laCie 5big NAS suckfest - 1
The four glowing units shown in the background represent a few thousand dollars and ~20 terabytes of absolute suck.
These are "LaCie 5big 7.5TB Network" NAS devices. Probably only suitable for home usage and lightweight business use cases.
Configured with RAID5 and CIFS shares via a gigabit ethernet NIC we could not write data to them faster than ~8MB/second sustained. They don't speak NFS at all.
The $99 black toaster devices in the foreground each hold a pair of 2 terabyte WD SATA disks. We are storing data on them until we can test out the eSATA version of the LaCie units. These units seem to sustain 20MB/second via USB2 and over 60MB/second when we use the eSATA links.
laCie 5big NAS suckfest - 1
The four glowing units shown in the background represent a few thousand dollars and ~20 terabytes of absolute suck.
These are "LaCie 5big 7.5TB Network" NAS devices. Probably only suitable for home usage and lightweight business use cases.
Configured with RAID5 and CIFS shares via a gigabit ethernet NIC we could not write data to them faster than ~8MB/second sustained. They don't speak NFS at all.
The $99 black toaster devices in the foreground each hold a pair of 2 terabyte WD SATA disks. We are storing data on them until we can test out the eSATA version of the LaCie units. These units seem to sustain 20MB/second via USB2 and over 60MB/second when we use the eSATA links.