If your after a good NAS this is a good deal.
Reviews: http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=1028380
Synology DS1812+ NAS @ Flingshot $1088.00 and Free Shipping
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Sorry missed this…
We can do it for $638 shipped. Or $988 with 2xTB WD RED drives.
2x2tb…
Interested.
Check your private messagesBtw $175 for 2TB WD Red? Cheapest on statiice is $149. Also, would be nice to include option with 3TB drive which is $199 cheapest
We are not buying the drives separately that is just the price from the distributor with the drives included.
How do I buy this? can't see on website?
We haven't added it. Since there has been so much interest we will get the full range added tonight.
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Sorry missed this…
We can do it for $638 shipped. Or $988 with 2xTB WD RED drives.
So how do you order one ?
Is it genuine Australian stock with full Australian warranty.What happens if you have to claim warranty ?
Do you do what you state here ?
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/77755#comment-993850Right sorry. If you have a faulty it would be returned to us to be swapped out. We do what amazon >>does charge for the new part and send you a replacement with a prepaid return envelope to return >>the faulty one. Or you send us the faulty stock back and pay fr shipping we either replace or >>refund the drive and credit you the shipping cost.
For a faulty drive yes, for the unit itself no it would have to be sent to repaired.
How can I order one ?
Nothing on your website.Which model? If you go to this link you can pick from the drop down menu.
http://flingshot.com.au/collections/storage/products/storage…
The 412+.
Its coming up as $668 just for the NAS. How do I make it $638 shipped as you posted above ?
Is there a coupon I have to apply ?Also you didn't answer my other question.
Is it Australian stock or overseas stock ?Sorry I missed this comment yesterday, it can be pretty hard to track comments across multiple threads for the same deal. The price was changed when I updated the other thread last night. Also in regards to Australian stock, there is a big picture that says Australian stock along with the words Australian stock I would have thought that was covered by linking to the product page for you. But I will state it here just to avoid confusion, this is 100% Australian stock with and Australian warranty. And our replacement service applies.
I agree, it can be hard to track new comments. But thats fine.
And yes, I did see that image when I later browsed the page on my Desktop. I was on mobile earlier and for some reason, the page must not have formatted correctly and I did not see it.
Later when I saw the page on desktop PC, it was too late as it would not let me edit the above comment.Cheers:)
OK that makes sense!
Have to say I love my synology DS411+II excellent feature set, simplicity of use and constant vendor upgrades.
Backing up all my Desktop PC's and Apple laptops - plus an excellent media server.good price, I was thinking of getting one of these.
$1079+shipping @ PCCaseGear.
Maybe a few dollars more than the above after shipping, but I'd feel safer buying from PCCaseGear than "flingshot".
PCCaseGear's shipping is pretty high tho
Shipping for a complete computer for me was about 27$, considering the size of a PC that seems fair.
We may be a new company but there is no need for the quotes.
Can we use 'Flingshot' or %flingshot% how about !flingshot!
Well Bang Flingshot Bang certainly has a nice ring to it…
$996 at Penta. Shipping is about $17 auswide.
http://penta.com.au/network-attached-storage/synology/synolo…No deal.
You might want to google for penta review first before you part with your money..
Unless you pick up from Penta and see the item, then dont bother.
And it's on the way home… the stuff i have bought from there, i admit i have checked on the spot, it has worked out.
can this drive be used to share to specific groups set on Active Directory?
Do you mean as a Domain Controller?
Pretty sure he means joining it to the domain and then setting share permissions to only allow certain domain groups to access the shares…
Why wouldn't you just buy a PC in an 8-Bay case? It'd be cheaper, and have a faster CPU, so you could do more with it.
I mean, this is just a dual-core Atom CPU, in an 8-bay case; but at a higher cost than you'd expect from the hardware alone.
I have made a point of being ignorant as to why a NAS would be beneficial. That way, I can't convince myself I need one haha.
for convenience, there comes a point in time where a few hundred bux doesn't really matter as much as convenience. Also with the PC option, it requires effort to figure out which drive is dead to replace.
Synology Hybrid Raid is really great. It means you can start out with only 1 or 2 drives and add more as you run out of space. I know that FreeNAS can do something similar, but it isn't as flexible. With SHR you could start with 2 1TB drives - they would be set up as raid 1 (so you only get 1 tb of space). If you then add another 1TB drive, it will change to raid 5 (2TB space total, still with 1 drive redundancy). The only cavet is that you need to add drives with a size equal or greater than your original drive. It will basically always use the RAID that gives you the most storage. I have a 411+ and whilst you could build a cheaper and faster system, you will spend a LOT more time setting it up and it will likely use more electricity.
NAS devices are great at keeping all your data in one place and sipping power. I use a netbook for the rest of my "always on" needs (also very low power)
My file server is a dual quad core Xeon with up to 22 HDDS (only 11 in it atm) and currently at idle it uses about 200-220w (with 11 drives, plus ~5w for every extra HDD), total cost~$500 (not including HDDs). ~$450-500 in power a year if I left it on all the time.
