Impressive from Lacie though who here can tell me about their pro products versus their consumer products? Every Lacie drive I've had has failed on me due to power supply.
Over the years I bought about 34 TB of La Cie drives (20 drives). Love the drives, but all the power supplies (external) failed. I called support and they replaced about half the power supplies, free. Later, when the replacements failed, in turn -- they refused to replace them or offer any discount on the poor-quality, high-priced replacement power supplies.
So much for costumer satisfaction/loyalty!
Pissed, I bought a Promise Pegasus 10 TB Thunderbolt 1 RAID ... Then a second! Absolutely no probs with the Pegasus Drives -- I'd recommend them to anyone!
I copied all the active files onto the Pegasus RAIDS and have relegated all but one of the 2 TB La Cie drives to offline archive storage ... But it's frustrating to riffle through a box of 20+ power supplies to try and find one that works.
So true. The only thing they've got going for them is that they can claim to be truly platform agnostic, while Apple, Microsoft, and Google will always be suspect in that regard.
There is a trade off. The flip side of "platform agnostic" is that their storage service and APIs will never enjoy "first class citizen" status when Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft deeply integrate their cloud solutions into their operating systems and devices. Besides, with the return of WebDAV to iCloud (MobileMe had it), any modern computer OS can mount iCloud Drive natively, so Dropbox doesn't have an exclusive on platform agnostic cloud file systems.
I'm a Dropbox Pro customer, so my space was increased to 1TB, plus the bonus space that I already had, so I have 1,057.2GB of space now, and I'm using a mere 3.2% of it. Dropbox knows this. The 1TB number is just a sales pitch. They know that the vast majority of users will never use that much space, so it doesn't really cost them anything.
Late last year we purchased 3 LaCie 2Big drives plus a spare disk - 7 disks in total. Since then we have had 8, yes 8, drive failures. Swap the Seagate drives out and put in some Toshibas and we might be interested. I will NEVER buy another LaCie product if it comes with Seagate drives. A shame because I quite like the enclosures.
48 TB and Thunderbolt 2 sounds great, but not with Seagates.
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Over the years I bought about 34 TB of La Cie drives (20 drives). Love the drives, but all the power supplies (external) failed. I called support and they replaced about half the power supplies, free. Later, when the replacements failed, in turn -- they refused to replace them or offer any discount on the poor-quality, high-priced replacement power supplies.
So much for costumer satisfaction/loyalty!
Pissed, I bought a Promise Pegasus 10 TB Thunderbolt 1 RAID ... Then a second! Absolutely no probs with the Pegasus Drives -- I'd recommend them to anyone!
I copied all the active files onto the Pegasus RAIDS and have relegated all but one of the 2 TB La Cie drives to offline archive storage ... But it's frustrating to riffle through a box of 20+ power supplies to try and find one that works.
Fool me once ...
48TB
Not even I have that much porn.
There is a trade off. The flip side of "platform agnostic" is that their storage service and APIs will never enjoy "first class citizen" status when Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft deeply integrate their cloud solutions into their operating systems and devices. Besides, with the return of WebDAV to iCloud (MobileMe had it), any modern computer OS can mount iCloud Drive natively, so Dropbox doesn't have an exclusive on platform agnostic cloud file systems.
We have about 6 TB of shared iTunes library.
Also, my 3 grandkids have been active in soccer for 10 years -- two practices and 1 one game per week X 3 -- lots of video footage ~= 10 TB,
Then, two of the grandkids are active in photography -- 76,000 photos/videos in iPhoto for ~= .5 TB ...
All three grandkids have iPads and iPhones and are taking photos or shooting videos all the time.
My oldest grandson is becoming active in Steam games -- he downloads several each day -- they are ~= 6 GB each.
I dunno, a TB of disk storage just doesn't hold as much as it used to ???
We have about 6 TB of shared iTunes library.
Also, my 3 grandkids have been active in soccer for 10 years -- two practices and 1 one game per week X 3 -- lots of video footage ~= 10 TB,
Then, two of the grandkids are active in photography -- 76,000 photos/videos in iPhoto for ~= .5 TB ...
All three grandkids have iPads and iPhones and are taking photos or shooting videos all the time.
My oldest grandson is becoming active in Steam games -- he downloads several each day -- they are ~= 6 GB each.
I dunno, a TB of disk storage just doesn't hold as much as it used to ???
No, it doesn't. And I completely agree with you. I was just joking around.
48 TB and Thunderbolt 2 sounds great, but not with Seagates.
Don't think so; they state you'll need fiber. It's also up to v3 now:
"Built into OS X, Xsan allows any Mac with a Thunderbolt to Fibre Channel adapter"
http://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/#xsan
But of course you won't need Xsan, as it's simply a SAN (Storage Area Network) making JBOD's look like a single Volume. Funny thread here:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/49598/what-is-xsan
"Not even I..."
Is it a dick-measuring contest?
Option-X is what you're looking for:
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"Not even I..."
Is it a dick-measuring contest?
No. Just being honest.