| Regarding LaCie, agreed. BUT we found that the discs themselves were not always the problem. More often than not, it is shoddy craftsmanship when LaCie puts their cases and connections together. We have salvaged many a LaCie disk by simply re-soddering the Firewire etc ports. Other times we simple discarded the casing and used a new one or installed them internally.
We have quite a few G Tech drives and a few have gone already as well.
We moved to eSATA and Firewire external docks recently - all seems good so far.
HTH
Cheers, Chris Skype: Mettlecom On 2012-11-12, at 6:06 PM, Elliot Steele wrote:
LaCie has always been dreadful in my experience. Nearly every disk I had from them failed eventually.
I recently went for a G-Technology 8TB Thunderbolt disk which seems pretty good (& pretty cheap!) so far.
G-Technology hasn’t let me down yet (touch wood!)
Elliot
Am 11/12/12 11:49 PM schrieb "Tim Sassoon" unter <tsassoon@aol.com>:
For wireless connections, a FW800 RAID would probably suffice. For a GigE connection, go Thunderbolt for sure. But La Cie translates to "Be Careful". Some of their stuff is okay, but many of their boxes have horrible cooling problems that cause premature death.
On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
with all the mac mini talk I noticed a lot of people use them as servers. Would love to get input on what configs work - what would be the fastest / cheapest theoretical wireless setup for a server? or if going wired how important is the switch quality? If I went mac mini with a RAID would a lacie thunderbolt big drive raid be fast / stable enough?
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