Wel... that's nice!
But what about the maintenance of this storage device? How about its warranties?

How does this give any benefit over buying my own hard drive enclosure + 1TB storage for £150 at most? Or even an enclosure for two disk RAID + disks will not surpass £250??

Inquiring minds want to know.

Bought a 1TB LaCie Ethernet Big Disk in Decemeber 2007. It lasted four months and stopped working, what a piece of rubbish. It seems this is not uncommon with big LaCie drives (USB and NAS).

Fortuately I had a backup, otherwise I would have lost a lot of valuable data. Got a Maxtor now. It's more advanced, much quieter, works faster (with gigabit ethernet), excellent build quality and a similar price point.

And this is supposed to be a small unit ??

Looks pretty non pocket friendly by that image atleast...

The big question is, can it be reconfigured to raid 1? carrying that much data on a portable single point of failure is bad enough, splitting that data across 2 points of failure in one pretty little box is utter stupidity....

I wonder if the guys at Silent PC Review.com would think of this.

..also punch and pie.

No seriously, where's the news here?

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