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Synology DS1522+ 5-Bay NAS Diskless DiskStation Network Attached Storage

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Amazon has Synology DS1522+ 5-Bay NAS Diskless DiskStation Network Attached Storage for $579.95. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member jubjub for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Over 736/796 MB/s sequential read/write
  • 4 x 1GbE and optional 1 x 10GbE RJ-45
  • Expand up to 15 drives with DX517 expansion units
  • Built-in M.2 NVMe slots for SSD cache
  • AMD Ryzen R1600
  • 2-core 2.6 (base) / 3.1 (turbo) GHz
  • 8 GB DDR4 (Expandable up to 32GB)

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  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this is $120 lower (17% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $699.99 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • 3-year limited hardware warranty
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Amazon has Synology DS1522+ 5-Bay NAS Diskless DiskStation Network Attached Storage for $579.95. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member jubjub for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Over 736/796 MB/s sequential read/write
  • 4 x 1GbE and optional 1 x 10GbE RJ-45
  • Expand up to 15 drives with DX517 expansion units
  • Built-in M.2 NVMe slots for SSD cache
  • AMD Ryzen R1600
  • 2-core 2.6 (base) / 3.1 (turbo) GHz
  • 8 GB DDR4 (Expandable up to 32GB)

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this is $120 lower (17% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $699.99 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • 3-year limited hardware warranty
  • About this store:
  • Please read the Forum Thread for more deal discussion.

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LavenderPickle7682
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Nope. It doesn't give "good data safety". It just gives you -good uptime-.

RAID is not a backup.
RAID is uptime.

It just means you can lose a drive, and keep running "business as usual" until you can replace it. In this case, you can lose two drives before you're at risk of data loss with a third drive loss. It's very, very expensive overhead to ensure you don't have any disruption. In a business environment, that's almost 100% necessary. Personally? You'd probably be fine with RAID parity of 1x drive --- and have extra volume space available.

But RAID is not a backup. You absolutely need to keep backups of the NAS data elsewhere.
AEIOUB
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Serial is tracked. Return the old and get a new one.
madrascaldavid
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This is a server for anyone (like me) who didn't know.

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This is a server for anyone (like me) who didn't know.
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from https://global.download.synology....et_enu.pdf

CPU AMD Ryzen™ R1600 dual-core (4-thread) 2.6 GHz, max. boost clock up to 3.1 GHz
Hardware encryption engine AES-NI
Memory 8 GB DDR4 ECC SODIMM (expandable up to 32 GB)
Compatible drive types
• 5 x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD (drives not included)
• 2 x M.2 2280 NVMe SSD (drives not included)
• Synology only guarantees full functionality, reliability, and performance for Synology drives listed on the compatibility list6
Hot swappable drives Yes
External ports • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
• 2 x Expansion ports (eSATA)
Form factor Desktop
Size (HxWxD) 166 x 230 x 223 mm
Weight 2.7 kg
LAN ports 4 x 1GbE RJ-45
Wake on LAN/WAN Yes
Network expansion Supports E10G22-T1-Mini 10GbE RJ-45 Network Upgrade Module2
Scheduled power on/off Yes
System fans 2 x (92 x 92 x 25 mm)
AC input power voltage 100 V to 240 V AC
Power frequency 50/60 Hz, single phase
Operating environment • Temperature: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% RH
Storage environment • Temperature: -20°C to 60°C (-5°F to 140°F)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% RH
Maximum operating altitude 5,000 m (16,400 ft)
Networking protocols SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, SNMP, and VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN™, L2TP)
File systems • Internal: Btrfs, ext4
• External: Btrfs, ext4, ext3, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT
Supported RAID types Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10
Storage management
• Max. single volume size: 108 TB
• Max. number of system snapshots: 65,53611
• Max. number of internal volumes: 64
SSD cache • Read/write cache support
• M.2 NVMe and 2.5" SATA SSD support
File sharing capabilities
• Maximum local user accounts: 2,048
• Maximum local groups: 256
• Maximum shared folders: 512
• Maximum concurrent SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP connections: 2,000
Privileges Windows® Access Control List (ACL) and application privileges
Directory services Connects with Windows® AD/LDAP servers enabling domain users to login via SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP/File Station using their
existing credentials
Virtualization VMware vSphere®, Microsoft Hyper-V®, Citrix®, OpenStack, and Kubernetes
Security Firewall, shared folder encryption, SMB encryption, FTP over SSL/TLS, SFTP, rsync over SSH, login auto block, Let's Encrypt
support, and HTTPS (customizable cipher suite)
Supported browsers Google Chrome®, Firefox®, Microsoft Edge®, Safari® 13 and later, and Safari (iOS 13.0 and later) on iPad, Chrome (Android™
11.0 and later) on tablets
Interface languages English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Dansk, Norsk, Svensk, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Magyar,
Português do Brasil, Português Europeu, Türkçe, Český,
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superunknown
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Just picked this up at Amazon a couple weeks ago for $699. Amazon wont do price adjustment. Best to just re-order and return the new one as the old? Or are serial #'s tracked?
Last edited by superunknown September 3, 2023 at 11:06 AM.
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Quote from superunknown :
Just picked this up at Amazon a couple weeks ago for $699. Amazon wont do price adjustment. Best to just re-order and return the new one as the old? Or are serial #'s tracked?
Serial is tracked. Return the old and get a new one.
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Great price, but I'd get (and have gotten) 8 bays and do double parity. Well, if the data matters to you. 8x18tb+double parity maxes out the volume size and gives good data safety.
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Quote from fintlewoodlewix :
Great price, but I'd get (and have gotten) 8 bays and do double parity. Well, if the data matters to you. 8x18tb+double parity maxes out the volume size and gives good data safety.
Nope. It doesn't give "good data safety". It just gives you -good uptime-.

