Lacie 2 Terabyte (2 TB) External Hard Disk Drive: Whoa. That's Big!

Geek Gadgets | Hardware | Peripherals | Geeked by Geek 24 Geeks on 18 August, 2006 - 05:36.

2 TB external hard disk drive with three interfaces - firewire 800, 400 and USB 2.0Quite some time back we had talked about the 1 Terabyte external hard disk drive from Lacie. Surely, 1 TB of data storage is quite enough for most of us, even if you leech gazillions of MP3 files or work with the biggest of  video files.

But, here's something even bigger - the 2 Terabyte external hard disk drive from Lacie.  Packed in a 2U tower size, the 7200 rpm hard disk  drive is built on a RAID-0 configuration and has three interfaces Firewire 800, FireWire 400 and  USB 2.0, a 16 MB buffer size and an average seek time of under 10 ms.  A smart fan keeps the temperature regulated and automatically speeds up or slows down to keep the hard disk cool. Of course, the pricing is also equally big   - US$ 1,899.99. Though currently there is a special price of US$ 1,297.74 on this drive from here (You Save US $602.05) 

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Lacie gear is junk
Geeked by JohnnyRnR (not verified) on 20 August, 2006 - 20:30.

Lacie hard drives in larger sizes are made of several maxtor disks striped in RAID 0. RAID 0 provides great performance, but no redundancy.

If one of the internal drives dies there can be no recovery of the data since a file would have pieces on multiple disks.

I have a dead 500gig Lacie drive on my desk right now... they don't design their enclosures with cooling fans and it died a spectacular flaming death.

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Hey Johny!
Geeked by Geek 24 Geeks on 21 August, 2006 - 02:51.

Hey Johny! First, a very belated happy birthday! :)

We have been hearing the same about Lacie's ourselves. Rather unfortunate because the price was quite good.

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Then where from here?
Geeked by TC (not verified) on 26 January, 2007 - 22:26.

Since the Lacie is not the way to go.
Is there an alternative way to get the huge storage and have the protection needed?
t

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