$229? Holy hell.

Just had some fun customizing one of those, and it's amazing how quickly you can get north of $750 w/ no monitor!

Data Robotics introduces 5-bay Drobo S, enterprise-ready DroboElite -- Engadget

New Drobo with firewire 800 and is still recoverable after 2 drive failures.

dual disc redundancy goodness.

the 8-bay "elite" is absurd, $3.5k w/ no drives. dual disc redundancy isn't anything new it's called RAID 6.

$3.5k w/ no drives.

I didnt even bother checking the price, but thats more stratospheric than I would have ever guessed.

As other people have pointed out, this is an expensive way to get a similar feature set as ZFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (RAIDZ2 gives you 2 disk disk redundancy e.g. A Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools; Part 3: RAIDZ2, scrubbing and resilvering - Technology for Sun Partners for an illustration)

I've been wondering how long it would be before we see a ZFS based appliance.

So have other people.

DroboPro at SNW

Looks like I may not have to wait that long.

EON ZFS Storage (NAS) (eon storage)

is that screen...curved?

Raid 6 controllers aren't cheap. $3500 isn't actually a bad deal for an enterprise raid6 controller.

Or you could do it in software

is that screen...curved?

Yuppers.

It's essentially so big, that you start to get distortion because the pixels are different distances from your eyes, so they fixed it by curving the entire thing.

PS I changed my mind, I don't want -- it's only "900p". Although the ultra-widescreen aspect (pun intended) would have been nice. Can you imagine having every single one of your iTunes columns up at once?

Edited November 24, 200916 yr by Dusty Chalk

One could just get the ghetto version: two 20" or 24" displays display side by side, each towed in - works for me.

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought when I saw that it didn't even do 1080p.

"...toed..."

Ooops, seems I cannot spell...

You spell just fine. Accidentally using homonyms while one composes and types is common. Most people understand that and ignore it when it happens.

I'm just giving her a hard time -- wouldn't be fair to Billy if I didn't. (Billy gets an order of magnitude harder time; his spelling/grammar/whatnot is an order of magnitude worse'n yours, Shelly.)

Seams faire

Squeezebox without the need for a PC. Or an amp.

Revolutionary HiFi - Brennan

Why can't there be a goddamn MFin' 32gb micro sd card already?

Seams faire

Okay, now your just fogging with me.

And ...uh, I forget you're name, guziguy...and guziguy's right -- I was correcting you on you're choice of words, not you're spelling; you're spelling's fine.

I just really liked the imagery of having speakers so big, they need a tow truck to toe them in. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" superimposed with the "large truck backing up" beeping comes to mind as the soundtrack.

Do you mean "guzziguy".

Sari.

Salright.

The Red Eye Remote is now shipping. Any thoughts?

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