A 1U Rack Mounted NAS - Synology RS822+ Review

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0:00 Intro
0:33 Hardware
2:33 Ekster Wallets
3:34 Hardware cont'd
4:40 Setup
5:49 Sharing
7:12 Snapshots/Backups
9:12 Remote Access
10:48 More Features
11:15 Media Server
13:23 Synology Photos
14:49 Virtualization/Docker
16:36 VPN Server
19:04 Synology Surveillance Station
20:38 Honorable mention software
22:22 Final Thoughts
23:41 Conclusion

[TMoneyJones]

It's the Lemur's hands for me. They're adorable :)

[JeffGeerling]

0:10 ah, tech YouTube... where having more than 2% female audience is a strange anomaly.

[Jonteponte]

Hyperbackup can be used to backup to several different destinations. Including an external drive, connected to the NAS itself. So no need for a second NAS, unless you want to have an exact replica of ALL your data on the other NAS of course.

[wkm]

I had a two bay Synology and needed something that could hold more drives. 6TB is the sweet spot price wise on drives for me. I used my old desktop parts to build an unRAID server and have been really happy with it.

[NerdonWheels]

I’ve recently moved on from using Synology, after 6 years my unit was going to stop receiving software updates and I started to worry about hardware failures that would force me to buy another whole unit to preserve my data. So I went the cheap way buying a used desktop computer for $100 and installed Truenas knowing that if something goes wrong with hardware, at least I can fix it all! Synology was a great way to get started in homelab though

[trustedsource]

Synology has been great for me. I have had my Rackstation RC18015xs+ for 6 years with zero problems The specs said I had to have 2 control units but you don't. I have one plus one storage unit with 12 10TB SAS drives. Run it in RAID6 so have 94TB available. One drive failure (HGST drives) in 6 years. It has a Xeon E3-1230 v3 4 core, 8 thread, 3.3 Ghz CPU. 32GB of ECC RAM 4x1GBe and 1 10GBe netork port. Cheap? No. All of the above was about $12, 000 at the time but fast and rock solid reliable. Runs the latest DSM 7.1.

[jeffmstella]

My favorite zoo animal is a sloth, it gets me on a spiritual level lol

[odlyotter]

Should have made the logo say Owly Fans instead of Only Fans @ 0:07

[avouras]

I couldn't hold in my laughter when he said boys (98%) and girl (1%) in the intro

[jason-budney]

While not foe me, I'm cheap, and I have no server rack. It's a great idea from Synology, hopefully these catch on and Synology can at least spec and price these closer to their normal NAS offerings.

[CaseyJMoore]

Wanted one of these for a loong time, but so much money for what you get.

[thetinkeringtypist]

There's also Synology's Active Backup for Business app. It can be used at home (for free) to backup the computers on your network. It is both convenient and easy to use.

[xyvyx]

I love my Synology, but this 822+ model has a very narrow audience for those that need an "all-in-one edge storage solution" (their words) The most dense/cost-effective would probably be 4x 18TB drives giving you 54TB usable w/ SHR. Not bad at all really. Also, given the corporate target audience a) they'd probably not flinch at the cost and b) they'd probably want to spring for the RP flavor, which has redundant power supplies for $300 more.

That said, this thing is about the same price as their DS1821+, which DOES have a pair of nvme slots, twice the drive bays, twice the RAM and twice the expandability.
Only catch is that it's 6.5" tall and would take up 4U on a rack shelf.

[michaeljolley]

The E-Sata port is for the Synology Expansion pack. Also, FYI especially if you have some older TV's/phones it is TERRIBLE at transcoding on the Ryzen processors as they don't support it. The Intel processors have the transcoding capabilities and is amazing for use with Plex/video transcoding.

[isaacbrice]

While I did enjoy your review of the Synology RS822. The lack of usable RAM is a key point of contention for me, especially given the price point. I also just wanted to say I really appreciated the Fort Minor reference. 🤣

[seethruhead]

i'm so happy with unraid i'll never go back to an consumer nas

[pieteryts]

the biggest advantage of off the shelf NAS are how quick to set it up and running. all has been prepared for users ease of use. compared to selfbuild or nerdier appliance using TrueNAS (45Drives for example can be configured using unRAID or TrueNAS), it need more time to setup. but yesss it serve more features and settings compared to off the shelf NAS and cheaper in most cases.

As far as reliability, my company Thecus NAS N12000 nas been running more than 10 years only to suffer from siezed CPU fan. a drop of oil solve it. it even support 10Gb module if needed.

Yesterday, Synology has held an events in my local, and I'm quite amazed how NAS has transformed from just a filesharing to a more complete services by now. it can even run license plate, or facial recognizion on CCTV stream.

If you factor it all in, the quick to setup, ease of use, plenty of supports, ability to do a lot of things and high reliability, the cost are actually not that high anymore.

anyway, going for aligator! rawrrrr... want to choose trex, but not available yet in local zoo. lol

Great video man. Cheers,

[ZontarDow]

What I'm curious about is how well it works with DAS' from others, 4 bays doesn't seem like it would last that long, but I also would be surprised if connecting someone else's DAS (since from what I can see Synology doesn't have any for racks) directly to it works right out of the box.

[jaygreentree]

I have used e-sata for my 4 bay external drive caddy.

[doalwa]

Thinking about getting one of these. Shipping expensive hardware with mediocre specs but with top notch software seems to be Synologys thing. But I have to deal with IT problems all day at work, something that just works is really appreciated. There’s a time for screwing around with FreeBSD and ZFS…but looking at my 6 month old daughter, this time is not now 😂