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  • ddriver - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

    That's surely 2.7 GB/sec rather than TB. We don't have the interface for that.
  • dstarr3 - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

    Yeah, article states GB/s, headline is wrong. Aren't typos just the most amazing technology, though? :-P
  • Pork@III - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    1024MB/s=1GB/s TB/s speeds is so far in the future in this small NAS/DAS
  • Sarah Terra - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Dont understand how this device can cost 1000 dollars, most id pay is 500
  • milkod2001 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    It is ready to go solution for small businesses. You pay extra for that and also you pay extra because there is some sort of customer support coming with it.

    And yes for $500 you should be able to make your own custom build with probably much better specs and freeNAS or something presuming you know what you are doing and you don't charge yourself for your time spent with building and troubleshooting it.
  • anactoraaron - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    If the $1000 price tag is for a diskless system with software raid then it is indeed grossly overpriced. So it is basically $1k for some plastic and fans? I'm having a hard time seeing the value in this.
  • Death666Angel - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Because Thunderbolt tax?
    A quick search on my local price comparison website shows a 8x3TB USB 3 enclosure (24TB total) going for 1050€. Comparable Thunderbolt enclosure with 6x4TB (24TB total) is 2737€.
  • Vidmo - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Why are you even comparing USB enclosures with TB3 enclosures? That's apples and oranges and an order of magnitude difference in speed.
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Because he was talking about the "Thunderbolt tax" in his 1st sentence.
  • Vidmo - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    There must be such a thing as a "Ferrari tax" when compared a Ferrari to a Kia then. Apples and Oranges.
  • Vidmo - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Have you seen the prices of other TB3 8 bay solutions? This product is a bargain in comparison. The software raid version still has to have a SATA/SAS backplane, logic board, power supply, etc which still costs a fair amount. But yes, compared to the hardware raid version that is only ~$300 more it would make more sense to go that route more than the software raid.

    And as to the note to the above, I would like to see someone, anyone, create the same type of product of this TB3 DAS for less than this on their own.

    freeNAS is not the same as a DAS. I already use a USB3 DAS that outperforms any GB based NAS. But even the 250MB/s I get with my USB3 DAS is no where near enough nowadays which is why its great that these products exist.
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    > Have you seen the prices of other TB3 8 bay solutions?

    That's honestly something Anton should add to the article, to put it into perspective. Right now the article (and I think most of his others too) is mainly listing the specs of the device, which may also be already available on HighPoints homepage.
  • Chad - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Yes. Dat Optic has 12 bay version for similar price.
  • mjz_5 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    really however? how would you make this custom made computer connect to another computer using a USB for access?
  • sorten - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    No kidding. The box would cost 2x as much as the drives it contains. At this cost, if I were a small business I'd start asking myself how much storage and compute I could buy on Azure for the cost of my local setup.
  • Vidmo - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Really? Cause the box in my case would be 1/2 of the cost of the drives *I* would put in. 8TB NAS drives x8 = $2,320. Ya, that Azure setup will be as low latency and as fast as this TB3 box. *rolleyes*
  • BenJeremy - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

    Agreed... I just built out a Linux Mint media server with 8 2TB drives in RAID5 with an SSD as boot/system drive. I used a Fractal Design R4 case, which handled all the drives nicely. Probably around $350 into the hardware excluding the Hitachi 2TB refurbs ($40~50 each) and I run all sorts of stuff on it (SABNZBD, Sonarr, Headphones, WebMin, etc...). It works great as a NAS on my little LAN... and so much more.
  • programcsharp - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    I want one of these with a LAN port as well. Directly attached TB for fast access via one machine, network access for slower access for the rest of my network.
  • nils_ - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link

    How would that work? That would require some sort of advanced filesystem / block storage.
  • Lolimaster - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    Is is that hard to simply make a dummy enclosure for 4-8drives, connected by USB 3.1 gen1/gen2 with 1-2 fans for cooling and no software/raid shit?

    I just want to store my data and access it without having to mess with an extra OS.
  • Vidmo - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

    They absolutely do have products just as you've specified. In fact I've got one that I'll sell you for $400.
    https://www.amazon.com/Sans-Digital-Hardware-Enclo...

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