LaCie 1TB Storage
 

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462

anyone bought one of these? are they any good?

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Nah, I would if I was going to make a PVR system from scratch. But otherwise wouldn't buy it right now for anything else.

Overprices. You can get 400gb drives for $250-400

You must have a shit load if you need something that big.

I was looking at that to store everything on, or rather a back up of (already got me a tb in my comp) and then keep it in one of those fire proof lock up safe's. or even do it once a week and put it in a saftey deposit box.
Always worried my comp is going to catch fire and burn it and my dvd backups and then I would be fucked.

Be care full with these drives, they are RAID-0, what this means is that they got 4 drvies and if one drive to fail, you lose all the data in the other 3.


Jay

show me a decent 400gb drive for $250, i'll take 10.

jay23, yes i'm familiar with RAID.

so no one has purchased one of these things? I would rather build my own if no one has first hand experience :upsidedow

I have 20 of these 1 TB LACIE. They are good becuase for 820 bucks you get a 1 TB drive, you can daisy chain them and in Win 2003 make them look like a 20 TB system. We do video encoding so this is a good setup.

But keep in mind that these TB drives are made out of 4 - 250 GB drive on a RAID-0 config, so if one drive failes then you lose other 3 (You can recover the data by sending the drive to LACIE i belive)

I buy them from www.zipzoomfly.com , some time Dell put them on sale.....about a month ago they were selling them for around 700.

Jay
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Those Lacies hooked up to firewire 800 are KICKASS. Super fast, the raid 0 makes it faster than normal hd's and the firewire 800 connection just rocks the speed up too.

We have 3 of these and ordering a couple more. They are not 4 x 250 gig drives they are 2 x 500 gig drives 5.25 inch not 3.25 inch.

Highly recommend them. the 1.6 terabtye ones must be nice too, thinking about getting some of those next but the price isn't quite low enough yet.

Matt

Are you sure its 2 * 500. I have opend the box on one of these and saw 4 * 250. Also I dont know if any one makes 500 gb drives...the largest out right now is 400 gb

Depends on what you're using it for? Personally I feel our data is irreplaceable and I would NEVER put it at risk running a RAID 0 system. I know it's 4 times the cost of the Lacie drive but you should CHECK THIS OUT

It's a 1TB SCSI RAID 5 solution so your data is never at risk if a drive fails. If one goes bad just pull it, insert a new one and all your data is rebuilt by the 3 remaining drives. Also, you won't find anything faster or more reliable than a SCSI drive. I use ours for video editing and storage of all our files, everything!

I guess you have to ask yourself, what's your data worth and what would you do if you lost an entire TB of your data because a single drive failed?

Fuck playing with Raid-0, look into an IBM or HP SAN's if you have a real business need for the storage. When I ran my IT shop, we had 4 HP SAN's - I love those puppies

I prefer a much more spread out solution- seperate external firewire drives of 200Gb to 250Gb each hooked up thru a firewire hub. I haven't had a drive fail yet in a year and a half, but if I did I wouldn't want to lose everything at once. Right now I have literally dozens of hours of DV video including a couple of two+ hour movies and several Gb of hi-res pics and work files spread across five external Maxtor one touch drives. This is a much cheaper solution as well.