This is great news for terrorists - remote controlled car bombs. Now, why didn't someone else think of this any sooner...

1. Hack NASA 2. Command Curiosity 3. Produce Horde of Alien Robots 4. Invade Earth 5. Profit!!

Mod parent up. It sounds like advertising but it really is true. I'm equally impressed by my DS1010+ and I'm not easily impressed.

Thecus has abysmal support and horrible software compared to its competitors. That it's much improved doesn't say a lot, except that it was awful then and somewhat less so now. I had the N5200 Pro and it kept throwing disks out of the RAID, despite using disks that were on their approved list. No response from support and lots of complaints from users in their forums. After 6 months the power supply died, so not impressed by the build quality either. Got a Synology DS1010+, which was about half the size and a lot cooler looking, threw in the same disks and have never had a problem since. Also, their UI is just generations ahead of what Thecus has, not to mention that it *actually works*.

I've owned a professional Thecus NAS and that was not a pleasant experience. My current Synology DS1010+ NAS is literally light-years better and was only slightly more expensive. Software and support do matter, especially for a box that you probably just want to configure and forget about.

If you have a limited resource (such as developers) to go around, find an appropriate number (i.e. points) to represent a single developer and assign points to projects in order to determine their priority. This ensures that the overall number of points that can be assigned remains the same, thus preventing inflation. To increase the priority of one project you will have to decrease the priority elsewhere, since the points allocated will have to be taken away from another project. This is similar to how UserVoice lets people assign a fixed number of votes on suggested enhancements.

I have found no better illustration (of how our rights have been eroded) than the one given by Lawrence Lessig at OSCON 2002, captured as flash presentation here: http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html (sadly, the sound quality isn't too good, but the content of the presentation is well worth it).

Wait for the same to happen to latency - having a highway for a bicycle isn't getting me there any faster.

Thecus is really an awful suggestion. I own the N5200 Pro and can with certainty say that the device sucks. The web UI looks like an old version of what you find in a Linksys router, and its not pretty. It keeps kicking disks out of the RAID even though they're on the supported hardware lists. Emailing customer support never gives you an answer. Opening a ticket in their issue tracker never gives you a response. Forum is full of complaints. I'll never buy anything from them again.
I've since purchased a Synology and it is much faster, has a modern and feature-rich web UI, plus it actually works.

I started with a Thecus N5200 Pro 5-bay NAS myself, and it has been the most problematic experience ever. The device is simply broken, customer support non-existing, not and disks come and go from their "supported hardware" lists. Then I got a Synology DS-1010 and moved all the disks over. The web interface looks like its 5th generation and is nicely Ajax-enabled, with a ton of features not found on the Thecus. Highly recommended if you can afford the purchase price.