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Synology DS918+ 4GB DiskStation NAS $683.10 + $15 Delivery (or Free Delivery with eBay Plus) @ Computer Alliance eBay

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Synology DS918+ 4GB DiskStation NAS $683.10 + $15 Delivery (or Free Delivery with eBay Plus) @ Computer Alliance eBay
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Not the lowest price for this outstanding NAS box, but still a great price at the moment.

And maybe add some 8tb Seagate Ironwolf too?

Details are :-

Synology DS918+ is designed for small and medium-sized businesses and IT enthusiasts. With a powerful built-in AES-NI hardware encryption engine, DS918+ provides exceptional encrypted file transmission. Also capable of transcoding up to two channels of H.265/H.264 4K videos at the same time, DS918+ is ideal for sharing and storing ultra-high definition media content.

CPU
Quad-core 1.5GHz burst up to 2.3GHz

Network
Dual 1GbE LAN ports

Memory
4GB DDR3L, scalable up to 8GB

Performance
Over 225 MB/s and 221 MB/s encrypted sequential reading and writing

DS918+ supports up to two M.2 NVMe 2280 SSDs, allowing fast system cache creation without occupying internal drive bays. Scalable up to 9 drives with a Synology Expansion Unit DX517, DS918+ answers the need for flexible storage capacity.

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  • scuderiarmani on 29/06/2018 - 10:04

    Thoughts on this compared to my WD PR2100? primarily used for Plex.

  • justtoreply on 29/06/2018 - 10:05

    The thing is, once you drop to 3 drives (1 drive taken for redundancy), is 8tb enough?

    I don't have as much as some.. but I want spare space to grow. Currently debating whether 10tb reds will cut it, or I go 12tb seagates, or wait for 12tb reds (not a huge fan of Seagate.. but they do have a 5 year warranty + redundancy..)

    • Zorlin on 29/06/2018 - 10:25
      +1

      Personally I'm going the "weird" route - I'm getting a few ODroid HC2 units (starting with 3), sticking an 8TB on each then using LizardFS to treat them as a single filesystem. No RAID - I simply choose what I do and don't want redundant, and what redundancy level I want…

      • Elijha on 29/06/2018 - 10:42
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        Good story.

      • runtoparadise on 29/06/2018 - 14:25

        Interesting. Have you used them before and if so how's your experience so far?

    • pln on 29/06/2018 - 11:43

      I think 8TB is plenty for my foreseeable needs. I picked up a refurb WD 16TB My Cloud from this guy: http://myworld.ebay.com.au/electricdiamond/

      Using 8TB for storage & 8TB for redundancy. I'm at 45% usage with:
      2GB Docker containers
      160GB Misc
      70GB Photos
      500GB Time Machine
      2.5TB Videos

      I think 8TB is heaps unless you start collecting 4K content. You can also drop another 8TB in there later on & you've got the option of a few USB 3.0 ports for external storage also.

  • Danni L on 29/06/2018 - 10:30
    +1

    Memory
    4GB DDR3L, scalable up to 8GB

    If you research and get compatible RAM you can expand these to 16GB, lots of info online regarding this for anyone interested

    • hippyhippy on 29/06/2018 - 11:03

      Apart from maybe running vm… Why would u need more than 4gb for nas? Serious question. And why would u wanna run vm on a weak cpu?

      I bought 1 of these last week.. Hasn't arrived yet.

      • Doge on 29/06/2018 - 11:15

        More cache is always better. Also depending on the filesystem (SHR or BTRFS) there is usually a "file table" of sorts stored in ram, when this exceeds the capacity of the ram performance will slow to a crawl, similar to a PC that is swapping to hard drive.

        Edit: Synology have designed their NAS around typically small amounts of RAM and I would guess you would never really notice in typical NAS usage, however if you are running a few apps and storing many small files, you may notice some improvement with more RAM.

        • Elijha on 29/06/2018 - 13:43

          What do you think about a couple of cheap Optane drives on this to improve cache? Seems really cheap and if you really just accessing files vs computing/running intensive apps then this seems a more noticeable improvement per dollar over more ram?

          https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/387699

  • codinghelloworld on 29/06/2018 - 10:42

    Sorry for noob question, can I deploy a website on this NAS to access it locally or remotely? Just side project for fun. Is that possible?

    • Elijha on 29/06/2018 - 10:43
      +1

      Yes.

    • pln on 29/06/2018 - 11:22
      +1

      You can, the NAS is totally capable but some ISPs, e.g. Optus, block port 80 incoming. You could use 443 but would need to setup an SSL certificate unless you want to click through the warning everytime

      • doot on 29/06/2018 - 11:37
        +1

        LetsEncrypt free certificates can help with this.

    • codinghelloworld on 29/06/2018 - 12:02

      Thank everyone.

    • Elijha on 29/06/2018 - 13:39

      More detail. I have a domain and use freedns.afraid.org to manage my IP assignment, both my synology and my router have support for it as a dynamic DNS service so I don't nee a static IP. Its very useful to get back to my NAS from anywhere to either mange (check downloads) it or easily get Plex connected or access a website on port 80 (my ISP dosn't block this)

  • whhumu on 29/06/2018 - 11:40

    Recommendations would be appreciated - how does this compare to i7-4770 server running windows 10 for plex and file storage?

    • pln on 29/06/2018 - 11:51
      • Redundancy
      • Automated backups to external storage
      • Synched backup of your Dropbox & Google Drive
      • Docker
      • Lower power consumption
      • Better UI, dashboard & notifications
      • Remote downloading with Download Station
      • Photo app with good UI & photo sharing capability…list goes on
  • langitbiru on 29/06/2018 - 12:37

    hi, very noobs question… i always saw people mentioning to use NAS to run VM birtual machine

    does it means i can install windows 10 pro, and use it virtually to control my automation bot? or running 3rd party software 24/7 ?

    • pln on 29/06/2018 - 14:21
      +1

      Technically, yes you can. But Windows 10 Home on my DS916+ with assigned 2 core 4GB ram is quite sluggish, I wouldn't call it useable.

      • langitbiru on 29/06/2018 - 15:14

        thanks for the info

  • shadow131 on 29/06/2018 - 13:32

    Any recommendations on a 2 Bay set up?

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