Review is in progress, but waiting for Seagate to send new drives. The ones in the review sample do not match those shipping in customer product.I hope we get a full test of this new line of NAS from Seagate. I'd like to have it compared to the WD cloud devices. Many of us still complain about slow transfer speed on the WD NAS.
Review is in progress, but waiting for Seagate to send new drives. The ones in the review sample do not match those shipping in customer product.
Did Seagate find a source for good NAS software?
Seagate purchased LaCie in 2012. LaCie is now focused exclusively on attached storage products and Seagate does NASes. Design team consists of both LaCie and Seagate people, but to my understanding is spearheaded by the old LaCie management.Did Seagate find a source for good NAS software?
Consumer LaCie got many bad reviews on software.
Maybe a Phoenix revival is in process?
Truly, I don't think that Seagate or WD is capable of designing and supporting a high quality NAS. Just not their forte'
As it happens my LaCie 5Big Network disk just lost it's second disk this past week. ...
Bad software. Yes. Basically zero features. Pig slow, too.
Michael
Why would Seagate buy LaCie? Just a mindless acquisition by their CEO/CFO with zilch technical insight?
Some or many may disagree, or clarify "best".The best solution is the combination of an Areca RAID card with Toshiba drives.t.
Some or many may disagree, or clarify "best".
. . . Rock solid with a reputation for support, quality, and as few bugs as can be expected from a computer product.
Well for someone looking to just backup and stream for the home, these NAS will do the job, bugs and all.
Possibly overstated?To the above attributes I will add extreme high performance, far beyond gigabit network speeds. This performance can be easily accessed for local file operations such as backup, file system check, large file manipulations, or video editing however. One can plug in a removable or external SATA hard drive for efficient backup or file transfer operations that are much faster than Ethernet.
Proprietary NAS boxes are a pig in a poke, IMHO. You get whatever they want to give you, bugs, lack of features and all. A proper RAID card in a PC provides complete control, access (remote or otherwise) using the standard well-known windows (or Linux if you want) features, or even a full-blown server. Typically the RAID array is configured via a fairly intuitive web GUI, probably not that different from proprietary NAS.
Each to their own.
Consumer LaCie got many bad reviews on software.
Maybe a Phoenix revival is in process?
Truly, I don't think that Seagate or WD is capable of designing and supporting a high quality NAS. Just not their forte'
WD has proven for years now that they are not able to produce a decent NAS firmware. WD MyCloud is a nightmare.
A month ago they broke their negative record by introducing a firmware with 64K RAM pages that showed bad side effects and forced a lot of unhappy users to downgrade to the previous version...
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