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Posted by Funkstar - Tue 11 Jul 2006 12:35
mmmmmmmm five drive RAID goodness…

/dribble
Posted by DavidM - Tue 11 Jul 2006 12:42
And eSATA as well? :)
Posted by Lee H - Tue 11 Jul 2006 12:48
Apparently it's got an in-built antivirus package and it's also got a nice Pentium M in there as well.
Posted by Scott - Tue 11 Jul 2006 13:15
Oh that looks so sweet, i really do hope the performance is much better than the 2050 i think, i was going to get one but it was just so poor :(
Posted by DR - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:01
Looks lush to me :)
Posted by Scott - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:05
Cant quite make out from the pics, is it supposed to reside in 3 or 4 5.25" slots, or external from the PC altogether?
Posted by Funkstar - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:06
Lee @ SCAN
…and it's also got a nice Pentium M in there as well.
ooooooh! lets hope there is a (relatively) easy way to get into the device software then. Could make a *very* nice SlimServer and NAS combination :)
Posted by DR - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:08
It has 5 Slots, runs on Celeron - built in Gigabit switch :)
Posted by chrestomanci - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:26
Funkstar
ooooooh! lets hope there is a (relatively) easy way to get into the device software then. Could make a *very* nice SlimServer and NAS combination :)
Chances are it runs linux, so probably yes.
Posted by Scott - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:35
Wonder if it will support the 750gb HDDs that are out now, maybe with a firmware update or something! Checked on their site, and they only list upto 500gb. Ok, thats 2.5TB in once device, but 3.75TB would be sweet :)

Wonder how much these are going to cost, the older N4100 was around £230 on scan, so i hope there wont be too much of a difference!
Posted by DR - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:38
….. its not even launched yet :)
….. we will of course HAVE to test with 5 750GB drives… ;)

Dave
Posted by Scott - Tue 11 Jul 2006 14:48
In that case i cant wait for the review!

Makes it expensive if you fill it with 5 of those drives, but a must have tbh!
Posted by Funkstar - Tue 11 Jul 2006 19:44
Scott
Checked on their site, and they only list upto 500gb. Ok, thats 2.5TB in once device, but 3.75TB would be sweet :)
2.8TB of RAID-5 would be better than 3.5TB of RAID-0

remember 750gig isn't really what you get. More like 715gig, and thats before file system and RAID overheads.
Posted by Steve - Tue 11 Jul 2006 20:59
Funkstar
2.8TB of RAID-5 would be better than 3.5TB of RAID-0

remember 750gig isn't really what you get. More like 715gig, and thats before file system and RAID overheads.
It's worse than that. By my calcs 750GB = 699GiB (GiB being base 2) before you even consider RAID and filesystem overheads.
Posted by directhex - Tue 11 Jul 2006 21:16
my calcs say 750GB = 694.693632GiB
Posted by Howard - Tue 11 Jul 2006 22:21
698
Posted by chrestomanci - Wed 12 Jul 2006 09:17
Or even 0.682 TiB
(Have we had enough of these silly cacluations yet)
Posted by Steve - Wed 12 Jul 2006 09:24
chrestomanci
Or even 0.682 TiB
(Have we had enough of these silly cacluations yet)
But it's like playing the price is right!
Posted by directhex - Wed 12 Jul 2006 10:16
i clicked the wrong button in xcalc, Steve & Howard are right: 698.49193GiB
Posted by DR - Wed 12 Jul 2006 10:38
:)
Posted by PD HEXUS - Wed 12 Jul 2006 12:24
surely ‘GiB meister Rys0r’ is the man to sort this out… :mrgreen:
Posted by Funkstar - Wed 12 Jul 2006 12:26
i know what i did. I only devided by 1000 twice, should have been three times.

meh, oh well
Posted by Rys - Wed 12 Jul 2006 12:37
PD HEXUS
surely ‘GiB meister Rys0r’ is the man to sort this out… :mrgreen:
Steve already did. And, really, I'm honestly not sure I care :mrgreen:
Posted by PD HEXUS - Wed 12 Jul 2006 12:38
but shurely… :mrgreen:
Posted by dayne25 - Tue 25 Jul 2006 19:49
i hope the price of SAN comes down thats what im holding out for probally be waiting a long time yet