ฺBuffalo products sells their products at premium prices. Their prices for Buffalo-rebranded Maxtor/Seagate HDDs at Yodobashi camera are about 50% higher than prices for easily available OEM drives. And their enclosures are not easily upgradable.
If you want cheap expansion, better to buy a mini-tower, add an eSATA card and RAID card, and then throw in some 500GB drives. At about $175/500GB drive and $400 for a low-end mini-tower with eSATA, you can save quite a bit. Plus, it'll be easily upgradable to 750GB drives when the price of those things comes down.
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ฺBuffalo products sells their products at premium prices. Their prices for Buffalo-rebranded Maxtor/Seagate HDDs at Yodobashi camera are about 50% higher than prices for easily available OEM drives. And their enclosures are not easily upgradable.
If you want cheap expansion, better to buy a mini-tower, add an eSATA card and RAID card, and then throw in some 500GB drives. At about $175/500GB drive and $400 for a low-end mini-tower with eSATA, you can save quite a bit. Plus, it'll be easily upgradable to 750GB drives when the price of those things comes down.