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Synology DiskStation DS720+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure (Celeron J4125, 2GB DDR4)
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Amazon has Synology DiskStation DS720+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure on sale for $319.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member bigbenLA and PolishDude for sharing this deal.
Features:
Thanks to community member bigbenLA and PolishDude for sharing this deal.
Features:
- 2x 3.5/2.5" Bays | 2x M.2 2280 Slots
- 2.0 GHz Intel Celeron J4125 Quad-Core
- 2GB DDR4 RAM
- 2x Gigabit Ethernet Ports
- 2x USB 3.0 Type-A | 1x eSATA
- RAID 0, 1, Basic, Hybrid, and JBOD
- Sequential Reads up to 225.99 MB/s
- Sequential Writes up to 195.42 MB/s
- AES-NI Hardware Encryption Engine
- Synology DiskStation Manager OS
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- Our research indicates that this is $80 lower (20% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $399.99 at the time of this posting.
- Overall rated ~4.8 out of 5 stars from over 5,800 combined reviews.
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Amazon has Synology DiskStation DS720+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure on sale for $319.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member bigbenLA and PolishDude for sharing this deal.
Features:
Thanks to community member bigbenLA and PolishDude for sharing this deal.
Features:
- 2x 3.5/2.5" Bays | 2x M.2 2280 Slots
- 2.0 GHz Intel Celeron J4125 Quad-Core
- 2GB DDR4 RAM
- 2x Gigabit Ethernet Ports
- 2x USB 3.0 Type-A | 1x eSATA
- RAID 0, 1, Basic, Hybrid, and JBOD
- Sequential Reads up to 225.99 MB/s
- Sequential Writes up to 195.42 MB/s
- AES-NI Hardware Encryption Engine
- Synology DiskStation Manager OS
Editor's Notes
Written by oceanlake- About this Deal:
- Our research indicates that this is $80 lower (20% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $399.99 at the time of this posting.
- Overall rated ~4.8 out of 5 stars from over 5,800 combined reviews.
- About this Store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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Before going further, no intention to crap the thread ...
My use case is very simple - (1) store files (backup + media), (2) stream media. Update is very infrequent. Media streaming happens 60-80 times a month for avg 1hr each time. I mostly use VLC/XBMC as the client.
I settled for a used NUC of eBay. It was almost in new condition. With 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, USB3 dual bay SATA doc, I paid ~$130ish.
With OMV, I am pretty happy with the setup. For fun, I tried live transcoding with JellyBean. I don't have content more than 1080P. 2 concurrent streams worked just fine at ~50% load.
I am not too tech savvy, I had to invest couple of hours to understand everything before diving in.
For sure this setup is a package solution, easy to handle and manage. And for sure the SATA interface is much more efficient compared to the USB 3 setup, I have. I have a slightly better CPU and 4x more RAM (for docker, Minecraft, etc), though.
I'm sure you could find *something* to nitpick about any model (and I've got mine about the synology software), but as you get older, you just want reliability even if it costs a few hundred dollars. I've played with the various opensource raid-focused OSes and ideas and there's zero reason to switch (for me).
My 10yo hitachi 2TB drives are still error free. They were the deal at the time and I knew I'd have to replace them. The RAID-10 works for me.
I'd pair this with the two biggest HDDs you can afford, RAID-1, and not look back.
Edit… depending on your budget and space needs, you could pass on this one and wait for a 4 or 5 bay model
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Before going further, no intention to crap the thread ...
My use case is very simple - (1) store files (backup + media), (2) stream media. Update is very infrequent. Media streaming happens 60-80 times a month for avg 1hr each time. I mostly use VLC/XBMC as the client.
I settled for a used NUC of eBay. It was almost in new condition. With 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, USB3 dual bay SATA doc, I paid ~$130ish.
With OMV, I am pretty happy with the setup. For fun, I tried live transcoding with JellyBean. I don't have content more than 1080P. 2 concurrent streams worked just fine at ~50% load.
I am not too tech savvy, I had to invest couple of hours to understand everything before diving in.
For sure this setup is a package solution, easy to handle and manage. And for sure the SATA interface is much more efficient compared to the USB 3 setup, I have. I have a slightly better CPU and 4x more RAM (for docker, Minecraft, etc), though.
Before going further, no intention to crap the thread ...
My use case is very simple - (1) store files (backup + media), (2) stream media. Update is very infrequent. Media streaming happens 60-80 times a month for avg 1hr each time. I mostly use VLC/XBMC as the client.
I settled for a used NUC of eBay. It was almost in new condition. With 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, USB3 dual bay SATA doc, I paid ~$130ish.
With OMV, I am pretty happy with the setup. For fun, I tried live transcoding with JellyBean. I don't have content more than 1080P. 2 concurrent streams worked just fine at ~50% load.
I am not too tech savvy, I had to invest couple of hours to understand everything before diving in.
For sure this setup is a package solution, easy to handle and manage. And for sure the SATA interface is much more efficient compared to the USB 3 setup, I have. I have a slightly better CPU and 4x more RAM (for docker, Minecraft, etc), though.
I got that for prime day..
Still not sure if i really need it.. just got done testing all the ports (excluding the esata)
DSM 7.1 is nice.. but haven't really dug into it yet..
Can't believe harddrive are so freaking expensive..
the last set of hdd i shuck from BestBuy were 10tb for 100 each. that was years ago
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank
Before going further, no intention to crap the thread ...
My use case is very simple - (1) store files (backup + media), (2) stream media. Update is very infrequent. Media streaming happens 60-80 times a month for avg 1hr each time. I mostly use VLC/XBMC as the client.
I settled for a used NUC of eBay. It was almost in new condition. With 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, USB3 dual bay SATA doc, I paid ~$130ish.
With OMV, I am pretty happy with the setup. For fun, I tried live transcoding with JellyBean. I don't have content more than 1080P. 2 concurrent streams worked just fine at ~50% load.
I am not too tech savvy, I had to invest couple of hours to understand everything before diving in.
For sure this setup is a package solution, easy to handle and manage. And for sure the SATA interface is much more efficient compared to the USB 3 setup, I have. I have a slightly better CPU and 4x more RAM (for docker, Minecraft, etc), though.
I'm sure you could find *something* to nitpick about any model (and I've got mine about the synology software), but as you get older, you just want reliability even if it costs a few hundred dollars. I've played with the various opensource raid-focused OSes and ideas and there's zero reason to switch (for me).
My 10yo hitachi 2TB drives are still error free. They were the deal at the time and I knew I'd have to replace them. The RAID-10 works for me.
I'd pair this with the two biggest HDDs you can afford, RAID-1, and not look back.
Edit… depending on your budget and space needs, you could pass on this one and wait for a 4 or 5 bay model
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Still not sure if i really need it.. just got done testing all the ports (excluding the esata)
DSM 7.1 is nice.. but haven't really dug into it yet..
Can't believe harddrive are so freaking expensive..
the last set of hdd i shuck from BestBuy were 10tb for 100 each. that was years ago
I have two Syno units currently - I love the platform. It's incredibly simple to setup and offers a nice feature set.
You pay a tiny bit more for Synology compared to QNAP or ASUS, but its worth the money for DSM.
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