LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives

Glewtion writes "LaCie has release their "Big Disk" - a large capacity FireWire case (400 / 500GB) with decent specs. The only thing they're not clear on is the fact that there are two drives in the case...but that only seems logical. Looks like it's only available in Europe though, so here's a link to a French Hardware site's description of it (translation courtesy of Google). Pretty cool for a portable MP3 collection. Here's the LaCie page." What's not apparant is that this case has two drives in it apparantly. Very Slick.

And, in case you didn't notice...

[srw]

they're not clear about the fact there are two drives in the case!

Redundancy...

[Radi-0-head]

So is this disk as redundant as the editor's comments?

what's also apparent

[dzym]

... is that the editor apparently cannot spell apparent. And not only did he apparently misspell it once, he apparently misspelt it twice.

it had to happen

[newsdee]

Earlier today I bought a 80gb usb2 drive.
I knew computers are obsolete as soon as you leave the store, but this is ridiculous. :-)

Finally!

[TiMac]

SWEET! Now according to the "expert" here [connectedhomemag.com] I'll have enough HD space on my Mac for a whole 50 minutes of video!

Dumbass...

Re:Eh.

[Anonymous Coward]

A year and a half is instant?? You must be a geology major.

Re:Please use spellcheck

[Anonymous Coward]

I pity the loosers who pay to read this crap.

And you misspelled losers intentionally for irony, right?

Me no need spellchekr!?!!

[mondoterrifico]

"What's not apparant is that this case has two drives in it apparantly. Very Slick."

Me passed grade 4. Me can speel grate! Me want job!

Slashdot editors...continuing the assualt on all things grammatical!

Re:warranty?

[sporty]

Consider it a metric conversion error :)

Re:Why not set up a RAID in a box?

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

Just in case you drop it in a lake or something, or the building burns down. Good idea!

Tim

I love the translations

[core plexus]

"The case is out of aluminium and ZAMAC, a supposed alloy..." Hmmm, not sure what it is? A "supposed alloy".

"...and can pile up horizontally on other of the same peripherals models..." Hey! Get off my other of the same peripherals models!

"Sympathetic, the new system of comment, Ca will avoid the comment of twisted which spends their time insulting:p" Sounds like my voice recognition software is glitching up again. And many more.

Re:Redundancy...

[glenebob]

It may not be apparant, but apparantly so.

Re:warranty?

[!splut]

French years are shorter. They felt the American year was killing off their French culture.

What is not apparent

[kobotronic]

"What's not apparant is that this case has two drives in it apparantly."

I love the little comments after slashdot story submissions. :)

your 80gig drive is obsolete.

[minitrue]

Yes, your 80gb drive is now obsolete. It is completely unusable with your current configuration. Throw it out now. Or for more eco-friendly processing, please mail it to:

Me
c/o Obsolete Hardware Dept.
NY,NY 10001

We will kindly take care of any obsolete hardware you may have around your house including sub 2GHz Athlons and P4s, 64MB GeForce cards, and low capacity hard drives of 100GB or less. Do not worry about our processing fee for it will be absorbed in the premium you pay for buying the fastest neatest doodad. Click here to receive notice when we launch our innovative program for disposing of your automobile once it loses that new car smell! ;-)

Help! I need context!

[Cap'n Canuck]

500GB - how many Libraries of Congress is that?

Some people make things that others will buy.

[Glytch]

You know, like computer peripherals that work with computers that currently exist.

And when was the last time you saw an external hot-swappable ATA plug?

Hey, tell you what. I've currently got a bridge under construction. I'll let you drive on it for the low monthly rate of $50 per month. Come on! Only $50 monthly for unlimited use of my yet-to-be-built bridge! That's a hell of a deal, friend.

If you don't like that, I've also got a $10 per month bridge just down the river. It's only two lanes, and it's sealed at both ends, but it's still a bargain.

Re:When compressed via divix...

[be-fan]

Most people don't have enough movies to fill two of these things.
>>>>>>>>
You've obviously never seen a college campus network...

Re:Portable mp3's?

[majestynine]

Insert standard comments:

-Wow thats a lot of storage for all my porn
---I have more porn than you
-----You're both fucking loosers

-When is this possibly going to be adopted by consumers?

-How are we going to back this much space up?
---With another disc/drive, stupid!

-Bah, I still use 5 1/2 floppies
---You are a smelly gnu/hippy

-Wow, the MPAA/RIAA/whoever it is we're hating this week/Disney are really going to hate this!

Re:Talk about alot of space...

[Anonymous Coward]

The process that you describe has been available since Windows 2000 came out, under the feature called 'dynamic disc'.

Oh, and while you were under your rock, the rest of mankind also invented the wheel, and this thing called, 'fire'. It's really great to light your bong with.

Re:Portable mp3's?

[Stonent1]

Video editing requires a much faster harddrive than the specs mention. Firewire is not up to snuff.

Oh? Then how did people video edit 4 years ago when no drives weren't as fast as firewire is today?

Re:warranty?

[fobbman]

Apparently it's because there are apparently two drives in the case, which would, apparently, mean that there are two one-year warrantees. Which would mean two years, apparently.

God...

[Peterus7]

I tried explaining this to my g/f, and why this was so neat....

The back of my head still hurts from her smacking me...

jk.

Re:Portable mp3's?

[d-man]

You seem to have forgotten:

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

1) Buy one of these.
3) Profit.

Re:Redundancy...

[aero6dof]

Remember to re-post this comment next week when the story is repeated.

Re:And, in case you didn't notice...

[mobets]

would somebody please mod the parent post as redundant

Re:Looks like it IS available in the US

[RebelTycoon]

Nope, its just so Americans can understand how much it costs...

m=milli

[goldfndr]

Beware the difference between megaBITS and megaBYTES.

mb is megaBIT and MB is megaBYTE. One byte is eight times larger than one bit, so it turns out IEEE 1384 is slower by a factor of two than ATA/100.

Sorry, "mb" is millibit [nist.gov].

Re:That's a lot of MP3s

[Tokerat]

Imagine a pretty cool beowulf cluster of these portable MP3 collections?

Re:Fear of HD editing

[Anonymous Coward]

* (it's YUV with chroma sampled at 4:2:0, so there is one luma bitmap at 1920x1080, and two chroma bitmaps at 960x520, all at 8 bits per channel).

Have you been hanging around with John Carmack?

Re:And, in case you didn't notice...

[sharkey]

RAID 0 (Stripping)

Ooooo, take it off, baby! Work those spindles! Oh yeah, oh yeah.