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> They are already pretty cheap -- the Areca ARC-8050 8 bay bare is $1499. Are you having a giggle there, mate?

Karunamon 13y ago
To be fair, if you're the person that the mac pro is aimed at and you can drop $3k on a machine, another 1.5 for a decent drive array isn't that outlandish.
- taspeotis 13y ago
  I'm assuming "bare" means without drives. The cheapest 2TB drive I'd be willing to buy is this one [1]. Disregarding the "NAS Drive!!!" marketing junk, if you sort disk drives by price on Newegg this is the first one with a 5 star rating from 31 reviews. You could go cheaper and get a 3 star rating'd drive for $85 [2]. To fill your chassis with the Seagate: 1x$1499 plus 8x$119 = $2451 To fill your chassis with the Toshiba: 1x$1499 plus 8x$85 = $2179 [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178391 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178... [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149407 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149...
  - rdl 13y ago
    It's not really marketing junk -- different drive firmware does make a difference in NAS and RAID applications. I'd probably be looking only at 4TB Ultrastars to fill the ARC-8050, or SSDs. I might go with something lower end for an 1813+ since you're probably not buying a gig-e connected NAS for performance. (it depends, though -- if you're doing just huge volumes of audio, you probably only care about reliability and sustained performance, and not much performance at that; and even flac doesn't use much disk space. it's video or other info which requires high-speed direct-attach drives in 20TB chunks.)
- kayoone 13y ago
  Funny everyone assumes that "Pros" dont care about money. I just see this as 1500 bucks i dont have to spend when getting a workstation from another vendor.
  - rdl 13y ago
    You rarely get 8 drive RAID6 in any workstation.
    - kayoone 13y ago
      try 4, still expensive enough.

To be fair, if you're the person that the mac pro is aimed at and you can drop $3k on a machine, another 1.5 for a decent drive array isn't that outlandish.

taspeotis 13y ago
I'm assuming "bare" means without drives. The cheapest 2TB drive I'd be willing to buy is this one [1]. Disregarding the "NAS Drive!!!" marketing junk, if you sort disk drives by price on Newegg this is the first one with a 5 star rating from 31 reviews. You could go cheaper and get a 3 star rating'd drive for $85 [2]. To fill your chassis with the Seagate: 1x$1499 plus 8x$119 = $2451 To fill your chassis with the Toshiba: 1x$1499 plus 8x$85 = $2179 [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178391 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178... [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149407 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149...
- rdl 13y ago
  It's not really marketing junk -- different drive firmware does make a difference in NAS and RAID applications. I'd probably be looking only at 4TB Ultrastars to fill the ARC-8050, or SSDs. I might go with something lower end for an 1813+ since you're probably not buying a gig-e connected NAS for performance. (it depends, though -- if you're doing just huge volumes of audio, you probably only care about reliability and sustained performance, and not much performance at that; and even flac doesn't use much disk space. it's video or other info which requires high-speed direct-attach drives in 20TB chunks.)
kayoone 13y ago
Funny everyone assumes that "Pros" dont care about money. I just see this as 1500 bucks i dont have to spend when getting a workstation from another vendor.
- rdl 13y ago
  You rarely get 8 drive RAID6 in any workstation.
  - kayoone 13y ago
    try 4, still expensive enough.