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[eBay Plus] Synology DS918+ 4 Bay NAS 4GB $682.80 Delivered @ Futu Online eBay
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From what I've read no real differences with Plex and the like, so I guess it depends on your use case
I believe the new CPU should support hardware decoding of h.265 HDR
And the price will be like double of this
https://www.ple.com.au/Products/641899/Synology-DiskStation-…
It will be a fair bit more expensive and really no different in most use cases.
Save the money and throw it at some extra RAM. If you're not wanting to run VM's and not crazy intensive Docker packages the DS918+ is more than capable.
PLE normal prices are generally on the expensive side. They can have some good deals however.
I would not be surprised if this comes in at $949-$999 with most stockists.
Staticice is already showing CPL with it listed at $999. No other listings from there however.
At a minimum, the DS920+ is going to be $999 Australia-wide.
It's absolutely not worth the extra $300 dollars over a DS918+ for 90% of users.
If you're running full blown VMs it may well be worth the extra, but i have confirmed with one of the distributors that the list price is a lot higher in Australia for whatever reason, so don't expect to pickup the 920+ anywhere near these prices.
I am also considering to buy DS920+
I think if DS920+ price tag is around $1000, you will be better with DS1019+ with nearly same price.
Does the DS1019+ support hardware transcoding like the DS918+? That is a big reason for the popularity of the DS918+.
i hope the price is fair.
Youre looking at 4 figures
Thanks for the info. Also waiting for 920+
Is this true only if you've blocked the Spectre vulnerability?
No, the Apollo Lake CPU in the 918+ was launched in 2016 and is much slower than recent chips, even before all the speculative mitigations.
The DS920+ is ~50% faster than the DS918+ BEFORE Spectre impacts. The Spectre mitigations reduce Apollo Lake performance by about 30%, making the DS920+ about 215% faster than a mitigated DS918+.
No, no reliability issue.
There are bugs that effect security, but those apply one way or another to every CPU made in the last 20 years.The DS920+ features a substantially faster CPU, with benchmarks at it being 50% more capabale.
Not at all relevant for a majority of users and definitely not worth the extra $300 AUD that the DS920+ will cost in Australia at launch.
Finally, the DS918+ might have reliability issues given an Intel chipset bug: https://www.synoforum.com/threads/reliability-issue-with-int…
Overblown and exaggerated. Millions of DS918+ users have been running these things for years without issue.
I think it will depends of what docker image you are running
For my use case, I have been running 3 docker images
1 for shadowsock VPN
1 for the 7-11 python script
1 for home assistant(My nas is 418+ so the cpu is even less powerful tho)
The first 2 are pretty light weight and only take 10-20% ram and cpu most of the time
However the home assistant is pretty heavy in resource consumption
At sometimes it takes 60% aboveEventually I just turn off home assistant I don’t use it much anyway
Great all rounder NAS, not the cheapest it's been by a bit but decent during these times. I believe I paid around $610 in Oct last year.
Have mine loaded with 4x8TB drives with 4 docker containers plus Plex. Seems to handle all that fine. Sitting around 2.5GB RAM usage. Will upgrade the RAM soon.
Curious to see the DS920+ pricing when they finally drop. Can't imagine it would be too much more
Well, i'll tell you the 920+ is currently listed at the distributor at over 50% more than what you paid for your 918+ :(
This is typical for any launch day product. It will go down, and there will be sales.
What would you use docker for? Asking for a friend.
I don’t have a synology NAS but I run a Mac Mini as a server with some dockers:
- PiHole for network-wide as blocking
- Radarr/Sonarr for finding movies for Plex
- qBittorrent/NZBGet for downloading movies
- Jackett/NZBHydra for downloading indexing
- Ombi for a nice GUI for downloading movies through radarr/sonarr
- Guacamole for a HTML5 RDP client (easy access to the server from any client)
- NextCloud for private cloud access
- OpenVPN for VPN in and out
- Ubiquiti controller for ubiquiti devicesI could probably use even more for more specific purposes, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. It really is a rabbit hole going down all the ways to use Docker.
RAM upgrade suggestions?
