 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here and I want to do a video today about how to transfer data between a Synology NAS and onto cold storage like HDD like a hard drive that you can put into an enclosure Just like this now you might be wondering well, what's the point? Why would you want to transfer data from a Synology onto a cold storage and the answer is well You probably wouldn't but if you did want to do it, this is what you do now Let me just explain my use case I Cree I'm starting to create a decent amount of data in the course of Producing these videos and I back everything up onto my NAS It's finished products now the stuff that I kind of care less about but still feel there is a need to keep is a lot of The stock footage and bureau that I get during my shoots and I sometimes put them up On websites like pond 5 now that stuff I don't really think I'm ever gonna have a need for again at least a good chunk of it So that's the kind of thing that I am at the moment moving off my NAS and onto cold storage now speaking about Cold storage literally moving data onto a hard drive in an enclosure like this and putting it on your shelf somewhere So there's a number of disadvantages Which is why I said that you probably would not want to do this But for the use case I outlined you might want to now versus an NAS You're not going to have raid if you're going to have just a single Physical storage device sitting on a shelf somewhere and the second major disadvantage to that you're going to have is that your Hard drive is going to be subject to bit rot and de magnetization So there's a finite length of time during which you can have data just sitting Literally not connected to any electronics on a shelf the only advantage that I can think of versus Storing data this way versus storing in an NAS is you're not storing it in a in a medium That's connected to power the hard the drive is physically sitting Cold and okay, so here's my Synology NAS I'm using the DS 920 plus you could probably use a bit of a dust and this is my HDD enclosure I'm not too sure exactly what type of model this is it has a USB 3.0 output and it needs a plug as well. So I'm just going to go ahead and Connect this into power and I'm going to now power that on and you can feel the hard drive starting to spin up now on the front of my Synology NAS there is a little USB port here. So literally all you need to do is take the USB 3 in your enclosure and connect it straight in to your NAS and Now it is connected. All right, so I connected my HDD enclosure to my Synology DS 920 NAS Just by sticking connecting the USB 3.0 cord and after doing this You're going to see a external device and in that case that's going to be the enclosure now You're gonna get a volume for that as well So let me go into the file manager and show you what that looks like so by default for me whenever I've connected this And by the way, you can format it Directly using the NAS to so for whatever reason you need to reformat the HDD as it sits in the enclosure You can actually do that directly from within your Synology, which is pretty useful and cool So this is the enclosure and in my NAS I don't know if this is a case for every Synology, but it automatically appears as a volume entitled USB shared one and this is what I'm currently using just to kind of offload as I said the stuff from the NAS that I don't Really care that much about so I have a folder here called stock and It's pretty much just full as you can see of a stock video I b-roll basically from my YouTube projects and this is what I do I'm periodically dumping stock footage from my NAS and into this enclosure So let's go ahead now and move some more stuff over Okay, so this is my stock footage volume that I've created on my NAS and my NAS and There is a bit of stock here since I've last done this Let's just say for the sake of argument. I want to transfer over the stock here So you can either do move or you can do copy and paste, but either way it's really easy I'm just going to do a cut and paste today and move that now on to the onto the HDD sitting in the enclosure. So I'm going to firstly cut Now I've gone into the USB share volume. I'm going to go into my stock folder again And this time I'm going to do action and I'm going to do paste and I'm going to do paste skip because there's gonna be nothing matching this And now there's a file transfer going on and basically it's moving live data from From the NAS on to the HDD. It looks like it's finished running So this was the folder a la valley diva tormo seem and you can see now that all those MP4 files They've moved from my NAS on to the HDD enclosure I can go now and take that HDD out of its enclosure and put it on the shelf or I can just keep it on the shelf in the Enclosure, but my data has now been transferred off the NAS and onto this external volume And that's pretty much all there is to say about this process I hope that video is useful if you'd like to get more videos for me about data storage and many many other topics Please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel. Thank you very much for watching