
Synology DS220+
2 x 4 TB, WD Red Plus
Synology DS220+
2 x 4 TB, WD Red Plus
Hello, would like to buy the NAS, what is the difference between "NAS Hardbundle" and "NAS Softbundle" besides the price of 40.- ?
Hardbundle means that the discs are already installed, whereas with the softbundle the discs are delivered separately and you still have to install them.
However, I would advise against buying a NAS that only has two drive bays. Later expansion is not possible and Ricardo and Tutti are full of NASs with only two drive bays.
You also give away 50% of the capacity with a NAS with 2 drives. A later expansion can only be done by exchanging both disks.
It therefore makes more sense to buy a NAS with 4 drive bays, the extra cost is not very high. A better solution would be, for example, to buy this NAS with 4 drive bays and then equip it with smaller disks. This way you only lose a third of the capacity and if you want to expand it again, there would still be a drive bay available for expansion:
Synology DS420+ (0 TB)
Combined with 3 x 2 TB, you would then also have 4TB gross, but you only lose 2 TB for the parity information (RAID5 vs RAID1 in the 2 bay NAS).
If a disc should break now, it is enough to simply buy another cheap 2TB disc.
WD Red Plus (2 TB, 3.5", CMR)