MicroNet Platinum NAS 4.0 packs four 1TB SATA hard drives

Look out folks, as just one month after Buffalo cranked the NAS ante up to 3TB, we've got a new kid on the block holding down the mighty four-oh. MicroNet's Platinum NAS 4.0 indeed packs a whopping 4,000GB on just four SATA hard drives, and while the company didn't go out of its way to divulge exactly which units were stuffed within, we've all got our hunch. Regardless, this device also features 256MB of write-back / write-through error correcting cache memory, Windows / OS X / Linux compatibility, RAID 0/1/5 support, an Intel XScale 64-bit network storage processor, dual-channel gigabit Ethernet connectivity, a lightweight aluminum design, and it even consumes about "one-third less power" than similar alternatives. Cleverly, MicroNet only asserted that the 1TB edition would hit in Q2 for $879, but we're confident the flagship version will tack on quite a premium for all its capaciousness.

[Via MacWorld]

[nick @ Mar 24th 2007 4:55PM]

Sweet! Now I can keep my 3 gigs of movies and music on 4TB's of storage! /[Sarcasm]

[4cr JaXs @ Mar 24th 2007 5:25PM]

Do these people think we are stupid or something?

4000 GB is NOT 4 TB
4000 GB is 3.9 TB

That may not seem like much but 0.1 TB is 102.4 MB

1 KB is 1024 Bytes
1 MB is 1024 KB
1 GB is 1024 MB
1 TB is 1024 GB

[Steve B @ Mar 24th 2007 5:40PM]

Hard drive manufacturers quote specs in Gigabytes, not Gibibytes.
4000Gigabytes (GB) does infact equal 4Terabytes (TB)
4000Gibibytes (GiB) equates to 4Tibibytes (TiB)

So i think it is you that is stupid :)

[Peter @ Mar 24th 2007 6:02PM]

And 0.1 TB is not 102.4 MB.

I agree with Steve B, "So i think it is you that is stupid :)"

[OPTICAL OUT PLEASE @ Mar 24th 2007 6:05PM]

Either way, it stores a lot of porn.

[Scooter @ Mar 24th 2007 7:46PM]

Now this is serious stuff right here... 4 swap drives and dual-channel gigabit Ethernet, very nice. If the 4t version isn't too expensive, I'm all over it...

You guys that are fighting over 100 meg of space. In a raid setup, one drive is dedicated for rebuild purposes. So you are only looking at about 3g...

Scooter
http://www.gadgetgrid.com/

[edblah @ Mar 25th 2007 12:15AM]

there is no rebuild drive in a raid 0 array...

[Don Wilson @ Mar 24th 2007 10:20PM]

I'm still getting used to my new 500Gb harddrive. It's huge to me =)

[Scooter @ Mar 25th 2007 1:07AM]

I figured someone would bring that up... I was refering to Raid 5.

Here is the deal if you get the MicroNet Platinum NAS using RAID 0/1/5 with 4 1t drives...

Raid 0 - 4t available
By definition RAID level 0 is not RAID because it does not provide data redundancy. Data is striped across all drives without parity.

Raid 1 - 2t available
Data is written to a primary disk and a secondary disk. Identical data is stored (mirrored) on both disks.

Raid 5 - 3t available
Data is striped across a group of disk drives with distributed parity. Parity information is written to a different disk in the array for each stripe. Data is regenerated in the event of a drive failure.

Scooter
http://www.gadgetgrid.com/

[tristanp @ Mar 25th 2007 12:58PM]

does this mean that two editors can access the same media at the same time from two computers next to one another....such as editing a film in FCP on os x by having both computers plugged into a network switch

[jlo @ Mar 25th 2007 2:33PM]

is it me... but can't you buy or build a basic pc with 4 onboard sata connnections for much less than $900 especially since this device doesn't include the hard drives themselves...
i don't get why these are so popular especially at the price points...

[Dan M. @ May 24th 2007 4:37PM]

jlo is a bit confused on this one. The $879 price for the 1 TB NAS server DOES include the drives. 4 250 GB hot swap SATA drives for $879.

[tpp @ Mar 25th 2007 4:34PM]

Printer server support?

It doesn't look like you can attach external drives behind this sucker with USB/Firewire. Ok for first time buyers, bad for people like me who are looking to extend storage capacity on top of existing drives.

[Seventhexile @ Mar 26th 2007 12:39PM]

Problem with 1TB drives is if it crashes your screwed. I'd rather have 2 500gigs running then 1TB.
I could afford to buy a new 500gig Getting another TB hd.. would be to expensive for me

[LAN Tech @ Mar 27th 2007 12:31AM]

This looks an awfull lot line the Thecus.com N4100. All the specs are the same .. infact even the enclosures are identical.

See: http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=1&pid=2