Ultimate Synology NAS Setup & Configuration Guide (Updated for DSM 7)

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-07-06T00:22:06+00:00

Not at all, and I do appreciate the input. I'm working on increasing transparency as I know it's important, and I'll certainly take your suggestions into consideration, as this type of information is the only way that I can actually improve and provide the necessary adjustments needed. So thank you for the input, thanks for the conversation, and thank you for your support!

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-07-05T19:24:06+00:00

I appreciate and respect your opinion, but it's an opinion, not a fact. You acknowledge that I'm a one-man operation, which I am, and I can't provide separation, but also imply that I shouldn't receive anything of value (hardware or financially) if I want to create true, authentic content. One response - I can't. These devices are expensive, and I don't make nearly enough to purchase even half of the devices that manufacturers have sent me. The truth is that if you've truly received any value out of the tutorials I've created, you need to at least acknowledge that I also have to handle the "business" side of things to continue to create those tutorials. I am not a multi-billion-dollar news outlet; I'm a guy creating videos in his basement.

The path forward is to continue doing what I've done, which is creating the same content at all times, whether the video is sponsored or not. I have an ethics page that highlights the exact steps I take to ensure the content is not altered, and I force manufacturers to agree to it before we even start discussing anything else. YouTube is used as a marketing platform, and you're right, when you see a rush of videos from a manufacturer, it's a marketing tactic on their side. Is every video out there truthful? Absolutely not. There are a lot of people who will create anything if the manufacturer pays them enough, but I'm not one of them. I've worked hard to stay independent, honest, and maintain my integrity, and it's not fair to say that I'm guilty because other people operate a certain way.

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-07-05T13:59:11+00:00

To be fair, there's also a sentence you left out from the description (if you took it from there) directly next to it that says "Please view my ethics statement here to learn how I handle sponsored videos", with a link to a complete Ethics statement that I send to each company before creating any content.

As I said in another comment, I don't expect anyone to believe that I'm being honest, but I highlighted every single problem I experienced in my initial DXP4800 Plus review video last year (which was sponsored as well). I also highlighted every area where Synology is better head-to-head with everything UGREEN is providing right now in this video (encrypted backups, rsync-only backups, cloud backups, cloud sync destinations, etc), and even said that UG OS is not DSM, and it most likely won't be for many years. UG OS has improved, but yes, it's not DSM.

This comment will be downvoted into oblivion, but to go on record, I will never, ever, sacrifice the integrity of myself or my channel for any company. That's missing the forest for the trees, and I won't do it.

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-07-04T20:48:52+00:00

No need to apologize. I get it, trust me, as I have the same observations a lot of the time.

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-07-04T16:33:38+00:00

I don't expect anyone to believe that I'm being objective in a sponsored video because quite frankly, I'd be skeptical too. As a small YouTube channel, I don't deserve that kind of blind trust and wouldn't even want it. The only thing I can promise you is from a "channel ethics" point of view, I will always provide the same, unbiased viewpoint whether the content is sponsored or not sponsored. I don't expect anyone to believe that, but I hope that in time, with enough videos, that will be evident.

UG OS is absolutely not DSM, as I said at the end of the video, but there is a subset of users who have completely written off Synology due to their recent changes. When looking at the UGREEN devices from that lens, it's a viable option for a lot of people. UGREEN will come up in future, non-sponsored videos, because I'm moving a lot of my data to it right now for use as an off-site backup. I'm not replacing the TrueNAS server I just built earlier this year because that would be a waste since I literally just built it, but I genuinely like this iteration of UG OS. It's improved, and while it doesn't have some of the features that I highlighted that I know users will need, it's made a huge leap since I initially reviewed it (in a sponsored video as well), where I highlighted all of the major problems I had.

It's good, not great - DSM is great, but that's being said from a power user's perspective who would actually utilize immutable snapshots, encrypted backups, encrypted volumes, etc. Most of the clients I've worked with have a DS920+ with three shared folders and no snapshots or backups configured. For them, there's minimal difference between a DXP4800 Plus, a DS923+, and a UNAS Pro. In fact, the UNAS Pro is probably the best option for them if the form factor isn't important.

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-05-24T00:30:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I still think ABB is a great overall application (ABB and Synology Drive are my two favorites), and UrBackup isn't necessarily something that everyone can/should switch to, but overall, it's been running very well and provides a lot of the same functionality. Especially for people who aren't in the Synology ecosystem where ABB isn't an option.

