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Is this a decent NAS?

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  • 17-03-2012 10:41pm
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    silvine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭


    I'm thinking of buying a Synology DiskStation DS212j from dabs.ie for EUR196.


    http://www.dabs.ie/products/synology-diskstation-ds212j-2-bay-nas-server-7QML.html?src=2

    Is this the best place to buy it and what drives should I put in it? It's for serving videos to my HTPC and music to my desktop.

    Also I've never used a NAS before and I'm picking a Synology over the HP Proliant because I heard it's easy to install Sabnzbd on Synology devices. Is this true? I don't really fancy mucking around with command lines or with the NAS at all really.

    My main PC is a Mac btw.


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    For that price, I'd just build a little mITX H61 computer. Throw Linux and a few drives in it and you're good to go. It also opens up a lot of other uses for the box too. Web hosting, FTP access, backups, uTorrent, game servers, etc.


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    freelancerTax
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭freelancerTax


    see this post i made before about mini nas pc i built

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76537832&postcount=8

    completely silent and low power consumption and cheaper than that one on dabs also


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    silvine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    TBH it's more the ease of use of the software that's attracting me to the Synology.


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