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I thought the last deal was cheap and here it is with a smashing price thanks to the coupon codes. Stack with 18% cashback at TopCashback and join Team OzBargain for even bigger savings!
- Apply the coupon AOOSTAR08 first, followed by IFPA9KYF at checkout
10pm 18/8 update: Further price drop from US$634.84 to US$624.84.
The long awaited WTR MAX NAS is finally here and while the price is high, it's still cheaper than Aoostar.com direct and you'll have trouble finding something with similar specs in the same price range. Especially from Synology/QNAP. A quick and informative review can be found here.
Featuring 11 drive bays with 6x 3.5/2.5" SATA slots and 5x M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD slots paired with an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 8845HS 8 core, 16 thread CPU, AMD Radeon 780M integrated graphics, USB4 + OCuLink port for external GPU support, dual DDR5 SODIMM RAM slots with ECC support, 2x 10GbE Intel X710 SFP+ ports, 2x 2.5GbE LAN ports and 3 screen display output via HDMI, DisplayPort and USB4.
Additionally there's a customisable display on the front, vapor chamber cooling 3 fans. For I/O ports on the front there is an SD card slot, USB 3.2 Gen 5Gbps and USB-C 5Gbps port. On the rear there is a 3.5mm audio jack, HDMI, DisplayPort, 2x USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gbps, Oculink, USB4, 2x 2.5G, 2x SFP+ and a DC jack port.
For the SSDs there are 4 slots together with 2x PCIe 4.02 x2 and 2x PCIe 4.0 x1, while the 5th SSD is located on the bottom with the RAM slots and is PCIe 4.0 x2.
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Got mine today, just waiting on RAM, be warned, ECC is rare, hard to find and expensive, this wont work with 2x48 non ecc sticks but will work with 2x64 sticks (about 600 bux)
will work with 1x48 stick, seems to be a CPU limitation.
if your interested in this, also look at the minisforum n5 pro nas… similar price, better CPU, has a pcie, but 1 less 3.5 drive slots (and less nvme drives) and no SFP+ are the main differences, n5 is a couple hundred more if you can find coupon codes for it, much more if you cant. (the CPU is pretty powerful) it also has an NPU , combined with the GPU that gives you 80TOPS for AI, where as this has about 40, so the n5 is much more powerful, if you have a PC you can run with a decent graphics card, it will blow this out of the water though.
I got this due to price, and should do nicely.
with all that said, I would say this is a dupe of
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/918025
same shop, different codes. less than the amount of time… even if it is a bit cheaper?
still waiting on non second hand, enterprise or NAS drives to go on sale at 25 bux per TB or less. i think it will happen in one of the sales, but how long will i need to wait.
one more thing about this, top cashback says it doesnt work with coupons? it didnt track for me a week or so ago…