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LaCie 12big vs PROMISE Pegasus3 R8
Greetings,
I upgrading from 2 aging CalDigit HDPro2 RAID enclosures, looking to move to a single 8 (or 12) bay tb3 RAID enclosure. These two are both widely available. The 12 drive LaCie is substantially cheaper than the pegasus. I have no previous experience with either company’s products. Any opinions on one or the other? How is the software for either of these? Any opinions much appreciated. If there’s an available option I’m missing, let me know. This is for use with an iMac Pro.
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Hi Ed,
both raids are fine. We’ve had the same decisions to make. We have chosen a netstor TB3 with 16x10TB HGST Ultrastars plus Areca Raid card. The netstor has 3 PCIX slots on top, so we can use this for our older FC Raids.
Price is roughly the same. We spent 10.000 bucks for 160TB Raid space.
I hope this helps,cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
Many thanks Rainer,
Glad to hear that both of these work well. I will be picking up the 12big and reporting back with a review.
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Hi Ed,
we’ll be glad to hear from you,
cheers
Rainer
factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
I purchased the LaCie 12Big 72TB drive. I went with RAID 6 and I’ve been waiting for it to finish initializing for a few days. My initial assessment is that, while these LaCie towers are substantially less expensive than some competing TB3 RAID products, they are also clunkier.
For example, there are two different sets of firmware to be updated. One requires unplugging the TB3 connection, reconnecting via USB3, and powering on while simultaneously pressing a firmware update button with a paperclip on the back. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s clunky, and not something I’ve ever had to do with other RAIDS. I also couldn’t tell if I had completed this process correctly until after powering back down and reconnecting it.
Second, the LaCie RAID manager is clunky. For example, the progress meter measuring the initialization process does not automatically update on macOS. I have to switch menus within the software and then go back to the progress page in order for it to refresh. I wasted an hour researching why I was stuck at 0% before realizing this. In general, the software does not inspire confidence, and is clearly inferior from a user standpoint to something like SoftRAID.
As with many storage products, once it’s up and running, the tendency is to forget about the software. But having successfully rebuilt my two HDPro2 RAIDS many times (6 drive failures over the past 7 years) I’m a little nervous about the prospect of using this software to handle that task.
I will follow up with my experiences using the drive after it’s ready to go.
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a few days for initialising?
That is a lot. It should do the process within 48 hours.
We set up a 160 TB Raid within 48 hours. All went smooth. Software, no problem (Areca), solid netstor rack, no problems with the pcix cards, everything was acccording to the plan.
After 3-5 years I’ll write some experiences.cheers
Rainer
factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
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