To try and make a long story shorter, I've got an old DS216Play unit (and have loved it) but I need MOAR space. While I *could* just go buy two 10tb drives and copy everything on it over (it's two 5tb in a mirrored array) I'd rather move to a 4 bay unit so I can avoid this situation in the future. The two models I've been looking at are the RS816 and the RS818+ since I've already got a small (14U) rack in my basement for networking gear and a plex server, it makes sense to me to just move to a rack-mounted NAS as well. I've found a pretty good deal on the 818+ that brings it down to only ~$100 more than the 816, but I'm having second thoughts.
I don't think I need all that much for this NAS - a max of three concurrent users at the moment, and usually only one at a time. I'm not planning on adding video surveillance to my house, it's really just a few file-shares for backups and some media folders for the plex server (and I'm using their awesome cloud sync app to sync a few folders up to cloud storage.) As near as I can tell, the primary differences between the two models is that the 818+ has a quad core cpu, 2gb DDR3 (can be upgraded to 16gb), 4 gigabit ports instead of only 2, and a PCIe slot that can take a 10gbe card.
Will I ever notice the upgrades over the 816? I honestly doubt I do anything that would warrant the upgrade from dual core to quad core. Am I ever likely to see any benefit from the ability to upgrade the ram from 2gb to 16gb?
But then again, it's only $100 more, so unless anyone has a good reason to stick with the cheaper unit... I'll probably just keep it [H]ard and go for overkill.
I don't think I need all that much for this NAS - a max of three concurrent users at the moment, and usually only one at a time. I'm not planning on adding video surveillance to my house, it's really just a few file-shares for backups and some media folders for the plex server (and I'm using their awesome cloud sync app to sync a few folders up to cloud storage.) As near as I can tell, the primary differences between the two models is that the 818+ has a quad core cpu, 2gb DDR3 (can be upgraded to 16gb), 4 gigabit ports instead of only 2, and a PCIe slot that can take a 10gbe card.
Will I ever notice the upgrades over the 816? I honestly doubt I do anything that would warrant the upgrade from dual core to quad core. Am I ever likely to see any benefit from the ability to upgrade the ram from 2gb to 16gb?
But then again, it's only $100 more, so unless anyone has a good reason to stick with the cheaper unit... I'll probably just keep it [H]ard and go for overkill.