The Yellow Machine in Review 265
So, the machine itself is, well, uh, cute. Bright yellow, good clear display lights so that you can see traffic on the different drives. The drives themselves are IDE drives, so yeah, you don't get the speed of SCSI, but frankly, if you are looking for 1.6 TB of SCSI, you probably need to look at jbods or the like. But since the unit is really designed to be an office storage environment, that's probably just fine.
Feature-wise, the unit has almost everything that you want. What is interesting to me, that I haven't seen in many NAS units is that it's got a double firewall. The interface for handling network isn't quite as nice, as say, a wireless unit, but it's decent. You can have the machine sit as your connection to your WAN (it handles DHCP, static IP) do port-forwarding and all those other fun things. The primary problem that I had was actually the config of first getting it setup, but that didn't take much time once I actually read the manual. *grin* It will also do web-access controls for users, monitor e-mails sent, a whole slew of other stuff.
The network support is robust. It does SMB/NFS, and supports Windows and Mac as desktop clients, and does indeed work under Linux as well based on my testing. All of the interface work is done via HTTP so as long as you've got a somewhat recent flavor of web browser, you'll be dandy although it's optimized for IE6. The unit is surprisingly quiet - many times, while I was at my desk (it sat under there) I forgot it was there and kicked it over. It still works fine after that, BTW.
In terms of speed and performance, nothing hugely different then normal network file transfers, but that's more a function of network traffic/speed then anything else. The device handled multiple people using (it has permissions built-in) easily, and did uploads & downloads of big VOB files, MP3 directories, normal files - it shrugged it off. The major issue is pricing; the 1 TB is about $1300. Now, for the DIY crowd, yes, using Linux you could very easily put together a RAID 5, 1 TB machine for not that much more -- and you are probably going to do it anyway. But for the target market, especially situations in which the IT resources are limited, it's a great machine for the ease of setting it up. And since it supports doing automated back-ups as well as has the serial port to work with a UPS system, you don't have to worry about the whole crapping out and losing all of your data. All in all, a great unit. Price is a concern, but a minor one.
Slashdot rating... (Score:2, Funny)
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Core Dump...
Yellow Box (Score:4, Funny)
Price (Score:5, Funny)
The major issue is pricing; the 1 TB is about $1300.
Price is a concern, but a minor one.
So.. You think it's a cute looking box? I think so too. In my opinion, it's quite ugly. Very pretty, if I may say so.
Funny... (Score:2, Funny)
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This day shall live on in infamy. (Score:5, Funny)
30 NOV 05: Not content with mere duplicate stories, Hemos started posting incoherent ramblings.
Bonus feature: terrabytes right out of the box... (Score:2, Funny)
Now, for my review of the review! (Score:5, Funny)
The reviewer spent some time talking about things, which was cool in my book. At one point, I actually considered looking into one of the technical things mentioned, but didn't as it would've broken the flavor of the review.
All in all, it was a pretty fun review -- I had some laughs and a couple of good cries. For the DIY crowd, you could google the info yourself -- which, you'll probably do anyhow. But for the Suits who want to spend some money and not learn much (much less than say... the spec sheet: http://www.anthologysolutions.com/products/P400T_
Thanks for the darling review. I feel much peppier now. =/
Yellow is faster (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This day shall live on in infamy. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:English comp was never my strong subject (Score:5, Funny)
This hope I helps.
UPS box (Score:4, Funny)
When I first read the words "about the size of a ups box" I pictured one of those big brown metal boxes you put packages in for pickup by UPS.
If I wanted something that huge for storage, I'd get an AS/400.
So I'm sorry I misunderstood you Hemos. When you said UPS box, you meant UPS box, not UPS box. My mistake.
MY GOD HEMOS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Infrant (Score:5, Funny)
Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until you could afford both the machine and, oh, at least one drive?
Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MY GOD HEMOS (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bonus feature: terrabytes right out of the box. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MY GOD HEMOS (Score:0, Funny)
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!
Re:Yellow Discrimination (Score:3, Funny)
Windows Vista outsells Linux RAID! Laura DiDio said so and you know she wouldn't lie!
We just did an independent study proving that a 10/100 Ethernet connection outperforms Gigabit in achieving small office business targets!
If you don't buy this machine, we'll stop selling to your country and pull all our employees out and tell George about you!
Wait until the next version! It'll be awesome! You'll be able to actually search the drive!
Re:How many Libraries of Congress is that? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What the hell has this place become? (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot obviously commercial advertisements masquerading as reviews by Chinese PR agents who can't speak (or write) English.
$1,300 for 1T is cheap.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:$1,300 for 1T is cheap.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Price (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WTF (Score:3, Funny)
You might not even notice sentences that no verb.
Re:Now, for my review of the review! (Score:2, Funny)
Duplication of the previous style, with a side of satire was nice. Personally, I love the freeing ability that not having to spell/grammer check allows me to review. Kind of like driving in Italy.
To all you reviewers of reviewers of reviewers out there, I'd say give it a shot. The cuteness and lending to overall recursion is nice. And the ability to talk like you snorted coke in one hole and valium in the other is great.
For an only-slightly related, but random link try:
http://www.infinitecat.com/infinite/cat-html/793.
I may have work at a site, but doesn't mean I have to preview anymore than the lowly readers.
Kicked it over (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, this shows a level of idiocy I would not have thought possible. After the first time kicking it over, the thought should have come up, "CRAP! That's a terrible place to keep that. I should move it to somewhere more out of the way, where it won't get knocked over all the time."
"Whoa, that's the fourth time I've knocked that thing over. I'll bet I've learned my lesson now."
Re:Yellow Box (Score:2, Funny)
If all your white cow-orkers are making racial jokes at work, that's clearly a job for HR. Last I checked, we're on Slashdot, and we make jokes about all kinds of things here. That does not mean that Slashdot and every person who posts an ethnic joke supports racism in any way.
Finally, my jokes don't discriminate against anyone in any way. Go ahead and try me. Pick a race or ethnicity. Go ahead. I got jokes for everybody.
Re:Yellow Box (Score:2, Funny)
"there are 50 million sheep in New Zealand, 3.5 million
of them think they are people"
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Albert Einstein and the New Zealand Economist
"When Albert Einstein died, he met three New Zealanders in the queue outside the Pearly Gates. To pass the time, he asked what were their IQs. The first replied 190. "Wonderful," exclaimed Einstein. "We can discuss the contribution made by Ernest Rutherford to atomic physics and my theory of general relativity". The second answered 150. "Good," said Einstein. "I look forward to discussing the role of New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation in the quest for world peace". The third New Zealander mumbled 50. Einstein paused, and then asked, "So what is your forecast for the budget deficit next year?"