SimpleTech Duo Pro; lots of disk space, very little desk space

There are plenty of dual-hard-drive outboard storage systems on the market, but SimpleTech’s Duo Pro struck me as particularly brimming with awesomeness and small size for the price. It packs more than enough space and speed to make a nerd sing.

It’s not a NAS—it’s totally local—but you have a choice of USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800, and eSATA, which clocks a max transfer speed of 3Gb per second. (That’s gigabits, not gigabytes. But it’s still very fast.)

You can naturally do RAID 0 or 1, and though the current options are a 1TB total for $280, a 1.5TB total for $420 and a 2TB version for $550, you will be able to choose a 3TB config by Winter (no price announcement on this model).

It’s amazing how small and compact large store solutions are getting, and with nanotechnology advancing the way it is, expect TB storage solutions to continue to grow smaller and less expensive.

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