Is the toaster analogy overused?
Anthology Solutions, Inc., has recently released the 2-terabyte version of its Yellow Machine data appliance, bringing a new level of all-in-one, FailSafe storage and secure networking capabilities to consumers and small businesses. The Yellow Machine includes an internal eight-port LAN switch and an integrated double firewall/VPN router. A new system software suite increases drive reliability with the addition of Masterpiece RAID Disk Scrubbing Technology (DST) for automatic data monitoring.
With four independent disks capable of storing, securing and sharing data in a variety of RAID configurations including RAID 5 and RAID 1+0, the appliance has factory-installed EMC Retrospect Professional software that can back up six Windows or Mac PCs while interoperating with Microsoft’s Active Directory Service.
I used to think anything over a terabye was too much storage for the average individual (cue 1981 Bill Gates quote here), but now I realize that I’ve finally found a place to put my laserdisk and vinyl collection.
Linux inside, Yeah Baby, Yeah. But I’ve had a terabyte of memory in most of my PCs for a couple of years now.
Makes more and more sense to me. I keep storage down to a minimum in the two Macs I mostly use. There are three other computers in regular periodic use in the household, as well.
I just added up existing storage and it’s close to a terrabyte. Though I’d probably continue using a standalone critter as backup for everything else — just to be on the safe side.
My main system has 1.8 terabytes. All my systems together probably have over 3.
Looks great in yellow.
This quote from the page above made me laugh:
1998 Folks, the Mac platform is through – totally. (John Dvorak)
I worked at Bell Labs in Naperville, IL in the 1980’s. It had one of the largest comp centers in the world at the time — so they claimed. There was a big celebration in 1982 when the comp center had 1 terabyte of online storage — which they needed for their telephone switching software development.
Hard to imagine that I could go today to a local computer store and get a few external storage drives and replicate that today.
So how are you getting that stored media to the screen? Copying it to the device you play it off of, or accessing it remotely?
Shoot, my first 386 had a 40 meg HD. I used to boast that it could hold the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and still have room left over. Now my 320GB of HD is almost full of JPGs and video.
I really like the concept; 2 TB RAID, router, firewall, and backup software in one package. And all for under $2800. One TB goes for $1000.
The color reminds me of what the dog left on the carpet the other day. It would be nice if it came in putty too.
will we ever reach a time where people stop using the word memory to discribe hard drive space.
Why do so many people say the wrong thing?
@7 do you know what network storage is?
Jeremy,
Yeah memory isn’t the correct term, but like “internet” and “the web” getting interchanged, this has become common use by the frequency of the misuse. in other words, memory is now accepted as correct even though it isn’t. (there will be a test later.)
Fusion, what are you feeding your dogs?!? IF my two left bright yellow piles they’d be easier to find when I’m leaning the back yard.
That thing does need to be sold with an accompanying coupon for a can of spray paint. That thing is very cool otherwise. Wish I had some spare cash…
#8 – Fusion is right it is nice to have all of this in one package. But for that much I would expect it to be GB lan capable. I don’t believe this one is.
Back around 1981, I was doing programming on an Apple III using UCSD Pascal. I had to use four floppy drives: one for the OS, one for Pascal, one for my source code and one for the compiled code. Oh, happy day when I got Apple’s first hard drive with 5 Meg of space. I think it cost something like $2500.
I just purchased the 1TB version of this drive and I’m pretty happy with it. However, I’m running RAID level 5 and that made my total capacity format out to be only 681GB. I purchased it at Fry’s Outpost.com for only $699.99. I thought that was a pretty good deal.
1986 UNIX is dead, but no one bothered to claim the body. (John Dvorak)
^ this quote is funny as well
1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. (John Dvorak)
How old is John? It seems he used to write articles when I was still in diapers…
#11 – Gotta defend Jeremy on this one. Memory is memory and storage is storage. Repeating an error doesn’t make it right. I run a computer repair facility and it doesn’t make it easier when somebody says the want their memory upgraded when in reality it’s their drive they’re talking about.