Turtle Beach X41 Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Headset $105 at eBay
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]
Already a member? Sign in below.
Registration takes seconds! Once registered you’ll have members only access to:
- Favorites bookmark list
- Fully customizable User Profile
- Discussions on all products
- Forums & more
Ben’s Announcements
NEWEnter to win our Get a Life! PlayStation Vita/Uncharted: Golden Abyss Giveaway!
-->The giveaway ends at 11:59PM (PST) on Tuesday, February 21st. Good luck!
Ben's Bargains now supports Gravatar! To create your own custom avatar, register your email address at Gravatar.com and use the same one that's on your Ben's Bargains account profile.
New to Ben's Bargains? Want to set up deal alerts? What exactly is Ben's Cred? Check out our Quick Guide to Using Ben's Bargains and become an expert!
Please take a moment to share your feedback about our new design. Your input is appreciated, and we're working every day to improve the user experience.
-
-
Dell Inspiron 620 i620-4231BK Core i3 8GB Desktop $400 at Staples
-
Corsair Vertex 3 90GB SATA III 2.5" SSD $100 at Newegg
-
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 $80 at Adorama
-
Lock&Lock 5-Cup Tea Leaf Container $5.74 at Amazon
-
Asus RT-N53 Wireless N Router $40 at Newegg
-
Dynex 37" 720p 60Hz LCD HDTV $250 at Best Buy
-
Acronis True Image Home 2012 $5 at Newegg
-
XFX GeForce GT 240 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 Video Card $20 at Newegg
-
Pogoplug POGO-P21 Media Sharing Device $23 at Buy.com
-
Casecutter
- Ben’s Cred:
- +25
View Profile -
Ghost Rider
- Ben’s Cred:
- +17
View Profile -
mikegrmi
- Ben’s Cred:
- +10
View Profile -
zzyzx
- Ben’s Cred:
- +7
View Profile -
JediKnight
- Ben’s Cred:
- +5
View Profile -
blazer1155
- Ben’s Cred:
- +4
View Profile -
hopwallup
- Ben’s Cred:
- +4
View Profile -
tkeen0003
- Ben’s Cred:
- +4
View Profile -
veastez
- Ben’s Cred:
- +4
View Profile -
MWplus3
- Ben’s Cred:
- +3
View Profile
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
Four 1TB HDs in RAID5 = 2.7TB of usable storage.
agrew with #1, it's confusing.
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.
Same experience as #4 with a Maxtor 500 GB raid 1 drive. The raid firmware is a single point of failure.
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.
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.
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.