http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/ Engadget Comments for LaCie intros 4TB Biggest Quadra RAID drive 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/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/
Will you blend? Dumbass."

LOL. No kidding. That "will it blend" crap stopped being funny so long ago...]]>Sep 5th 2007 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/
Ya, 4TB is large, but this thing is limited is other ways that make it a no-sale for me. ]]>Sep 5th 2007 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/
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.

]]>Sep 5th 2007 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/Sep 5th 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/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!]]>Sep 5th 2007 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lacie-intros-4tb-biggest-quadra-raid-drive/
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.
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