As aesthetically pleasing as these LaCie Big Disk enclosures are, I've had serious reliability problems with the two Big Disks I've owned, and can't recommend them. I'm generally a fan of LaCie's other single-drive enclosures.
If you do take the plunge, keep in mind that the Big Disks are essentially concatenated within the enclosure to present 2 or 4 disks as a single logical device. There is no RAID protection within the device if one of the disks within the enclosure eats is.
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RMS needs to lick on these n-ts, suck the d--k.
That South Korean robot can run slightly faster than I can. That ought to count for something. fbr
While my hardware is quite modest, at this hour I am managing:
* 35,095 assets in iTunes (277GB), which are rsync'ed hourly to a different hard drive
* 23,754 assets in iPhoto. Backed up weekly with Apple Backup 3.1 to another hard drive, which doesn't make me feel very good about recovering it.
* Many infinibytes of pr0n. Well, that's a joke. We're close, but not at, infinibytes. Mere petabytes.
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As aesthetically pleasing as these LaCie Big Disk enclosures are, I've had serious reliability problems with the two Big Disks I've owned, and can't recommend them. I'm generally a fan of LaCie's other single-drive enclosures. If you do take the plunge, keep in mind that the Big Disks are essentially concatenated within the enclosure to present 2 or 4 disks as a single logical device. There is no RAID protection within the device if one of the disks within the enclosure eats is.