[humbertotoval]

Im using a synology NAS and if you are the thinkerer type like me you will love it because the nas can do so many things beyond file storage. Im an IT and most businesses combine a NAS for local backup with a cloud solution for redundancy. All centrally managed. This can be applied to home networks too, just scale it down to your budget/needs.