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The LaCie Debate

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by don29002, Aug 31, 2014.

  1. don29002

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    I'm interested in buying LaCie's 20TB external hard drive.

    However:

    1) Does one have to put 5 small Toshiba hard drives into the 5 slots in the back of the EHD?
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    2) I was on Yahoo Answers, and a user said that LaCie's largest EHD is only 8TB and not 20TB. Is that true?
     
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    Hai :3

    I looked, and apparently it's just a 20TB hard drive array. Pretty good transfer rate.

    I am curious why you need it, though. I haven't figured out how to use 500GB of space, much less 20TB.
     
  3. don29002

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    Well I use up memory on regular laptops at a pretty fast rate. I've had 5 laptops since 2007 (3 HPs, a MacBook Pro, and a Toshiba laptop).
    However, both my Mac and my Toshiba got stolen, so now until I get another laptop, all I have is my iPhone 4 that keeps acting suspicious.
     
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    Well I didn't think I could. And I don't have a laptop yet, so once I get one, I'll upgrade.
    Do you have any suggestions as to what amount of RAM I should upgrade to?
     
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    I don't really know what your workload is. Do you just surf the web, or do you like computer games? Are you editing music and video?
     
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    Do you really have to have LaCie? +1 to what you're actually wanting to do. If you're getting a 20 TB hard drive, you might as well think about cloud storage.
     
  8. don29002

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    I edit videos, surf the web and listen to a lot of music!
     
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    LaCie is kinda overpriced. You're probably better off building a NAS and using some decent, cheap hard drives (WD Blacks are supposedly quite good).
     
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    Just give it time. Sooner or later, having "only" 500GB will seem horribly limiting...
     
  11. don29002

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    I know that WD is Western Digital. But what are "Blacks" by WD?
     
  12. Wuggums47

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    What would you need 20 tb for? Are you building a server or something? I haven't even been able to use my 2tb up yet.
     
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    Really? I easily have around 8-10TB's of stuff knocking around
     
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    I have a LaCie. In general I have noticed the larger capacity hard drives have a higher failure rate. This makes me sad because I go through hard drive storage like crazy.
     
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    I'm in the middle of dealing w/ LaCie right now.. Have a 1TB Porche design mini external hard drive. It died on me a little while ago. I now have to send it back to them so they can inspect it, and fix/replace it....

    They seem to have very high fail rates...