Synology BeeDrive Review - WHO IS THIS FOR???

The NAScompares Podcast - Let's Talk Data

Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:39 - Disclaimer! Trying to look at this SSD the RIGHT WAY
01:38 - Who is the Synology BeeDrive for?
02:18 - Unboxing the BeeDrive, What's Included?
03:14 - Good Value? Compare with a normal External SSD?
05:48 - Is the Software is where the money is being spent?
13:23 - The Desktop Client Software
15:18 - How Backups Work and Customization?
18:53 - The Mobile Client Software
22:03 - BeeDrop - How it works and what it does?
23:42 - BeeDrive Software Review Conclusion
24:34 - Verdict and Conclusion? Should You Buy the BeeDrive?

[elisworld]

Always enjoy how comprehensive your videos are. Thank you for the informative video.

[jimcallahan]

Encryption
1. Encryption in motion (WiFi) -- basic WiFi encryption can be cracked (search YouTube)
2. Encryption at rest -- are the files encrypted on the disk?
For example, if the device was stolen would the thief have access to all the files? Is there any encryption at all to slow down a their (or for example if one carried the device outside and dropped it or one left it in a cab or on a bus).

[andrewkim]

During the price comparison, you missed Samsung T7 Shield. It has the best price in mid 2023 due to its over-supply. 2TB variant is currently $119.99, which is no brainer.

[mekko]

I would love to see the interaction with the NAS. It would just make it a lot simpler to get my parents and older generation family members attached to my NAS and allowing them to have their own backup copy to restore from. The NAS is just a bit complicated for them.

[picha]

Idk if I missed it but can you back up different phones on different folders to the drive?

[yitspaerl]

Very interesting. Thanks a lot!

This product has a market: Stand alone users who want to keep it simple.
You made the logic clear to me.

I think that Synology did it again. Simple Hardware, brilliant software.

One question: Can it do bare metal backups?

This device is the perfect solution for the simple private user.

I expect it to be a big success.
My customers are business users, but at home they love to have this to backup their laptops, phones, whatever as well. Thanks! The bare metal backup is a paramount thing to make things perfect. Is this possible?

After seing your video, I have purchased one and will play with it. This device has a market!

[JosephTammaro]

Hello. Great video and thank you. I was going to purchase a BeeDrive for my daughter. She needs an alternative to iCloud. What do you think? I would like your opinion please.?

[XNHw_xK]

This could be interesting for my parents. Do the PC and mobile backup work automatically after setting everything up? So, I would do the initial setup and then they just plug it into the computer and computer/mobile backup start automatically without them needing to do anything?

[rossthomas]

Ideal solution for some of my clients who buy external drives and then wonder how to use them to backup their favourite stuff. The BeeDrive seems simple enough, and while it isn't for me (I use Synology NAS solutions) it is ideal for those guys.

[cheerlin]

I can see this fit to backup sensitive files of laptop (HR with payroll info) that cannot be back up to NAS or cloud n risk being seen by IT admin . Yes similar solutions exist but to pair both the hardware ssd n software together I think I not yet seen done. Looking forward to it.

[runningfun]

Is there any advantage with Bee Drive over Synology Photos for mobile photo backup?

[d-realtruth]

You have a lot of synology at your back, how do you use that.Haha.Subscriber here.

[pgotze]

As several decades was about clouds, outsourcing, centralization, these days are about opposite trend. Get rid of clouds and outsourcing, and rely on own devices and keep it out of public clouds and keep it in-house. This can be another way how to do it. Hopefully Synology will not destroy reputation in this.

[asolepascual]

Does this device allow you to make a backup and synchronize with the external drives that our Mac has or only the internal drive?

Thank you.

[FakeName]

lots of routers have USB connection, maybe that would be a good spot for future?

[JLG-tmdy]

Hi, This BeeDrive may be a tempting product for my son. But what I would really like to see from Synology is a new version of the old EDS14 (A Mini rugged portable NAS) with newer storage technologys like NVME or SD storage drives and increased processor performance that run at lower power. I would hope that there is a valuable market for such a device. My personal main requirments for such a device would be: Portable use from a 12 volt power supply, I.e. a vechile; To take backups of camera footage and photos, including audio recordings. Also to be able to use as a basic media streaming and music storage device one or two local network devices; It may be too much to expect but if it had the capacity to take bare-bones back-up's of laptops etc too, even better!; Also to include a RJ45 network connection & perhaps WiFi connectivity :)
And finally. if it had the option to sync back to our office NAS system (To off-load excess files) when we were in range of a stable WiFi connection, would be a wonderful device for my purposes.
I hope Robbie that you could make a request to Synology, that this would be worthwhile looking into as a product to consider for future development. Thanks :)

[DiggerChang]

Nice video! Thanks! Want to ask, how fast is the backup speed of the photos? Like you had 14k photos, how long did it took you to back it up.

[Echoesofwild]

Hi. I´m a wildlife photographer and during my trips I take tons of stills and footage. At the end of day I download camera cards content to my external portable SSD device and/or laptop. As soon I arrive home I then transfer them to my Synology DS923+ . Most of the times it works well but recently I´m having issues with the DS923+ not recognizing my external SSD drives thus I have a transfer problem. I found your YT video and I wonder on the possibility to replace my 3rd party SSD drives with this beedrive. I would love to know your opinion. Thank you so much. Jose

[sankilo]

Could this be attached to home router, or which synolgy is great for that

[Cervin_Suisse]

Thank you for the interesting and instructive video. You showed the SanDisk SSD's, I own two of those(1TB & 2TB) with which I constantly experience problems. Ever since I acquired then. Issues such as not detected(or very slow to be recognised by the system ), corrupt data, empty drives, etc.. occur on a regular basis. I believe other people have experienced such frustration resuming in lack of trust for important storage. I'm using this on Max computers. Are you aware of such problems and possible remedies ? Thank you in advance for your reply. regards. Michael