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Comment Thecus N5200 Pro & N7700 (Score 1) 517

by llin on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @05:07AM (#26143039) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

To answer the poster's question, I have a Thecus N5200 Pro that performs pretty well - RAID0 should break 40MB/s - not amazing, but better than any other SOHO NAS's around, barring the new N7700, which looks like it'll hit Gig-E limits (finally a cheapish NAS that approaches 100MB/s for reads/writes). That said, you're gonna pay for the performance - the N5200 is about $700 and the N7700 is $1100 (enclosure's only). eAegis sells them w/ burned in drives as well - that's where I got my N5200. The hot-swap and automatic RAID rebuilding works as well and it has built in FTP, SMB, AFP, and NFS and is pretty good for a plug and play system.

That being said, you're definitely paying a premium, and you could easily throw together a multi-terabyte system that would max out your GigE for about the same price as what you'd pay for the N5200 enclosure. My only big recommendation there is that you get a hotswap rack w/ that - makes things much more pleasant when replacing drives.

One other thing to consider is power consumption. My N5200 Pro idles at 80W - if you built a low-power mini-ITX system you could probably get something pretty close to that, but a regular PC would probably be closer to 150-200W. Depending on your electric billing, you could be talking about a $100-200/yr difference there.

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Submission + - Richest 2% own 'half the wealth'

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gollum123

on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @09:04PM

gollum123 writes: "BBC reports The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a United Nations research institute ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6211250.stm ). The report, from the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the UN University, says that the poorer half of the world's population own barely 1% of global wealth. It deals with all countries in the world — either actual data or estimates based on statistical analysis — and it deals with wealth, where most previous research has looked at income. What they mean by wealth in this study is what people own, less what they owe — their debts. The assets include land, buildings, animals and financial assets. The study also finds that inequality is sharper in wealth than in annual income. In less developed nations, land and farm assets are more important, reflecting the greater importance of agriculture in those economies. In contrast, some citizens of the rich countries have more debt than assets — making them, the report says, among the poorest in the world in terms of household wealth."

Submission + - Richest 2% own half the world

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kop

on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @07:44PM

kop writes: "The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a United Nations research institute.
The survey is based on data for the year 2000. The authors say a more recent year would have involved more gaps in the data. As it is, many figures — especially for developing countries — have had to be estimated.

Nonetheless, the authors say it is the most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6211250.stm"

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