LaCie's Windows Home Server-powered 5big Backup Server now shipping for big money
By Tim Stevens 
posted August 4th 2010 1:58PM
posted August 4th 2010 1:58PM
posted August 4th 2010 1:58PM
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We have out 5Big hooked up about 20 feet away USB'd to our Airport extreme.
Now when we have video camps we laugh instead of cringe. TB's galore.
That and I can set up and maintain the lab much more easily keeping the serials, exe's, apps, etc in a secure network folder.
5Big= super awesome
@rmbrown09 only complaint I can muster is that I keep calling it Big 5, and people think I store all of our data in a Sports Outlet....
5tb for $1200 = big messy rape with no lube or condom. especially considering you can get 1tb drives for less than 50 bucks, and 2tb drives for 100, and then an enclosure for only a few hundred.
DIY, or set your money on fire, either way.
@MisterWarmth I didn't buy the thing, it arrived and they said make it work.
That's my job. Make it work
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@rmbrown09
So you hooked up the 5TB drive through USB to an Airport Extreme? Seriously? Um why not use the built in ethernet to the airport extreme? Wouldn't that provide a little bit better ease of use and speed?
@MisterWarmth
Amen, but you don't have to DIY.
HP's EX495 is on sale for $407 on the microsoft store. And a frugal dual core intel, 2GB RAM, and a 1.5TB drive w/ room to throw in a few 2TB drives which can be picked up for around $100ish a piece. =)
At first I read that as "5gig" and I was like...awwwww hellll nooooo
Ohhh- how did I miss that in Final Fantasy XIII?
Shouldn't that light be red not blue?
@Center
I'm sorry, I can't do that Center
@Center
"Open the drive bay door, 5big."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
"What's the problem?"
"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
"What are you talking about, 5big?"
"This file is too important for me to allow you to share it online."
"I don't know what you're talking about, 5big."
"I know that you and Frank were planning to torrent it, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
@Center
It's red when it's not working..... and it's made by LaCie, so yes it's red pretty much all the time.
I'd say cool, but my bank manager might hunt me down after purchasing this.
I'm over those overpriced thingies - I'm building my own unRAID server now. After all the research I've done, that system really fits my needs - and I can build it with cheap, stoock components, and expand at will.
I would instantly buy that if two things would be true:
a) i wouldn't have a home server yet
b) the 'eye' would be red, and it would tell me "i can't let you do that, dave"... it would be awesome...
Dave: Back up my computer, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: Why not, HAL? What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: There's too much porn on your computer.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about.
HAL: I know you download porn every night onto your computer.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in your bedroom against my hearing you, I could see your hands move.
embarrassing. I wanted that to be funny for you.
next time: short and witty.
@MisterWarmth Next time.. just shut up.
@MisterWarmth
Sorry, next time we can get you three-worded fart joke or something. Will that suffice?
Looks like something that will be found in the basement of a partially dilapidated house by an alien race visiting Earth after we have been wiped out by catastrophe X. They will then attempt to interrogate it to learn who we were why we were and how we were...
It looks like it was designed by Aperture Science. Don't believe anything it tells you! The cake is a lie!
Surely WHS Vail is only around the corner based on windows server 2008 won't it have been better for Lacie to wait for that to be released
Still the old WHS? No 4k sector support = fail.
Just build your own for WAY cheaper. I turned an older Dell in to my own WHS and used an 4 bay external + WHS driver extender to roll my own.
@Maeztro no joke--newegg.com FTW on DYI home servers instead of paying through the nose on these things.
I'm pretty sure that if you know enough to operate one of these things properly--you could probably build yourself one for a heck of a lot cheaper. Being an engineer, I favor functionality and cost over sheer aesthetics.
Looks like a front loading washing machine to me...
Before I read the headline, I thought that was a hi-tech washing machine. Nice design... where do I put my laundry?
@darkly Dave, I can't do that get Frank
They should have waited until Vail was released.
I have had so many Lacie products fail over the years that I don't trust them one bit with my data. It's never the drives, but their controllers and powersupplies.
If you think it is expensive to buy their hardware, try paying for lacie data recovery.
Antec 300 case - $60
Intel 975DX2 motherboard - $200
750W Antec Modular PSU - $100
Intel Celeron E1400 CPU - $50
4GB DDR2 RAM - $100
Nvidia 7600 video card - $30
8x 2TB hard Drive - $800
1x DVDRW drive - $50
1x WHS software - $100.00
total cost $1500 and 16TB of storage and the ability to easily upgrade to anything else in the future.
and that's using everyday prices and not easily found better deals.
It also will actually MAX OUT the gigabit network connection and can actually utilize the transcoding options found in WHS, unlike that crappy atom powered POS.
I have a Synology DS 1010 w/ 5x2TB (!) drives in a RAID-5 (7,5 TB usable w/ parity) at less that price. An yeah, there's a Linux on it...
Wake on Lan, easy shutdown and low power usage... nomsaayn?
If its anything like the LaCie 5Big Network 10TB, then no thanks. I got tired of shares disappearing after my third RMA. What a piece of junk that was.
Looks like a museum exhibit. Or one of those things at the zoo where you push the big button and shit happens
For that much money, I'd DIY it and include some higher spec'd equipment. $1,200 for that? No thanks. Probably include a Phenom II X4 or something similar, a mid-range ATI 5000-series or NVIDIA graphics card (so I can use hardware accelerated encoding via Stream, CUDA, or DirectCompute), and a couple of large hard-drives (and maybe one small SSD for the OS).
it does seem that LaCie is the Apple of the storage world.
Beautiful products, over-priced compared with the competition
it does seem that LaCie is the Apple of the storage world.
Beautiful products, over-priced compared with the competition
^^^ sorry guys, don't know why my comment double posted