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LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives

Posted by chrisd on from the big-big-disks dept.

Glewtion writes "LaCie has release their "Big Disk" - a large capacity FireWire case (400 / 500GB) with decent specs. The only thing they're not clear on is the fact that there are two drives in the case...but that only seems logical. Looks like it's only available in Europe though, so here's a link to a French Hardware site's description of it (translation courtesy of Google). Pretty cool for a portable MP3 collection. Here's the LaCie page." What's not apparant is that this case has two drives in it apparantly. Very Slick.

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  1. Talk about alot of space... by spoons67 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But one question. Though its been made terribly obvious to us that it's two drives, does it appear as two drives to your computer? If so, how does it manage that?

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  2. I thought 1TB/$5,000 was cool .... by timothy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This was a neat story, IMO:
    ("The Amazing $5k Terabyte Array")

    That's not too long ago.

    Now, for the same money, you can get twice the storage (4 of these), *and* a decent (though not high-end) laptop; you can fit your 2TB array and associated computer into a briefcase.

    That's a lot.

    timothy

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  3. Re:Redundancy... by G-funk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or mp3???

    Well by my quick calculations based on my own mp3 collection (a measly 11gb and 169 hours), 500gib is about 320 days playback non-stop for an mp3 collection, and although there are people who just collect mp3s like they're matchbox cars, I find it hard to believe anybody can identify 320 days worth of music they actually like.

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  4. Re:Redundancy... by pVoid · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Hey dude,

    I don't know about you, and I'm not trying to be snob or stylish or anything, but if I go to HMV, 40% of the Jazz collection attracts my attention. That's a whole floor of CDs probably 500 days worth of music.

    And that's *only* jazz.

  5. LaCie Drives by rattler14 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I just got my external 120 GB firewire drive in the mail 2 or 3 days ago (figures they just released a new model... but it's not like i would have spent the money for the 400GB version). I must say, it works extremely well with my G4 powerbook. In fact, it't access speed when flipping between the directories is noticeably faster. They are fairly small too, i just tuck the drive behind my monitor.

    All and all, i'm very pleased with it so far. I've transferred about 60+ of files too it, never even a hiccup in speed.

    plus, it comes with all sort of diagnostics on the drive (preformatted in HFS+) format.

    definitely worth the $270, especially for a powerbook limited by the size of the hard drive you can afford to put into it.

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