LaCie's Ethernet Big Disk NAS hits 2TB

Now that just about everyone else has went and upped their NAS capacity to two whole terabytes, LaCie is strutting in fashionably late with its forthcoming 2TB Ethernet Big Disk. The 2- x 7- x 11-inch enclosure sports the typical metallic LaCie design scheme, plays nice with Windows, OS X, and Linux operating systems, and sports a web user interface that's apparently so easy a caveman (or your grandmother) could use it. The drive sports an Ethernet jack for connecting to a network, handles media streaming to UPnP-compatible devices, and packs a duo of USB ports that can be used to interface directly with a computer or for daisy-chaining another external HDD. Look for LaCie's 2TB NAS to land anytime for a stiff $1,099 here in the US.

[Via TGDaily]

[James Dehnert Sr @ Jun 1st 2007 12:09AM]

iSCSI would be nice on some of these drives. Some day....

[Shaylon Clark @ Jun 1st 2007 3:01AM]

I'll have the roast Duck with the Mango Salsa...
And I don't have much of an appetite, thank you.

[Bob @ Jun 1st 2007 7:59AM]

He doesn't say "and," you retard.

[Richard Budd @ Jun 1st 2007 8:15AM]

For 2TB of storage $1,099 is stiff? Damn cheap if you ask me. 7 years ago we paid around $1,500 for a 60gb NAS.
Cheers!

[Joe Shmoe @ Jun 1st 2007 12:18PM]

Yes and 14 years ago we had to pay $50,000 for storage that we actually had to *plug in to our server*. The horror!

Storage cost per gigabyte decreases by like half every year so what does the cost 7 years ago matter at all?

Especially when I can get the Buffalo with RAID for the same price:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=933011

Or the slightly more feature rich MicroNet dealie for a little more:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=947946

[Richard Budd @ Jun 1st 2007 1:02PM]

Yeah, and I paid over $6000 in 1991 for me 1st 486-33 with a 250mb drive. Me point was that in my book it's a fair price, not what I'd call 'stiff'. Best deal in that price range? Nope, but still not bad.

And what's with the Micronet specing 'compatible' OS's? If it and you have network access and you are able to map to network drive and it's control consol is web-based (I assume), what does the OS have to do with it?

[Joe Shmoe @ Jun 1st 2007 2:35PM]

I dunno. Buffalo specs the compatible OS's too In their case it's only "Compatibility PC"

It's probably an artifact of CDW's page design. Looking at both Buffalo and MicroNet's sites, they call it OS Support, which IMO is distinctly different than 'compatibility'. It at least implies that they offer troubleshooting for those platforms.

The LaCie also has such a section and it's much larger than either of their competitors, although I can't imagine how many Windows98 users they're actually taking calls from...

[Richard Budd @ Jun 1st 2007 4:03PM]

Well, I still runs OS/2 Warp on all my main systems.... Solid as a rock, never any virus issues :)