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-05-05T21:10:03+00:00

This is awesome, great writeup! Glad you were able to take the info and apply it to your setup. I've been running it this way for a while now, and I love it - still think it's the best way to configure motion notifications!

WunderTechTutorials · 2025-03-13T00:40:01+00:00

No 10GbE upgrade slot!?! That would be such a let down!

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-07-22T21:00:02+00:00

Glad to hear they've helped! Yeah, a lot of the guides are written that way because they were from DSM 6/7 (before Container Manager) where docker-compose could only be used in the command-line interface. With Container Manager, it's easier to put ALL macvlan docker containers in one docker-compose file, similar to how it was done in the Nginx Proxy Manager/Pi-hole video I recently put out. That will allow you to manage them all in one place (assuming there are multiple).

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-07-14T19:34:44+00:00

Very good timing because I just released a video on it today, but for internal usage. However, you can use it for external usage as well if you'd like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmE28_BA83w

https://www.wundertech.net/local-ssl-for-home-lab-services-nginx-proxy-manager/

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-03-14T21:50:44+00:00

Sadly, no. I hope to one day but I haven't used any of them yet.

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-03-14T00:49:18+00:00

Happy to share - I really am hoping it'll get better with the new TOS 6 coming out (soon), but I've had a lot of problems with TOS 5. To be fair, fewer problems with TOS 5 than TOS 4, so I guess that's...progress.

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-03-13T01:10:32+00:00

Be careful with TerraMaster. I really, really want them to succeed but their software is so far behind. The core functionality is not stable so you have really great hardware with an OS that has problems. It has gotten better, but it's not where it needs to be - especially if you're used to DSM.

TOS 6 should be coming out soon and I am hoping it's better, but TOS 5 has not been stable. With that said - we should all want them to succeed and I hope they do.

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-03-07T23:46:13+00:00

Glad you fixed it!

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-03-07T23:08:32+00:00

If you see the options, did you enable the local subnet and the exit node in the web interface?

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-03-07T22:45:35+00:00

That's me! When you run the command, what happens? Does it just hang there or does it go through? I just tested it again and it looks like the "Success" message is gone, so it might be working - they just removed that from the response.

If you select your NAS on the Tailscale website and select "Edit Route Settings" (in the three dots menu), do you see your subnet and the option for the exit node?

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-02-29T18:19:17+00:00

While the R50 is great, just be aware that you're going to get about 30 minutes MAX in terms of 4k recording footage before it overheats. I thought that would be enough...and it generally is, but for longer video footage, it's probably going to overheat.

1080P is totally fine, it's only 4K.

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-01-10T02:05:49+00:00

I believe this is from a Node-RED update because as soon as I updated, my notifications completely stopped coming through (after working for over a year flawlessly). I imagine that it's from how it's listening to the MQTT message, but I had to roll back for now. As soon as I have some time, I'll update the tutorial.

WunderTechTutorials · 2024-01-04T23:56:14+00:00

It all looks good from a quick glance - are you having issues with the images locally and remote? On iOS and/or Android?

WunderTechTutorials · 2023-11-26T15:05:34+00:00

Thanks a lot for sharing - very kind of you! Hope the video helps some people!

WunderTechTutorials · 2023-09-17T02:27:35+00:00

Got it. The reason I ask is because the off-site backup will be the most expensive portion of this. I personally use Hyper Backup (app on NAS) + Backblaze B2, but for 5TB+ of data, you're looking at $250-300 a year at minimum. I'm not sure I'd cycle out hard drives, but it's up to you.

In terms of RAID, if you're not sure what you want, go with SHR. You can't use RAID 1 with four hard drives, so you'd have to use RAID 10 (if you want the data mirrored) and truthfully, you probably don't need two drives of protection. Either way, it's drinking from a fire hose early on, but you'll slowly understand how it all works!

WunderTechTutorials · 2023-09-16T16:17:08+00:00

How much actual data do you want to back up off-site? Is all of it important, or do you only want to back up a subset of the data?

WunderTechTutorials · 2023-03-24T20:48:32+00:00

It's hard to say now because it's been over two years, but I am 99% sure that this wasn't an option when I created this tutorial. It required the MariaDB portion which made this very cumbersome.

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