Comment What the world needs- a $3k MAXTOR HD..not (Score 1) 359
It works out to ~$2800USD according to one of the currency converters. For wow, let's see...a single volume spanning 4 disks...amazing, now where have I heard that idea before? Hmm, RAID sets, volume managers...so maybe there's something else there worth something? Uhh...great, a few Maxtor SATA drives. Yep, just what *I* want to put important info on...and wait, it gets better...USB!
Ok, so it's a consumer device obviously...I'll try to ignore my personal (including working with RAID and other enterprise storage) observations on failure rates of ATA and SATA (and Maxtor..) drives versus FC(yeah, $$$) and SCSI disks.
So now we're left with what- I can't read Japanese, but considering the size it's not doing redundant RAID of any kind, but now you have 4x the chance of losing a single disk that's going to wipe out your pr0n. True, what a giant collection of pr0n that would be, but having important data on any IDE/ATA/SATA disk without at least doing mirroring or RAID5, is just insane, even for 'a 'consumer.' I might be interested if you could buy two of these along with a RAID card, however...for $1k or so :-)
Ok, so it's a consumer device obviously...I'll try to ignore my personal (including working with RAID and other enterprise storage) observations on failure rates of ATA and SATA (and Maxtor..) drives versus FC(yeah, $$$) and SCSI disks.
So now we're left with what- I can't read Japanese, but considering the size it's not doing redundant RAID of any kind, but now you have 4x the chance of losing a single disk that's going to wipe out your pr0n. True, what a giant collection of pr0n that would be, but having important data on any IDE/ATA/SATA disk without at least doing mirroring or RAID5, is just insane, even for 'a 'consumer.' I might be interested if you could buy two of these along with a RAID card, however...for $1k or so
