[geeks] Mac World announcements...

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Tue Jan 15 22:16:55 CST 2008


On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Rick Hamell wrote:
>
>> I wish he'd gone on more about this. The price doesn't seem bad,
>> $299 for
>> 500gb and $499 a terabyte, plus it's a wireless base station. He
>> stated that
>> it has "business class" hard drives, but does that mean Raid? Or
>> just "high
>> quality"? Although Time Machine backs up to it automatically is
>> pretty cool.
>
> That's a good point.  The ad and other information says "server grade"
> hard drives, and since there are no server grade ATA or SATA drives
> that I've seen anywhere, I can't imagine what he meant by that.
>
> Maybe Fujitsu?
>
> I've heard they make some, but have never been able to find them for
> sale.

I took it to mean something like Barracuda ES rather than Barracuda  
7200.11.



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