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[eBay Plus] Synology DS918+ DiskStation NAS w/4GB RAM $671.20 ($629.25 with eBay Plus) @ Futu / Shopping Express / PC Byte eBay

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[eBay Plus] Synology DS918+ DiskStation NAS w/4GB RAM $671.20 ($629.25 with eBay Plus) @ Futu / Shopping Express / PC Byte eBay
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O O on 12/07/2018 - 11:49 ebay.com.au (400 clicks)
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New low price for this DS918+ DiskStation. It comes with Intel processor, good for PLEX transcoding and the AES-NI instruction set can accelerate the VPN transmission. Also available at Shopping Express and PC Byte.

25% off offer requires an eBay Plus Membership, 30 day free trial available.

Description

  • Drive Bays: 4 (total 9 with DX517 Expansion Unit)
  • CPU: Intel Celeron J3455 Quad-core 1.5GHz (Burst up to 2.3GHz)
  • Network: Dual 1GbE LAN ports
  • Memory: 4GB DDR3L, scalable up to 8GB (4GB x 2)
  • M.2 NVMe Drive Slot: 2

Thanks to TA for the Original 20-25% off 51 Selected Sellers at eBay Deal Post, and remember to use cashback.

EDIT (12 July 12:10pm):

tech.mall price beats Futu/SE, good for non eBay Plus members.

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  • elcheapodeniro on 12/07/2018 - 12:36

    Great unit handles 4k hardware transcoding on the fly with plex pass :-)

    • Pielo on 12/07/2018 - 15:25

      How good is the 4K transcoding on this unit?

      I bought a Netgear RN626X powered by the Intel Xeon D-1521 and it still struggles with 4K transcoding.

      My typical 4K MKV files have a bitrate of ~60Mbps and would transcode to H264.

      Note that my Netgear NAS does not support hardware acceleration so the CPU has to do all the heavy lifting.

      • elcheapodeniro on 12/07/2018 - 18:30

        Yep handles it with ease. Plex pass to enable Hardware transcoding is key.
        Shrinks it to mobile on the fly and even over mobile data network:-)
        Can even chromecast out of town over wifi and adjust quality as you go.

        Oh and you can add on the 5 bay expansion down the track :-)

        • Pielo on 13/07/2018 - 09:19

          Can you check the info of your 4K files and tell me the bitrate?

          Also do you get smooth playback on a 1080p screen with chromecast?

        • elcheapodeniro on 13/07/2018 - 18:37

          @Pielo:

          Sure, 64.4Mbps 76.2GB file over Cat6 LAN cable to Nvidia shield.

          Watch this and Lon goes through with similar synology.

          https://youtu.be/y_m4dBbEKGY

          Chromecast v1 tops out my wifi at 1080p 20Mbps. But 1080p 8Mbps still looks crisp on my quick test.
          Chromecast V2 or Ultra would give faster speeds and higher playback.
          That was with 67Mbps 4k file.

        • neonlight on 15/07/2018 - 14:08

          Hi mate can you tell us about Plex pass? Is that another product you need subscribe or pay for?

  • Master Bates on 12/07/2018 - 12:41
    +2

    Tech Mall doesn't carry the ebayplus badge and seems to charge postage… so $634.20 all up vs $629.25 at Futu/SE. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

    It is still adding postage at the checkout, even with the code.

    • O O on 12/07/2018 - 12:49
      +1

      My oversight, thank you for spotting the mistake. 👍

    • neonlight on 15/07/2018 - 14:08

      You are correct however their IronWolf drives do carry eBay plus. Only this nas isn't which is weird

  • Scoobth on 12/07/2018 - 13:20

    Great price, I think I will jump on this. Are there any good deals on WD red 8tb drives?

    • neonlight on 15/07/2018 - 14:07

      I saw PC byte and tech.mall got the drives you want definitely cheaper than what you find on staticice with ebay plus

  • [Deactivated] on 12/07/2018 - 14:05

    I want one of these so much but can't justify the pricing.

    Building a custom NAS (no HDD's) is around $350. OMV or FreeNas or Nas4Free or add the unRAID costs ($60). More power consumption yes, but the electricity bill will make up in difference in a loong time.

    Very good price though, +1. Good find op.

    • doublezero1 on 12/07/2018 - 15:01
      +1

      This is a great price!. I initially wanted to go the custom NAS option too but I couldn't find any of those HP microservers that were around $200-$230 from last year so yielded and shelled out for this. Yes its a few hundred more than your custom NAS, but for me it's been worth it. Of course had to compromise on the hard drives and did not get the 8tb or 10tb drives. Still have more than enough storage capacity to last a few years, and by then should have enough cash to upgrade the drives to the larger storage capacity.

  • Niko69 on 12/07/2018 - 14:43

    Can anyone tell me why this is better than the Qnap ts 653a. Its a 6 drive unit,has 2 hdmi intel processor and 4g of ram.

    • doublezero1 on 12/07/2018 - 15:10

      A comparison can be found here if that helps.

  • justtoreply on 12/07/2018 - 15:19

    Anyone got user based access enumeration working (where it only shows directories to users if they are allowed to enter those directories)? I'm reading alot of "no" or "maybe with hacks"

  • lankfert on 12/07/2018 - 20:10

    Just got this and 2x 6tb Ironwolf Drives. Can't wait to replace the DJ212J! Still not sure how i want to configure it tho :(

  • neonlight on 14/07/2018 - 22:53
    +1

    Finally decided to buy this to upgrade my old qnap 219 II. Cheers

  • pizzacat on 15/07/2018 - 00:15
    +1

    thinking if I should upgrade my N54L to this

    • [Deactivated] on 19/07/2018 - 14:59

      Same. Stuck on 5.2 and moving to 6.x looks scary. Tempted to go legit.

  • willg on 16/07/2018 - 02:27
    +1

    Thanks OP - bought + 2x4TB WD reds. Have been a little concerned for a while with my older WD Duo; from forums, if the enclosure fails, goodbye data (RAID drives auto-encrypted). No issues yet, but hopefully the Duo enclosure/original drives hold out until Synology comes to the rescue. Great deal - I owe you one!

  • oz-stef on 16/07/2018 - 09:58
    +1

    I also got myself one of these, and then spec'd the bejesus' out of it:

    • 4 x 8TB Seagate Ironwolfs @ $276.75ea (~$314 at staticICE)
    • 2 x Samsung EVO 970 250GB NVMe $131.25ea (~$145 at staticICE)
    • 1 x 4GB Synology RAM Upgrade $139 (Not from eBay)

    Now waiting on the courier…

    • neonlight on 18/07/2018 - 15:51

      The SSD cache drives do you have to run them in pairs or can you have only one installed for it to work?

      • oz-stef on 19/07/2018 - 18:07

        You can run just a single, I got two so that I can add them to a RAID 0 array, I'd suggest if you're looking for something cheaper, go for 2 x ~128Gb instead of a single ~256Gb.

        • neonlight on 23/07/2018 - 17:07

          Thanks. So with a single would that be read-only SSD cache or can you do Read/write as well? I'm not understanding it, as I can't find info on the advantage of having 2 SSD drives for caching.

          I found that you cannot use the remaining space for any volumes which means its dedicated for caching only

          Also I'm not sure why you run them in RAID 0, is this for performance and you don't care about data redundancy because its cache only?

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