Synology Diskstation DS215J Series NAS - 2 Bays
Designed for home and personal users, DS215j is a 2-bay NAS server featuring a dual-core CPU and rich features. Enjoy effortless data sharing and backup, multimedia streaming, and cloud synchronization without exceeding your budget. Your own cloud starts here.
And many OzBargainers would remember Mwave's price increases during the eBay sales.
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Regardless of the deal, is this a good option? I have found my My Clouds a bit problematic, also thinking I wanna do the safety thing and have a RAID setup to backup the media too.
I've used NAs devices from iOmega, WD, Thecus and Qnap … and Synology beats them all hands down in terms of features, design and quality. Now I manage over 100 of them and they're very good to work with. The engineers have clearly put in a lot of effort to make them easy to work with when a drive crashes or you need to migrate data.
No. The best option is to get a HP microserver. Second hand ones go for $100-150.
why was this neg'd? i agree with him.. grab one of the microservers, stick on the synology OS = pure win.
lol assuming the same douchbag who downvoted with no reason
Where do you get resale microservers? Ebay?
For anyone planning to use this as a Plex server: it's not powerful enough.
This is the comment I immediately look for in every NAS-related post. Thanks.
Serviio though….
I just use a rPi as the end-client and it plays everything fine direct from my DS212j.
can you please advise a NAS for Plex? i've been waiting to see - tired of buying NASs only to have Plex issues…
I'm assuming 1080P content at the highest bit rate possible.
You need a NAS with something like an Intel Atom/i3/Celeron dual core CPU. Also having as much RAM as possible is good if you're planning on serving up content to more than one device simultaneously in the house.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/25551
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/28084
I think you could get away with NAS units from Synology that have a Marvel Armada CPU but it needs to be dual core at the least. But you're better off sticking with Synology or QNAP.
Should be fine if no transcoding is required. My 213 works fine to Samsung TVs in my house. Although I have moved to Ds Video now as I think its nicer.
Thanks, I bought this last night. Now waiting for some NAS Hard drive deals. Any suggestions ? Looking at 2X 3TB maybe
is it atom/ Intel cpu or arm.
Arm: Marvell Armada 375 88F6720
I just bought a 1815+ for my plex server, will set it up for xmas with the 10% off ebay deal the other week coupled with the Commbank $250 cash back.
Sounds alright. What did that work out to after all the discounts?
what's this $250 cash back???
I did the Commonwealth Credit card deal - Apply and get approved, spend 500 and get 250 back.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/217937
So was 1246 - 10% ebay - %3 cashback - 250 commonwealth cashback
1240 -124 - 33 (CB) - 25 = 833 and using $180 xmas gift money aswell so bringing it just over 600 outlay.
I used the Warcom ebay site.
Its a nice unit and I would like one but landmark computers already sell it for $199, other places too are only a few dollars more so there's no real reason to jump on this for this price.
Landmark $199.
http://www.lmc.com.au/products/Hard_Disk_Drive_and_Enclosure…