Best Servers for Price

not a flaw so far what's not so great:?none "i have purchased the above product as a clearance item...i mean really cheap.

keep in mind that the drives are hot swappable, so it may be less expensive to order the cheaper system and install your own hdd.overall, the system performs adequately for a first generation.

but the cost savings here almost pay for this alone!i have three nas drives, and two of them are going away as obsolete.

if you are interested i ordered the drives for a great great price from newegg.] it is important that you have at least 2 drives in this unit to enable the server to make 2nd backup copies of

the most common issue that i have noted that i have seen as i reviewed the product was based on the cost.

- it comes standard with gigabit ethernet (this costs $200 extra with drobo),

my migration plan is to continue to migrate to 1tb drives in the future when the price point gets where i want it or i really need the space.

if you build a windows server 2003 with a higher end raid card, in other words raid 1 or 5 through hardware, the card itself will cost more than this home server costs.

while there are alternative paths that allow this device to support each of the applications noted above, the comparative conveniences of this server do not, in my opinion, cost justify replacement

you can also backup the server itself either online (not explored that, but i expect there's a cost involved) or by an attached drive (which is the route i plan to take).

however to get the most for your money i recommend to go to the forums that talk about this server.

dynamic dns: we all have some sort of broadband if we consider devices like this and most of us do not opt to pay the exorbitant costs for static ip addresses....instead we just use dhcp from cable

i heard that this network hd was loud and hot, but the price was right so i bought it anyway.

this is an excellent buy for the money.

this is an excellent unit for the price.

i feel it is a good product from a reputable company for a good price.

it's cheaper than a 4 drive nas device and can do 10x more.

in this price range, rarely do you get hot swap drives, an optical drive, or rails included.

cheap, reliable, and fast is how i would describe them.