Comments on: Mirra’s stuffed with cash http://gigaom.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jacob Elster http://gigaom.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/#comment-96651 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:44:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/#comment-96651 I think that we have found an answer. Check out the site and let me know what you think.

]]> By: Om Malik’s Blog » Mirra Sold to Seagate http://gigaom.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/#comment-96650 Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:05:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/#comment-96650 [...] The mergers come thick and fast. Now news that Seagate has bought Mirra, a consumer back-up drive, which has been a critical success in the “PC” market. The company recently introduced a $800-400 GB monster. Given that most of the hard drive makers are struggling to eke out a living, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Mirra was started by Tim Butler, former Apple executive, who is having some issues with Jobs and his company. Everyone is searching for ways to “value add” to their product line, and thus goose-up the profits. Maxtor, for instance, came-up with a similar digital drive. I get a feeling, given Seagate’s retail presence, Mirra back-up drives will get more retail presence. No details on the price-tag! It must have been a big one — because Sequoia Capital pumped in $8 million into the Sunnyvale start-up. Update: According to Venturewire, the Mirra-Seagate deal was between $15 million nd $30 million. In Connected Home Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 6:53 PM PT [...]

]]> By: andre salazar http://gigaom.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/#comment-96649 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/25/mirras-stuffed-with-cash/#comment-96649 well, having read several reviews of the mira product, and based on the fact that it is a completely commodotized solution (molex case and power supply, via mb, linux with samba) i don’t understand your admiration for the product.

their software seems lacking, not allowing basic functionality like NAS and file sharing, and relying completely on their client.

http://www.tomshardwareguide.com

review at the link above.

perhaps cisco should buy the company that creates the NAS devices OEM’d by tritton technologies and IOGEAR…as they both have their faults, but ultimately allow the user to have a cheap, network enabled file storage device that allows NAS and simple file sharing.

or, urge linksys to create competitive devices, as dlink has done.

linksys NAS devices today are above the 400 price line, while the tritton NAS or IOGEAR Boss can both be had for less.

i use my 120 gig tritton NAS with acronis trueimage, a norton ghost like solution that is way easier to use, can run in a live windows partition, and allows users to easily create images of all of their machines on their home network, (with incremental backups) and easily recover and restore those machines.

this solution costs less than 300 (for 120 gig of storage, drives can be easily swapped up larger), and allows me to also have true NAS, and a dedicated FTP server.

this is way handier than the Mira, costs significantly less.

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