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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.)
But seriously... with this and an optical data line, running your own household Usenet server starts to become practical.
Seems to me like this will be one of those pieces of equipment we will all "laugh at" next fall. I mean the size is good and all... but it is huge.
Sorta reminds me of the 270gb MaxAttach file storage unit I have sitting in my rack @ work. The thing is huge... but 3 years ago it was "modern." Now I can buy a 400gb SATA hard drive that is 1/20th the size and has even MORE space.
Infact -- speaking of which -- with SATA getting bigger and bigger this thing is a "waste of money."
the recent trend towards demand for higher storage capacities
This is a recent trend?
how many internets can this hold?
Hmm... $2900 for 1.6TB of storage? And no ethernet? Why not just build your own NAS unit that has the same amount of storage, includes ethernet, and would cost you about $1200-$1400? You could even put it in a fancy case for that price.
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.
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
The device is basically an external hardware RAID implementation. I'm just wondering what they do to help the reliability of the data. I also wonder if you can choose to change the RAID configuration of the device. For people that don't care too much about the preservation of data, 4 drives running in parallel, at 4 times the speed would be kinda neat :)
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.
Stupid metric system... what's the conversion rate from boatloads to Libraries of Congress?
LaCie's 1.6TB drive lists for $2199, their older 1TB drive is $999.
I'd rather have the $2,900 in a shoebox, thanks
$2900 for 1.6 TB!?! And you're complaining!?! Bah!
I remember paying $2000 for a 100 MB SCSI disk when they first came out. And this was before that new-fangled internet thingy came out; so we didn't have on-line porn to fill up our disks with! No, siree. Back then, we had to fill up our hard disks with actual source code!
Oh, where or where have all the real hackers gone, these days?
Here's the Japanese press release." (At current conversion rates, this would cost nearly $2,900.)
Hahah who needs a hard drive? I don't have hard drives. i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement and force them to memorize numbers. It's a lot cheaper.
Can someone convert it to Libraries of Congress, I cant work in Terabytes.
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
Archiving video is becoming a mainstream activity these days :-)
for /dev/null ...
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Can anyone send me a working Internet by e-mail, please?
Signatures are for stupids.
These 4 disks are striped (RAID 0), which is great for performance, but if any of the drives fails, you lost all the 1.6 TB of data. Given that there are 4 drives in the enclosure, your chances of a disk failure are about 4 times higher than that of a single drive.
Bear in mind that typically, these disk enclosures for home use have poor ventilation, so the likelyhood of a drive failing is higher than with the PCs internal drives.
For me, the odds don't seem good. I would much rather have RAID 1 + 0 (two mirrored disksets that are then striped) with half the capacity but better protection from data loss.
This is precisely the reason why I am holding off from buying one of these disk boxes, even though I like the idea of having a place to store all my CD images - and more.
Sigged!