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Not sure if I'm doing this right.
Looks like CA dropped their price which ends up a bit less than the previous deal.
[eBay Plus] Synology DiskStation DS920+ 4 Bay NAS $738.65 Delivered @ Computer Alliance eBay
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These are fantastic as a set and forget home NAS. Had mine for nearly 2 years without a hitch. Good for Plex server, Docker and Photo organisation and also supports M.2 cache x2 in addition to the 4bays. IMHO the Software support and stability is way better than Qnap (used both) although it is worth noting they did disable native support for USB peripherals in DSM 7, which was disappointing for those using Wifi/MultiGig NICs and 4/5G cellular.
Are there any two disk variants that are cheaper? Need a NAS but can't justify the price!
… Change my mind! ;)
Nothing wrong with having 2 disk model. I have been using one for 3 years and still running strong but now i think its time to upgrade because my storage and usage has increased.
I've been watching the 220+ for a long time. It hasn't gotten cheaper than ~$490 locally. Newegg had it for around $390 delivered back in June but I missed out on that one.
As someone who went from a 2 bay to a 5 bay (both Synology), I found the 2 bays great initially but assuming you plan to use it in RAID/SHR (not counting RAID 0) you will run into the challenge of not being able to expand/upgrade easily in the future without decomissioning both drives (as opposed to just expanding the pool). This was frustrating for me since I had bought 2x3TB drives to begin with back in early 2015 and for me to actually get more storage, I'd have to chuck both of them out and then buy 2x of the new larger drive.
With a 5 bay, I started with just 2x 12TB drives (shucked of course) bought on sale, and then when I saw another 12TB drive go on sale, I bought it and expanded my pool. There's still two more bays which I can expand with a further set of matching 12TB drives (so 5x 12TB in total), or with SHR, I could fill it with say 2x 18TB drives instead. Without getting into the nuances of SHR and how the different drive sizes work (basically you want your final two drives to be the same size to avoid any wasted/unused capacity).
(ps in case anyone is wondering what happened to the 2 bay and the 2x3TB drives; one of them died, and so I put the other in my PC, and then ordered 2x 8TB drives instead and gave it to my parents for their Time Machine backups… and as an offsite Hyper Backup vault for me!)
absolutely right, i am running a 213 air since 2013 :) and expanding is an issue
I have the DS218+ for nearly 3 years, and the device and software have performed well. However, I lost both drives over a few months from lightning strikes. I recommend getting at least a surge protector. I now have it hooked to a UPS.
The drives died but the nas lived?
Surprisingly, yes! Its chugging away in the background as we speak.
whats a good ups to go with this or a DS1520+?
So I'm assuming chia coins dead maybe that's another reason not to buy this.
Well you can always clone 50 Gmail drive accounts free, a bit of time and effort, unless Google changes their policy.
I've put on my tin foil hat, with these units becoming more readily available for everyday consumers, wouldn't be a fun field for hackers to obtain data and ask for ransom? Maybe two factor authentication might make your valuable data that tad bit safer
Already been happening for a while, the QNAPs has been hammered the most
Lol, yes it's called ransomware and it became a widespread cybersecurity threat about 8 years ago.
Just don't expose your NAS to the Internet and/or use any cloud-related features and you'll be fine.
Genuine question: why are these so popular? Could we not achieve the same result with a little low end NUC and plug in usb drives? Does a NAS actually do much more advanced things a NUC running Windows can't?
I've got 3 drives (all random old ones picked up over time - 0.5, 1, 2tb) into my NUC. I've got DLNA set up to stream downloaded and shared video to my TV's. File sharing for data storage to my PC's and Mac (and even the random access from the phone here and there). And it's even my download box - e.g. I'll remote in on my phone from the couch and stay a torrent and be watching in 10 mins by time I've made snacks, easy as…
Who's better off here? Me with a crappy $120 Celeron NUC or everyone else with a NAS? Or is it just the "plug and play" factor?
I reckon it's the plug and play factor - it sounds like you've got everything set up equally well, but I would say that the effort out of the box to achieve the same is much simpler.
Nuc is superior. NAS is no necessary.
Thanks for your replies. I've not had a NAS before and didn't know what I could be missing. But it seems like I've got everything I'd have with a NAS already with the NUC. Cheers
Are you sure? I've had 2 HP microservers, ran them from about 2010 to 2016, and im on my second NAS, started with a second hand 2 bay.
Synology's software options offer heaps of functionality which, while technically possible on windows, is just such a pain to configure and set up that you dont end up bothering.
The point is that with a NAS you're more likely to use more functionality - because it's built in and easy.
Though having a basic nuc or mini pc (Lenovo m83s are great) in addition to the NAS feels like the best of both worlds to me. i can run a minecraft server or anything specific to windows on the pc but use the nas for basically everything else.
Edit: jump on fb marketplace or gumtree and buy an old 2 bay synology. often can get one for $100. put a spare drive in and try it out
Thanks for the tip. You've convinced me, I'll actually look into this. I'm keen to have a play and see what its all about :)
If your aim is to have a small amount of non-critical network attached storage then what you have is perfectly adequate. NAS are typically used by people who want a lot of storage (10s to 100s of TB are common nowadays) in a small form factor, along with an assurance of data integrity and the ability to recover from single or multiple disk failures. Typically they use a big boy file system like zfs.or btrfs.
More RAM (often ECC), better processors, 10G Ethernet, and enterprise features in many NASs allow easier management and gives headroom to do other things like run plex severs, bare-metal hypervisors etc,
I….. must…… resist…….