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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Deivit on June 22, 2004, 03:26:27 pm
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1 Terabyte of HD space. External USB and Firewire. That's something like 180.000 mp3 at 192 VBR.
1,150 Euro, tax included, here in Barcelona (slightly over US$ 950)
[EDIT: 1,150 Euro is almost US$ 1,350. Sorry]
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118
Maybe I will go for it...
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mmmmmm.....terabytes! This looks great! Wonder how long it would take to fill up ;D .
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Yeah, that drives been out for a little while. I see a few problems with it. It's really a JOBD array, no redundancy. Additionally, since it's 4 250 gb drives, you're 4 times more likely to experience a drive failure. To add to that, I believe that the device only has a 1 year warranty. I wouldn't want to spend $1000 and have it fail, taking all my data with it.
A more interesting solution might be:
$150 - External 4 bay Enclosure
$500 - 5 Bay HW RAID5 Controller SATA/ATA (http://www.areca.us/IDERAID.htm (http://www.areca.us/IDERAID.htm))
$140 - 250GB drives on sale.
Sure it would cost a bit more, but it would give you redundancy. Additionally, the controller is capable of migrating arrays, so you could go from RAID 1 to RAID 5, and it is capable of expanding arrays, so you could start with 3 drives and add more as you needed them.
kiwi
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Thanks for the info and the suggestions, Kiwi. I was not aware that it was actually 4 x 250 GB discs.
Surely I need to think more carefully about it.
Thank you! :)
(In the EU the standard guarantee is 2 years by law)