Synology DS212J Diskless 2-Bay NAS Server $180 + Free Shipping (expired)

Quote from shaggymatt : Doesn't stream ISO's, avi, wmv, mkv. I've only been able to stream m4v files. Which means, if I use the built in download manager, I then have to bring the files over to a computer and re-rip the media to m4v, and copy them back over to the Synology.

well, I've been using this for 1.5 years. It is connected to my Samsung TV and all the movies are played with DLNA. And never had complains about download speed, believe me, I'm active torrents user.
Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars

Quote from dobry : well, I've been using this for 1.5 years. It is connected to my Samsung TV and all the movies are played with DLNA. And never had complains about download speed, believe me, I'm active torrents user. Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars

What do you do to wake this up?

I can access my movies from PS3, but I have an issue of it going to sleep

B&H has the QNAP TS-212 for $165 if anybody is interested.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/pro..._NAS.html/

Quote from jdossey7 : B&H has the QNAP TS-212 for $165 if anybody is interested. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/pro..._NAS.html/

Thanks jdossey7,
got 1

Quote from cnewsgrp : What do you do to wake this up? I can access my movies from PS3, but I have an issue of it going to sleep

It supports WOL. If TV can't wake it up, I just open it from any computer and it starts blinking again.

Been thinking about picking one of these up but I just decided to install nas4free as a VM on a machine that I already have powered up 24/7.

Love this device. I've got it set up with two 3 TB drives (purchased when they were $90 around Christmas) running in Synology hybrid RAID.

With sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato and plex set up, this thing is a home theater wonder. I have it running to my HTPC in the living room and a WD Live SMP in my bedroom. I was surprised that 1080p video plays flawlessly over the wireless-N network.

Photo Station is set up so I can share and view my home photos anytime, anywhere.

I use Audio Station web interface to stream my music at work, and then use the android app to stream my music in the car. Love all the Synology android apps - file access, audio, video.

For the price, it is hard to beat the features. I would like to upgrade to a beefier NAS one day, but I still have a ton of storage space on this beast.

These NASes are great if you want to just serve audio and video over a LAN. But most NASes can do this. However, if you want to transcode any video into a playable format then you will be better off with a faster CPU in your server.

Of course, you can just use the NAS to serve to a more powerful computer that can transcode for you and then serve up your media, but that would also mean you must have another machine on. This is not a big deal if you have your computer hooked up to your TV, but it is more of an issue if you want to use a video transcoder like Plex, Qloud, Orb, AirVideo, Stream To Me, etc... to transcode and serve up your media to your tablet or smartphone. It just means another machine must be on to do the transcoding.

If you want transcoding to be done to serve videos to your smartphones or tablet when you are outside of your home in a WAN then I would suggest that you pick up or build a server with a Core i3 processor or better. AMD also makes some good processors that are multi-core which are often particularly good at transcoding. Typically, the more cores you have the faster the transcoding, though this is not always the case. The downside is that this will require more power draw then a processor in a NAS. That is why a Core i3 based server may be the best compromise of sufficient power for transcoding and energy efficiency.

Quote from jamex : Yeah I really want a four bay but can't afford one. I figure if I slap in two 3-4TB that should be sufficient for what I need (few hundred movies, music collection).

Before you buy one just make sure if it's actually going to accept 3-4 TB hard drives.

Synology makes the best NAS. I own DS211j (older version of this one) for over 2 years now without a single issue. It just works. No error messages, no connectivity issues. They have one of the best OS for NAS. Their recent OS also supports remote streaming of your movies from NAS. 5 out of 5.

Quote from Surfer Bob : Is it me or does this look like a toaster? TU for price and post though!

I set up one of these for a customer. They call it "The Toaster".

Quote from keyur82 : Before you buy one just make sure if it's actually going to accept 3-4 TB hard drives.

Yep thanks for the advice. I checked the HD's that are supported and I plan on buying the ones listed. I encourage all to check which HD's the manufacturers supports.

All my friends own Qnaps so I think I'll go that way, but I'm sure both entry level 2-bay'ers (i.e. Qnap and Synology) are pretty similar.

Quote from jamex : Yep thanks for the advice. I checked the HD's that are supported and I plan on buying the ones listed. I encourage all to check which HD's the manufacturers supports. All my friends own Qnaps so I think I'll go that way, but I'm sure both entry level 2-bay'ers (i.e. Qnap and Synology) are pretty similar.

The OS on Synology is superior. Although QNAP has come along way.

I'm planning to use DS212j as a central Data storage and planning to stream Videos/Music/Photos to Sony TV. Music and Photos work fine but the Videos.

Does anybody know how to stream AVI/DivX/Mkv files to Sony KDL 52Ex700 TV using Media Server or Plex Media Server ????
Its an ARM processor so it wont transcode.
Is there any way around to stream all types of Video to Sony TV without adding a WDLive like device ??????