blessingx Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 Who's going to buy a 2.5TB version for their audio storage? LaCie intros 5big Network drive array to RAID junkies the world over - Engadget Quote
aardvark baguette Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 I was looking at this earlier. Some items worth noting: 1) You cant buy an empty case and put your own drives in it (afaik) This is sort of like buying a ram upgrade from apple; everyone knows they can get the ram cheaper elsewhere. 2) The largest possible array is 7.5TB. Drobo 2.0 offers the capability of 16TB per unit (even though there are no 4TB drives yet). As hard drive sizes increase, this unit is still locked at 7.5TB, unless I've missed something. Also, with a Drobo you can mix drive sizes and models. 3) Its Lacie. Technically this offers more immediate storage potential than a Drobo if you get the 7.5TB version, but that assumes you are not mirroring the data. If you dont need true RAID, I'd go with a Drobo personally. /shilling. Quote
ingwe Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 They should have made a HAL version: Quote
deepak Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 I was looking at this earlier. Some items worth noting: 1) You cant buy an empty case and put your own drives in it (afaik) This is sort of like buying a ram upgrade from apple; everyone knows they can get the ram cheaper elsewhere. 2) The largest possible array is 7.5TB. Drobo 2.0 offers the capability of 16TB per unit (even though there are no 4TB drives yet). As hard drive sizes increase, this unit is still locked at 7.5TB, unless I've missed something. Also, with a Drobo you can mix drive sizes and models. 3) Its Lacie. Technically this offers more immediate storage potential than a Drobo if you get the 7.5TB version, but that assumes you are not mirroring the data. If you dont need true RAID, I'd go with a Drobo personally. /shilling. All good points. Plus Seagate offers five year warranties, all the more reason for me to buy their drives. And I think the Drobo looks fine, I've never bought any audio component or computer component for its looks. /looks at mac users Quote
Salt Peanuts Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 They should have made a HAL version: That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic. Quote
tkam Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 I'm sure the 7.5TB "limit" isn't an actual limit it's just the highest capacity version that they currently sell. Quote
Voltron Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 I don't need this level of storage, but my two LaCie drives have been rock solid without any problems for years. Quote
ingwe Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 I don't need this level of storage, but my two LaCie drives have been rock solid without any problems for years. Al, in the cycling world we never say we hadn't had a flat in <timeframe/>. There's a reason for this. Quote
Grahame Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 Because there are only two types of hard drives in the world? Those that have failed.Those that haven't failed. Yet. Quote
grawk Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 And no matter what you say about it, that's still true Not everyone needs raid, tho. It's certainly cheaper just to have multiple drives with multiple copies. My drobo is overkill at the moment, since i'm just using it for backup. Quote
Grahame Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 The missing subtext here is that drives fail, and that (inevitable?) failure should be planned for. To do otherwise seems hubristic. Quote
Fitz Posted October 14, 2008 Report Posted October 14, 2008 They should have made a HAL version: It would work much better that way, the blue just looks... silly. Quote
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