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Installing and preparing your Synology Server

Part 5 of 6 in Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build
Jay Rogers avatar
Jay Rogers June 22nd, 2018
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Learn how to set up a brand new Synology NAS with DSM. During this course, we’ll be preparing our Synology NAS specifically to be used as a Unifi Video Controller. Later on, we’ll be using it for a lot more.

See the entire “Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build” course here: https://srvrsi.de/unifi-and-synology-build-course

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We use this to run our UniFi Video controller (and many other things).
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WD Red 8TB NAS Hard Disk Drive

This is the hard drive (we have two) that we’re using in the NAS.

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