On 26/8/04 12:09 pm, "Barry Murphy" wrote: > I've just bought the same as you, the FW 800 versions, for exactly the > same purpose, absolutely wicked fast as well. I'm not too sure about > which capacity the Big Disk's change over to using 2 drives, but > looking at the specs and reading the tests on Bare Feats ( links for > both below ) I'd stick with the 2 FW 800 250gb D2's. All the other's > apart from the 500gb Big Disk have only 2 mb buffers, which does slow > performance down.
Good point, Barry. Looks like the biggest single drive is the 250 (from a source at LaCie). > > > Incidentally Alan, have you tried disconnecting and re-connecting the > drives, or one of them for that matter to see if they can operate > independently should one of them go belly whilst in storage ? Just > curious ( and nervous ) Not yet - another good point but, like you, makes me nervous. If I try it I'll let you know result. I'm thinking of going over to ChronoSync and not using RAID as it seems to add a level of complication I don't need. Anybody know if Chronosync or Retrospect is best for thisapart from the obvious price difference? Computer World are doing the 250 Firewire extreme for 133 GBP + VAT right now which seems a good price. Aye, Alan. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
