 What's up internet? A couple of months ago, TerraMaster sent us a NAS and we liked it a lot and still use it in the shop now. But that particular model was really overkill for what the average home user needs. So for this video, TerraMaster sent us another NAS, a 2-bay model which is much more in keeping with what the average customer would need. What's a NAS and why should you care? Basically, it's a big USB that's attached to your network. So for example, you download video files using your desktop, save it to the NAS and then you can access those video files through any device, TV, mobile phone, tablet that's attached to your network. Hard drive filling up with work files, photos, videos, dump all of them onto a NAS you can still access them anytime but it frees up storage on your local device. And since it's attached to the network, you can access the NAS through the internet so even when you're not at home, even when you're not connected to your home network you still have access to all of the files on the NAS. So a NAS is super handy to have, it's like having personal cloud storage but is it easy to set up? That's what we'll be tackling in today's video. This particular model of TerraMaster, is it dummy proof? And that includes me because it's the first time that I've installed the NAS. Is this the ideal model for beginners? I know you're excited to get on with the NAS but first things first when you buy a NAS you also need to buy the drives, the storage that you will install into the NAS regardless of brand that's industry practice, the drives are sold separately a little annoying but from the point of view of the manufacturers iba kasi yung gumagawa, iba yung mga brands nung mga NAS versus yung mga brands for storage and you do need to take a look on what drives are recommended for your particular NAS this isn't like RAM where usually most RAM can be stuck into most systems there are very clear models of storage whether hard drives or SSDs that you want to be using in particular NAS enclosures and storage brands have specific lines dedicated to being used in NAS so that's the iron wolf line for Seagate, the red line for WD and other manufacturers call them different things but they usually have a dedicated product line for use in NAS turning back to Terramaster, out of the box I would have liked printed instructions what you get is a QR code and it's a generic QR code butisana when you scan it you get sent to the instructions for your specific model but you just get sent to a generic page where you have to pick your model and it's not that easy to be honest to find out what model of NAS you have yes of course you bought it, you might be expected to know it but again if you're a super beginner all of these letters and numbers can very quickly blur into each other the Terramaster did come with some nice stickers and nice meaning they are useful because you can stick them on the drive to label your hard drives to make things more organized but the stickers themselves don't come with the model number and you have to actually look at the unit dun sa technical specifications on one side to find the model number again very easy for techies but if you're a beginner you might be sweating a little bit at this point again all of those letters and numbers can be confusing but once you get sorted out the instructions are useful straightforward the pictures make sense pull out the drive tray, install the hard drive or the SATA SSD, slide the tray back in you're pretty good although I had a little problem one of the rails wasn't on properly so medyo maingay nung pinasok ko yung drive tray into the NAS but everything worked out with a little pushing so again I am 100% a beginner in all of this also which is why I found the viewpoint of is it good for beginners very interesting one loophole not addressed in the instructions is where to plug in the NAS for techies again it's common sense that you would plug it into your router so that everything on the network can attach it all of the time but for beginners that's not immediately apparent and some people might plug it in to their computer into their desktop you could do that but that's not very useful when you turn off your desktop there goes a connection of the NAS to the network so a little more handholding would have been helpful even with this very basic step once everything is set up on the hardware and setting up the NAS itself is relatively straightforward there was some scary messages about incompatibility again depending on what drive you use and I did get one message saying that the NAS couldn't read my drive but I guess it sorted itself out because at the end of the installation process okay na siya I was asked to name the NAS and supposedly you can use that name in order to access it but that didn't work out with me provided IP address works just fine this is very familiar to anyone who has had to access their router and so again the theme if you're even a little bit technically inclined setting up the NAS is pretty straightforward if you're a complete beginner it's still doable but it takes a little courage once the NAS is set up the UI is also straightforward very similar to Windows or Apple you can create folders drop files in there are status bars on the transfer of files everything is intelligible if you've used a modern computer so overall this is very doable even for the most basic tech user yes there were some bumps along the way yes there was some knowledge that was assumed where it shouldn't have been assumed it could have been smoother but overall the NAS does pretty much work straight out of the box and if you're a beginner that wants to experiment with NAS is something you might be interested in even for the most basic level computer user the setup is doable with some courage and we'll probably do a future video on the cool things that you can do with the NAS for now I just wanted to give a general overview of the unit and see it from the point of view of a beginner starting out because a NAS is super useful even if you're not super techie thanks for watching saan may nagtatanong kumikilala ba kaming computer shop na trusted yung hindi kalolo ko hin actually meron kaming full service PC store ang hardware sugar nagbabenta kami ng PC components nagbabenta rin kami ng 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