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Synology NAS (DSM 7)

This section is for beginners and home users who want to set up a Synology NAS using Disk Station Manager 7. So we’ll guide you through the setup process step by step, in order to help you get your new NAS up and running in no time!

In addition to the main information about a Synology NAS, you’ll also find some extra details about specific elements in our Synology NAS tips section. This section deals with anything that we thought might be interesting, or that we found helpful.


Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 1 | Prepare your network

As this is the first video in this series, we are going to prepare our home network for……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 2 | RAID and choosing hard drives

While a NAS is a device that has been specifically designed to allow the computers on a network……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 3 | Familiarising yourself with your NAS

It is important that before you start to configure a new NAS, you properly familiarise yourself with how……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 4 | connect to your home network

In this video we take a look at fitting additional RAM, and two hard drives to our new……

How to uninstall Active Insight from a Synology NAS

With the introduction of Disk Station Manager 7, Synology added a function called Active Insight. Active insight is……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 5 | Install Disk Station Manager

In our previous video we physically connected a Synology NAS to our home network. So in this video……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 6 | Creating a Storage Pool and Volume

While Disk Station Manager has now been installed onto our Synology NAS, the hard drives in our NAS……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 7 | A tour of Disk Station Manager 7

In this video we take a quick tour of the main elements that make up Disk Station Manager……

Synology NAS beginners guide | Part 8 | Give your NAS a static local IP address

In this video, we’ll show you how to give your Synology NAS a static IP address. First, we’ll……