4-bay CineRAID CR-H458 = $130

[kleinkinstein]

With Promocode EMCJHHN42 and after $25 MIR

 

[Informant X]

Think I finally found something I want for xmas

 

[Corporate Thug]

I may have to trade in the drobo for this.

 

[BenJeremy]

Something to add to my wishlist. If I get the cash flow, I'm going to buy 4 or 5 of these and stuff them with 4TB drives for my media server.... then I can finally digitize my entire DVD collection (barring those shows and movies I already have in HD format) and watch TV for the rest of my waking life.

 

[cubeless]

these would be ok if there was a router that had usb3 and supported plugging this in, but since i have to have a pc running to facilitate this anyways, i'm just using the onboard raid for my 4x2tb disks... i get ~100MB/s performance, this thing is better than that?

just wondering what makes these non-network boxes useful for someone with room in their case and raid on the mobo... maybe if i already had the case and mobo ports filled up?

 

[spinejam]

I have the two-bay version of this and it works well -- (I use mine for backup w/ two 1TB F3 Samsung drives in RAID 1.)

 

[Childs]

Tempting. I have a 5 bay enclosure thats too loud, so I turn it off most of the time. And its full. Feedback says its fairly quiet.

 

[Informant X]

these would be ok if there was a router that had usb3 and supported plugging this in, but since i have to have a pc running to facilitate this anyways, i'm just using the onboard raid for my 4x2tb disks... i get ~100MB/s performance, this thing is better than that?

just wondering what makes these non-network boxes useful for someone with room in their case and raid on the mobo... maybe if i already had the case and mobo ports filled up?

I believe this is a more hardware raid solution, while your mobo (if you doing it through your mobo) is actually software. Also rebuilding an array thru your mobo is a pain. This box is basically idiot proof, and offers better options for raid for redundancy. (Raid 5)

 

[Childs]

these would be ok if there was a router that had usb3 and supported plugging this in, but since i have to have a pc running to facilitate this anyways, i'm just using the onboard raid for my 4x2tb disks... i get ~100MB/s performance, this thing is better than that?

just wondering what makes these non-network boxes useful for someone with room in their case and raid on the mobo... maybe if i already had the case and mobo ports filled up?

Hardware raid, hot swapable, external.

 

[JerBer]

With Promocode EMCJHHN42 and after $25 MIR

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