This looks like the best deal I have seen yet on a massive amount of consumer level external storage. 2 TB in a single externally connected box for $370 courtesy of Newegg my favorite vendor. Of course you need to run RAID 0 to make use of all that space, which i don’t think makes much sense for an external enclosure, but it is there. What makes more sense to me is allowing jbod in here. The difference in speed between RAID 0 and single disks isn’t going to be that huge in an external enclosure, and typically people don’t run applications requiring fast random access off of an external drive anyway, at least through a USB interface which is all this drive offers. Western Digital has made lower capacity enclosures with eSATA where RAID 0 would be a benefit. Too bad this enclosure doesn’t have that interface.

How about it manufacturers? Can we get one of these with JBOD so if one disk fails we’ve only lost half our data instead of all of it?

Thanks.

I recently wrote an article about computers and toasters where I disagree with a common philosophy that says people want appliances rather than computers. I saw another article down a similar vein today talking about how people seem to think that we, the consumer, want a boxed Internet as well. The article is called the iPhone is killing the Internet. It’s nice to hear that I’m not alone thinking that these people are out of their mind. I think what it comes down to is a bunch of people trying to say something controvercial for the sake of looking intelligent. I don’t see the Internet anywhere near dying due to the iPhone or any other appliance. Just look at how many people have hacked the iPhone and it tells you that people want these appliances to do more than the big companies want them to. I know non-geeks who jailbreak their iPhones.

Ok, this is the first post. Mainly a placeholder so I can get this thing going.