LaCie 301236U 4TB Ethernet Disk RAID Network Attached Storage

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  • Ideal backup solution for multiple PCs
  • File sharing server
  • RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 5+spare and 10
  • User and group level permissions for securing shares
  • Generous 4TB storage capacity

Product Description
The LaCie 4TB Ethernet Disk RAID is the essential storage solution for small office network environments. Costing less than big file servers, it easily manages shared files and features remote bootability and system backup and recovery. Configuration is easy with its informative wizards and helpful web interface. The LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID not only provides massive data storage but can also act as a DHCP server (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). The second Gig... More >>

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3 Responses to “LaCie 301236U 4TB Ethernet Disk RAID Network Attached Storage”
  1. Chris says:
    April 19, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    Pray you don’t lose power! After a recent power outage, I was unable to bring this back online. LaCie tech support is abysmal and they are annoyingly cavalier about the consumer losing their data. My only option is a data recovery firm (very expensive). I wouldn’t recommend this, they need to go back the drawing board and figure out how to negotiate a power fail without corrupting data on the raid.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. Gene Cutrone says:
    April 19, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    you can’t have one hard drive partition more then 2TB? i wanted one big 4TB drive, well you cant have it with this NAS. besides that, speed is ok and the product is nice and small.
    Rating: 3 / 5

  3. Wim Godden says:
    April 20, 2010 at 12:02 am

    Reading the datasheet for this device, everything looks great : hardware based RAID 5 support, 2 gigabit ethernet ports, USB ports to hook up extra devices, etc.

    Installing is no problem. The unit needs to reboot twice, but that’s fine.

    But then the disks begin to sync… at a speed of 5MByte/sec ! So you can imagine what happens if you try to the entire disk set… it showed it was going to take over 60 hours.

    After looking around on the web a bit more, it turns out this device is not hardware based RAID, but software based RAID, which explains why it’s so slow.

    I’m sending this device back to Lacie. Either they replace it with a hardware based RAID device or they give me a refund.
    Rating: 1 / 5

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