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Synology DS923+ 4 Bay NAS $811.39 Delivered @ Shallothead eBay

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Synology DS923+ 4 Bay NAS $811.39 Delivered @ Shallothead eBay
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youknow on 12/05/2023 - 21:30 ebay.com.au (859 clicks)
Last edited 12/05/2023 - 21:36 by 2 other users
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For those of you who are still looking for a place to stick your big disks, this NAS is begging to be mounted! It can take 4 disks at once, which is impressive in itself, but can also take 2xM2s and has expansion ports etc.
People have said this device is anti-trans, but according to Dong!, that's the kind of stereotype for those of you living in the past!

Great deal on the Synology DS923+ 4 Bay NAS. Usually selling for 900-950 + shipping.

Enjoy!
10+ at time of posting.
Ordered mine last night, expected ETA Monday (Auspost express).
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  • CyberMurning on 12/05/2023 - 21:43
    +5

    SHTSAVE5

    I thought it reads shitsaves

    • youknow on 12/05/2023 - 21:46

      Yes, I read it that way several times myself.

  • Budju on 12/05/2023 - 21:46
    +1

    Still a downgrade from the previous specs?

    • youknow on 12/05/2023 - 21:50
      +1

      It depends on what you consider a downgrade. I'd recommend reading the dong article. It probably depends on your use case, but for the bulk of people in the market for a device like this, I don't think it's downgrade.

    • jace88 on 13/05/2023 - 17:14

      Just curious, what makes this a downgrade? I haven't followed Synology/NAS news in a while since once I bought my 1019+ I didn't think I'd be buying another anytime soon!

      • Budju on 13/05/2023 - 18:28
        +1

        They switched to AMD processors from Intel Celeron, that now don't have integrated graphics. So now struggle with multimedia transcoding on the server side. The AMD processor is better for a few reasons, but also uses more power, and is bad at multimedia uses. People are split over whether this was a good move by Synology.

        • jace88 on 13/05/2023 - 18:32

          Ah thanks for that. Makes sense. I don't use transcoding much so not much of an issue for me but I also don't plan to change NAS yet! Wonder if the AMD is better for Windows VMs though as I find anything newer than Win7 to be excruciatingly slow.

          • Budju on 13/05/2023 - 18:37

            @jace88: I'm still running a DS214SE from like 2014 with 2 x 12TB drives. It serves just fine with client-side transcoding, but I did like the idea of server side transcoding if I was going to upgrade. Now the only motivation to upgrade are for data redundancy purposes. There are apparently some other benefits to having integrated graphics beyond just transcoding in such as thumbnail displays for photo storage.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espOjklqzv8&t=2s

            This channel talks about it in detail.

          • Nom on 13/05/2023 - 18:41
            +1

            @jace88: You need to run your Windows VM from an SSD - if you're hosting it on mechanical drives in the NAS then it's going to run like 💩

            • Budju on 13/05/2023 - 18:47

              @Nom: This would be true with any computer, so I can definitely see how a NAS would also struggle. I just wonder if a NAS is really the most appropriate device for such applications. I've got an Intel Nuc 11 essential which would be perfect for that instead. That being said, these latest Synology models with their boosted processor power might just be able to accommodate a windows 10 VM.

            • jace88 on 13/05/2023 - 18:57

              @Nom: It's fully cached on the SSD though so thought it would run a bit better when using Windows 10… it wasn't an issue before but as stuff stops working/being supported on Win 7 (eg OneDrive) then I do need to rethink this strategy.

              • Budju on 13/05/2023 - 19:01
                +1

                @jace88: Yeah it might be a CPU bottleneck then. It's possible these latest AMD Synologys could fit your use case.

  • CyberMurning on 12/05/2023 - 21:50

    Wow 923 already… ok good. Hope 918+ become cheaper and cheaper so i can afford upgrading my 11 years old syno

    • Banj0 on 12/05/2023 - 21:51
      +2

      They just don’t seem to die, but support does eventually run out :-(

      • CyberMurning on 12/05/2023 - 21:56

        Yeah mine cant install dsm 7.
        But im basic user so dsm 6 is fine

        • ozbs25 on 12/05/2023 - 22:05
          +1

          I'm actually a bit worried my setup won't be quite the same if I upgrade. Everything seems to be going quite OK with DSM 6.

          • Master Bates on 13/05/2023 - 00:47
            +1

            @ozbs25: Same, I'm rolling with the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"!

        • littlesoldier on 12/05/2023 - 22:21

          I am actually hesitate in upgrading to dsm 7 from 6
          I have been using Photo Station quite alot and dsm 7 has changed that to Synology Photo (merging with Moment I believe?)

