LaCie hurdles the 10TB barrier, upgrades its 2big and 5big RAID drives
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 11th 2009 5:06PM
posted May 11th 2009 5:06PM
The kids at LaCie are clearly out of control. Every time we turn around they're unveiling another big, bad storage solution aimed at a world hungry for... well, more storage. If the old 8TB model was a little slight for your liking, the company has announced product upgrades for both the 2big Network and 5big Network devices, featuring Apple Time Machine and in the case of the 5big device, iTunes server support. While the latter rocks five hot-swappable drive bays for up to 10TB storage with models starting at $799.99, the 2big device sports a 'mere' 4TB of RAID action starting at $319.99. These are devices that speak calmly, in an eerie monotone, pronouncing that they still have the "utmost enthusiasm and confidence" in your mission. They clearly "want to help you." Available soon on the company's website.
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Finally, I can store my porn collection in one place!
"I'm afraid I can't let you watch porn, Dave."
Is it me or does 4TB for $320 sound like a really good price...?
I just bought a 2TB drive for $250 a few months ago...damn.
Read the article/check the link: drives not included.
You have the price wrong. It's 4TB for $699.99. The 1TB is $319.99.
someone got a really BIG music collection....
Yeah... music... that's what it's for :p.
I would like to point out that 10 TB is 2,000 DVDs.
You can store every movie Hollywood released in the past decade.
Or pretty much every song ever made
Unless your storing blu-ray iso's at 40GB each. Blah, I need more space.
Not quite. I have about 150 DVD rips on my 1TB and it is basically full. Some movies - like Once Upon a Time in the West - are over 7GB.
Not is they are dvdshrunk to fit a single layer dvd
@jercb
Hell, why not just say you could fit even more if you compress them down to 700MB with DIVX?
or about 3 movies and then 10 complete series of TV shows that are 5-10 seasons each.
I have 100 Simpsons discs and my wife has 100 friends discs.
It starts to add up quick.
First off - I'm storing blu-ray rips, and secondly, who actually makes an iso?
.mkv cut you space usage by like a factor of 5. but that's still only about 70 blu-rays per terabyte.
This would work well for my family.
When's your next daughter due to get married? I wanna ask you for one of these at the wedding.
May her first child be a masculine child!
Those prices are for the minimum configuration.
The 4TB configuration is 659.99.
Am I right in assuming the 5big model comes in multiple capacities, and that 10TB is the maximum capacity and pricing starts at $799.99? If so, what is the minimum capacity and how much is the maximum?
Click the read link.
Nevermind, found full details on the product page on the Lacie website. For those wondering the minimum capacity is 2.5TB but the 10TB version has no price. The UK website has a price of £1,814.99 which is $2 748.62.
Please, we all know why these things exist. The exact same reason the internet itself exists.
t3h pr0nz!!!
Paging Avenue Q
the hell is dave doing??!?!?!?!?!
Well now I can download and host every YouTube video ever for no reason.
Or a telephone book of the world with a picture for every entry.- But really, what's the point? What can you store on a 10Tb that wont fior on a 8Tb?
9 Gb?
Damn..there goes the comic timing.
Meant 9 Tb!
Blu-Ray Rips
All DVR Recorded Media HD/SD
DVD Collection
Movie Collection
Audio Collection
Surveillance Cameras Feeds
That can fill about hallf of the 8-10 TB's without including porn...
I hear that 1's and 0's can take up a bunch of space too...
Who knew?
Blu-Ray Rips = DVD Collection = Movie Collection
And it still leaves you with some 220 - 240 Blu-Ray dics...
Or 2621440 hours of dedicated listening...
My point remains. There is not much that will fit on this massive 10Tb that will not on the previous 8Tb. Or not much for that matter that people have thatneeds 10Tb...
HAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, exactly. Good try with the HAL mask guys ;)
:-)
Can you hook this up to a HP Mediasmart ? W/ E-Sata ? prob not poop
have fun formatting that shit.
Defrag will take... 200 MILLION YEARS!
Meh more like 2 days....
It's so god damn big none of your files should ever need to be fragmented in the first place.
Not on a Mac.
Yeah, yeah I know... let the down voting commence for all you Apple haters or MS fanboys.
@ampMOD All filesystems get fragmented, its just that some filesystems are more vulnerable than others. Mac OS does not have that unique of a filesystem (contrary to popular belief :P), and indeed the ext2/ext3 filesystems of linux do not need as much defragging as NTFS. So stop flaunting your mac superiority on the basis of the fragmentation of a filesystem.
