[Mat @ lacie]

[Bob Cole] “The AJA Io manual says “FireWire drive solutions arenot supported in use with AJA Io.”

Actually in the IO configuration guide, AJA approves some Firewire solutions including LaCie Big Disk Extreme:
https://aja.com/pdfs/AJA_config_guide_web.pdf

Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

[Bob Cole] “The AJA Io manual says “FireWire drive solutions arenot supported in use with AJA Io.”

Actually in the IO configuration guide, AJA approves some Firewire solutions including LaCie Big Disk Extreme:
https://aja.com/pdfs/AJA_config_guide_web.pdf

Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

[Bob Cole] “The AJA Io manual says “FireWire drive solutions arenot supported in use with AJA Io.”

Actually in the IO configuration guide, AJA approves some Firewire solutions including LaCie Big Disk Extreme:
https://aja.com/pdfs/AJA_config_guide_web.pdf

Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

Hi,
About your question about S2S.
– Speed is less than a configuration where you able 8 drives connected with 8 cables to an 8 port card. S2S is using a port multiplier technology. That allows you to control the 5 drives through 1 port/1 cable. It also features an hardware raid controller. Through the GUI you can control the unit and change RAID level on the fly.
– S2S, through its controller, supports NCQ (native command queuing)
– You can definitely use multiple S2S combined together. You use 2 or 4 S2S and stripe them across 2 SATA II channels.
– Thanks to the port multiplier technology of the S2S, you could have 4x 2.5TB conntected through only 1x 4 ports PCI-X card. To do the same with point-to-point configuration, you would need 20 ports.

For more info about port multiplier: https://www.sata-io.org/portmultiplier.asp

About SATA cards:
– S2S ships with a 4 port SATA II PCI-X card
– d2 single SATA drives ship with a free 2 port SATA card. You can use a Sonnet card with them if you want.

Speed of d2 SATA in RAID O configs (xBench):
– 4 d2 drives on 2 LaCie SATA cards: sequential write speed of 299.46MB/sec. – read speed of 215.67MB/second.
– 2 d2 drives on 1 LaCie SATA cards: 144 MB/sec. write and 110MB/sec. read

Hope this helps.
Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Richard,
Yes you are correct, in this current version, the “FAST mode” (RAID 0) of the S2S is across 4 drives.
If you want to stripe all the drives (1.25TB or 2.5TB) you can use the “JBOD” mode of the S2S. In this mode, all 5 drives will mount on your desktop. You can then stripe then using Mac OS X Disk Utility.

RAID 5 is not supported by S2S yet. Maybe in a future version. You are right, RAID 5 offers some redundancy.
For redundancy, you could use RAID 0+1 in S2S.

If you work in HDV, you could use a different product, F800 (https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10599). It supports RAID 5.

S2S, d2 SATA and F800 are all currently available.

Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Richard,
Hope you are doing well. I am with LaCie.
You can find more information about LaCie SATA solutions on our site:

LaCie d2 SATA single drive:
https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10571

LaCie S2S SATA II RAID Array (for HD):
https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10458

Let me know if you have any question.
Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Steve,
I would recommend that you use the Biggest F800 in a RAID 5 configuration. That way your data is protected in the event of a drive failure.

Here is something you can read about RAID:
https://www.acnc.com/04_01_05.html

Hope this helps.

Mat
LaCie

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Amy,
I am sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with one of our drive.

If you need any help you can email me directly at mgasquy@lacie.com. Our tech support will also plan to follow up with you at your convenience.

With about 2 millions drives shipped this year, you will hear more often about LaCie on the Cow and other forums where people post when they have a problem. That’s expected.

Thanks.
Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Otis,
I hope that you are doing well. I am sorry that you had bad experiences with our products.
I did not mean to ignore your post. I did not respond for a couple reasons:
– You are in UK and I am in the US. I cannot easily look into your situation from here. Contacting directly LaCie UK is still your best bet. If you would like me to get involved, please email me at mgasquy@lacie.com.
– This is the FCP forum, not a LaCie forum so I usually let other users respond to each other, no matter if it’s good or bad for LaCie. I try to post only if 1- I can help with the situation quickly 2- I need to correct an inaccurate information about a product/the company.

Feel free to email me.
Thank you.
Mat

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Ange,
I am sorry to hear that you received the wrong information about LaCie drives. LaCie has always been involved in the Digital Content Creation industry. We were exhibiting at NAB and some of our products are qualified by AJA, BlackMagic, Pinnacle and Media100.

The Big Disk Extreme was the first single FW800 device to handle multiple streams of uncompressed video (January 04), a few months before other manufacturers came up with similar solutions. Our new SATA drives are also well suited for video applications.

Hope this helps.
Mat