Synology DiskStation DS1823xs+ Setup

Storage and backups and software oh my! Join Wendell on this Synology DiskStation setup as he takes you through what to expect when starting up!

0:00 intro
0:37 What you get
4:33 Initial Set up
6:41 Under the hood
7:50 M.2
8:39 The Drives
9:47 Boot time
12:07 Package Manager
15:12 Performance
18:38 Warnings
22:08 Memory
23:54 Best Case Scenario
25:22 Synology Cloud
28:47 Outro

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Intro and Outro Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk
Other Music: "Lively" & "FollowHer" by Zeeky Beats

Edited by Autumn

[keyboard_g]

Just sharing: $1, 755.99 without disks, the NVMe cache, or the 25Gbps card.
As Wendell is testing, this is around $3, 000+.

[vincei]

Regarding the drives failing while trying to rebuild and array, Wendell is 100% right. I had an 8 drive Qnap NAS in which one drive failed. I bought an exact replacement and the NAS went ahead and started a rebuild. After the rebuild for some reason during the night while I was asleep the rebuild completed but the new drive was marked as spare. I saw this and restarted the array rebuild being quite annoyed TBH, Remember, 1 drive has failed and another failure would be catastrophic. During the rebuild a second drive failed. Boom, you're dead. I got QNAP to login to the NAS and try to recover it but they were unable to. That left a VERY bad taste in my mouth. I replaced all 8 drives in the NAS with new ones at a very pretty penny. Remember folks, a single NAS is not a backup strategy. I have 3 NAS's and currently setting up another remote offsite all the way over in Europe. A second offsite would be nice.

[rjScubaSki]

Petition for a second channel that is 100% dedicated to bewildered high voice Wendell

[mdizzle]

Definitely do a video on Surveillance Station please! Would love to see how it compares to Blue Iris on an 2U server with external DAS :)

[jacobnoori]

The timing is impeccable! I was just rethinking my home lab setup with energy efficiency being a priority.

[mbe]

Off topic Wendell, but as someone who recently lost 56lbs (and still losing) congrats AND you look freaking great dude!!!!

[ShowXTech]

In Germany HAT5300 18TB is about 39€/TB wich is just rediculus,
they are only price competitive if you buy them bundled with the NAS, then they are 18-19€/TB (144TB Bundle).

[tylertc]

THANK YOU !!!! I have been on a never ending NAS searching / familiarization journey.

[onkz]

Surveillance Station sounds great, and I never tried it before I sold my RT2600ac. Would love to see a video on that!

[tim]

20:15 you mean which is telling the SSD to reserve more space for eventual wear.
(It also means to provide any amount of space that exceeded the physical storage.)
Decreasing the amount of over-provisioning will never induce under-provisioning as the amount of OP will simply be zero.

Under-provisioning simply means you're supplying less of a resource than is required; i.e. a VM that needs 4 vCPUs but is provisioned with 2 is said to be under-provisioned.

[XxViciousxX]

I really like Synology products. Got a DS1522+ and it's been awesome. I upgraded from a DS218 and got to keep everything exactly the same and lost no data. Will do the same thing when I fill the 48TB but I think that will take some time.

[jmssun]

24:08 that beep! Had my heart skipped a beat

[hooman]

first time viewer, saw you on another video from 3 years ago, good job on losing weight, i, myself am also in the process of losing. keep up the good work.

[SGCSmith]

One thing I'd love to see Synology allow in the future: The installation of small Transcoder cards or GPUs (NVIDIA Quadro P1000s) into the PCI-e slot for Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin, etc. Some of the older NASs don't support Intel QuickSync but that PCI-e slot would be super useful for an add-on card. Those cards could also be useful for headless VMs which might need GPU workloads.

If it's a thing... let me know please!

[JonDisnard]

My slightly older Synology ds1821+ does 50 Gbit with the same pcie card. Obviously using Linux Ethernet bonding, which is called LACP or whatever. Ubiquity switch on the other side. We also use a management port, because for a while Synology had drama doing LACP. I would not recommend using nvme with dramatic multiple bits per memory cell, and suggest using the higher wear level memory, optane is actually ideal.

[prgnify]

From 22:30 you reminded me; I think this channel and STH are basically the only two that I would like to see playing with RS232 9pin devices, like the GPDPocket 3 and many others. Would you consider doing a video on them, maybe from the perspective of the power user/home labber but also from a straight up industrial perspective?

[HiltonT]

So glad they finally released this. I have a client needing to replace 2 ageing Dell T420 servers and I was waiting for an update to the older DS1821XS+ before I made the move. Now I'm going to quote them for 2 of these, configured with 6x Exos-16 16 TB drives, 32GB RAM and a pair of Gen 3 NVMe drives...

[paxdriver]

Your channel is so awesome. Thank you for sharing the OCD, may the force be with you.

[davidyoudontcare]

excellent content as always! one of the best channels on YT!

[SiimKuusik]

That 3rd party drive warning is pretty annoying knowing when I want to upgrade my ANCIENT Synology DS414. The main thing I would want to upgrade is to maybe have a 2, 5Gbps link some day, but I get the feeling from this video it's not that easy to even saturate that, even with this monster NAS.