[geeks] Mac World announcements...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/01/15 Tue PM 09:49:01 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Mac World announcements...

>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.

Seagate makes SATA HDs for file servers/video recorders, I assume that is what 
they mean... I'm sure there are others, but I've see the Seagate models on 
price lists...

Lionel