Is it possible to love a drive enclosure?

[blessingx]

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

[aardvark baguette]

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.

[ingwe]

They should have made a HAL version:

[deepak]

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

[Salt Peanuts]

They should have made a HAL version:

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic.

[tkam]

I'm sure the 7.5TB "limit" isn't an actual limit it's just the highest capacity version that they currently sell.

[Voltron]

I don't need this level of storage, but my two LaCie drives have been rock solid without any problems for years.

[ingwe]

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.

[Grahame]

Because there are only two types of hard drives in the world?

• Those that have failed.
  
• Those that haven't failed. Yet.
  

[grawk]

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.

[Grahame]

The missing subtext here is that drives fail, and that (inevitable?) failure should be planned for. To do otherwise seems hubristic.

[Fitz]

They should have made a HAL version:

It would work much better that way, the blue just looks... silly.