#INITIALIZE DRIVE SYNOLOGY INSTALL#
#INITIALIZE DRIVE SYNOLOGY FULL#

#INITIALIZE DRIVE SYNOLOGY INSTALL#

If you didnвЂ™t chooseВ to install DSM updates automatically, you might want to visit the update featureВ found in the control panel. You can always add, remove, and change this later.В The packages will be downloaded from the internet, so in case you have a slow connection, you might want to skip this for later.ДЄfter the installation finished, youвЂ™ll be greeted with a small guide that explains where the basic functions are located, followed by the popup of the built-in help system. The last thing youвЂ™ll need to choose during the initialization is whether to install the recommended packages or not. It allows for much easier connection to your NAS when youвЂ™re away from home and it saves you the hassle of setting up a normal DDNS service. The Synology QuickConnect feature is a simplified DDNS service hosted directly by Synology itself and for their devices. My recommendation is to download and install the latest updates automatically, but the choice is yours. YouвЂ™re also able to define the update settings for DSM during the initialization. You can optionally choose to share your network location with Synology for easier reach. The name of the device so you easily recognize it in your network neighborhood as well as the administrator username and password. The overall installation doesnвЂ™t take long, but how long will depend on your internet speed in case you selected to install DSM from an online location as well as the size and speed of the installed drives.ДЄfter the installation, you will need to provide a few basic information to the NAS. You can let it install the latest version from SynologyвЂ™s web servers or you can provide a local file manually. On a fresh installation, the screen below would be the first youвЂ™ll see and this is where we install the operating system.

#INITIALIZE DRIVE SYNOLOGY FULL#

You can make a clean installation where only your files are kept or a full migration that includes most settings too. The option to easy migrate data from an old NAS to a new is great and as you can see below, you got several options in this regard. If all disks were fresh or cleaned before use, it would show Initialize instead of Migrate. Setting up a Synology NAS is really simple and the included Quick Start Guide hasВ the few details youвЂ™ll need to get started., Alternatively, you could also download the Synology Assistant that can help with a lot more than just the initialization.ДЄs coincidence will have it, two of the drives I loaded the Synology DS416 with had previously been used in another Synology NAS and as such it offers me easy migration from the old system and to the new. Setup вЂ“ Initialization and Storage Options

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