          • highground on 13/05/2023 - 14:26

            @littlesoldier: I caved and upgraded to DSM 7 on my 916 about 6 months back - it's much quicker now. The only issue I had is the Docker GUI app now doesn't like spaces in file paths (even if present in DSM6), which wasn't too hard to work around.

            • Banj0 on 14/05/2023 - 11:49

              @highground: I'm an underscore evangelist myself, so please excuse me for going off about whitespace. Spaces in path names are the worst thing ever…it's just not consistently treated across systems and software. Sure you can quote a path name, but then when something further into a software/infrastructure stack strips the quotes out…..errrg.

              Whitespace is whitespace. It's too often interpreted as a delimiter to be safely used. Might be ok if you live in Windows forever, but as soon as you're touching something else like the Linux based DSM and Linux based apps, you can be in for a world of pain.

              I see it all the time in an enterprise based environment, and I'm always telling people not to do that. In particular Windows administrators and developers are often hopeless with this (and of course users simply can't be told).

    • littlesoldier on 12/05/2023 - 22:04

      I got my 218+ 5 years ago and it is still going strong
      Probably only drawback are the lack of M2 SSD slot and no 2.5GB gigabit port
      2 disk RAID is ok for me as only used to store ip camera footage and personal photos / videos

      • redpen on 12/05/2023 - 22:26

        M2 SSD is only for cache anyway, isn't it. Not really useful for big/media files.

        edit: sorry, was thinking you meant 918.

  • eciuj on 12/05/2023 - 22:27
    +5

    Keep in mind the DS923+ uses an AMD Ryzen, so not a great choice if you want transcoding. I opted for the QNAP TS-464 instead for $699 at umart/msy.

    • youknow on 12/05/2023 - 22:39

      Agree, the QNAP TS-464 is a great value proposition. It was a tough call for me on which way to go. How are you finding the it?

      • FoxJump on 12/05/2023 - 22:54

        also ts464 allows 32gb of ram, you can also install trunas if you want instead.

        • sirix on 13/05/2023 - 14:54

          Well, unofficially 32GB will show up…officially it only supports 16GB.

          All that said… I've got 16GB (2x8GB) in mine and its solid as a rock.

          Also fitted 2x 1TB NVMe for cache, and some shucked 12TB WD drives for the drive bays and so far, so good.

          I will say as much as QTS gets a bad wrap…. once you have all you need setup its a pretty powerful setup.

          For the money i dont think there is a better option right now, and as others have said if you really dont like QTS you could always install TrueNAS Scale.

          • FoxJump on 13/05/2023 - 15:36

            @sirix: yes. took me three times to set things up correctly, inc disks sleeping

          • FoxJump on 13/05/2023 - 15:37

            @sirix: I also have the 2x ssd extension board, so a total of 3 nvme ssds.

            though the board once failed to boot up in time and the nas thought the nvme had failed, so it swapped over to the spare nvme on the main board

      • eciuj on 12/05/2023 - 23:19

        Still early days. I came from a 10 year old Synology DS212J, so this is quite the step up in performance. Synology DSM was very easy to use QNAP QTS is pretty easy too, but I haven't tried to do anything complex yet. Have just created the storage pool, volume, shared folders and setup Plex so far.

        The Intel CPU and 2.5GbE over the DS923+ sold me.

  • Link2020 on 12/05/2023 - 22:35
    +1

    Just grabbed one, good price with gift card discount on top brought it down to $795.

  • feral on 12/05/2023 - 22:40
    +1

    Still running a DS415play, Just over 8 years old now.

    • CyberMurning on 12/05/2023 - 23:13

      I beat you, mine is 1511

  • blackfrancis75 on 12/05/2023 - 23:39
    +1

    Friendly reminder that RAID is not a backup :)

    • littlesoldier on 13/05/2023 - 00:18
      +2

      my NAS just use a 2.5" harddisk for onsite backup
      with a weekly backup to AWS Glacier
      the schedule backup been running pretty well for last 5 years

  • 1030510410 on 13/05/2023 - 05:16
    +1

    Thanks OP. Any ECC 16G RAM suggested? There might be some risk, but Synology RAM is too expensive.

    • Kidsgame on 13/05/2023 - 08:15
      +2

      found this from Amazon. its been tested by NAScompares.com as well

      16GB DDR4-2666 PC4-21300 ECC SODIMM Compatible with Synology D4ECSO-2666-16G Memory Upgrade Module by NEMIX RAM https://amzn.asia/d/iSnltb6

  • motion2082 on 13/05/2023 - 20:17
    -1

    N = Not
    A = Affordable
    S = Storage Bay

  • youknow on 15/05/2023 - 22:19

    I must say, first time DSM user, I am very impressed with the software. This would be true of anything running DSM7. Very powerful features, very easy to use.

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