| Article Index |
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| LaCie 2big network Review |
| Specifications |
| External Appearance |
| Basic Functionality |
| Advanced Functionality |
| Performance |
| Is The LaCie 2big for me? |
| Conclusion |
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The 2big network is a two disk Network Attached Storage device. The two disk bays on the rear can each take a disk up to 2TB in size; that being the largest disk available at the time of writing this review, it's possible that 2TB is not an artificial limit imposed by the LaCie device.
The LaCie 2big network gives us the option of RAID 0 (striping for performance) and RAID 1 (mirroring for data protection). RAID 0 can often provide better performance than RAID 1 because about half of the data is stored on each disk. The flip side to this is that if either of the disks is damaged, or fails, the whole data set is permanently lost.
Naturally, as a network storage device, the 2big network can share files between Windows computers, Macintosh (OSX) and Linux computers - in fact we were hard pressed to think of a platform that can't share files with the 2big network. It can also be the destination for backup of your desktop or notebook computer, and can also back itself up to a USB hard disk for safekeeping.
As we mentioned before, the LaCie 2big network can join an Active Directory domain, and use the users and groups defined in the domain to protect and secure the files on the NAS.
- Back up your NAS to external hard disks with USB ports
- Active Directory Support, Wake-on-LAN
- Stream your multimedia files to UPnP players
- Time Machine® Compatible
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