This is a great NAS but this isn’t much of a deal as they’re going for 260-270 on Amazon or Newegg. Would rather pay that and get next day shipping instead of save a couple bucks and have to wait two weeks.
I got the Synology DS220+ over a year ago and it’s been great so far. Synology makes great NAS systems. The DS220+ is more expensive than the DS218 but it’s newer and has some upgraded specs that would make it a bit more future-proof IMO.
Bought this back in late 2018 when they were new they were $200. now they are getting old and woot wants more than MSRP for an older product. remember when woot wasnt laughably useless?
This is $25 off the current price on Amazon, so not great but I will take $25 from anyone willing to throw it away.
I agree that the DS220+ is a more powerful NAS, but I use a DS216Play for backups of all of my home computers plus main storage for my music and pictures, including automatic backup for all of our phones. With an external USB backup drive, I am pretty well protected against most types of data loss or corruption.
It just depends on what you need it for, but the price here is decent if this is what you need.
And I find comparisons to NewEgg to be useless as they no longer have a free shipping program like Prime. Since they discontinued that program, my purchases from the Egg have sadly gone to zero.
Interesting. I was looking at my Amazon Wishlist yesterday and I had this and the DS218+ on it since March 2020.
I think it’s cool but I’m just not sure what I would use it for.