Scoble was raving about the Mirra this week. Sometimes I wonder if he just likes hardware or software because he can get the manufacturer to blog. The Mirra device seems to be very overpriced for what is, basically a NAS. $399 for 80Gb? Mirra is positioning their device as an office backup system. Great, there's a gap in the market there, but is it really suitable as it only backups up documents? Mirra says "Ever tried to restore a crashed computer?". Yes, been there, done that, and having the contents of "My Documents" is not a great help. An office backup solution would take full images of machines, so all you need to do is boot off a CD which attaches you to the network and restores a complete working image.

Now what I want is an iomega 200d. 320Gb, Windows Powered so I can run whatever I want on the NAS, including .net framework software. RAID-able (although of course you then cut out half of your available space) and it comes with backup software. However the backup software still doesn't image, so it's back to TrueImage. There's the other problem. TrueImage licenses for the laptops are priced perfectly, however I have 3 Windows 2003 servers. $700 per server for TrueImage Server is very expensive. Why is the difference between workstation and server software so huge when there will be very little difference under the hood?