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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Two questions:

1. I'm looking to get a Synology DS1621+ sometime this year (https://www.newegg.ca/synology-ds1621/p/N82E16822108752), is there some site that I could signup with to get price alerts for good sales? I'm hoping that it drops below $1k in the near future

2. Is there a better hard drive in dollar/TB than the Seagate Exos 16TB right now? https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-256MB-...s%2C228&sr=8-1

What are using the NAS for and are you really looking high levels of redundancy? Or are you just storing files, running media servers/VMs? If its just files, VMs, and webservers and you don't need more than 2 drive redundancy, you could consider using Unraid on PC hardware. I moved off of one of these Synology NAS awhile back and put together a Ryzen 7 3700 Unraid NAS with 72TB storage in a Fractal Design Node 304. Performance is far superior for my Plex/VM/PiHole/VPN use case. Yes I know video cards are impossible to get atm. You could probably find a used 3400G or an Intel CPU+board combo and it'd come out to cheaper than the Synology with way more processing power.


If you aren't afraid to shuck drives for your NAS, the sweet spot $20/TB. I have 6 of these and they all ended up being Seagate Iron Wolf Pro drives inside.
https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Expans...88S5HDTV&psc=1