Exactly this. I've quit all social media. It's toxic garbage. Tweeting and retweeting about this product gives them nothing. No one on that platform cares about this product. Guess I'll have to wait for these giveaways to go back to commenting on the article to be able to win again.
Maybe setup a throw away social media account for free stuff? I have heard of people that do that kind of thing and I've even thought about it myself, but I just find the idea of social media so off-putting that I'm reluctant to even make scarecrow accounts for situations like these.
The fix is in! The Winner has already been determined back on June 20, 2019, per the Terms:
WINNER DETERMINATION: Potential winners will be selected by Sponsor in a random drawing on or about June 20th, 2019 from among all eligible entries received. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Sponsor’s decisions with respect to winner determination are final and binding.
If you put the comment about USA only at the top of the article then the rest of the world could save themselves 15s of scanning the rest of it to find out that we're not eligible in the first place.
To be fair, we haven't run anything but a US giveaway in over half a decade. And for legal reasons, that won't be changing. The only giveaways we're allowed to run are for the US.
I understand that you're not able to run international giveaways. Our complaints are not really about that. It would just be a very nice gesture to your significant number of non-US readers to put the "US only" in the title. Right now it feels like you only care about the US, which I'm sure is not your intention.
Just make that assumption and move on. He just told you they are doing US only for legal reasons and there are no plans to change it. They'll announce if that changes, most likely.
Your question was just answered. They haven't run international contests in years and have no intent to do so anytime soon, so you can safely just skip contest entries. No tag needed.
"The one downside to this is that it means the ports aren’t actually usable without buying a transceiver, so there’s an additional cost (10GBASE-T transceivers are ~$50) before 10GigE is actual usable."
This is just nonsense. For very many people SFP+ is a lot more desirable than 10Gbase-T. It is more power efficient, flexible (use either cheap DAC cables for short distances, e.g. within a rack, or optical transceivers for longer distances) and also cheaper, both on the NIC and switch side. There are many switches with SFP+ that are cheaper than switches with 10Gbase-T. Mikrotik CRS 326-24G-2S+RM, CRS305-1G-4S+IN, TP-Link JetStream T1700G-28TQ, D-Link DGS-1510-28X and FS S3900-24T4S just to name a few.
What is peoples opinions of Qnap (versus say Synology or Netgear or Asustor) my perception and a little bit of anecdotal evidence is that the build quality of the Synology gear is less than Qnap, I dont really know much about the Netgear stuff beyond the fact they use btrfs for a filesystem and the Asustor stuff seems good for the feature set and price...
You can't really lose between QNAP and Synology. I prefer QNAP myself, I feel they are better for power users and may have had fewer security issues, but really its splitting hairs overall as both are solid choices.
So a NAS with a single drive, so if it fails you're still up a creek. Adding a second drive to make it even remotely viable would require a $500 expenditure. To fill the unit with the same model drive would require a $2,000 outlay beyond the single drive.
If it came with 5x 4TB drives, you'd have something useful with a similar amount of storage.
And no way to enter other than Twitter shilling? Pass.
Complaining about a free giveaway LOL Buy another 16GBor as the other reply states sell and get 4TB drives. Either way, if you won, it would reduce your costs of setting one up. Or, be salty, complain, and don't enter. Yeah...the latter is a better idea.
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chaos215bar2 - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
My free Twitter advertising is not worth a minuscule chance at a $1200 prize. QNAP, Seagate, and AnandTech can do better.anactoraaron - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Exactly this. I've quit all social media. It's toxic garbage. Tweeting and retweeting about this product gives them nothing. No one on that platform cares about this product. Guess I'll have to wait for these giveaways to go back to commenting on the article to be able to win again.jabber - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I gave up on Twitter a few months ago. Too many Nazis.PeachNCream - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Maybe setup a throw away social media account for free stuff? I have heard of people that do that kind of thing and I've even thought about it myself, but I just find the idea of social media so off-putting that I'm reluctant to even make scarecrow accounts for situations like these.Jorgp2 - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
>as well as one of each of Seagate’s IronWolf Pro 16GB16TB
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
Thanks!romrunning - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
The fix is in! The Winner has already been determined back on June 20, 2019, per the Terms:WINNER DETERMINATION: Potential winners will be selected by Sponsor in a random drawing on or about June 20th, 2019 from among all eligible entries received. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Sponsor’s decisions with respect to winner determination are final and binding.
