SimpleTech trots out 3TB Duo Pro / 1.5TB Pro external HDDs

Fabrik's SimpleTech brand initially pushed out its Pro external drives and online backup service around this time last year, but thankfully it finally figured out what we consumers want: that it keep up with the capacity curve. The firm's Duo Pro drive, which boasts four interfaces (eSATA, FireWire 400 / 800 and USB 2.0), will be available in Q4 with 3TB of room. As for its smaller sibling, you can expect the single-drive 1.5TB Pro model to land around the same time for a definitively different unknown price.

Gallery: SimpleTech trots out 3TB Duo Pro / 1.5TB Pro external HDDs

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[michas_pi @ Sep 26th 2008 8:18PM]

I spy delicious FireWire.

[Kris @ Sep 26th 2008 8:47PM]

If only the two drive model had RAID setup so if we wanted, we could put it in RAID 1 for a nice, reliable backup solution.

[Joe @ Sep 27th 2008 5:02AM]

@Kris: Did you not see the gallery pictures?

[Scott @ Sep 26th 2008 8:45PM]

What is "eset?"

[Jon Doe. @ Sep 27th 2008 2:33AM]

That's Reset with a heavy Southern drawl ;-)

[shuss @ Sep 26th 2008 8:37PM]

good find. I had a good lauth after checking back.
Thanks

[Howard_NYC @ Sep 26th 2008 8:44PM]

Q: pricing?

Q: links to ordering?

Q: speed rating?

Q: MTBF?

[Darth Lord @ Sep 26th 2008 8:43PM]

You are being silly, clearly it is a typo..it is meant to be I-Set, not Eset. It will function the same as Reset expect it has been optimized. Everyone knows that ISet short for I-Reset is always faster than Reset.

[Kris @ Sep 26th 2008 8:47PM]

I remember back in the day when trolls actually tried. Now they're just dumb :(

[cypherstream @ Sep 26th 2008 8:52PM]

LOL, I thought it had something to do with Eset's NOD32 anti-virus protection.

Too bad Motorola DVR's don't work with external storage. I'd like the 1.5TB for my DVR please.

[Terry @ Oct 31st 2008 5:24PM]

Get a real DVR, Dish VIP722 you'll be in heaven!!!!!!!!!!

[grull27 @ Sep 26th 2008 8:52PM]

Somebody hasn't seen the advertisement on the side. :-/

[Kris @ Sep 26th 2008 8:52PM]

Somebody doesn't realize the ads are random and not everyone will see the same ads.

[eric b. @ Sep 26th 2008 8:57PM]

WHO THE F needs 3 TB of space? 1.5 TB I can understand but 3 is pushing it. Even for movie makers and photography type people with all their data

[Aaron @ Sep 26th 2008 9:02PM]

i am a senior in college and i have 4tb raid. and it's not porn.... so there

[Salsa Shark @ Sep 27th 2008 1:32AM]

A feature-length film using two cameras can end up with around 500GB of file footage. That's not including all the temporary space required when using an NLE to edit and assemble it.

Ignoramus.

[Daza @ Sep 27th 2008 7:35AM]

I didn't even realise, but I've got close to 2.5TB at home collectively. Most of the drives are in use and are close to capacity. I think storage is something you can never have enough of, and I'm glad large drives are being produced so cheaply. Hopefully there's still a bit more room to push with platter HDDs and we can have multi-TB drives soon.

[GON @ Sep 26th 2008 9:08PM]

Looks like a Mac mini.

[Jay @ Sep 26th 2008 11:12PM]

Eric... who could use this?

DirecTV DVRs most certainly could with their eSATA connectors.
that 3TB, would give you about around 300hours of HD recording space.

And if this unit doesn't need much help from the computer on the eSATA connection, or doesn't need any special controllers..
Then it is plug and play with the DVRs out there.

Any idea on price?

[psilver @ Sep 26th 2008 9:22PM]

Quality of products? BAD! The first unit I got from them was a lemon. It had loose screws inside and the innards move inside like crazy. They replaced it promptly though (actually Dell did), and the second unit works... most of the time. sometimes XP had a hard time recognizing it. I was so scared losing all my data so I bought a DROBO and gutted the SimpleTech Pro Duo drive. What I found out? A lot of stuff GLUED inside! It would've been impossible for me to put it back together, luckily, I just needed the drives for the DROBO and the casing and electronics will be trashed.

BTW, I was using it with USB. My XP PC could not recognize it with eSATA. Very bad product!

[Brian L @ Sep 26th 2008 10:10PM]

Where's the Gigabit Ethernet?

[lorddshadow @ Sep 26th 2008 9:52PM]

i like the cheese avatar Khris!

[Galley @ Sep 26th 2008 9:52PM]

That's exactly what I need.

[f00 @ Sep 26th 2008 11:28PM]

erm... am i the only one thats confused by the fact that these would require 1.5TB drives (last time i checked, not available) to have the capacities offered? (assuming that engadget reported the single-drive 1.5TB version, and assuming the 3TB is with two drives)

[f00 @ Sep 26th 2008 11:32PM]

just to clarify, by available, i mean actually being in stock; i think its important to note that apparently the ETA for 1.5TB drives being actually "available" is around q4 this year

[kr @ Sep 27th 2008 9:58AM]

They are out and available. I currently have a 1.5 TB Seagate 7200.11 en route from good old Newegg.

[kr @ Sep 27th 2008 10:02AM]

A link for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337

[doctorSpoc @ Sep 27th 2008 1:13AM]

price per unit storage... that's the biggest issue here and it's missing from the article..

[doctorSpoc @ Sep 27th 2008 1:18AM]

at $140 per 500MB that's WAY too expensive... sorry guys you need to realize that storage is a commodity now the going rate per 500MB is sub $100.... $140? you've got to be kidding me...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331289,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

[Apple @ Sep 27th 2008 7:24AM]

If your paying $100 for 500MB, you are getting RIPPED off big.

[michas_pi @ Sep 27th 2008 1:32AM]

Back in the day, trolling meant something.

[Erin @ Sep 29th 2008 10:34AM]

The Duo Pro comes with RAID 0 or RAID 1. The highest cap shipping today is 2TB, which is $549.99 MSRP. That's about .27 cents per gigabyte. The 1TB Pro Drive is $259.99 MSRP - that's about .25 cents per gig. The full press release is here: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/simpletech-pumps-up-pro-drive-external-storage-family,558223.shtml