Lacie 1 terabyte external HD $1199

[vinnyracer]

Lacie 1 terabyte external HD $1199

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

 

[redass1876]

i want this very sad

 

[Gunbuster]

Get a $300 computer, 4 $175 250gigs and have money to spare

I bet you the whole thing is borked when one of the drives in it dies

 

[Namuna]

Have pr0n, will travel.

 

[HyperYagami]

Tell me when you can carry your "$300 computer, 4 $175 250gigs" in a backpack and weights less than 12lbs.

 

[DestruyaUR]

I want to know how they're cramming 1TB into something with a 5.25" formfactor. Could Maxtor have a 500GB 7200rpm drive almost ready for production? This thing doesn't look large enough to cram four 250GB drives into it.

 

[KidViciou$]

$1.20 per gigabyte. pretty steep

 

[bryantp]

Originally posted by: KidViciou$
$1.20 per gigabyte. pretty steep

I agree, but cost is also in portability and its popularity vs local only. And portability sells - in everything.

I think it is a great deal but the price will drop some $150 probably over next 8 months

 

[JameyF]

Originally posted by: Namuna
Have pr0n, will travel.

What's pr0n? Sounds like a shrimp or somethin'.

 

[JameyF]

Originally posted by: bryantp

Originally posted by: KidViciou$
$1.20 per gigabyte. pretty steep

I agree, but cost is also in portability and its popularity vs local only. And portability sells - in everything.

I think it is a great deal but the price will drop some $150 probably over next 8 months

In eight months something similar may be only $150 after IR/MIR/PM/coupon/BVG.

 

[vegetation]

I wouldn't feel safe with that much data on something without redundancy like this.

 

[Greg03]

Originally posted by: JameyF

Originally posted by: Namuna
Have pr0n, will travel.

What's pr0n? Sounds like a shrimp or somethin'.

about 15 years ago the devil unleashed the great evil upon the earth - kids who think spelling things LiKe THis or spelling things like zis is cool. It is to the other 14 yr olds. pr0n is a derivation of the "look at me!!! I'm cool!" way of spelling porn. I just loathe the whole generation. I'm old.

 

[Namuna]

Originally posted by: Greg03
about 15 years ago the devil unleashed the great evil upon the earth - kids who think spelling things LiKe THis or spelling things like zis is cool. It is to the other 14 yr olds. pr0n is a derivation of the "look at me!!! I'm cool!" way of spelling porn. I just loathe the whole generation. I'm old.

Hmmm, I wonder why I thought the word 'porn' was filtered (since people were using 'pr0n' instead). <shrug>, apparently it's not. Oh, and thanks for mistaking me for 14...that hasn't happened in about 20 years

 

[RideFree]

Originally posted by: Greg03

Originally posted by: JameyF

Originally posted by: Namuna
Have pr0n, will travel.

What's pr0n? Sounds like a shrimp or somethin'.

about 15 years ago the devil unleashed the great evil upon the earth - kids who think spelling things LiKe THis or spelling things like zis is cool. It is to the other 14 yr olds. pr0n is a derivation of the "look at me!!! I'm cool!" way of spelling porn. I just loathe the whole generation. I'm old.

Yeh!
Gimme some good 'ol FUBAR!

 

[jimmyhaha]

see slashdot discussion.

> I bet you the whole thing is borked when one of the drives in it dies

Lacie R&D is smoking crack.

1. U have 4 times higher failure rate (4 drive)
2. no raid = no data fail-safe reduduncy
3. $1.2 per/G for external storage ? too expensive

> Tell me when you can carry your "$300 computer, 4 $175 250gigs" in a backpack and weights less than 12lbs.

why would & when do u carry 1TB around ?

And kids, don't drop the damn thing, or the data in it will fubar.

I would rather do the following for less $

1. Buy a few external USB/firewire HD or
2. Build a server or a dell, stuff HD in it.

 

[pxc]

It's not even a real TB, it's only about 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. That's only 0.93TB (1 TB = 1024^3 bytes).

 

[nickels84]

Portable, Rite!!!!

"Weight : 11.02 lbs. / 5000g"

This sucker weighs more than any laptop or any other portable device for that matter, at least im my humble opinion. But im not knocking this thing, who else can say they have a big honker like this. Overall opinion... Its a champaigne taste on a beer budget and beyond this its one heavy mother with a crap load of storage.

 

[Cashmoney995]

You dont have to cram that many drives in it, you just have to stick a stronger motor to spin the disks, and more disks inside with more readers. Hopefully it has like a 32 meg cache or something to make it much faster.

 

[cookj]

It`ll be neat to look back on,in 2 years,when something smaller with a biigher capacity is selling for $57.00.

 

[Souka]

Originally posted by: Cashmoney995
You dont have to cram that many drives in it, you just have to stick a stronger motor to spin the disks, and more disks inside with more readers. Hopefully it has like a 32 meg cache or something to make it much faster.

????????

I can almost guarantee you it's not a single HD, but most likely four 250gb 7200rpm drives....

based on dimensions, it could easily hold 4 standard 3.5" HD's

 

[starwarsdad]

As for portable, NOT EVEN CLOSE! External enclosures do not travel well, we have nearly 20 at the office that have crapped out. The only ones I have seen that hold up well are the better 2.5" enclosures like the VST FireLite or FireFly.

One the price, Lacie is a "Mac" accessory. They go after Mac users in a lot of their marketing. I suppose Lacie is banking on Mac users being used to paying those kind of prices for their hardware....


Would be a cool toy though if I had money to burn

 

[randomlinh]

damn nice to have. but i'd prefer to have my roommates setup... raid 5 w/ 6 200GB drives altho, he spent a lot.. they're on scsi convertors... but damn damn nice...

 

[wallsfd949]

Originally posted by: starwarsdad
The only ones I have seen that hold up well are the better 2.5" enclosures like the VST FireLite or FireFly.

I agree. I used to carry my 120GB firewire drive, but I swaped it for a 6GB 2.5" with an IBM Travelstar case. Small, portable, quick and cheap. The firewire drive only leaves the house when I have a big remove DV project. If its portability you want, get a setup like the one I listed. They're great.

One the price, Lacie is a "Mac" accessory. They go after Mac users in a lot of their marketing. I suppose Lacie is banking on Mac users being used to paying those kind of prices for their hardware....

Anyone who would pay >$1800 for a basic Mac is crazy (IMO)

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: Greg03

Originally posted by: JameyF

Originally posted by: Namuna
Have pr0n, will travel.

What's pr0n? Sounds like a shrimp or somethin'.

about 15 years ago the devil unleashed the great evil upon the earth - kids who think spelling things LiKe THis or spelling things like zis is cool. It is to the other 14 yr olds. pr0n is a derivation of the "look at me!!! I'm cool!" way of spelling porn. I just loathe the whole generation. I'm old.

Actually, I believe it started being spelled that way to get around the filters.

 

[vortix]

Originally posted by: jimmyhaha
see slashdot discussion.

> I bet you the whole thing is borked when one of the drives in it dies

Lacie R&D is smoking crack.

1. U have 4 times higher failure rate (4 drive)
2. no raid = no data fail-safe reduduncy
3. $1.2 per/G for external storage ? too expensive

> Tell me when you can carry your "$300 computer, 4 $175 250gigs" in a backpack and weights less than 12lbs.

why would & when do u carry 1TB around ?

And kids, don't drop the damn thing, or the data in it will fubar.

I would rather do the following for less $

1. Buy a few external USB/firewire HD or
2. Build a server or a dell, stuff HD in it.

Actually, it does support RAID....just not redundant RAID. The only way you can link 4 drives together to make it look like one large drive is to use RAID. I'd never rely on this, though, unless they used RAID 5. I fix computer probs all day for work and see WAY too many hard drives dying.