LaCie intros 4TB Biggest Quadra RAID drive

LaCie's 4TB Biggest Quadra certainly isn't the largest drive to rock the LaCie badge, but it does give users four ways to sync it up with their PC or Mac. The four-disk RAID drive touts FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces, supports RAID levels 0, 0+1 and 5, and will automatically shut down if temperates get too high. Reportedly, the device will ship with backup and recovery software and is slated to land in October for $2,199, right alongside the $1,099 2TB and $1,599 3TB versions.

[Via TGDaily]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 2:20AM]

your base are belongs to us

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 2:36AM]

ALL your base are belong to us

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 2:41AM]

OMG oh noes!!! pwned. you are teh gr8test in the internets.

[purezerg Posted Sep 5th 2007 2:44AM]

it has everything but gigabit ethernet

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 2:50AM]

But will it blend?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 3:08AM]

Will you blend? Dumbass.

[aubreyq Posted Sep 5th 2007 3:12AM]

"Raymond @ Sep 5th 2007 3:08AM

Will you blend? Dumbass."

LOL. No kidding. That "will it blend" crap stopped being funny so long ago...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 3:25AM]

Nice, I have to buy one for my bussiness, and it's exactly what I was looking for.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 3:24AM]

Nice! ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 3:24AM]

wow, it's a very big capasity. This gadget sure can backup all data in my company including the staffs also.. ahaha...

[MickeyMoo Posted Sep 5th 2007 4:22AM]

Will it have a cheap noisy fan the size of a quarter that will come to a screeching halt 2 weeks after the warranty expires and cause all the drives inside the case to overheat and die like my LaCie BigDisk? cause that would be really cool

[WillGill Posted Sep 5th 2007 8:49AM]

So this thing isn't a stand-alone NAS? 4TB and it still needs a computer to buddy up to? I don't see any mention of gigabit ethernet port or ability to accept larger hard drives and maintaining data.

Ya, 4TB is large, but this thing is limited is other ways that make it a no-sale for me.

[blueeyesm Posted Sep 5th 2007 11:24AM]

Chip,

LaCie does have a stand-alone solution - this isn't it, though. It's called LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID, which does have gigabit ethernet.

This unit is (most likely) meant to be connected to a professional workstation, aka CAD.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2007 10:26AM]

Why are all these things so expansive? For $2000 you can buy a computer with 4 tb storage, raid them yourself, and god forbid, install the new Windows server edition on it, which let you set up automatic backup over LAN too.

[smcquade Posted Sep 5th 2007 5:02PM]

@Hao
Exactly. Overpriced.
New 500GB (external) drives are now going for around $70 (internals cost even less), making the equivalent bare-bones storage $280 for 2TB or $560 for 4TB.
So is the value of the box and motherboard (which enables RAID etc.) worth $700-$1400? I don't think so. Especially since, as Chip notes, it has to be tethered to a PC.
Do yourself a favour. Buy a bunch of naked drives, slap silicone slips on them and cheap-ass electric plugs, and string them into your PC via USB (or eSata) and automate your backup for some RAID action. Boom!

[Anatidae Posted Sep 5th 2007 1:04PM]

Avoid LaCie! Do your own google search and check out the number of problems people have with their stuff.

This is a bit different, as it is network storage, but Netgear has a ReadyNAS server. Picked one up and it really rocks, but then I also have a few PCs at home. Still, it has up to 2TB of storage, but I have mine configured Raid 5 so it is a bit less than 1.5TB. I prefer the fault tolerance.

[repete Posted Sep 5th 2007 11:31PM]

I run a MS SBS 2K3 server at home with 7 x 160 GB drives on a HighPoint RocketRAID controller. I lost power to two of the drives due to a failing (Now dead) PSU, which broke the array. I then spent weeks trying to recover the data. So sure...Go blow $2200 on this 4 TB mostrosity (Which everyone has pointed out is overpriced as all hell). Just make sure you don't put anything you're not concerned about losing on it, unless you're willing to blow another $2200 to back it up...

[Typhoid Mary Posted Sep 11th 2007 9:57PM]

I'll stick with my Thecus n5200 Pro.