LaCie's Bigger Disk Extreme gets even more extreme
By Peter Rojas 
posted Jul 12th 2004 3:00PM
posted Jul 12th 2004 3:00PM
You wouldn't think such a thing was possible, but LaCie's Bigger Disk Extreme has gotten even more extreme, and they're now packing a full 1.6 terabytes into the latest version of their external FireWire 800 drive. Just to put things in perspective that's as much storage space as 40 of Apple's 40GB iPod, or enough room for roughly 400,000 MP3s.
Considering these disks are basically big standard disks stacked atop each other in a neat enclosure, the MTBF can only be shuddered at. These days I don't trust a disk to last more than two years. Now try thinking about backing those 400.000 MP3s up -- on what?
More like enough room for 3 hours of uncompressed HDTV. For professionals this looks tempting. It probably doesn't have enough throughput, but it would be nice to replace a 70lb Avid Mediadock with something smaller and ten times less costly.