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Buffalo Technology 4TB RAID External Drive $521 at B&H Photo Video
B&H Photo Video has the Buffalo Technology DriveStation Quattro TurboUSB 4TB External USB 2.0/ eSATA Hard Drive for $521 + shipping. Shipping ranges from $17 to $26. Features hardware RAID 0, 1, 5 or JBOD configurations and 4 1TB 7200rpm drives. [Compare]
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#1
boltthrowerusa - Posted 1:10 pm PST 03/12/10 (2 Posts)
Why it's a deal at B&H. This product is cheaper at pcnation.com and it's FREE shipment (Tax IL). http://www.pcnation.com/web/details.asp?item=Q34558
#2
sholling - Posted 1:12 pm PST 03/12/10 (1287 Posts)
Four 1TB HDs in RAID5 = 2.7TB of usable storage.
#3
cc8621 - Posted 1:18 pm PST 03/12/10 (41 Posts)
agrew with #1, it's confusing.
#4
djgeki - Posted 2:26 pm PST 03/12/10 (24 Posts)
Take caution with Buffalo external storage units. I have a 1TB USB2.0 drive (4-drive RAID 5 array) that had a single drive die, and it seems to have taken the RAID controller out with it as now I can't access any data, even with the "dead" drive replaced. Also, 1 year of warranty is pretty lame when the drive manufacturers usually offer 3 for non-OEM boxed drives.
#5
samben2 - Posted 3:24 pm PST 03/12/10 (680 Posts)
Same experience as #4 with a Maxtor 500 GB raid 1 drive. The raid firmware is a single point of failure.
#6
scott1000 - Posted 3:37 pm PST 03/12/10 (1009 Posts)
Yeah I think people get a RAID setup because they are afraid of drive failure but are actually trading that issue in for another. I have a QNAP TS-209 II with 2 1TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration but still backup my data to a 2TB external drive that is kept in the safe. I am considering just combining the 2 drives together to create one larger volume since the data is backed up anyway.
#7
dave_c - Posted 7:46 pm PST 03/12/10 (10598 Posts)
At this price-point I don't see the value. You can build a whole server with integrated RAID5 and whatever drive capacity or # of drives you want... though swapping them might be a bit more of a burden if you don't opt for a case easily facilitating that.
OR, Reuse some legacy system you throw a RAID card and GbE ethernet card into and it's still likely to be faster and have more feature capability depending on the software you opt for, and there's also the benefit of standardized parts so if you suffer a failure you're not stuck with system downtime or using same box to recover an array's data.
OR, Reuse some legacy system you throw a RAID card and GbE ethernet card into and it's still likely to be faster and have more feature capability depending on the software you opt for, and there's also the benefit of standardized parts so if you suffer a failure you're not stuck with system downtime or using same box to recover an array's data.
#8
seraphim32 - Posted 6:59 am PST 03/13/10 (58 Posts)
I have an HP home server and it is allmost full of drives (3outa 4) im debaiting about getting one of these as my backup unit since its large and has a esata connector. anyone out there have another idea to backup up a home server? im getting close to 3 tb of data and it takes a while to go over usb now.
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