 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here on to do a quick video today regarding how to check The capacity of a external device that you have attached to your Synology NAS So I've talked done a few videos before about backing up video files And I use a Synology NAS a DS920 plus that was kindly sent to me by Synology for this purpose And it's proved to be a really invaluable part of my my video everything. I've done this video so far So as I explained what I put my best videos or my YouTube clips at least I will Mirror those up to cloud storage as an off-site whenever I can And then there's the second category of stuff and I put in that category stuff like raw footage reels b-roll What else would I say stock footage and those I don't really care about as much and as my bandwidth is pretty small It's not really worth my time pushing everything up to the cloud and paying for cloud storage for it What I do is I just dump this lower grade footage onto a USB hard drive. So I've covered in a separate video how you can do that It's actually super easy. You can connect even an NAS to an NAS But I'm just using a hard drive enclosure physically tethered into the USB port with a USB 3 cable for fast data transfer now What I wanted to talk about in this video is Capacity so my plan is to keep filling these things up and then just put a bunch of hard drives into one of those, you know storage boxes, so It's not for some reason. It's not that intuitive you click on your external devices And this will show up in the top right of DSM. I'm running the latest DSM when you have your hard drive enclosure connected But it doesn't just gives you the product string and the ability to safely eject it Which you should always do but there's nothing there about capacity. So you might think well what about in the Storage manager so clicking on storage manager here You can see that I do get the storage read out But for the actual the NAS itself I've got it's a for 4 bay NAS and everything is running fine And I've got my smart tests running and I'm using you know 600-700 odd gigabytes out of the 2.6. I have available to me But there's nothing about external so where you find that data is as follows You want to go back to your homepage And then you want to actually click into control panel for some reason. It's not in Here at least not that I can find it anyway So click into your control panel and in control panel you'll get external devices And this is where we find the information. So this USB disc one That's actually the USB enclosure that I have connected up here It gives you the location of your shared folder that becomes available When you connect the enclosure to your NAS and here's the important data that I'm looking for I've used 183 gigs out of 915 and it's a ext4 file system. So I've got along a long way to go There's a little bit more info that you can do if you click in it You can actually format it directly within From the NAS which is really useful and you can change around a few settings and you can also check I'm not going to go into the settings to because that's not what this video is about Anyway, that's my that's the quick skinny on how you find out the capacity of a external drive whether that's a you know one of those portable USB drives or a powered USB HDD enclosure that you've got connected you need to go into Control panel then click on external devices and then you'll get your very important readout here Regarding how much of it you filled it doesn't even give you a percentage But you can work out approximately where you stand in terms of filling up that external drive Hope that video is useful and if you want to get more videos from me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel