One can buy four 500GB SATA2 drives for $400. I cannot see how a sheet-metal box and control warrants $1000 profit, and this assumes $600 for that box, power supply and controller, distribution, and warranty losses.
Now, if someone would make an eSATA to PC interface so that a PC's storage system appeared as a dumb external storage device I'd be buying something like the Abit AB9 motherboard with nine (9) SATA2 connectors. Stripe that on for size.
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One can buy four 500GB SATA2 drives for $400. I cannot see how a sheet-metal box and control warrants $1000 profit, and this assumes $600 for that box, power supply and controller, distribution, and warranty losses.
Now, if someone would make an eSATA to PC interface so that a PC's storage system appeared as a dumb external storage device I'd be buying something like the Abit AB9 motherboard with nine (9) SATA2 connectors. Stripe that on for size.