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Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

product designer — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:34:46 EDT

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.

product designer

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

Worf — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:19:25 EDT

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...

Worf

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

defStef — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:29:37 EDT

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...

defStef

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

ninjamurf — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:19:37 EDT

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

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Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

ginnal — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:23:05 EDT

Godfood, Murc is right Raid 5 would yield under 750GB anyway, for Raid 1 it would be 500GB.

ginnal

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

thrillhouse — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:17:13 EDT

please note who's selling the product... iomega: the leader in behind the curve technology. Zip drives are great.

thrillhouse

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

godf00d — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:22:08 EDT

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.

godf00d

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

murc — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:51:23 EDT

This product really cant attract anyone to it, Since Seagate is coming out with its new HDD later this year that holds 750 gigs.

murc

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Nerd Alert — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:32:38 EDT

Also, my bad -- 1 drive is for parity, so it should be 2.1TB, not 2.4TB. Thank you and please play again.

Nerd Alert

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

Nerd Alert — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:31:40 EDT

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.

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Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

Jeremy Ho — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:33:26 EDT

Even Dean Cain couldn't handle that much Teri Hatcher. Oh snap!

Jeremy Ho