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This new Iomega Network Attached Storage (NAS) device is more connected than Skynet. With gigabit ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, wireless 802.11G networking, your Desperate Housewives bittorrent downloads are available anywhere you have a connection.
On the storage side, RAID 0, 1 and 5 can be configured to support four 250GB hard drives, which makes for a maximum of 1 Terabyte. Even Dean Cain couldn't handle that much Teri Hatcher.
New 1TB Iomega NAS Device Offers 802.11g [Digital Trends]
3:54 PM on Sun Apr 23 2006
By Jason Chen
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Even Dean Cain couldn't handle that much Teri Hatcher. Oh snap!
You know, they advertise "1TB!!! 4 X 250GB storage!! Woo!" But in reality, you're only going to get about 800GB out of that. I should know, I just built an 8 X 300GB RAID 5 array. Hey! I can do math! That's 2.4TB, right? Wrong. After formatting NTFS-style, I've only got 1.91TB. Bummer.
Also, my bad -- 1 drive is for parity, so it should be 2.1TB, not 2.4TB. Thank you and please play again.
This product really cant attract anyone to it, Since Seagate is coming out with its new HDD later this year that holds 750 gigs.
You're right murc, after all, people buy only at the absolute cutting edge, nothing less. Murc's comments are worth keeping on my single-point-of-failure 750GB drive, I might add.
please note who's selling the product... iomega: the leader in behind the curve technology. Zip drives are great.
Godfood, Murc is right Raid 5 would yield under 750GB anyway, for Raid 1 it would be 500GB.
ginnal, godf00d is "right" in this instance in that I would MUCH rather have a 750GB RAID 5 array than a SINGLE 750GB drive. When that drive fails, say buh bye to the data (most likely) while the RAID 5 array allows for intermitent drive failures without the data loss. What will really be interesting is getting 4 of those 750GB drives into that box...3TB (which is over the 2TB limit some OS's have) of data storage. 2.25TB of RAID 5 or 1.5TB of RAID 1...nice. Get 2 boxes, cross stripe, RAID 50, and I might have enough storage for the next year or so! LOL
Only good reason to pick this over other similar products such as Buffalo's TeraStation: transfer rates. The TeraStation has attrocious transfer rates even though it has a gigabit ethernet card in it, or so Buffalo claim. I can't imagine the transfer rates over 802.11g...
Supposedly, if you update the firmware, the TeraStation gets much better transfer rates than the 5MB/sec it gets with the default... you can get 22MB/sec from what I read. (I haven't tried, so I don't know). Now, the big question - is it a "real NAS" and serves up standard protocols or require you install software to see the drives like the Netgear POS...
is the wireless to connect into my existing wireless network or to provide me with a wireless hub or both? ok, i'm dumb, i thought it was a clock radio when i first saw this. this thing is pretty ugly.
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