LaCie 301340U 1 TB D2 Ethernet Network Attached Storage Review
October 14th, 2009
LaCie 301340U 1 TB D2 Ethernet Network Attached Storage Review from David D Kuhl. THE MOST UNSTABLE DRIVE AND SOFTWARE CREATED, Previously I had a 500GB Lacie Disk Mini which served me very well for a backup drive for 3 years until the circuit board fried. The only real issue I had with the Disk Mini (other than the frying) was the loud fans which continuously ran since there was no remote power-on/off. Well Lacie fixed the loud fans and the remote power on/off in the 1TB D2 however there are some caveats.
I had my old Disk Mini unit sitting in a cabinet with my cable modem and router and it worked out fine. When I put the 1TB D2 in the same cabinet and did my first backup the unit over heated and shut itself down (I must say it was nice to receive the e-mail from the unit when it over heated — a great feature) Since then I’ve had to move the unit outside of the cabinet and it has not overheated. Another advance in the D2 (over the Mini) is that you can remotely shut it down and start it up. The start-up function is nicely controlled from the desktop icon (in both mac and pc) however to shut it down you have to go to the unit’s web page, click through several pages and then press a button — but hey, they added the feature!
Over all the 1TB D2 seems good I use it to back-up a windows vista laptop as well as a os x leopard laptop. However we will see if this circuit board will fry after 3 years of use.
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