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TerraMaster F2-221 2 Bay NAS $311.99, F5-221 5 Bay NAS $431.99 (Both w/ 2x GbE LAN) Shipped @ TerraMaster Amazon AU

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TerraMaster F2-221 2 Bay NAS $311.99, F5-221 5 Bay NAS $431.99 (Both w/ 2x GbE LAN) Shipped @ TerraMaster Amazon AUAffiliate
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These two excellent mid-range NAS drives will be on sale from 11:45am to 11:45pm AEDT on Cyber Monday as a Lightning Deal.

Both feature an Intel Celeron J3355 dual-core CPU, dual Gigabit ethernet ports, 2GB RAM (upgradeable to 10GB (see here) and 2 USB 3.0 ports on the rear. These are great for file sharing, backups, playing media (e.g. Plex) and running Docker containers etc.

The budget F2-210 and F4-210 NAS Drives will be on sale on Black Friday too.

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This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2020
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  • Mick83 on 25/11/2020 - 09:51

    Is the Intel Celeron J3355 powerful enough to do Plex transcoding or only good for playback?

  • syngen on 25/11/2020 - 11:21
    +2

    Just an FYI. I managed to upgrade my unit (F5-221) to a total of 10GB RAM..
    Based on some research and trawling through forums etc, I ordered a stick of 8GB Crucial Ram from overseas, popped it in and the system now has a total 10GB (2GB+8GB)

    • snowl on 25/11/2020 - 11:22

      Can you link the ram?

      • syngen on 25/11/2020 - 11:57
        +1

        Based on this post… https://nascompares.com/ram/terramaster-f5-221-ram-upgrade/

        The RAM I purchased from Amazon (actually comes from Amazon UK):
        https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B01979WD4U/ref=ppx_yo_d…

        [root@TNAS-F5 ~]# dmesg | grep Memory
        [ 0.000000] Memory: 10041568K/10328932K available (16375K kernel code, 1908K rwdata, 4788K rodata, 29208K init, 864K bss, 287364K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
        [ 0.900104] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 4096M

        [root@TNAS-F5 ~]# free
        total used free shared buff/cache available
        Mem: 10074224 552432 542476 18228 8979316 9377480
        Swap: 999868 0 999868

        [root@TNAS-F5 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
        MemTotal: 10074224 kB
        MemFree: 542816 kB
        MemAvailable: 9377820 kB
        Buffers: 2280 kB
        Cached: 8754820 kB
        SwapCached: 0 kB
        Active: 2814480 kB
        Inactive: 6146652 kB

    • Clear on 25/11/2020 - 11:28
      +2

      Good to know I've added it to OP. I think officially they advertise 4GB on Amazon and 6GB on their website. It makes sense that 10GB would work.

    • Caped Baldy on 30/11/2020 - 13:52

      Did you get much of a noticeable performance increase?

  • Jjklark on 25/11/2020 - 11:49

    Of course. Just bought the Ds220+ off eBay. So I can feel better (unlikely) how does this compare?

    • Clear on 25/11/2020 - 11:54

      Synology software is superior.

      • [Deactivated] on 25/11/2020 - 18:35

        I’ve got the current version of Synology running on F5-221 though… took a bit to iron out a particular setting but I documented it :)

        • Clear on 25/11/2020 - 18:42

          Are you able to download all the apps normally available through DSM on a Synology NAS.

          • [Deactivated] on 25/11/2020 - 18:55

            @Clear: Yep. Only thing I’m not able to do (haven’t tried) is QuickConnect. Not game enough to register on Synology servers with a non genuine device…
            I’ve been able to do the following successfully:
            * install 6.2.3 update 2
            * install proper Syno packages
            * install 3rd party packages
            * use Plex & Docker

            For some reason I can’t get the second Lan to function to perform Link Aggregation (‘Bonding’), but oh well

        • vash12 on 25/11/2020 - 19:42

          Im thinking of going down the same path and save a bit of money. A 4 bay Synology Nas is like double the price.

          What loader are you running? 1.04b DS918? Do you need add extra driver for the Nic?