RAID is not a backup.
RAID is uptime.

It just means you can lose a drive, and keep running "business as usual" until you can replace it. In this case, you can lose two drives before you're at risk of data loss with a third drive loss. It's very, very expensive overhead to ensure you don't have any disruption. In a business environment, that's almost 100% necessary. Personally? You'd probably be fine with RAID parity of 1x drive --- and have extra volume space available.

But RAID is not a backup. You absolutely need to keep backups of the NAS data elsewhere.
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DongDong
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is this a good option for plex server?
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Quote from DongDong :
is this a good option for plex server?
Transcoding is the only problem I read about with a Ryzen cpu.
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Quote from DongDong :
is this a good option for plex server?
Not sure about this, but I believe AMD CPUs do not have the same optimization in hardware for some encodings, so if you want Plex an Intel one is better choice.

However, someone with more knowledge of this might be better equipped to share.
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Quote from littlemaui :
Transcoding is the only problem I read about with a Ryzen cpu.
This. AMD doesn't have an Intel Quicksync equivalent so it's not as good for hardware acceleration and transcoding as an Intel counterpart.
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Quote from DongDong :
is this a good option for plex server?
At a quick glance the answer is "It depends"

The CPU doesn't have native h.264/h.265 decoding so if you have to transcode it going to grind the CPU.

If every device you will be watching Plex with has native support for these then it should be fine on a local network.

Personally, I would use this for storage and offload Plex hosting to another device that can handle transcoding.
Last edited by MightyPez September 3, 2023 at 01:08 PM.
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Quote from DongDong :
is this a good option for plex server?
I currently use an older ds916 for plex and it works flawlessly and that's because I use an Apple TV with the infuse app. In this scenario the Apple TV does all the transcoding. It's wonderful. Infuse has a plex plugin so you can use the plex app on the NAS to manage your library. I can't stress enough how much this setup kicks ass.
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Quote from LavenderPickle7682 :
Nope. It doesn't give "good data safety". It just gives you -good uptime-.

RAID is not a backup.
RAID is uptime.

It just means you can lose a drive, and keep running "business as usual" until you can replace it. In this case, you can lose two drives before you're at risk of data loss with a third drive loss. It's very, very expensive overhead to ensure you don't have any disruption. In a business environment, that's almost 100% necessary. Personally? You'd probably be fine with RAID parity of 1x drive --- and have extra volume space available.

But RAID is not a backup. You absolutely need to keep backups of the NAS data elsewhere.
So, what would be good setup for a 4-bay one? I need to keep some photos, which are important and I'd like to make sure those are safe (maybe I need to upload those somewhere else for backup, like "glacier"), but those are like 1-2Tb max. The rest I'd be ok to loose (but ideally not).
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Quote from lolopolo :
So, what would be good setup for a 4-bay one? I need to keep some photos, which are important and I'd like to make sure those are safe (maybe I need to upload those somewhere else for backup, like "glacier"), but those are like 1-2Tb max. The rest I'd be ok to loose (but ideally not).
your best bet would be to use the 3-2-1 plan which includes an off-site back up, like at the parents house, mother-in-laws apt, significant others car, secret lover, etc.

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Quote from DongDong :
is this a good option for plex server?
The NAS device itself won't be able to transcode videos since it uses an AMD CPU.
Not sure if this CPU has it's own iGPU, even if it did Plex isn't designed to use AMD's iGPU and only Intel's currently.
If you want to transcode your videos to smaller screens, you'll need another device like that BeeLink mini PC https://slickdeals.net/f/16876073-beelink-mini-s12-pro-mini-pc-intel-12th-gen-n100-16gb-ddr4-500gb-ssd-169-free-shipping?v=1&p=165619705#post165619705
or have the client device play the video directly without transcoding.

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