The new MyBook Studio Edition for Mac from Western Digital is pure value for money. For a grand, you get 4 terabytes of storage space in a Time Machine-friendly system. We’ll take two.
4TB for $1000 works out at $250 per terabyte, or about 25 cents a GB. That’s so frickin’ cheap!
The new drives come with a 5-year warranty, are user-serviceable (so you can change drives yourself), have Firewire 400/800, eSATA and USB 2.0 connectivity options, and come with a capacity gauge so you can see how much storage you have left. Although with 4TB, you shouldn’t have to worry about that last bit too soon…
Paul
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 12:38 PMBut no network attachable. Damn this is frustrating. Any one have any suggestions. I want low power requirements NAT without costing the Earth. If above was network attached I would get it without hesitation.
John
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 1:15 PMYeah, I would love if there was a 4TB NAS that didn’t cost the world.
John
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 1:20 PMhttp://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=WDA4NC40000&spos=3
Dalvin
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 1:18 PMGet yourself a Netgear RND2000 and buy your own 2x2TB Drives. You should be able to achieve this for under $1200 if you look around for the best prices.
2×1.5TB drives are the most cost effective and you could do that for under $800 all up.
Paul
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6:10 PMThanks Dalvin and John. I think that the 4TB WD that is linked is fantastic but, from what I understand, is essentially 2x 2 TB disks (with space for 2 more) but is only about to be raided and not just a bunch of disks. I am going to try an old computer I have is storage and try freeNAS and compare with Ubuntu server (although a bit of overkill) and see if this fulfills my requirements. I don’t think it will as I am not willing to keep a 600W power supply going for 24/7 but want to try it out and have a think (Dalvin 35w for the Netgear is awesome I know).
But both above is excellent, ahhh what to do??
Thanks again