http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/ Engadget Comments for LaCie debuts 2 terabyte Big Disk Extreme+ http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/

Now.. LaCie... GIVE ME 2 TB with RAID 1]]>Jul 20th 2007 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/1 word; "wannabe"
Join the club.]]>Jul 20th 2007 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
What club is this. Get a new name-yours sucks.

BTW I'm just said in 2 lines what the other replys and comments below me said- 2 TB would be a huge amount of data loss. So eat a dick and LaCie Give me raid 1 protection!]]>Jul 20th 2007 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
Oh, and RAID 0 with a pair of 1TB drives? Yes, please, let's go for the world record on how much data we can lose with a single drive failure. Madness.]]>Jul 20th 2007 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Some people put there whole life in pictures and movies on these boxes..my god, please don't forget to back this sucker up..]]>Jul 20th 2007 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
Fishes,
narco. ]]>Jul 20th 2007 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/You are a good man.]]>Jul 20th 2007 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
I've got like 3 500GB MyBooks now, the prices are really dropping.. I got a 500GB Essential Edition for only $129 (plus $10 tax though). I would have gotten a 1 TB MyBook, but the reviews were horrible. There's still work to be done I'm assuming, so I'm sticking with what works best right now.]]>Jul 20th 2007 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
You can gain performance by Striping (RAID-0) drives at the cost of reliability, you can gain reliability by Mirroring (RAID-1) drives at the cost of disk space, or you can gain an even balance by using more advanced RAID levels.

RAID arrays generally require some additional (Identical is best) drives depending on your setup, only protect you from hardware failure not data loss caused in software (Such as virus infection, file system errors, user error such as accidental deletion, etc), and there are other advantages and disadvantages.

For more information read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID]]>Jul 20th 2007 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
Heat is the culprit due to a faulty design.]]>Jul 20th 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/Jul 20th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lacie-debuts-2-terabyte-big-disk-extreme/
After the thing failed on me, I realized NEVER buy Lacie. If you do a google search there are so many complaints about the quality of these devices.

Even more, as a stripped device, your data is going to cost you thousands of dollars to restore when your Lacie fails. Unlike a single drive, you can't just pull it out and place it in another chassis.

In a way, Lacie offers a poor-mans array. But you get what you pay for. If you want large, fast, storage then look into an actual media area, raid5 or something. That way you won't loose your data, have lots of storage, and speed to boot.
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