Thursday January 10, 2008

LaCie - File Server at Home

For Christmas I treated Petra and myself with a LaCie 2big Network (2-disk RAID) drive. The good thing is that it has in fact 2 hard-drives, which may be operated in Raid 1 mode. That way we now have 500 GB of redundant memory.

On the other hand there are some firmware improvements I’d like to see:

  1. Power-save (silent!) mode. After some idle time-out, the drives should be able to be shut down.
  2. Wake on LAN. The drive already comes with an “auto” switch, which lets you remotely shut it down. This switch could also be used for power on.

LaCie - pls. think about it!

(Hat tip to Raible, for blogging about this.)

Update: (13/Mar/08) As Victor pointed out Matt didn’t bought that drive. However, I’m still happy with mine.

Posted on Jan 10, 2008 at 21:17 (MET) | Permalink | 4 comments