Seagate rolls out 1TB Maxtor Central Axis NAS

There may be bigger NASs out there, but there are few more impressively named than Seagate's new Maxtor Central Axis -- a name that's all the more imposing when combined with the drive's monolithic appearance. If that's not enough to sell you on it, however, you may be slightly more impressed with its 1TB 7,200 rpm drive with 32MB of cache, or its support for DLNA and UPnP media streaming, dual USB ports, and magical auto-sorting software, not to mention all the expected security features. $330 and it's yours this July, with folks in Europe and Asia set to get theirs later this year.

[Michael Mapstead @ Jun 26th 2008 12:01PM]

1 TB. My God. What you won't be able to fit in that! I think I need to do some catching up.

[Jon @ Jun 26th 2008 12:13PM]

I have a Little more then 4.5 TB worth of Backed up Music , Movies on my HP Mediasmart Server .. You can never have enough ..

[zargon @ Jun 26th 2008 1:46PM]

In a couple years, we may be looking back and thinking how we managed with even 1 TB.

[NineT9 @ Jun 26th 2008 3:45PM]

ha, ya, I remember 4 years ago I got a 250GB and thought this is HUGE, now I just bought a 1TB a couple days ago and its just perfect

btw, it was at BestBuy, $169, this week only, for those interested

[NineT9 @ Jun 26th 2008 3:45PM]

ha, ya, I remember 4 years ago I got a 250GB and thought this is HUGE, now I just bought a 1TB a couple days ago and its just perfect

btw, it was at BestBuy, $169, this week only, for those interested

[NineT9 @ Jun 26th 2008 3:45PM]

ha, ya, I remember 4 years ago I got a 250GB and thought this is HUGE, now I just bought a 1TB a couple days ago and its just perfect

btw, it was at BestBuy, $169, this week only, for those interested

[NineT9 @ Jun 26th 2008 3:46PM]

WOW, sorry guys, stupid FireFox! It kept saying my comment didn't go thru, refreashed the page and bam, there it is 3x

[flying chair consultant @ Jun 26th 2008 3:59PM]

@Jon: that mediasmart server looks like a great little setup, but in the UK the EX475 with 4TB of storage is a whopping 950 quid :o( for that money you could build a DIY SAN with $MORE_TB of storage using OpenSolaris as an initiator.

[BobTurbo @ Jun 26th 2008 11:09PM]

1TB is only 100 hours of HD video from my future camcorder. I need more like 16TB.

[eggothewaffle @ Jun 26th 2008 12:01PM]

HIP HOP IS DEAD

[Billin @ Jun 26th 2008 12:07PM]

From the looks of the device, it could have been named the Maxtor Central Axis of Evil.

[Sukhminder @ Jun 26th 2008 3:15PM]

Nice. Beat me to it.

[Unknown @ Jun 26th 2008 12:21PM]

Actually it looks a lot more like the black monolith from 2001... Maybe the aliens left us their big ass external hard drive? (with alien Pr0n?)

yeah, 1TB is not big enough. I'm near the 4TB mark.

[John H. @ Jun 26th 2008 12:24PM]

first comment! who needs a terabyte of memory anyways...

[YoRone22 @ Jun 26th 2008 1:00PM]

Fail.

[slarity @ Jun 26th 2008 1:13PM]

Hmm that wouldnt look too bad next to my PS3. Wonder how much space backed up DVDs take, I have about 400 dvds that if I could make them digital would be pretty sweet.

[jizzorl @ Jun 26th 2008 2:16PM]

Most fit around 1-2GB a disc for a 90-120 minute film at decent compression rates, h.264, etc.

But, yeah, kinda depends on whether or not you want the discs perfectly preserved, or just watchable. A full DVD disc image copy can go as high as 9GB. So, for 400 discs, you might need as few a one, to as many as four of these drives to fit it all.

[Wonderboy @ Mar 26th 2009 3:09PM]

Digital DVDs? That would be pretty freakin' sweet.

*sigh* if only...

[Joshua Ochs @ Jun 26th 2008 1:20PM]

A NAS and no mention of network speed? I assume it's gigabit, but I've seen other "NAS" devices try to get by on the cheap with 10/100. You do NOT want to put a huge amount of storage on 100Mbps ethernet. :(

[z0phi3l @ Jun 26th 2008 1:48PM]

The full article mentions a single Gigabit ethernet port :)

[Dustin @ Jul 1st 2008 2:13AM]

yes please try to find a hard drive whose read or write speed will max out a 100meg connection.

have some idea of what you're asking for!

[David Gayler @ Jun 26th 2008 1:29PM]

For all the razmatazz I thought they were talking about something serious, like a petabyte.

Now that would hold the photographs, and in raw too!

[digitallysick @ Jun 26th 2008 1:37PM]

Its still a maxtor, it will make a nice door stop

[ShadowKain @ Jun 26th 2008 2:02PM]

Not a bad price for all thats included, I just may buy one of these awesome things, but then again I have always been a Seagate guy, but with 32 mb cache and 7200 rpm spin speed, how can u argue?

[kal326 @ Jun 26th 2008 2:08PM]

I don't know about arguing, but cursing comes to mind when I think about 32MB 7200rpm Seagate drives. One 500GB out of a raid array died in less then two weeks. RMA'd the dead one, still have the other running as a single drive for stuff I could care less if it was lost.

[DoomGaZer @ Jun 26th 2008 2:13PM]

Yeah, but does it have an unattended, PC-less Bittorent client built-in? ;)

[Steve Jones @ Jun 26th 2008 3:12PM]

Please tell me more; which do?

Also, what's the difference between an NAS and a network hard-drive for the less techy of us?

[Michael Scrip @ Jun 26th 2008 2:15PM]

Central Axis!

If I was gonna have a NAS for central sharing and backup of all my media and stuff... I'd insist on at least RAID 1. If you load up this drive with 1TB of your stuff and it crashes... oops.

[brian @ Jun 26th 2008 2:35PM]

How big, would make a cool Mini-itx case, have a slot load dvd at the top so you can toss in dvds,cd,blu-ray (if its a blu-ray drive) like bread into a toaster. 1TB is nothing now a days although all i need is 640kb (is that right??? or was it 460...)

[Das Boot @ Jun 26th 2008 3:03PM]

Err...ah, this will it all my spongebob collection, sweet!

[neofolklore @ Jun 26th 2008 3:04PM]

[HITLER JOKE!]

[NineT9 @ Jun 26th 2008 3:44PM]

Question...

NAS with USB ports... Does this mean you can use it as an external drive as well? Sorry if thats a dumb question :/

[Dustin @ Jul 1st 2008 2:15AM]

The NAS I own uses the usb ports so you can plug another external drive into _IT_

but you cannot access the NAS through the usb port.

(Western Digital Mybook World Edition)

[XenoX101 @ Jun 27th 2008 4:14AM]

Man, I'd buy this thing just so I can introduce it to all my friends. (cue joke about anti-social stereotype)

But it would go well with..

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/lian-lis-tyr-x2000-htpc-gaming-chassis-towers-in-black/

[Frappe @ Jun 30th 2008 10:17PM]

I'm frankly surprised there haven't been more WWII (or WWI for that matter...) jokes yet.

How does Poland feel about this NAS?

Is it still bitter about the Treaty of Versailles?

Frankly, it looks rather big. Will my desk have enough space, or will it need some Lebensraum from the office next door.

[RW @ Aug 9th 2008 3:50PM]

Central Axis was a nightmare right outta the box. DOA. Every support option ended with the same conclusion, return to Maxtor for replacement.