Compared to a NAS such as this Synology one which uses 30w in idle and 80w peak, means you will save money on power in the long run (despite costing twice as much to begin with).
Also, I think that a PC can reach much lower power usage than my server by utilising BIOS wake and OS shutdown schedules ie system will full shutdown between 12pm and 8am which would reduce its power costs by 1/3rd.
I will always prefer the PC to the NAS but in the end you need to find out what your targets are, mine was a mass storage server capable of doing a lot more than a NAS and it was also more complicated to set up, and is probably way overkill for the average home.
PS to jong's comment, I agree $500 for the operating system is a bit steep.
What case are you putting that in ?
my question would be then… does freenas and openfiler and unraid etc. have the same software function set of synology?
Re: the Case
Something like a Norco 4224 (http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno…) would work neatly, but adds 500$ to the cost :(I'm using a Antec 1100 case (cheapest case I could find that would support mainboard size) I removed the perspex panel from the side and fed the SAS and modular PSU power cables out the side. The HDDs are then mounted in 4 in 3 bay devices (http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c…). I know its not ideal, and I'm working on a better case solution, but it is handy because the drives can be moved separately (in blocks connected to PC by only 2 cables) which makes the weight of the PC much more manageable for moving.
Re: openFiler/FreeNAS
I'm not a Linux person, but I imagine these distros (or another) would be able to do everything the Synology could do and more. The Synology device is guaranteed to be running a Linux version that they have customised to suit their needs and make easier for the user to manage.200w is alot for a file server. My HP Microserver is 40w, my torrent nettop is 20w
Horses for courses. My goal was to make a highly efficient server, I think you will find that for the processing power my server has (as well as storage) it has quite low power consumption.
Just to compare apples with apples, if you wanted the same amount of storage using HP Microservers you would need at least 3 or 120w+. And the more you require the less efficient the Microserver becomes ie +40w to add 4 HDDs to HP or +20w to add 4 HDDs to my setup.
I'm not knocking the lower powered devices, for a while I was looking at the HP N40L, but I came to realise it was not suitable for my purposes.
PS its not just a fileserver; AD, IIS, SQL, DHCP, DNS, Hyper-V, Exchange
I have a Synology DS1511+ and its been running well. Sitting under the desk and don't have to worry about it.
One thing to consider about a NAS over a do it your self NAS/Server PC, is that it comes with a lot of good quality software making it a breeze setting up complicated services. Also apps for Android, iOS, Mac & Windows are included.
Question for those in the know: Qnap, thecus, synology are jsut rebadged linux boxes running software raid? Is there any among them with real raid card?
Got a spare Promise SuperTrak lying around if you're looking for one.
a raid card is running software as well
Unless its a hardware RAID card rather than the firmware RAID you are referring to which again is different to the software RAID he was referring to.
Honestly after many years of building raid servers using Promise controllers I would never go back to a hardware controller. From a usability perspective you just can't beat a dedicated NAS. Unless you are going to actually enjoy the process of building and configuring a RAID server, or your budget is severely constrained buying a dedicated NAS is almost always the better option. The advantage to software raid is if you have a system with the same firmware you will be able to re detect the array if the actual hardware in the NAS fails. This is not always the case with a hardware controller sometimes even the exact same hardware crd will not allow you to rebuild a dead array…
Any deal on 1512+?
We could do it for $887 but can't check to see if it is in stock right now. But we could get it within a week most likely.
What about the first post ?
Sorry missed it…
We can do it for $638 shipped. Or $988 with 2xTB WD RED drives.
Is that with two 2TB drives ?
Total 4TB ?sorry… yeah 2x2tb.
It's $796.28 here: http://www.megabuy.com.au/synology-ds1512-5-bay-scalable-p34…
Sure you can do better :)Based on the current buy price we can't. I will speak to the distributor and see what we can come up with though.
OK just figured it out. This is at the bottom of the description.
Opened but new product
$88 cheaper than we can do it though…
Actually I just figure out they have another one brand new in the box for $812.91 http://www.megabuy.com.au/synology-ds1512-high-end-scalable-…
Love your policy on shipping!
I hope you get successful and can increase your offerings and inventory :) Best of luck!
Thanks! If you guys could just stop buying things for a few minutes we would probably have time to add some more stuff to the site ;)
Have I missed something?!?
This is $990.97 (+shipping) from Megabuy
http://www.megabuy.com.au/synology-ds1812-high-end-scalable-…It is not clear that that is actually the 1812. In the part number it is listed as an 1811 which is the older model. I would get clarification first.
Yeah that is definitely the same unit.
We can actually match that.
I am going to make a new post with all of the options in a minute.
How much for DS412+
Cheapest on staticice is $649