Looking for a NAS and noticed $251 coupon of this NAS bring the price down to $548 - Price looks decent for a 4 bay 10GbE NAS.
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A poor man pays twice.
Depends how valuable your time is. The synology software is better than the TM software so will be more user friendly.
Personally, I got a F5-221 and installed TrueNAS. Works well for plex but need to get photo backup working.
Synology. If your use base is basic (basic backups, file storage, direct streaming media) then can consider the 420+ or even 420J as cheaper options.
This one or Qnap TS-453D?
Qnap, like Synology will be a much more refined experience. The TS-453D will have better overall software experience and also has HDMI out which gives you some additional options for media centre usage or virtual machines.
Thanks mate!
These are good but if you are remotely a power user you will bump up against its limitations fast.
If you're confident building PCs I think an Unraid server is a much better way to spend the money.
Was thinking of build my own. The only problem is the choices of the case with hot swappable HDD cage. Not many choices down here.
There's plenty of cheap multibay cases like this
https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005003302719148.html
I’d disagree on that recommendation as it will cost ~$260 including shipping from China, and isn’t hotswap like the above poster claimed they wanted.
If you can forego hot swap the Cooler Master MasterCase MC500 High Storage Configuration is ~$199, or you can look at a Fractal Define 7 XL (but will need to purchase additional drive cages separately), or the Node 304 or Node 804.
If you want hotswap, you either need an expensive server case, repurpose an older server, or pay for something like:
* Silverstone DS380 note this requires mods as out of the box thermals are bad.
* Silverstone CS330
* Silverstone CS381
* something else from the Silverstone RM server chassis range.
There are more generic brand options but my experience has been bad with generic brand hotswap SATA boards (cooler master historically in their HAF cube case even had a catastrophic fault back in certain batches I seem to recall).
@s279: Thanks for the suggestion. I was looking at CS381, but the case itself is quite expensive ~ $485 without PSU. I bought a QNAP TS-453D at the end when it was on sale on ebay, cost about $700 after coupons and cashback.
@s279: I don't really understand your reply - you've just listed a whole bunch of cases that either cost more, or hold less drives 🤷🏼♂️
The 14 bay case at $260 shipped is a great deal - yes you can't easily pull a drive whilst the server is running, but I don't really think that's a big deal on a home server. When you get a drive failure, you can take a few minutes to do the swap.
You can always run Unraid on these boxes, it's just a PC in a custom enclosure after all.
I tried and it was way more effort than it was worth.
I was able to sell mine and build a server with much better hardware for the same money.
The reason why is called Terra master is because you will face terror after using their products.
Good hardware well made, terrible software, lost my raid 5 files when adding drive, all drives still working okay! Who would backup all your files when adding drives anyways
What coupon code are you using for the discount? Showing $799 for me..
Edit nevermind.. Found the checkbox in the order. Weird - didn't come up before and had to refresh it
This or ds920? About $200 difference.