By itself this device is poorly suited to backup. Specially for their use case. A huge pile of desktop Hitachi disks isn't something you can stick in a rack and

By itself this device is poorly suited to backup. Specially for their use case. A huge pile of desktop Hitachi disks isn't something you can stick in a rack and forget about, and people like to forget about backups. Best case: you have someone who's constantly checking/maintaining this box and replacing the drives as they fail. Worst case: an expectation of a backup, but every time you refer to it, it doesn't work. Most likely case: A mix of both of the above. Where the box takes a lot of attention, and occasionally works as intended. The only redeeming factor is that they proclaim all the reasons why this is a poor choice. So it seems someone is at least thinking about it.