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LaCie 4big/5big Spare Drive
$190.00
Released September, 2007
The Pros:Extremely affordable raid6 product with 5 drive bays.
The Cons:Not available as a shell, you need to buy the unit with hard drives. The drives LaCie puts in here are definitely not what a knowledgeable person would use. (cheap hitachi's provided at premium cost). Spare drives / drive trays are available, at an exorbitant price, and only as a drive/tray combo, not tray alone. Insufficient ram: only 128mb ram with 4mb flash memory. way way low for for a product in this price category.
As the product name suggests, the LaCie 4big/5big Spare Drive is a spare drive for any of the 5big Network and 4big Quadra, two of the units in LaCie's pro-level line of RAID storage. Spare drives are available in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, and 2 TB, and include drawers.
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They can be inserted in one of the five bays of the 5big Network, or one of the 4big Quadra's four bays, to increase storage space or replace a failed drive of equal or lesser capacity. Keeping a spare drive in case of drive failure would enable quick hot-swapping for minimal disruption of workflow. The main unit must be operating in RAID 1 mode, however, for hot-swapping and quick data reconstruction to be possible.
Features
- 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, or 2 TB
- Compatible with 5big Network and 4big Quadra
- Provides security in case of drive failure
- Hot-swappable (RAID 1)
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extremely affordable raid6 product with 5 drive bays.
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not available as a shell, you need to buy the unit with hard drives. The drives LaCie puts in here are definitely not what a knowledgeable person would use. (cheap hitachi's provided at premium cost)
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spare drives / drive trays are available, at an exorbitant price, and only as a drive/tray combo, not tray alone.
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insufficient ram: only 128mb ram with 4mb flash memory. way way low for for a product in this price category.
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does not support the (extremely excellent for network storage) ZFS file system :(
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