Synology NAS help Please

[BruceUSA]

Man, I am at a total lost right now. I follow a Youtube video tutorial on installing my Synolog NAS. Got everything ok, create a storage pool and create a Share folder. I follow the tutorial along try to map the share folder to my local computer. Then he said go to Synology Assistant to map that folder. I could not find synology assistant in the package center or control panel. Then I accidently close out the Download center or some thing. Now I don't have any synology relate item, Package Center, control panel DSM help, file share . What happen to them? aren't this supose to be install on my PC already when I proceed to install DSM? I am confused here. Any one here using Synology NAS, please help me out. Thanks

ok. I downloaded synology assistant and installed. I got A message pop No synology server was found on local network. So what has happened to synology package center?

I went to synology download center, I download DSM 7.2 and I got a weird file name DSM418_69057.pat? when I double click on it. Its open photoshop WTF going?

 

[BruceUSA]

I ended up do a factory reset. Reinstall DSM now.

 

[=XAF=AfterShock]

the nas should auto update to the latest dsm version on its own, should be in control panel then update and restore section or you can click manual update and browse to that pat file. Should be able to map the share folder just by going to this pc and right clicking then adding a network location

 

[BruceUSA]

the nas should auto update to the latest dsm version on its own, should be in control panel then update and restore section or you can click manual update and browse to that pat file. Should be able to map the share folder just by going to this pc and right clicking then adding a network location

Yeah, the mistake was on my part. Actually when I closed the Synology browser. All I have to do is log on Synology browser again and will see all the installed package. But I did not know that. So, I did factory reset method #2> Reinstall DSM7.2 and keep all my previously configured hard drive intact. I click on install Synoloy and then import the download DSM_DS418_69057.pat file to proceed the install. I am all good now.

 

[=XAF=AfterShock]

Yeah, the mistake was on my part. Actually when I closed the Synology browser. All I have to do is log on Synology browser again and will see all the installed package. But I did not know that. So, I did factory reset method #2> Reinstall DSM7.2 and keep all my previously configured hard drive intact. I click on install Synoloy and then import the download DSM_DS418_69057.pat file to proceed the install. I am all good now.

Glad to hear you got it figured out, what model nas did you get, I have the ds118 which has been working fine of the past few years but I'm wanting something with more power, it's getting long in the tooth with the past years worth of updates.

 

[Barryng]

Glad to hear you got it figured out, what model nas did you get, I have the ds118 which has been working fine of the past few years but I'm wanting something with more power, it's getting long in the tooth with the past years worth of updates.

As I discussed in some very recent posts, I had a similar experience a few weeks ago with a Synology DS212. A full factory reset and some good helpful advice in another thread resolved the issues, but it was necessary to sequentially install at least the lead version of each update series since 2012 (the last time it was used). It works now sorta perfectly. It is unusably slow and would take over 24 hours to simply transfer a completed 1.3 TB already encrypted zip file to it (Backup Maker first saves the zip file to my 4 TB desktop SSD then, when the file is complete, simply transfers it to whatever the specified backup drive is - this is faster than saving directly to the portable Samsung SSDs I have been using. I said "would take" because after about 20 hours of the HDDs pounding away, a "file error" occurred, and the file transfer just quit, saving nothing.

So, over the past few days I have begun to seriously consider buying a Ugreen DXP480T SSD NAS. I have not pulled the trigger yet because $1K + the M.2 SSDs is a lot to spend without knowing how much better it will perform. I would appreciate any input anyone has from real experience, or even just informed opinion, about this Ugreen drive.

I considered buying one from Best Buy because of their return policy. Over the past two years, prior to buying an expensive router and then an expensive sound bar, they agreed that a return would be no problem if the device did not solve the problem. The router did work out but the sound bar did not. However, they gave me no problem taking it back although I just used the credit to buy a better one that did work. Unfortunately, Best Buy does not sell NAS devices so any need to return the Ugreen NAS, if it does not work out, is just too undependable from Amazon.