Comments on: LaCie 301236U 4TB Ethernet Disk RAID Network Attached Storage

By: Wim Godden

Wim Godden — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:02:54 +0000

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

By: Gene Cutrone

Gene Cutrone — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:55:25 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:09:20 +0000

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