Most importantly - first things first - do not forget to use Cashrewards for an additional $7.20 cashback.
at least 80c cheaper than this previous and now expired deal, https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/366337 $8 cheaper if you get the cashrewards cashback.
or it's $32.80 cheaper than the next best price anywhere if that will melt your butter ($744.80, also on ebay with PICK5 discount)
after synology screw me around with the presentation and $500 NAS, they can shove it up their nose
I almost signed up for that one but they sold out when I remembered. What happened?
OzBargained. But I am in Perth and wanted to attend - were plenty of seats available. But they sent me an email that Melbourne was sold out and I did not get a place
Dammit!!! i paid the 80c extra 2 days ago…
You were swindled my friend
$696.20 yesterday at about 5 different ebay sellers.
PCByte is a ripoff with a nearly $900 price when others are at $775. Don't support them by buying a ds918 from there.
well it's too late now… and where was the post yesterday?
I was talking with PCByte to better it, actually.
It took alot of effort and went nowhere. They aren't interested in being competitive.
Is there any proof that it was available for $696.20 elsewhere yesterday?
Alright I found it myself https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/368064
Yeah see I normally skip over those/these ebay posts cause they're a massive pain in the ass thanks to the "upvote just for the hell of it" mentality here at OzB.
And still nobody posted or even commented about the all-time-best-price that $696.20 would have been. Disappointing. Oh well for everyone like me who wasn't aware of that and missed out, this is the next best bet.
Yeah the cheapest I can find from yesterday was $779 with 10% off and $15 postage. = $716…
This guy is really breaking my balls unneccessairily here. If I missed a deal, ok. But PROVE IT^$#@^$#@
It seems $784 - 10% = $705.60
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Synology-DiskStation-DS918-4-Bay…
I swear yesterday they were $774-$775 free post less 10% coupon, I could be wrong, but I did the maths so many times whilst pissing around with back and forward messaging to sellers that I doubt it.
Interestingly, pclan have sold them at $746 about 2 months ago, with a coupon that would have been great!
So worked up. Yeesh. Makes me not want to bother posting here if I managed to try and talk them down
I have a Synology x86 based NAS and i do quite like it, but these prices are getting stupid.
Lets look at it for what it really is…
A 2016 model Celeron with 4GB of RAM in a plastic / metal enclosure.
Can't even read or write exFAT without buying it as an extra.
Not saying this isn't a deal, just doing a reality check and making a value judgement.
You're not wrong. It would seem those with the time and patience could build something functionally just as good for cheaper. I just don't have the patience and would rather spend the time organizing the last several years of data.
Why don't you just burn up all that cash buying stupidly big hard drives on a 2 bay instead.
Well it's a 2016 celeron with 4GB ram, 2 m.2 slots and 2 ethernet ports, hot swappable raidable drives and some very well developed software on the frontend.
I'm not saying you couldn't build a NAS for cheaper, but it is a pretty damn good piece of kit. If you just want a NAS then there are much cheaper options. But for a mini server and nas combo it's not a bad option (especially now with Docker support etc).
The exFAT thing did make me laugh though. $3?? Are you serious?
Right. I came here to figure out how this is better than my HP Microserver that I paid about $250 for.
Anyone found some deals on hard drives?
Nothing fantastic but depending on how many you want you can shuck some 8tb WD Red's from my deal here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/365959 or there is a amazon link in the comments which is cheaper if you're buying one drive but if you buy four it's cheaper at BHPhoto by my counting.
WOW !!!