Buffalo terastations

[the FooL]

So I noticed that the 1TB Terastations are being discounted to almost $500 at Fry's.

I was wondering if the hard drives can be upgraded to larger capacity ones, so that say in a year or two, I can change the 1TB into 3TB (thinking four 750 drives).

I haven't had any luck finding documentation about doing this with the darn thing, so hoping someone who already bought one can answer it.

 

[mleonard]

Dang, at that price it's sure worth wild. I bought one of these for a small buisness for approx $850 at Fry's, 6 months ago or so. I never checked to see if it was upgradeable, but I'm pretty sure they use out of the box Maxtor drives, I don't know if it was a ATA or SATA interface. By the time you do want to upgrade, the market will have changed as these devices are becoming so much more popular. There'll be something newer and better that you'll want, with 10GB ethernet. Besides, you'll probably get better performance by adding seperate RAID arrays.

Also remember that 1TB or space is using RAID-0 (I think...), so using RAID-5 will drop capacity by 25%, but will allow 1 drive to fail without data loss.

 

[the FooL]

My hope was to find a storage solution that I could upgrade the drives in, since I'm thinking the price of the drives will always be lower than getting the latest NAS box.
Also, I'm too lazy to build and maintain my own NAS using spare parts and linux.

I think I'll hold off again. Maybe just get a 500 or 750GB drive for my current single drive NAS.

 

[EKKC]

im thinking to buy the Intel Entry Storage NAS SS4000-E

it's gigabit, RAID 5 SATA hot swappable. tomshardware has a nice review on it. but its a tad expensive for me.
i have 2 300GB Maxtor SATA DiamondMax10 doing nothing, they're on sale for 80 bucks this week at outpost i may add another two for a 900GB RAID5 monster. but it will still cost me almost 700 bucks


even though intel reports max capacity as 4x500GB = 2TB, tomshardware says it should be fine for 4x750GB = 3TB

 

[EKKC]

cheapest i found: http://www.pchotline.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=691