News - Seagate crams 12TB into four-bay NAS

[HEXUS]

Latest in the BlackArmour series ups the ante for networked storage.

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[kingpotnoodle]

Wouldn't say it ups the Ante that much, on a price per GB scale it's only OK... a Thecus N7700+ 7 bay and 7x 2TB Seagate hard drives from Scan gives 14TB for around the same money... So it's over more drives? Well good, less wasteful of space. RAID 5 in the Thecus gives me 12TB of space, whilst in the BlackArmour has dropped me down to 9GB.

[BullDogg]

Wouldn't say it ups the Ante that much, on a price per GB scale it's only OK... a Thecus N7700+ 7 bay and 7x 2TB Seagate hard drives from Scan gives 14TB for around the same money... So it's over more drives? Well good, less wasteful of space. RAID 5 in the Thecus gives me 12TB of space, whilst in the BlackArmour has dropped me down to 9GB.

True enough, but physical space and power-usage would probably be significantly lower.

It's also the only 4-drive solution offering that much storage. So the ante is upped for a 4-bay NAS.

I stand by the statement

[kingpotnoodle]

True enough, but physical space and power-usage would probably be significantly lower.

It's also the only 4-drive solution offering that much storage. So the ante is upped for a 4-bay NAS.

I stand by the statement

Hmmm maybe, the Thecus units are not too bad on power, and the 2TB drives I looked at have less platters (and are "green" 5900rpm drives)... those 3GB units run hot as mentioned, so must draw a fair bit of power.