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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.)
We are using the 1TB variety as an experiment in harddrive back ups. We ship the drives offsite. The cost is not that much larger than our tape budget and we are able to back and restore more quickly.
They are firewire 800 so they go pretty fast.
Funny worked at a startup 4 years ago and EMC tried to get my fired for not buying there 3.6 Mill 1.5 TB POS. Then the sales guy went to the I'm going to loose my job if you dont buy it. They also took the your just not testing it correctly stance (was testing through through a server to a load farm with copies of real world work)
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Never ever buy something from EMC they fired there engineers years ago it;s a sales and marketing company. That and the fact they trust embeded windows to run the clarion line
We did 68 Mill in VC in about 2.
No sir I dont like it.
160gig maxtor have been as low as $30/each (closer to $37 incl tax) after rebate. For about $1500-$1600 total you can put 20 of them together in 3 sets of 5 plus 5 spares and have 1.9TB of RAID. Yes, it costs more for power. About the same as my 5 x 9gig 5.25" 70GB FDDI attached array run by a SPARC20 that cost almost $25k back in the day...
A couple of years ago I duplicated the system I sold for $500k that incorporated this array, a FDDI switch, and a half doz SGI Indigo 2's for less than $1000. Really underscores the adage that when it comes to computing, if you don't need it now, don't buy it now.
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Exactly. I think I'll wait 2 years and buy a 1.6TB drive at BestBuy for $149.
Just a quick question:
Does MythTV or another tool have an ability to basically create your own TV channel?
That is, if I took all of my DVDs and encoded them (DivX, or whatever...), could I basically set up a box to keep a stream playing all the time, randomly jumping around the entire library?
Everyone is going overboard about how this external unit is overpriced, however there are more things to consider than price.
1. Many people have hundreds of gigs of movies in the form of divx, and would like to make a portable backup to travel.
2. Building a cheap pc with internal hds is not always practical. It would have a much higher chance of breaking with all the extra parts, use more power, not be easy to move.
But by then there will be a 500 TB drive on the horizion, so the question really is, when do you buy something like this, when is the best time to get the most bang for your buck?
About 9 months to a year after it comes out. Newer, faster, larger versions usually come out about then, making the last "new, fast, large" unit fall in price.
If there has been a jump in technology the time may be shorter, but 9 to 12 months is a good rule of thumb.
Also, the blood from the "bleeding edge" tends to clot by then...
Right on. This past weekend, I priced out a 2.5 Tb roll-your-own NAS box from Newegg for about $2500.
Question for the audience: Does the 2.6 kernel support SATA hot-swap yet? I know you can get add-in boards that present virual SCSI hot-swap for plenty of money, but I'd like to do it with cheap controllers.
I'm pretty darn happy with XServe RAID under linux but I'm always watching for the cheap alternative.
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We recieved two of these from a vendor for data processing. Half way into coping the files off, the device stopped responding and we started to get the dreaded head clacking from one of the drives, the whole device and all the data on them is now useless to us. I am not a statistician but I assume a 5 drive device would have a 5 times greater chance of failing then a single drive would. Those are not very good chances based on my experience in the past few years with IDE drives. YMMV
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Because your NAS box does take way more space on your desk? Not that _I_ would even cosider buying this overpriced POS.
. html) is a four drive enclosure that I saw selling for about 24000 yen - 230 US bucks or so. Add your own 400GB HD for about US$ 350 a piece. The nice thing about these boxes is that you can select whether you want the drives seen as one big drive, or as individual drives.
Here (http://www.century.co.jp/products/suto/goodfaith
I have the 2HD version and I couldn't be happier.
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