LaCie 1U rack-mountable Ethernet Disk works with Time Machine
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 21st 2008 6:08AM
posted Dec 21st 2008 6:08AM
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Dear Santa.....
6TB of porn would keep you occupied for a loooong time
All i need is a MB's worth :-)
All i need is a KB's worth of .txt porno script!
I didn't realize that people still got off on ASCII Art.
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
That's a lot of HD porn.
/dev/sdb1 8.2T 2.6T 5.7T 32% /mnt/nas
muuuuah! :)
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!).
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!
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.
lol my thoughts exactly but I guess Apple still thinks... it just works...
I'll stick to windows and acronis thank you very much.
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.)
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 :)
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.
@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.
@ 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? :)
lftp : ~> mirror -R --only-missing
Windows XP Embedded? Noooo thanks... I'd rather build my own with a cheap 1U server and OpenSolaris.
Professionals buy LaCie?
FUGLY. That's not Profe... oh wait.
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...
100 Active Directory users is not enough. Bump that up to a couple thousand and now you're talking.
Apple may not support airdisk with time machine, but it most definitely works without any issue. I've been using it since day one.