Interact-TV's TellyRAID serves 2TB of TV

If the joys of prime time serial dramas such as 24, Lost and Desperate Housewives are proving a bit taxing on that garden variety DVR or WMCE of yours, it might be time to bump your storage with a bit of NAS action. Luckily, Interact-TV has an incredibly pricey solution to your woes, which doesn't just bump your storage, but includes a whole DVR/DVD/CD managing system to bear on your media problems. The newly launched TellyRAID, bundled with the TellyVizion, allows you to rip and store DVDs, CDs, Photos TV shows and surf the web for even more content to stuff into the 2TB TellyRAID. The TellyVizion can also burn CD playlists, and can be scheduled remotely via the Telly website. The RAID runs quietly, and can work with other computers or compatible media devices to serve  up media over Gigabit Ethernet or USB 2.0. It supports up to four SATA drives, and can work with a USB network adapter for WiFi connectivity. All of this doesn't come cheap, you can get the pair for $2,860, but it should hold onto a season or two of those prime time good times.

[peter @ Jun 12th 2006 10:06PM]

Save yourself some money and just by the NAS from Infrant (www.infrant.com) which is who they are buying them from, and run whatever software you want on your PC. Use the IOData LP2 as a front-end for $200 and you are good to go, plus you'll get full HD support as well (http://www.iodata.com/usa/products/products.php?cat=HNP&sc=AVEL&pId=AVLP2%2FDVDLA).

[Dr Buzzo @ Jun 13th 2006 12:05AM]

Wow. 2TB. Man...I remember when 2tb was more space than I could even imagine needing. That would have been around 1997 or so. Actually, I have 2tb of storage, and I paid a hell of a lot less than that for it.
Get some big hard drives (250 giggers or so) they go for about $65-75 if you shop around. Dig out an old computer (or alternatively grab some USB enclosures).

Put the drives in the computer. Build a raid, either with software or hardware. Hook up a network card. There ya go... lots of network attached storage. If it's terabytes of important crap, then you can even do mirroring or parity, which I doubt this thing will do.

Oh well...if you've got money to burn and you're stupid maybe this is the way to go instead.

[James @ Jun 13th 2006 2:06AM]

Well, I don't know about this system, but as Peter said, Infrant's offering is really nice. Expensive, but nice. It's an expandable hardware RAID-5, and without drives, it's still expensive but quite a bit more affordable when you add drives by yourself, one at a time.

I ended up building my own RAID-5 system cuz it's cheaper and much more expandable than 4 drives. My current system can handle 16 drives at high speed (2x PCI-X at 8 drives each) and more if I'm willing to drop to PCI speeds (though for what I do, I doubt I'll notice that transfer rate drop).

[16AC @ Jun 13th 2006 8:47AM]

I agree completely about building your own RAID system. The thing is, there are plenty of people who don't want to deal with it so they will just get 2TB as shown above. They love technology, just can't be bothered with the details.