@hamerhead_12
Haha I knew I would hit a nerve with someone and think that I was making this into an OS argument. How did I "flaunt" my Mac superiority? My response was simple... Matt said defraging will take 2 million years (which I thought was a funny joke) and I simply replied, "Not on a Mac." Now, you obviously understood that I was implying you don't need to defrag a HD on OS X right? I didn't say anything untrue. Never said that a Mac is superior to anything else. Should have I said, "Not on a Mac or Linux PC?"
@ampMOD I was just saying how its the filesystem that causes long defrag times.
I by no means hate Mac OS X, its just so easy to make fun of :P.
However, just because I don't hate Mac OS X doesn't mean that I like apple ;).
Does this work like a Drobo where you can start with 2 drives, and add or replace drives as time goes on?
No.
I don't get it about the time machine thing,
will there be a 10 tera bite Time machine?
That first line made my choke while I was drinking Coke. Nearly spat it all on my XPS M1530
I almost spat on my Compaq CQ60-215DX and my Logitech VX Nano Revolution.
See, I can say random useless model numbers for no reason too.
Also that is awesome! I am running out of space
Trust 10TB of data to a LaCie product? No thank you.
Do LaCie make hard drives? No, you're welcome.
not only that, but putting 5 2TB drives in RAID 0 is a bad idea for any brand. hard drives fail more often than any other computer component, and if you lose any one of those five you're screwed. RAID 5 is a much better idea, and you still get 8TB.
"DOES LaCie make hard drives?"
no, they don't, but they do make the enclosure. while less likely, that can fail too.
@maveric
I think 'do' is correct. Not only does it sound right to me but to answer the question one would say 'they do' and not 'they does'. I think 'does' would be correct if perhaps it was referring to a specific person and not a company. Also, unless the enclosure exploded it wouldn't destroy the data contained on the drives, sure it could crap out and not put data on the drives in the first place but once it's there it's staying put.
ugh, grammar arguments...
it's not DO because a company is a singular item. If you were referring to the members of the company, you would say, "Do the employees of LaCie make harddrives?"
If you don't believe me, just try typing it into Word. If it doesn't know the word LaCie, substitute Microsoft and you'll find your answer.
Bah, LaCie raid controllers fail all the time. Just do searches on their BigDrives and you will find tons of websites filled with complaints. LaSuck raid drives are a great way to loose your data.
Dude, they got H.A.L in the box!
Why are there cicadas?
/irrelevantlyunimportantcomment
Speaking of obnoxiously noisy bugs, my latest lacie disk hardly ever spins down (even when my computer is off) and the thing just roars. I wounder how loud these are...
Absolutes like "fail all the time" don't make sense.
I've got quite a few LaCie, Seagate, and WD external drives and they aren't failing; they aren't dropping like flies; and they aren't making loud noises, either. Recent additions are a Seagate 1TB Freeagent and a LaCie 1.5TB d2 Quadra. Both working fine for HDV video editing. I also have one of the LaCie 4big and 5big drives. the 5big is on the network with all my TCM recorded movies. I also have a Drobo and a ReadyNAS. (Yes, I like toys!). For comparison, they all seem to work fine, and each has advantages and disadvantages.
Have I ever had a hard drive fail? yes, of course. My first failure was a 20MB 5.25" hard drive many, many years ago. Most recent failure was in internal 250GB SATA drive in one of my desktop computers. I've had drives fail in my 1999 TiVo, too.
Out of the 20-30 external drives I have used over 20+ years, I've only had 3 fail, and it was a miserable failure, too. But backups saved me.
Seems like Engadget caters to some folks who should stay away from electronic gadgets, especially those who take the time to comment. Their drives are always failing!
I think the holy grail for any enthusiast, is a gadget that will never fail.
"Fail all the time" is different than "Always Fail".
All the time ≠ always fail. One can fail now and in india and in china and in africa and in silicone valley. Based on the sheer number of hard drives in existance and their life expectancy, I think this is a fair statement.
I think always fail would be fair too. Because eventually, they all fail. They have a life expectancy. It is like saying Humans die all the time or even Humans always die. I guess Enoch and Elijah didn't die, but even Jesus died, though he rose again.
I have 1 baby, but I have 15 hard drives being used(I have owned over 100 hard drives in my life and had prolly 10% of them fail). This would mean that for me atleast my rate of hard drive purchasing and failing is greater than my birth rate. I would imagine this to be true for everyone I know.
That is freaking sweet looking!
Actually, the light is Blue, and 10TB cost about 2100$..