Shopping Express Clearance Link
Futu Link.
Recently decided to get a NAS. This is not cheapest it has ever been. But has been posted before at high prices and seems like a good deal and best price currently available.
Both Shopping Express Clearance and Futu both hack the jacked base price of $828. With 20% off that comes down to $662.40
Same here. Using it to store everything and playback via a mix of Kodi/Plex/Videostream. I dont have Plex server running on the NAS directly still using my PC but good to know it can handle it should that day arrive.
Crap, this thread prompted me to login to the NAS and now i see my 6 month old Seagate Ironwolf 8TB has already developed over 150 bad sectors!!
How many trascodes can it handle in Plex? Got a WD PR2100, kinda need more bays.
This question. Would this be powerful enough to do 1080P H265 ?
Easily
4K playback ?
@scuderiarmani: I would imagine so. Depends on your devices and network. 1080p should playback directly on most devices, so NAS wouldn't need to transcode.
Lon has a good review here
https://youtu.be/y_m4dBbEKGY
agree. been running for 5 years or more
The CPU was release Q3'16, that's 2 years… the Synology DS918+ looks 2017.
I have it's older father, the DS415+ very similar under the platic.
Hasn't skipped a beat running 24/7 for 5+ years now.
I have popped in 8GB RAM in mine (not Synology supported, but chipset supports 8GB).
This NAS runs like a cat on coals, i've played with many a Linux / BSD based NAS distro, but whatever Synology have done to optimise it is working a treat.
I have been able to saturate a 2Gbe aggregated link to 2 x 1GBe clients with SSD's in any test, large and small files, both read and write.
It's IO is outstanding, to the point that my 2Gbe link becomes a bottleneck.
I have had 2 issues long ago with it, one was fixed as a Diskstation update shortly after i discovered the problem, the other involved Synology customer service assisting me, and was done quickly and professionally.
I'm a picky bastard, you'll see me winge a bit here, but this is a rare exception.
Product design & quality 4/5
Product usability & performance 5/5
Customer support 5/5
(Note, these ratings for the similar, but older 415+, but this model will be likely to have inherited similar traits.)
what ram did you use?
Going back ~4-5 years, i think it was just an 8GB Corsair LPDDR3 SODIMM.
Not sure weather the 916+ is DDR3 or DDR4, i'm thinking the latter.
is it easy to upgrade the ram in this unit
Yes
Yup
Pardon my ignorance, here. Is >4gb advantageous in a NAS?
You dont really need more than 4gb, but 4gb SO-DIMMs are cheap so why not?
True, but most people won't use it :)
@scuderiarmani: Yup, but you're dropping $660, another $40 isnt much
Either way I'd put extra in and get an 8 bay
I imagine it would be plenty if it were just being used as a general data repository and/or Plex server.
Very much so, any unused ram is employed cache for the storage.
Also helps running Docker containers (little 'kind of' virtual machines), something that these things do a great job of.
Weather or not you need or will notice the performance of more RAM will depend on how many are accessing it, and how hard you're pushing it.
Correct but you’re outside the scope of the question which was NAS. You’re using a NAS as a full on server so 8GB+ of course 👍
@[Deactivated]: I thought it was a fair answer.
The NAS functionality does indeed benefit from the extra RAM even without factoring the other services.
4GB means faster file transfer is likely.
@virtual81: Was meant to say >4GB means faster file transfer.
They have tuned the file system and cache pretty damn well.
Does the Intel processor mean it can run Windows and/or any Linux distro?
Dunno why you would want to, their DSM distro is great
Enable shell and you can SSH into it and do what ever you want
You can run a CHROOT of Debian on it out of the box too
Dude you got it backward. Get a microserver. We’re all out here trying to get DSM running on white boxes.
I bought a Synology 8 bay NAS over 5 years ago now, still going strong, highly recommended
I have been running an N54L for a while with Xpenology which I am considering replacing.
Anyone got any good current alternatives that they are using for running Xpenology, decent performance upgrade from the N54L primarily….. Without spending the sort of money Synology / QNAP themselves ask for?
Use case is mainly Plex media server, Sonarr, Radarr and the like.
An old PC running freenas or easynas
Optiplex for 100 on ebay is what I replaced my n40l with
I5-2320 cpu and put in 32gb ddr3
How many drives do you get in an optiplex?
I only have 3 in my n54 today. I'm not a hoarder when it comes to TV and movies. Watch then delete as there is so much new and good stuff to Sonarr and Radarr that I never go back to watch previous grabs.
I am just curious about the increase in performance over the n54 more than anything else.
I'm still running 3 n46 with no issues and unraid. Why change?
4bay nas is a downgrade since you can fit in 7-8 in a microserver
I’m on a n40L and there is no performance justification to upgrade. Of course I still want to.
That's called the "Ozbargain syndrome". It's well known in today's modern psychology circles.
Nope, I do not need another NAS. Nope. Even if it is a deal, and a beast. Nope.
Do your $ sums on high capacity HDDs, to suit the NAS… The total can be sobering :)
This person is speaking some serious truth.
I got 3 x 6TB Seagate NAS drives on amazon ~ 5 years ago, i'm sure they were priced in error, ~ $150 AUD ea delivered.
Current model $249 on MSY.
Kicking myself i didn't stretch another $150 to buy a 4th drive and fill the bloody thing.
Is it a beast? How recent is it?
Does it have Docker?
Yes it does.
nice deal with the peartree code
but after some looking into it i decided on qnap TS-453BE instead, similar….bit cheaper at $618.40. (technically $10 less at shoppingexpress but cbf with eftpos card redemption)
and 2 x 8TB ironwolf for $303 each.
probablly should have waited for blackfriday etc. but….meh.
Keep an eye on the health of those Ironwolfs. One of mine has started getting a stack of bad sectors and only got it in July.
I have been interested in the NAS concept for a while now but not sure what I would use it for.
Right now I have my normal PC which runs 24/7 and is basically my plex server, calibre (book) server as well as being used for torrent downloads, gaming and general surfing the net.
If I get this NAS and install it, does it just appear like a set of shared drives in my network when I look at it from my PC? Can I still VNC into this NAS box to set up my torrents and move files around?
I need to have a strong degree of remote access as well so the VNC side of things will be important to me in a NAS.
Will getting a NAS be useful to someone like me or should I just still use my PC as per normal?
Start off by running xpenology on a spare box. You’ll soon be hooked.
The OS on this particular NAS is called Synology Disk Station Manager (DSM for short).
It's a nicely tweaked linux based solution.
The web based UI is once of the nicest I've ever seen.
Shares show up in windows same as they usually would, and you can map them as desired.
I believe Plex and Synology work well together, i'm actually new to Plex and haven't enough experience to provide advice.
On my 415+ transcoding is extremely limited, but this doesn't bother me as i like to play the files in their original format anyway.
I believe the 916+ has hardware acceleration.
No need to VNC, there is no GUI, everything can be done via the web interface, SSH is also an option.
If you download the "Synology Download Station Chrome Plugin" you can right click torrents, magnets or just ordinary files for download and send send the job to the NAS.
A live demo of DSM is available here..
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/6.2
I have only started looking at a NAS for the home so don't know the going price for these units but is this actually 20% off since the OP said Futu has jacked the price?
Can recommend this NAS, its a great unit, been running it for over 6 months now without any issues at all! Great as a plex server!