Hammer's new myshare NAS shares 2TB on home networks

If your motley collection of home PCs demands a copious amount of shared storage, Hammer has a solution for you. The new myshare NAS offers anwhere from 320GB to 2TB of storage, and can support PCs of the Windows, Mac and Linux persuasion without a hitch. There's also a built-in web server for getting at your files remotely. A pair of USB ports allows you to share printers and external storage devices, and RAID modes include stripe, mirror and span. There's only room for two 3.5-inch SATA drives in here, meaning the 2TB edition is based off of two 1TB drives. If that's too extreme for you, you can get a 1TB (2X 500GB) myshare for $500, or hit up one of the many other configurations. If you decide to go 2TB, you'll have to wait until August, but the other versions should be shipping now.

[PEZ Posted Mar 26th 2007 1:08PM]

Looks like one of those fancy-ass new microwaves I have been hearing about.

[tjhagen Posted Mar 27th 2007 6:23PM]

That's one sweet looking microwave.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 1:09PM]

This thing looks suspiciously like a microwave oven.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 3:31PM]

Except your data is what gets burned. No way I would trust anything valuable to a raid0 stripe of 500GB drives. 500GB drives are likely less reliable than 160GB drives, with all those platters and high data density. When will someone do this in a Raid5 with hotswap at a reasonable price? Is it really so difficult?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 3:45PM]

Raid5 sucks ass.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 3:59PM]

Cheaper than mirrors, though. I don't mind a mirror, I was mainly considering cost.

[badmacktuck Posted Mar 26th 2007 4:15PM]

this seems to be exactly what i've been looking for.

it looks like pc connection has these with no drives for $229USD. That is really tempting.

http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?sku=7542742

[fragmit Posted Mar 26th 2007 3:54PM]

Please hammer, don't hurt 'em

[Zzephyr Posted Mar 26th 2007 4:05PM]

Looks like a microwave oven if you ask me.

[TeeWill Posted Mar 26th 2007 6:50PM]

It's Hammer Time!

Does it have a rotating turntable to cook food evenly?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 7:14PM]

I don't trust commodity disks in the slightest. I'd rather see RAID-6, hot-swappable drives, and a robust underlying filesystem such as ZFS.

Yes, I'm basically asking for a baby NetApp, but hey, we're talking about my files here...

[zbot Posted May 1st 2007 7:30PM]

i just ordered the 1TB unit from newegg. i returned the dlink dns 323 b/c it used a filesystem not recognized by windows. if the dlink fails, you won't be able to access the data. this machine uses ntfs file system so that if the box fails, the data is still safe.