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Prime Members: Synology NAS Enclosures: DS1522+ 5-Bay $560, DS923+ 4-Bay
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- Synology DS923+ 4-Bay Diskless NAS Enclosure $479.99
- Synology DS1522+ 5-Bay Diskless DiskStation (Black $559.99
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Amazon has for Prime Members: Select Synology NAS Enclosures on sale below (prices reflected in cart). Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Editor iconian for sharing this deal.
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- Note: You must be an active Prime Members signed into your account to purchase
- Synology DS923+ 4-Bay Diskless NAS Enclosure $479.99
- Synology DS1522+ 5-Bay Diskless DiskStation (Black $559.99
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Written by slickdewmaster | Staff- About this Offer: This sale price is $29 less than this previous FrontPage Deal from March 2023.
- 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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The reason I like a QNAP/Synology solution is that they do a better job of abstracting the underlying technology into a smaller set of configurations. NAS is a specific type of application that doesn't require powerful CPUs or a ton of RAM to run well at very high-performance levels. So with something like a Synology, you get the benefit of streamlined configuration, predictable/stable performance, and a rich set of management/access/security/backup/sync/notification features that would take very complicated configuration to replicate. TrueNAS makes this easier, but it's not as easy as Synology/QNAP. For those that want to ticker with their NAS, they can try building a TrueNAS system. For me, my NAS holds important files that I just want to be available so I'm not tinkering with it. I do my tinkering with the Proxmox VMs.
Lastly, want to mention that my self-built NAS pulled about 80 watts on idle and that was quite an achievement with under-volting an AMD processor. The QNAP I have now run about 20-40 watts depending on load. For the 8 years I ran my self-built NAS, that's 2800kWh of additional electricity used, or about $420 at 15 cents a kWh. Your mileage may vary, but a Synology/QNAP will have lower energy costs over the years.
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Which hard drives would be for backup/duplicating and which ones would be originals?
you can look at a comparison of 923 vs 920 on nascompares for more info
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The biggest concern I have in moving to DS923+ is that my QNAP does have hardware transcoding, while the Synology does not. That being said, I've moved onto a client side decoding option (Infuse for Mac/iOS), since it works better than any transcoding, so I won't miss it much. But it was good to have if I ever needed it. The other concern with DS923+ is that reviews say it's loud and has high power consumption (and thus heat). Not sure if that is something to worry about too much. If it goes to sleep fine, it may not be a problem. But if it turns out it behaves the same as my current QNAP, I'll rather keep my $500.
Use case wise, by QNAP works just fine, so there is no need to upgrade. I use it for syncing backups, the ebook server and multimedia (used to use Plex but moved onto Infuse to side-step transcoding; still use Plex for library management since I have the lifetime license anyway, but it's connected to Infuse so Plex is being used as a dummy server without transcoding). The one and only problem I have is the constant noise.
Any opinions or advice would be helpful.
The reason I didn't get the DS923+ is that Synology seems to want to play the game of requiring their own proprietary hardware for upgrades, which are very expensive. Some of it, like RAM, will work with nagging, but others, like NVMe drives, will simply not work for storage. It also seems that QNAP has some better proprietary apps like AI-powered media management, which is very useful to me for managing family photos and videos gathered over the years. Another small factor is that I am already familiar with QNAP software and how the system behaves.
One difference that people seem to argue back and forth over is of course the Intel vs AMD CPU. IMO, most of the discussion seems to be around whether the AMD is as capable as the Intel, rather than the reverse. So the default seems to favor Intel.
All that said, this is a great price for a great NAS. Anyone looking for a capable 4-bay NAS should jump on this deal.
The reason I like a QNAP/Synology solution is that they do a better job of abstracting the underlying technology into a smaller set of configurations. NAS is a specific type of application that doesn't require powerful CPUs or a ton of RAM to run well at very high-performance levels. So with something like a Synology, you get the benefit of streamlined configuration, predictable/stable performance, and a rich set of management/access/security/backup/sync/notification features that would take very complicated configuration to replicate. TrueNAS makes this easier, but it's not as easy as Synology/QNAP. For those that want to ticker with their NAS, they can try building a TrueNAS system. For me, my NAS holds important files that I just want to be available so I'm not tinkering with it. I do my tinkering with the Proxmox VMs.
Lastly, want to mention that my self-built NAS pulled about 80 watts on idle and that was quite an achievement with under-volting an AMD processor. The QNAP I have now run about 20-40 watts depending on load. For the 8 years I ran my self-built NAS, that's 2800kWh of additional electricity used, or about $420 at 15 cents a kWh. Your mileage may vary, but a Synology/QNAP will have lower energy costs over the years.
Don't need hardware transcoding.
Is it worth the extra $100 to be more future proof?
I bought the 920+ earlier this year purely because of the transcoding. I primarily use it as a backup for my family laptops and as a Jellyfin server with ARR apps.
However, if you have a streaming stick, they can usually decode the most popular formats out there ie HEVC, Av1, h264, and you can be worry free that you don't need transcoding, and can go for the 923+.
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And there is a method to do it on other models, which has favorable feedback but YMMV as it's technically unsupported still as far as I know: https://www.reddit.com/r/synology...to_u
Depending on your model, you'd probably want to upgrade to the 10GBe card to take advantage of it, though, possibly more ram as well.
Edit: looks like it's even more models, per https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM...orage_poo
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Don't need hardware transcoding.
Is it worth the extra $100 to be more future proof?
This is a great deal. In for 1.
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