These are brilliant - I already have one (early version). Worth the extra money, the software is really good.
Already bought one from last year previous deal but still a good deal. Thanks OP!
If you just want four JBODs is this complete overkill? Any recs if so?
Terramaster D5-300: 5-bay $438 + free shipping with Prime
https://www.amazon.com.au/TerraMaster-External-Enclosure-Sup…
That's not a NAS, just about to disks attached via USB in raid.
It doesn't work if your PC's attach to it.
But isn't a bad price still.He said he just wanted JBOD
Awesome thanks!
bought one a few months ago, really great thing to have around, no hard drives in my gaming pc has made it feel so much faster.
Probably right, if it has nothing to boot into 😅
You can also use this code on the DS1019+ from the same seller and it comes to $1004.
wats this?
Now that Guru's are here, any idea about Drobo products?
Better than QNAP, not as good as Synology, and that's mostly to do with the Synology DiskStation Manager OS being the king of the hill of NAS OSs.
Out of curiosity - how come the other vendors can't make their OS as good as Synology's? I was under the impression Synology's is also built with open source codes, so functionality wise should be replicable. I do like DSM a lot though haven't tried other brands'.
Reading y'all above. I feel ultra dumb.
Some clever folks here in this community that is for sure.Regardless of other comments, I have been looking at this model for the same reasons that the newer models will not justify the price tag and have been waiting for a decent price to pop-up. Thanks for sharing with us all!
Thanks. I was thinking of holding off for the 920+, but the early price indications have pushed me towards the 918+.
Still feeling so awesome for getting this for like $240ish after claiming price protection from this pricing error deal :D
Waiting for this to go down more towards $600 mark to pull the trigger
+1
Like so many best-selling computing and technology products that have surged in price since the pandemic started due to pandemic-related impulse buying/hoarding, a weaker economy, a weaker Australian dollar and global supply chain issues; it's doubtful the DS918+ will sell for under $600 dollars again while there's still easily available stock. If it does ever drop below $600 dollars again I imagine stock will be incredibly hard to find by then.
There were only three, sub-$600 dollar deals for the DS918+ in 2019:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/485703
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/439350
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/431051The last one being 8 months ago.
I would jump on it if you've been in the market for the DS918+ for a while now; who knows what the economic forecast is going to be like for the rest of 2020.
$682.80 delivered is nothing to sneeze at, the DS918+ was selling for prices like that back in 2018 as well, even around the all-time record low for this NAS.Thanks OP and thanks Amar89… I listened to your voice of reason and pulled the trigger on the last one in stock. Cheers!
Ordered yesterday from NSW… Arrived today in Adelaide… Futu Online / Shopping Express are bloody amazing!! :D
The Australian dollar is actually surging against the USD, and pandemic-related buying of tech is declining. We are seeing goods come cheaper and cheaper.
Sub-$600 is going to be hard, but I think ~$625 or $700 with included 4TB+ HDD is very possible.
Any thoughts on how this compares to the DS1019?
Dropped to $959.
Out of stock!
You can still get it for AUD679.20 ($3 less) from shoppingexpress.
Edit: Don't worry about shoppingexpress as it just bumped the RRP by $40!
I just bought one from them for $679.20
You are lucky as shoppingexpress has just bumped the RRP by $10 (849 -> 889 -> 899)! The discounted price is now AUD719.20.
Are there any good deals on the DS918+ or DS418 Play? Hoping to grab a EOFY bargain.
I was looking too cheaper found 759 on eBay delivered
Not a bad deal, but please keep in mind that the 20+ series are coming out now (suppliers will have stock coming in this Thursday according to some stores I called). Finally, the DS918+ might have reliability issues given an Intel chipset bug: https://www.synoforum.com/threads/reliability-issue-with-int…
The DS920+ features a substantially faster CPU, with benchmarks at it being 50% more capabale. Thus, a DS920+ will likely last you at least a couple years longer in support than the 2 year old DS918+.
If you use Docker or any other computationally heavy packages, I would absolutely wait for the DS920+… again it is coming out THIS THURSDAY.