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Frys has the Netgear RND2000-200NAS Diskless System ReadyNAS Duo v2 Network Storage for Home/SoHo Users for $155 - $50 rebate [Exp 9/29] = $105 with free in-store pickup or $11 average shipping to home. Shipping ranges from $10 to $12. Features 1.6GHz Marvell CPU, 256MB RAM, two SATA hard drive bays, BitTorrent client, and one RJ-45 ethernet port, and three USB 3.0 ports.
$105
According to the reviews, this is not ready for prime time hardware. Make sure you use a "supported" hard drive for this thing. The hard drive list is quite limited..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822122098
"supported" means they want you to use Enterprise level drives. Any SATA drive will work, just dont expect to get long lifespans out of them. Who cares with the raid setup.
Also, you can sechedule it to power on and off at times, so if you script a backup, you can have it turn on before that, then off afterwards, and only run the drives say 2 hrs a day....then the problem becomes minimal.
It auto upgrades drives, so if you start with 2 500gb's, you can pull one, it goes into raid failover, put in a 1TB, it sees the 1TB, but formats as 500gb, mirrors the data.
if that point you take out the other 500GB, it says "oh, I got both 1TB drives...it formats the new 1TB, mirrors the data, then formats the other 1TB( which is formated as 500GB) to 1TB, thus you have more storage.
You can do that infinaltly up to the size limit on the device.
XRaid kicks a ss.