On Jan 3, 2014, at 4:27 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have contacted LaCie tech support several times and they say that only
> RAID-0 and RAID-1 (and JBOD) are available in the *THUNDERBOLT* version of
> the 5big. There is a NAS version of the 5big, and there used to be a USB-3
> version of the 5big (but now it's a 4big), and these support RAID-5 and
> RAID-10 (through hardware). But the current *THUNDERBOLT* 5big uses OSX Disk
> Utility, so we get software RAID-0 or RAID-1.
RAID tends sold by specialized companies whose customers don't need to have it
explained to them why they are paying more than twice as much for an nTB drive
than the recent sale price for the same size (but non-RAID) commodity unit at
Fry's or Best Buy. I suspect LaCie is too far into the commodity marketplace
to be interested in this much smaller market, artsy-fartsy "designer" cases
notwithstanding.
The name I hear all the time at AMUG is Firmtek. No personal experience, since
I have zero desire for RAID on my Macs.
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