Chipzilla: 'Average home will need a terabyte of storage'
CHIP BEHEMOTH Intel reckons the average punter will need at least a terabyte of storage at home by 2009 for all those photos of the kids, illegal downloaded video and so on.
And, by a strange coincidence, the company has just the thing in the shape of the snappily-named Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-EHW.
This mini-SAN is based on a 1.6 GHz Celeron 420 CPU with 512MB of DDR2 memory, a 945GZ mobo, space for four internal SATA disks and an external SATA connector should you wish to install even more drives.
The ready-to-run Intel SS4200-E includes software from EMC and supports Windows and Mac clients across Gigabit Ethernet. Intel reckons there is enough headroom to accommodate up to three terabytes of data in a RAID 5 configuration.
The hardware-only box will cost around $500 when it launches next month. µ
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After a few minutes search, you could bang together the same hardware for half the money. But I probably wouldn't and rather opt for a Board with two LAN ports. A bit more RAM is never a disadvantage as well, and we don't have to argue about the lovely case, do we?^^

btw, the link to Chipzillas page is broke.
the average ? 1 TB ?? entry system???
I guess they figured there are soon going to be a lot of cheap-o 250 and 320GB disks swilling around in people's stocks, time to package them into something people want.

On another topic, how do you get the disks out of that thing anyway in case one fails? It doesn't appear to have drawers, slots or an easy (tool-less) way of getting them out of there.