LaCie 1U rack-mountable Ethernet Disk works with Time Machine

LaCie's newest Ethernet Disk isn't for the faint of heart... nor for those with just a few files to backup. Oh no -- this one's for the storage professional. Housed in a 1U rack-mountable enclosure, the NAS device can hold up to 6TB of data and can support up to 100 users on Mac, Windows or Linux platforms. Also of note, it functions just fine with Apple's Time Machine, which is more than Cupertino's own AirPort Disk can say (maybe). It's available this very moment in 2TB, 4TB and 6TB capacities starting at $749.99.

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[seanchk @ Dec 21st 2008 6:35AM]

Dear Santa.....

[D @ Dec 21st 2008 6:38AM]

6TB of porn would keep you occupied for a loooong time

[Adderz @ Dec 21st 2008 6:57AM]

All i need is a MB's worth :-)

[Oli D @ Dec 21st 2008 7:02AM]

All i need is a KB's worth of .txt porno script!

[Chase @ Dec 21st 2008 7:42AM]

I didn't realize that people still got off on ASCII Art.

[Michael LaFramboise @ Dec 21st 2008 8:00AM]

You people and your YouTube quality videos... I prefer mine at 4K -- and at that rate it doesn't take all that long at all to fill up 6TB

[Mam00th @ Dec 21st 2008 8:25AM]

That's a lot of HD porn.

[E71 @ Dec 21st 2008 7:36AM]

/dev/sdb1 8.2T 2.6T 5.7T 32% /mnt/nas

muuuuah! :)

[E71 @ Dec 21st 2008 7:37AM]

Oh... and if you use that overly used "What is it for? Pr0n?" joke, I will take a dump in your mouth (self not included!).

[Boards of Canada @ Dec 21st 2008 8:29AM]

haaaaa I love my cheap and durable Buffalo TB... Lacie stuff just make me remember my first 4x external cd burner I paid 800$ at the time. Thanks Lacie!

[axemt @ Dec 21st 2008 9:17AM]

What kind of shoddy product is Time Machine that you guys have to make a note that "it works" fine with some device!?

Can you imagine the line "LaCie 1U rack-mountable Ethernet Disk works with Windows Backup?"

For such magnificent piece of software, it sounds like a bag of hurt.

[Beastage @ Dec 21st 2008 9:34AM]

lol my thoughts exactly but I guess Apple still thinks... it just works...

I'll stick to windows and acronis thank you very much.

[Alex @ Dec 21st 2008 12:24PM]

I think that they included that line not to highlight that it actually works with the product, but rather to take a shot at Apple's AirPort disk. You see because of people like you, who believe that any article, comment, or snippet of anything related to Apple on this website is "fanboyish", Engadget often works overtime to prove that it is not. This results in a shot at an Apple product, comment, etc. in almost every article.

If you wanted them to stop mentioning Apple products, services, comments, etc., then you would just shut up when they mentioned them. Any Apple post usually skyrockets to 100+ posts, which is what Engadget wants. Don't want them to post the information? Don't post.

(Doesn't entirely apply to your comment, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.)

[axemt @ Dec 21st 2008 1:07PM]

Thanks @ Alex for pointing this out. It's a known fact by now that Engadget favors Apple since they love their products so let's agree to disagree.

I don't want them to stop mentioning Apple. That would be silly since Apple is popular these days. It would be like asking the media to stop talking about Britney,. Paris or any other slut/no class ho that attracts hits on their webpage.

It's just fun :)

[HOOPER @ Dec 21st 2008 3:57PM]

A "shoddy product" is an understatement at best. I picked one up as soon as I heard about and I have YET to see any dinosaurs OR flying cars. Damn false advertising.

[Kelmon @ Dec 22nd 2008 4:20AM]

@axemt

I believe the significance of this is that Time Machine requires either a USB or Firewire drive connected directly to the computer, or a Time Capsule for network backups. You can persuade Time Machine to work on other network drives but it isn't supported by Apple, something that has always been most annoying following the Airport Extreme + Air Disk issue. If LaCie are delivering this support then that's great.

To be fair, it's hard to call Time Machine a shoddy product since it does what it is supposed to and it's got me out of the mire quite a few times over the past year, usually when I've accidentally overwritten a file using Save rather than Save As.

[axemt @ Dec 22nd 2008 9:06AM]

@ Kelmon

Thansk for your input. I think the fact that Apple brand solutions don't work/are supported on their OWN product it's a clear sign of "shoddy" product if they can't be bothered with issues like that. It's hard to call Windows XP a shoddy product since it does what it's suppose to do too. See my point? :)

[Eric @ Dec 21st 2008 11:39AM]

lftp : ~> mirror -R --only-missing

[Dan Bedford @ Dec 21st 2008 1:25PM]

Windows XP Embedded? Noooo thanks... I'd rather build my own with a cheap 1U server and OpenSolaris.

[Bad Beaver @ Dec 21st 2008 1:47PM]

Professionals buy LaCie?

[bigcow05 @ Dec 21st 2008 2:06PM]

FUGLY. That's not Profe... oh wait.

[NoAndThen @ Dec 21st 2008 2:50PM]

Anybody who's getting a rack mountable 6TB server prolly already has their own method for backups on their mac.

I have a 500GB Time Capsule though, and I must say it's excellent as a nas, backup server, router, and wireless usb drive/printer hub.

But seriously, if you have the dough to drop $750.00 on a 2TB NAS (which is ridiculous, though I'm sure it's effin sweet) you probably already have a dedicated drive in your mac pro for time machine. Just saying...

[Ken @ Dec 22nd 2008 7:10AM]

Apple may not support airdisk with time machine, but it most definitely works without any issue. I've been using it since day one.

[DraconianSoul @ Dec 22nd 2008 5:08PM]

100 Active Directory users is not enough. Bump that up to a couple thousand and now you're talking.