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1.6TB In a Shoebox, If You've Got the Money
zmcnulty writes "While not exactly a technological marvel in itself, IO Data Device's new 'HDZ-UE1.6TS' exemplifies the recent trend towards demand for higher storage capacities -- it's an external hard drive setup offering a total capacity of 1.6TB. Not much larger than four 3.5" hard drives, the HDZ-UE1.6TS goes to show that any (rich) consumer can now easily have a boatload of storage space. Here's the Japanese press release." (At current conversion rates, this would cost nearly $2,900.)
Supported operating systems are Windows Me, 2000 and XP.
It doesn't support any of unices.
LaCie has an external FireWire800/USB2 external drive available for about $1000, see here.
And you'd put the 6 HDs on your christmas tree or what? You need some sort of good enclosure too. Moreover this is a turnkey solution - you don't have to set up RAID/JBOD, it's all done. Of course this has its price.
Then why does it clearly say 1.2TB on the front of the case?
Only $2199. Been available for a while now, there's probably a Slashdot story about it too.5 1
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=105
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC= 659765
LaCie's 1.6TB drive lists for $2199, their older 1TB drive is $999.
Given 1.6TB is a boatload, the conversion rate works out to 1 Library of Congress for every 130 boatloads.
Archiving video is becoming a mainstream activity these days :-)
Like the coyote. You finaly obtain it.
But then have that sick realization of "How are you going to back up this bad boy?"
Another one bites the dust
bestbuy had the 160GB $30+tax AR blackfriday
officemax had the 200GB $50+tax AR blackfriday
outpost has 160GB $40 AR
so it could be far less than $1200 to build a machine with 1T capacity
not to mention the 400GB drives are out for barely $200 each or so
WiebeTech also has a product, the RT5, that has 2TB of storage. The price is much higher though. With this model, you can choose the RAID 0-5, and hot-swap the drives. They also purport to support Windows XP, 2K, Mac OS X, and Linux via dual Firewire 400/800 connections.
With an internal controller and a USB port. Neat. I guess you can hook it up to a wireless storage AP if that's your thing.
The ARAID 2000 goes for $370. 400 GB hard disks for for $355 on pricewatch. Buy a mobile rack and shove 3.2 TB in there for half the price.
Probably triple the performance as well...
Even the Ohio Attorney General thinks so.
:P
Yeah, I'm offtopic, but I'm also informative. So there.
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I wanted that too. Instead I have a pair of Sony DVP-CX777ES 400 disc DVD changers hooked up to an Escient DVDM-100 media manager. I just pick the DVD I want and it does the rest (even downloads cover art and movie info from Escient). $1700 for the manager, $500 for each changer (up to 3). You can have 1200 DVDs on demand for $3200. Probably the second best purchase I've made for my theater, next to my projector/screen.
James
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I have an 80 hour, and a 120 hour ReplayTV, as well as a 250 hour drive in a PC for the server (http://www.dvarchive.organdistilloccasionallyruno utofspace./
How do I do this? I often set up channels for things that I MIGHT watch. For example WAM has been showing the TV show 'Weird Science'. Now, when I set up the channel, I didn't KNOW I was going to watch it, but thought that I MIGHT want to watch it. So, I set up a 10 hour channel, and let it run. A month later, I noticed that I had 10 hours of this show, so I had a 'Weird Science' Marathon. It was entertaining, and didn't require constant attention.
My wife has programs that she recorded over a year ago, and still hasn't seen. I have no doubt she will eventually watch them, as I periodically see her watch old shows.
'Good Eats' alone has 120 episodes, and at a medium quality takes up ~120 gigs. (2gb/hour * 60 hrs = 120 gig)br
The real benefit of DVRs is not that they make better VCRs. The real benefit is in allowing you to watch WHAT you want WHEN you want it. That requires a lot of disk space.