          • [Deactivated] on 25/11/2020 - 20:04
            +4

            @vash12: Download this guys already modded loader no need to fiddle with extra.lzma, and just install the current DSM.
            Modded link

            You’ll then need to change some settings in the bios to successfully boot from USB. Instructions for that are here

            If you want it to show the correct CPU, grab this from GitHub: ch_cpuinfos.sh

            If you want the power button to work, use POWERBUTTON_6.2-0002.SPK

        • cacique on 26/11/2020 - 02:09
          +1

          Can you share your documentation? :)

          • [Deactivated] on 18/12/2020 - 11:27

            @cacique: Sorry didn’t see your reply. See here for summary of it. I have local photos of the bios settings as well, just in case.

    • RangaWal on 25/11/2020 - 12:27
      +1

      How much?

      • Jjklark on 25/11/2020 - 13:37
        +2

        Nothing special. $592 - $50 voucher for joining eBay plus, and the balance paid with discounted eBay gift cards

        • RangaWal on 25/11/2020 - 13:49

          wow, bit of a difference between $311 for this one.

    • syngen on 25/11/2020 - 12:34

      Don't have any experience with Synology.

      I do have an 8 year old 8-bay Qnap (TS 869 Pro running RAID6), which still works well as a NAS/FileServer but the CPU is showing its age (Plex transcoding? forget about it Lol)
      However, Qnap have been providing updates regularly, although being 8yrs old, its coming to End of Service Life (EOSL).
      I also have a HP Microserver running FreeNAS 11.2 with RAID-Z (I should upgrade to a newer version but have been lazy)

      In terms of interface and usability… I'd say..
      1) Qnap (I'm guessing the Synology would be at about the same level)
      2) TerraMaster
      3) FreeNAS

      In terms of cost for the barebones unit? There's a reason why I went with the 5-bay TerraMaster (running RAID 6 too) and splurged on large drives lol
      I run rsync between the Qnap and TerraMaster now

      • robertm on 25/11/2020 - 13:31

        Curious why you're rsyncing between two NAS? Backing up one NAS to another for redundancy? Just trying to understand more about NAS stuff? :-) thanks

        • syngen on 25/11/2020 - 13:47
          +1

          Even though I run RAID-6 on my NAS for resiliency (disk redundancy), its not a backup.
          I rsync from one NAS to another NAS for backup purposes. Ideally I should have an off-site backup or backup to Cloud.
          (Cloud backup in the works, although the thought of doing an initial 16TB backup to AWS on NBN isn't going to be fun)

          I guess its also because I'm a Data Hoarder and have archived personal and work stuff dating back to the early 90's in my storage..
          Loads of family pictures/videos/drone footage, centralized backups for the whole family, "Linux ISOs" etc :P
          I'd hate to lose anything or have stuff corrupted just because I didn't do the necessary.

          • robertm on 25/11/2020 - 15:21

            @syngen: Thanks. Did a bit of googling regarding backup vs redundancy. Interesting. Makes sense to use rsync to do the backups.

  • Juzman on 27/11/2020 - 12:42

    Looks like this price is available now via a coupon on AmazonAU

  • Seakip on 27/11/2020 - 19:36

    What are some good drives to get with this (ideally on sale as well)?

  • grl on 30/11/2020 - 12:39

    It looks like the 5-bay is not discounted as stated. The 2-bay is.

  • grl on 30/11/2020 - 14:13

    well, it now looks like the 5 bay is available at the discount for the next 7+ hours. They must have been slow to start.

    • Clear on 30/11/2020 - 14:31

      That's the thing with Amazon and their promotions. They can turn around and change the conditions of the sale at any time. I guess they pushed this one back.

  • techhead on 30/11/2020 - 19:37

    Got one of the 5-bay units to put my 12TB drives into and finally decommission the overworked N54L Thanks OP

  • techhead on 10/12/2020 - 10:02

    Arrived yesterday, the HDMI port is actually there behind the cover and does indeed work with a long HDMI plug which opens up far more possibilities for this box rather than just a headless NAS. http://prnt.sc/vzcinr http://prnt.sc/vzcjdv

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