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Amazon.com has Synology DiskStation DS218+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure (Diskless) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free. Thanks CleverApple510

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Altho i wish it had the quad core its still plenty powerful for the best $250 - $300 nas you will find. Anyone on fence on waiting on a nas shld jump on this. Even if just for surveillance or media library functionality you'l get your $$ worth in no time. Then theres countless other value added features that ALL WORK almost effortlessly

Remember hardware is only 1/2 the battle, without solid & efficient software u got nothin but paper specs. This will crush most (even the quad core / 8-16GB ram) nas from other vendors (and u can upgrade the RAM if you want)

Im using:
NTP server
Dns server
Radius server
LDAP seever (for my lab )
Suerveillance (kills even most cam company nvr's!)
File server
Median / movie server (for my shield tv, apple tv, roku, airplay, dlna hosts)
Photo station (automatic geofence phone pic uploads from households apple devices)
Cloud server
Mac backups / time machine
Vmware esxi / vsphere storage - all my vm's and data live on the synology, vmware esxi server has no local storage (iscsi / nfs mounted to vmware)
Auto usb flash / thumb drive backups (incremental)
Ftp server

And prob much more stuff i forgot im using
Been using my 212+ for the last ~7 years. As a person who frequently buys new gadgets the Synology diskstation is one of the best products I bought that I still feel no need to replace. It just works.
Best Buy has 10TB on sale for their WD Easystore. Can shuck them out

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rippaulwalker
02-16-2019 at 04:58 AM.
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jmireles3
02-16-2019 at 06:10 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:10 AM.
In for one!
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root349
02-16-2019 at 06:19 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:19 AM.
This is perfect. Been waiting for the DS218+. Repped.
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TJD
02-16-2019 at 06:27 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:27 AM.
Thanks! Been waiting for the 218+. TU!

According to ccc, this is the lowest price on amazon ever.

I also picked up a pair of WD Red 4TB drives for $110 each. Not the lowest price I've ever seen (I think that was around $100), but the DS218+ is useless without disks and I thought this was a fair price.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...le_o00_s00
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TedM3240
02-16-2019 at 06:27 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:27 AM.
Great deal, thanks. Repped. Now to find 10-12TB NAS drives on sale.
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hpnas
02-16-2019 at 06:29 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:29 AM.
Quote from TedM3240 :
Great deal, thanks. Repped. Now to find 10-12TB NAS drives on sale.
Best Buy has 10TB on sale for their WD Easystore. Can shuck them out
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BuenoBonitoYBarato
02-16-2019 at 06:33 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:33 AM.
Which there was a 4bay on sale
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9000RPM
02-16-2019 at 06:40 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:40 AM.
I've had my Synology DS213j for almost 4 years now. I mainly use it to store all my RAW image files and access them via Lightroom.
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Galen_Erso
02-16-2019 at 06:42 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:42 AM.
Altho i wish it had the quad core its still plenty powerful for the best $250 - $300 nas you will find. Anyone on fence on waiting on a nas shld jump on this. Even if just for surveillance or media library functionality you'l get your $$ worth in no time. Then theres countless other value added features that ALL WORK almost effortlessly

Remember hardware is only 1/2 the battle, without solid & efficient software u got nothin but paper specs. This will crush most (even the quad core / 8-16GB ram) nas from other vendors (and u can upgrade the RAM if you want)

Im using:
NTP server
Dns server
Radius server
LDAP seever (for my lab )
Suerveillance (kills even most cam company nvr's!)
File server
Median / movie server (for my shield tv, apple tv, roku, airplay, dlna hosts)
Photo station (automatic geofence phone pic uploads from households apple devices)
Cloud server
Mac backups / time machine
Vmware esxi / vsphere storage - all my vm's and data live on the synology, vmware esxi server has no local storage (iscsi / nfs mounted to vmware)
Auto usb flash / thumb drive backups (incremental)
Ftp server

And prob much more stuff i forgot im using
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bokeh
02-16-2019 at 06:42 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:42 AM.
Been waiting for this. Great price. Got a 207e and 410. About time for a small upgrade.
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Prosercunus
02-16-2019 at 06:43 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:43 AM.
Awesome NAS. Been using this for over a year now with those shucked whites from Easystores. Zero drops, zero complaints.
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PorterRanchDB
02-16-2019 at 06:47 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:47 AM.
Anyone know what other retailer is selling this for $250? I couldn't figure it out with a quick google search. In my experience, Amazon only price matches other retailers and rarely cuts prices except a few times a year.
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Briggs
02-16-2019 at 06:56 AM.
02-16-2019 at 06:56 AM.
Synology Nas devices almost never go on sale since they build such a quality product they don't need to.

Tempted to get this since I love my 918+ so much.
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