Lacie Big Disk Network 2TB Nas

by LaCie

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 6.6 x 8.8 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0024R57T6
• Item model number: 301346U
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2009

Product Description

The LaCie Big Disk Network offers professional, reliable, central storage for instantly storing, sharing, and backing up from any computer on your network. Manage your home or small office network easily with this full-featured file server, recommended for networks with up to 50 users (15 at once). With the LaCie Big Disk Network, you can share files among Windows, Mac, and Linux users thanks to its SMB and AFP protocols support, or connect remotely through FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS file systems. Get extra security and increase data portability by backing up your LaCie Big Disk Networkâ?" on your own scheduleâ?" to an external hard drive through its USB port using the built-in backup system. The LaCie Big Disk Network comes also with Genie Backup Manager Proâ"¢ for Windows and Intego Backup Manager Proâ"¢ for Mac to install on each PC/Mac for client backups to the NAS. This software lets you reliably and efficiently back up your documents, emails, settings, or other digital assets. With the LaCie Big Disk Network, itâ?TMs easy to download big files using its integrated torrent server, without even needing your computer to be turned on. You can also play your media files stored in your Big Disk Network directly on any UPnP AV-compatible device or via a Digital Media Adapter (DMA), such as a PS3 or Xbox. In fact, the Big Disk Network has been developed to be compatible with any DLNA multimedia device, and also works with iTunes®. Controlling access is simple; you can assign various security levels to shares, groups, user profiles, and public access. With Windows ADS domain support, thereâ?TMs no need to recreate existing user and group accounts of your Windows domain, making it easy to manage for IT Administrators. Thanks to the Wake-on-LAN feature, the LaCie Big Disk Network can be switched back to operating mode from the client side.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Drive good, support bad..., January 12, 2010

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Andrew Blaine - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lacie Big Disk Network 2TB Nas (Personal Computers)

I have ordered and installed 3 of these so far. I came dead on arrival, the others worked good. The time stamp was incorrect for one and I contacted support but they were useless. Otherwise, all looks good.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review for LaCie big disk, January 11, 2010

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George Christidis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lacie Big Disk Network 2TB Nas (Personal Computers)

Very good product, easy installation.

Had a little software problem with an error message. I called service dept but they were not very helpfull in terms of bringing a solution to the problem. I still have the error message and hopefully I'll get it resolved.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute rubbish - should be outlawed, March 30, 2010

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F. Robinson "hotarobin" (Bridgetown Barbados) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lacie Big Disk Network 2TB Nas (Personal Computers)

We own an IT outsourced company so we do projects of various levels for many different types of clients. Occasionally we have clients that have need for a simple NAS type device that they want to use to take disks backups offsite or other simple uses. I started using LACIEs because of the portability and what I thought would have been simplicity.

However these devices fail at being able to perform the most basic tasks (1)join to a Windows Domain and (2) create shares for the backups. They worked for a while then after DST (daylight saving time) kicked in the devices were no longer accessible apparently due to the clock becoming "not synchronized" with the Domain. Simple enough to fix right.

WRONG. This was the beginning of a hell trip that has taken us two weeks thus far and it still is not resolved. Apparently you have to unjoin the devices from the network to set the time. Interestingly the time for whatever reason went way off. We set the devices to the same time and time zone as the domain and all attempts to rejoin them failed. The devices are now permanently stuck at "Please reconnect in a few minutes" no mater how many times we reboot.

This happened to three separate devices, two different models. Every search on the Web suggest that the devices had to be sent back and replacements acquired on encountering this error state. So that is the path we will have to take with these junk boxes.

Don't waste you money with these crappy devices. The Seagate NAS 110 is far more reliable from what I have heard.