[Suhit Gupta]

It appears that 4 300GB hard drives would cost just under $1K. So perhaps the cost of going with JBOD configuration would be fine. However, the 300GB drives are only 5400rpm and the lacie.com solution is 7400rpm. So it might be worth it to go with lacie.com after all (well if you do want that 1TB in the first place)

Suhit

[Suhit Gupta]

It appears that 4 300GB hard drives would cost just under $1K. So perhaps the cost of going with JBOD configuration would be fine. However, the 300GB drives are only 5400rpm and the lacie.com solution is 7400rpm. So it might be worth it to go with lacie.com after all (well if you do want that 1TB in the first place)

Suhit

[bitequator]

As mentioned you could buy your own drive array cage (various connections) to pack 3.5" drives...

To really consider this I'd want 1000BT gigabit Ethernet connection added. With both SMB sharing and built-in web/FTP/WebDAV server (LAN & Internet). Also, with a properly provisioned all-gigabit LAN, real centralized network storage might be workable in all day-to-day applications (at least for user data)?

But then one thing leads to another and you'd soon be tempted to ask for even more stuff crammed into the device -- router, firewall, WiFi, print, mail, redundant backup, etc, etc.. pretty soon you end up with the ultimate all-in-one blackbox wonder

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Mmmmmmmmm... on demand anime.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm :lol:

[marlof]

I have a LaCie D2 160GB external firewire disk, and have had zero problems with it in about 6 months of usage. It's my portable backup disk for data from my notebook (30 GB) and my desktop (80 GB + 120 GB). Mainly, I use it to keep a third copy of my pictures and iTunes library.