Cloud Dock 4 vs. Cloud Store 20 TB
Posted: Sun May 28, 2023 6:28 pmHi -
The Cloud Store 20 TB is $7595. The Cloud Dock is $1395. The Cloud Store 20 TB is all NVMe drives RAID 5. These are not easy to replace in case of failure. The Cloud Dock 4 allows you to just pop in four U.2 NVMe drives which are crazy fast compared to regular NVMe drives. If you install four 8 TB (7.68 TB) Samsung U.2 NVMe drives, this will give you 32 TB at RAID 0, and by using OWC SoftRAID Pro ($250), now you can do a RAID 5 on the Cloud Dock 4. So your cost is $1400 + $250 + (600 x 4) = $2400 for drives, and after RAID 5 you get 24 TB of storage. Same user interface, more storage, probably faster than the Cloud Store 20 TB because of the drives, same four 10G ethernet ports.
so the Cloud Dock 4 total cost would be $4050. Doesn't it make more sense to do the Cloud Dock 4 ?
Bob
The Cloud Store 20 TB is $7595. The Cloud Dock is $1395. The Cloud Store 20 TB is all NVMe drives RAID 5. These are not easy to replace in case of failure. The Cloud Dock 4 allows you to just pop in four U.2 NVMe drives which are crazy fast compared to regular NVMe drives. If you install four 8 TB (7.68 TB) Samsung U.2 NVMe drives, this will give you 32 TB at RAID 0, and by using OWC SoftRAID Pro ($250), now you can do a RAID 5 on the Cloud Dock 4. So your cost is $1400 + $250 + (600 x 4) = $2400 for drives, and after RAID 5 you get 24 TB of storage. Same user interface, more storage, probably faster than the Cloud Store 20 TB because of the drives, same four 10G ethernet ports.
so the Cloud Dock 4 total cost would be $4050. Doesn't it make more sense to do the Cloud Dock 4 ?
Bob