Another TB RAID Box Option

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I said this is what works for me. Feel free to disagree for your own sake.

What I'm saying is that "what works for you" is not realistic for 4-bay.

 

[tamvly]

Today, no. Today it's north of $600. In a year or two, as Tesselator postulates, perhaps. I guess we'll see in the fullness of time, as a former associate used to put it.

 

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Today, no. Today it's north of $600. In a year or two, as Tesselator postulates, perhaps. I guess we'll see in the fullness of time, as a former associate used to put it.

If it hasn't happened for MANY years for quad interface boxes, why should it happen for Thunderbolt?

 

[tamvly]

Ah, I'm afraid I misread your post. Quad interface as in eSata, USB, Firewire etc. Not quad interface as in four drives.

Ok, in looking around it does appear that the enclosure market is just about what you said $100 for one, $200 for two, $400 - $500 for four. So that makes the Data Tale box just about where the multi-interface boxes are. Hope for a price reduction? ... slimmer than I might have hoped.

 

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Ah, I'm afraid I misread your post. Quad interface as in eSata, USB, Firewire etc. Not quad interface as in four drives.

Ok, in looking around it does appear that the enclosure market is just about what you said $100 for one, $200 for two, $400 - $500 for four. So that makes the Data Tale box just about where the multi-interface boxes are. Hope for a price reduction? ... slimmer than I might have hoped.

There are some good deals, like a quad-interface 4-bay DataTale for about $250. But that one is more about having RAID 10 and management lock than speed.

 

[tamvly]

So here is a box from the same manufacturer

http://www.amazon.com/DataTale-RC-M4SP-4-Bay-RAID-System/dp/B00CO043AC/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1_BM97

that costs about a third of the TB version.

 

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So here is a box from the same manufacturer

http://www.amazon.com/DataTale-RC-M4SP-4-Bay-RAID-System/dp/B00CO043AC/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1_BM97

that costs about a third of the TB version.

Yes, I bought the FW800/eSATA/USB2.0 version for a little bit more.

Maybe the USB 3.0 version is faster because the box is newer.

I would expect Thunderbolt to also cost more than just USB in the future.

I wanted some other FW800/eSATA/USB3.0 box, but there are few vendors.