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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

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.)