On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:06:04AM +0900, David Savage wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, this is one of the options I am considering: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165045 > > > > It's a bit confusing when shopping around - this unit > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165047 > > > > appears very similar, but costs considerably more. > > > > > > I'm still trying to pin down the differences, and compare prices > > from other suppliers. > > > > > I got one of these as my backup device after my hard drive failure last year:: > > <http://netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASNVPlus/RND4250.aspx> > > It's configured as RAID 1 (same as my PC) & is upgradeable to 4TB. And > I think higher, once +1TB drives become readily available. > > It wasn't the easiest thing to set up as you need to be a bit of a > networking guru, but after much reading I managed. > > Also the reason the units supplied with drives are so expensive is > because these are basically servers & have server spec'ed hard drives > installed. Mine has a couple of the Seagate 'ES' series (Enterprise > Solution) drives that are intended for 24/7 server use.
>From browsing around the manufacturers site, that seems to be the difference between the two 2TB Buffalo units I mentioned above - the more expensive model is from their Pro line, and comes with a longer warranty and more enterprise-targeted features. Neither is as versatile as the readyNAS (no hot-swapping drives or auto reconfiguring to use larger drives), but for a home storage box the cheaper unit (which I've seen for as low as $800) should do. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
