See it here.
Looks impressive.
See it here.
Looks impressive.
Sure looks impressive Mike but might want to take a peak at Drobo !!!!
At $800 for 2.5 TB, it seems pretty expensive. You can buy 1.5 TB for under $150 as USB drives. For about $800 you can buy five 1.5 TB drives, for a total of 7.5 TB! And 2-TB drives are out, 3's should not be far behind. 10 TB drives by around 2012.
never had much luck with Lacie raid's - forever failing - just my two cents worth.
I dont have a lot of confidence in LaCie--Many moons ago they gave Artie what i would consider really bad customer service. The way I see it there are other options so no need to deal with LaCie.
Rocky Artie had three drives failing within a few days. Those drives were (all) two drives set up in raid 0 in one enclosure. Can't imagine a worst situation !!! The idea was to have the largest drive available !!
As Lacie doesn't make its own drives, their enclosures are a box of chocolates--pretty on the outside, but you have no idea waht's inside. As I recall from reading Artie's description of his Lacie problem, what was inside his Lacies were Maxtor drives, not the best choice for reliability. Better to get a Drobo, a MacGuru, or another brand enclosure (RAID or not) that you can populate with the most reliable drives you can find. Some of those boxes also have temperature readouts for each drive, which I find useful. A few months ago, when I bougth my latest five-bay box, the consensus seemed to favor Western Digital (with the possible exception of their Caviar Green line). I got Caviar Blacks, and they run several degrees (C.) cooler in the same enclosure than my older Seagates.
I would like to raise a cautionary flag about saying any one disk drive manufacturer is bad. While it is quite hard to find real data on disk drive reliability, especially current data, what data I've seen seems to indicate each manufacturer has had good and bad. So sticking with one manufacturer will likely bite you when they come out with a lemon. More important is to wait a little while when a new model comes out to see if people are having problems, then when it looks good, go for it. For example, do a google search for disk drive self bricking. You'll likely find a recent model of seagate, which generally has had a good reputation, has had a problem in firmware with a particular model. How the manufacturer responds to a problem is important too in my opinion.
Just set up my Drobo and sure like it so far !!!
Dave I think you can hook two of the four bay together for a total of 16 GIG !!!!
Installation went smooth and its one slick unit. One of the best packaging jobs I've seen in a while !!!
Just a warning for people with raid systems. You still need to back up as the raid can still fail. At work we run multiple many terabyte raid boxes, with multiple raid boxes for backup in a different building. We have well over 50 terabytes online (not including backup). We have had two raid box failures with complete loss of all data on the raid array. Both cases involved power supplies and fans. In one case a fan failed on a weekend and the drives cooked at high temperature for two days. The drives would not hold data for my than a day after that without unrecoverable errors. We had to replace all 8 drives. So if you have a raid array, be sure it gets backed up!
(Ours were--we lost no data.)
Just ordered a Drobo as well.
Raid complexity can become an issue when there is a drive failure. For me, I prefer the mulitple outboard single drive solution using WD External drives. RAID can have problems and recovery may not be as easy as one may think. Here is an interesting thread on a RAID failure. A RAID system alone is not fool proof back up solution, imo.
http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/v...p?f=2&t=152496