[geeks] Anyone know anything about Micronet? (another network RAID box post)

[Micah R Ledbetter]

This product[0] looks pretty damn cool: 1TB dual gbit ethernet RAID  
box. Anyone have any experience with them?

Its feature set is pretty impressive - supports RAID5 unlike most  
boxes like this, has bittorrent and FTP clients (not that BT will be  
used for what I want to do with it), an iTunes server and printer  
sharing, hot swappable drives, the works. Kind of an all-around SOHO  
machine.

Comes with 4x250GB drives, and is about $700. Of course, what you'd  
really want is one without drives, so you could put 4x1TB drives in :).

(My dad is looking at boxes like this. He has a smaller one at home  
that is good for things like tar backups, but it doesn't saturate his  
100mbit ethernet, let alone gbit. This is all for photo stuff -  
Lightroom and Photoshop. Depending on how fast it is, he really  
*wants* to use a network box for the working directories for PS and  
LR, since there are two machines that need to access the same files.)

  - Micah

[0] http://xrl.us/27ke (Link to estore.micronetonly.com)