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Photographers and videographers create INCREDIBLE amounts of data over their lifetime. Tony & Chelsea Northrup have already generated about 125 TERABYTES of data.

Managing that data can be difficult, and if you don't do it right, you'll inevitably lose your photos and videos to damaged disks or corrupted files. Backing up to a USB drive isn't enough, because all drives suffer from bitrot over time, where files become spontaneously corrupted to do the fact that storage can randomly flip bits in data.

Even backups to a standard RAID aren't enough, because those files can become corrupted, too. The Synology NAS Tony uses and recommends support BTRFS and data scrubbing, which regularly scans the disk for any corruption and repairs it using parity data. Tony's even configured his NAS for 2-drive fault tolerance, so that if TWO drives fail at the same time, the system keeps running.

Synology also provides a powerful software platform that synchronizes files to your computer (Synology Drive) or to cloud services, such as DropBox or Google Drive. Tony uses this to transfer files to from his Mac, to the NAS, and then to Google Drive so remote video editors from around the world can access it at high-speed. They return the files simply by copying them back to Google Drive, where the Synology NAS ensures they're backed up and waiting on his Mac.

0:00 Introduction
1:15 What is a NAS (Network Attached Storage)
1:41 How a NAS saves you money
2:05 Overview of our 250TB NAS system
2:40 How to Replace a Failed Drive
3:13 Expanding Storage
3:47 Preventing Corruption with BTRFS & Data Scrubbing
4:37 NAS vs Cloud Storage
5:46 Backups from computers & phones to a NAS
6:50 Recommended NAS: Synology DS223
7:22 Recommended NAS: Synology DS1522+
8:37 Disaster Recovery with HyperBackup & Snapshot Replication
9:45 Summary