184 is a bit high for a 500gig, even with a few extra ports. I picked up a Maxtor 500gig with USB2 and Firewire400 for 129 and it had a 5yr warranty. Granted its got half the ports, but more then twice the warranty and around a third of the price. The Buffalo maybe worth it if it was a gigabit NAS as well.
I have to smile at this statement. The first "storage"/ memory enhancement I bought was a board that fit in the socket where the 8088 processor sat. 256K. Cost $210 dollars in 1985 or so. Of all the advancements that have happened in the last 20 years, the most impressive, to me, has been the increasing size of disk storage.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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184 is a bit high for a 500gig, even with a few extra ports. I picked up a Maxtor 500gig with USB2 and Firewire400 for 129 and it had a 5yr warranty. Granted its got half the ports, but more then twice the warranty and around a third of the price. The Buffalo maybe worth it if it was a gigabit NAS as well.
I have to smile at this statement. The first "storage"/ memory enhancement I bought was a board that fit in the socket where the 8088 processor sat. 256K. Cost $210 dollars in 1985 or so. Of all the advancements that have happened in the last 20 years, the most impressive, to me, has been the increasing size of disk storage.