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03/04/09
03/04/09
and the smaller one is more cost effective because you can just but 2 of those for $1400, same amount of storage, $300 less
03/05/09
Well, if you wanted a bunch of NAS devices sitting around, then you could get a bunch of 500GB devices too.
The premium is "understandable" because you're paying to have it all in one place.
(I quoted "understandable" because it really is rather stupid. As I pointed out in an above comment, the entire thing is overpriced. And it's $0.21/gig. If it were 12 cents, I'd be considering an order right now).
03/04/09
And at RAID0 you are just waiting around to lose 8TB of data.
03/04/09
03/04/09
Anyway, or 6 x $130 = $780 for 6 x 1.5TB = 9TB drives leaving you a little over $900 for a computer to put them in. Just sayin..
03/04/09
And I love the fact its RAID 5. a lot of these High capacity drives seem to have reliability issues so at least if one dies you dont lose all 8 Terabytes of data, that would be a bad day indeed
03/05/09
It uses 4 x 2TB drives in the 8TB model. And that ain't a lot of heat. I mean, it's some, but not a lot. Esp. if they use their "green" drives in the unit.
I tried to look up its Wattage, but all the electrical specs say is:
Power Dissipation
AC Input Voltage 100-240 VAC
AC Input Frequency 47-63 Hz
Which is pretty funny as without more in the way of Amps, Watts, and/or Ohms there is no possible way to figure out the "power dissipation".