DanNeely - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
The terms also say you're only allowed 2 entries, but the form lets you enter 3 times. Gleam is turning into such a garbage fire...tekeffect - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
I follow and it doesn’t show a entry. You need a better system. This is frustratingTrevorH - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
If you put the comment about USA only at the top of the article then the rest of the world could save themselves 15s of scanning the rest of it to find out that we're not eligible in the first place.SSTANIC - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
+7,400,450,752Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
To be fair, we haven't run anything but a US giveaway in over half a decade. And for legal reasons, that won't be changing. The only giveaways we're allowed to run are for the US.AdditionalPylons - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
I understand that you're not able to run international giveaways. Our complaints are not really about that. It would just be a very nice gesture to your significant number of non-US readers to put the "US only" in the title. Right now it feels like you only care about the US, which I'm sure is not your intention.Reflex - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Just make that assumption and move on. He just told you they are doing US only for legal reasons and there are no plans to change it. They'll announce if that changes, most likely.Reflex - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Your question was just answered. They haven't run international contests in years and have no intent to do so anytime soon, so you can safely just skip contest entries. No tag needed.AdditionalPylons - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
I've said it before. US only should be in the title!AdditionalPylons - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
"The one downside to this is that it means the ports aren’t actually usable without buying a transceiver, so there’s an additional cost (10GBASE-T transceivers are ~$50) before 10GigE is actual usable."This is just nonsense. For very many people SFP+ is a lot more desirable than 10Gbase-T. It is more power efficient, flexible (use either cheap DAC cables for short distances, e.g. within a rack, or optical transceivers for longer distances) and also cheaper, both on the NIC and switch side. There are many switches with SFP+ that are cheaper than switches with 10Gbase-T.
Mikrotik CRS 326-24G-2S+RM, CRS305-1G-4S+IN, TP-Link JetStream T1700G-28TQ, D-Link DGS-1510-28X and FS S3900-24T4S just to name a few.
rpg1966 - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
The line you replied to merely states a fact; it makes no judgement on whether SFP+ is better or worse than 10Gbase-T for various use-cases.AdditionalPylons - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
The statement assumes that people would require 10Gbase-T, and thus the extra cost.Jorgp2 - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Yeah, 10G Ethernet PHYs seem to cost more.Ethernet transceivers also cost more than fiber transceivers.
WatcherCK - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
What is peoples opinions of Qnap (versus say Synology or Netgear or Asustor) my perception and a little bit of anecdotal evidence is that the build quality of the Synology gear is less than Qnap, I dont really know much about the Netgear stuff beyond the fact they use btrfs for a filesystem and the Asustor stuff seems good for the feature set and price...Reflex - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
You can't really lose between QNAP and Synology. I prefer QNAP myself, I feel they are better for power users and may have had fewer security issues, but really its splitting hairs overall as both are solid choices.FSWKU - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
So a NAS with a single drive, so if it fails you're still up a creek. Adding a second drive to make it even remotely viable would require a $500 expenditure. To fill the unit with the same model drive would require a $2,000 outlay beyond the single drive.If it came with 5x 4TB drives, you'd have something useful with a similar amount of storage.
And no way to enter other than Twitter shilling? Pass.
patel21 - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
Who is forcing you to use the same 16GB drive that you win. You can choose to sell it and get 4 4TB drives.patel21 - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
*16TBGunbuster - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
I'd use this to backup my current NASManch - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Complaining about a free giveaway LOL Buy another 16GBor as the other reply states sell and get 4TB drives. Either way, if you won, it would reduce your costs of setting one up. Or, be salty, complain, and don't enter. Yeah...the latter is a better idea./nev/dull - Sunday, September 15, 2019 - link
anti-social engineers need storage too.