Thanks TA for the original Computer Alliance sales post!
Been eyeing one of these for a while, still not sure if I should jump on this. Not as cheap as it has been from Amazon AU, but this is still a respectable price for the DS918+
Original PCOMP 20% off Sitewide at Computer Alliance on eBay Deal Post
Another link worth checking out to calculate how much storage you get with different size drives and RAID levels: www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator
4x 14TB gives 42TB storage with SHR
Thanks. That's good to hear. I own 2 fairly outdated 2 bays NAS (a Thecus & a DLink) and they don't appear to support bigger hard drives thus thinking of replacing them.
Was eyeing the 1618+ but it’s not overly cheaper then other sites.
Good price OP, I am also still waiting for a similar ~$600 deal
Is this worth an extra $50 over the QNAP TS-453BE-4G?
Mostly for media server for at least the time being…
If i want to spend less, do I have many options. Happy to possibly go to a 2 drive version, but the 718 isn't a huge price drop, and i assume the 218 has a lot less features?
Im running the 218+ and its a brilliant unit. Got 2x 10TB drive in it.
To be honest, once that fills I will need the 918 I think! But for now its a little beast that does everything!
What extra did you need the 918 to do over the 218+?
Thanks, so from my reading
https://nascompares.com/2017/11/10/understanding-the-differe…
The only difference will be the number of drives. + means the same cpu speeds and possibilities of dockers etc.
The 18 means the latest model, just the 9 has 4 internal bays and can add 5 more, the 2 will only ever have 2 bays.
Not as cheap as it has been from Amazon AU
Yeah that's IF you actually got your order. Myself and quite a few others on here didn't and that occurred with both the January and February deals (never mind the ETA being 2 months or more from the order date and receiving cancellation notifications only a few days before the estimated ETA).
Amazon's behaviour with tech deals as of late is ridiculous; they're consistently pulling this bait-and-switch nonsense where they never fulfill half the orders when they discount something heavily (even though the item shows as "in stock" throughout the deal's time-frame), then email you to inform you that they're waiting on stock from the supplier and/or having supply-chain issues, cancel your order, after which stock magically appears and they invite you to purchase it at full RRP (sometimes just a few days after the deal's expired and your order's been cancelled).
You do realise this was an Amazon reseller, and not Amazon itself selling that particular deal right?
I ordered during the February deal and it was fulfilled by Amazon AU.
The ones I saw personally were sold by a third party seller but fulfilled by Amazon (ie from their warehouse directly). Amazon was not the seller.
Quick and the dead. Now shows out-of-stock.
More stock back in play.
gone again
wanna get one
i contacted them and they say they are out and no more on order, so looks unlikely for this deal
thank you for your information
Back in stock for anyone interested.
Anybody knows what the max drive size this can take?