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lacie 1TB external drive
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
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How about this for an external drive, the 1TB Lacie hard drive. Affordable too, what would you do with this monster?
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"To create a new standard takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and captures people's imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard"- Bill Gates
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Replace my 6 Lacie 60,80,120, and 160gb drives 
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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This fucking pisses me off. I'm serious. I fucking hate Lacie for pulling shit like this.
Get this: today I'm cleaning out my closet and I find this great old Lacie external that I used to have hooked up to my Centris. Same size as that Terabyte beast, and held only HALF A GIGABYTE!!! And I remember when that was HUGE!
I tell you, some days I really hate technology.
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When I saw this thing this morning I nearly spit my tea all over my keyboard. While it's been possible to toss together a machine with a terabyte of hard drive space this thing is awesome. This is the first time I've seen a FW drive beat out an internal drive in cost/performance. This sucker costs less than four 250GB SATA drives and a RAID controller to hook them to.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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But how big is it when you format it? You'd loose at least 50Gb maybe?
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 1999
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Originally posted by Krypton:
But how big is it when you format it? You'd loose at least 50Gb maybe?
And then all those loose bits gum up the heads, get in the drive motor and you have a real mess on your hands!
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: New Jersey, USA
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How do you back up a drive like that?
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Originally posted by neilw:
How do you back up a drive like that?
You get another drive like that.
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how do you back that one up?
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Slashdot has a long discussion thread about this drive...
Long discussions on reliability (4 drives might mean higher odds of data-destroying failure), cost/performance ratio vs. homebrew RAIDS and other commercial solutions.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by Cadaver:
Slashdot has a long discussion thread about this drive...
Long discussions on reliability (4 drives might mean higher odds of data-destroying failure), cost/performance ratio vs. homebrew RAIDS and other commercial solutions.
4 drives are 4 drives. Controllers are controllers. Any one device can fail and render everything toast.
If you have four internal drives and a controller, you have similar likelyhood of failure.
Advantage of Bigger Disk is one large volume - to some this is important. Easily moved from one computer to another. No special drivers.
If you configure a Mac with 4 internal drives and a controller, and you stripe or mirror the drives into one large volume, then you have similar opportunity for failure.
Only way to minimize failure is to use individual drives,and not stripe or mirror them. Keep them as individual volumes.
One comment on mirrored drives - while hardware failures are indeed possible and result in lost data, most data loss is due to software; Most data losses are not due to hardware failure. Data losses are more lilkely the result of OS, application, or user errors. In this case having mirrored drives would not help, as the mirror will have the same data written to it as the primary drive.
Only way to assure yourself of data integrity is backup to another drive or server, and keep the backup isolated from your running computer.
Mike
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