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1.6TB In a Shoebox, If You've Got the Money

Posted by timothy on from the incrementalism dept.

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.)

6 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. LaCie has 1.6TB external as well by Schweg · · Score: 5, Informative

    LaCie has an external FireWire800/USB2 external drive available for about $1000, see here.

  2. If it's 1.6TB... by Slayback · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then why does it clearly say 1.2TB on the front of the case?

  3. LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme by luiss · · Score: 4, Informative

    Only $2199. Been available for a while now, there's probably a Slashdot story about it too.
    http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1055 1

  4. CORRECTION by Schweg · · Score: 5, Informative

    LaCie's 1.6TB drive lists for $2199, their older 1TB drive is $999.

  5. Re:How Much is Enough? by vidarh · · Score: 4, Informative
    I've got about 300 DVD's, and I want them available on demand and there's no way I'm going to reencode anything in MPEG4. Filling 1.6TB is easy :) Add my almost-there MythTV setup and storage needs rapidly increase.

    Archiving video is becoming a mainstream activity these days :-)

  6. Re:Creative paperweight... by saintp · · Score: 4, Informative
    Infact -- speaking of which -- with SATA getting bigger and bigger this thing is a "waste of money."
    Right on. This past weekend, I priced out a 2.5 Tb roll-your-own NAS box from Newegg for about $2500. Why would I spend $400 more for 900 Gb less?
    --
    Another one bites the dust