Fry's Electronics is offering an Anthology Solutions 1TB solution for $649.99 through Tuesday, 4 April. Limit one per customer. I have this information from a newspaper advertisement. I checked http://www.outpost.com for the same item (SKU 4633698). They are listed for $699.99. "Call for availability."
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, John Hagerson wrote:
Fry's Electronics is offering an Anthology Solutions 1TB solution for $649.99 through Tuesday, 4 April. Limit one per customer. I have this information from a newspaper advertisement.
I checked http://www.outpost.com for the same item (SKU 4633698). They are listed for $699.99. "Call for availability."
I think we paid about $1500 for our 1.6TB unit at work. The drives weren't that much of the cost. It a cluster server with multiple SCSI and GigE connectors, dual power supply and dual battery backups. We actually had it filled Friday morning. By Friday afternoon it was back to it's normal 1/3 full. -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/
Of course, if you are willing to simply buy 4 @ 250G drives for $99 each, and put them in a less sophisticated box than previously mentioned, these new terebytes can be added for ~$450 rather than the $649-$699 mentioned. Add another $50 each time you want to add a serious feature. However you want to count it, though, if you have been considering buying a terabyte, the time is obviously coming when there will quite many wider and wider ranges of selections, and you will likely see terabytes sold at Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., for under $500 by next year's holidays. mh
Hi, Fred Langa has had an article posted on building a 1 TB storage system for about $500. I haven't read the article but it's probably Windows-centric. I can recommend Fred's column for Windows users. He has been around a long time and generally knows what he's talking about. I don't have the full link to the article but you can find it from his main site. http://www.langa.com/ You'll probably have to read the past issue or two of his column to find the exact link. It's on informationweek.com.
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