Colin Sullivan

So I treated myself to a nice present this Christmas. Yes, I got it on sale because it has a few dents in the front.

The LaCie 4big Quadra RAID enclosure is pretty tight. I am sick of buying external hard drives every time they fail, and having a million enclosures left over, so I splurged. I have 4 – 1TB disks in a RAID5 configuration. That gives me 3TB to play with. It is very fast, and works well so far. I cannot support the multiple claims I’ve heard about it being too loud. I’ve heard the fans come on, and they aren’t that loud. Yes, if I was recording some voice over work right in front of the device it would certainly be heard on the microphone, but it is nothing to complain about. I will get a long eSATA cable and hide it behind my desk or something.  The only downside to this device is that you void the warranty if you use a replacement drive that you do not purchase from LaCie.  There is a 3-year warranty on the thing, so I guess I’ll play nice for 3 years.  I’ll buy one of these “LaCie approved” spare drives, and hopefully not more than one will fail on me in the 3-year span, because they are about $40 overpriced.  All-in-all a great device.

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