LaCie 5big Network Reviewed

[Spiken]

LaCie 5big Network Reviewed

Thanks for the review, Tim.
Does this nas is external brick powered like the "power connector" seems to say?

[thiggins]

Originally Posted by Spiken

Thanks for the review, Tim.
Does this nas is external brick powered like the "power connector" seems to say?

Yes. External power brick 100 - 240 VAC.

[lhl]

Tim, I saw in your review you mentioned there was no power-saving mode available, but in the specs on their site, there's the following:

Standby mode: 10W; idle mode: 40W; seek mode: 44W****
Triple Power Management : “Auto” for standby mode, “ON” for normal operation, and “OFF”

See: http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11118

Just curious if this was something added in a firmware update or if this actually *isn't* an option? Or that the standby makes the device inaccessible?

(edit to clarify standby/power-saving)

[thiggins]

There is no idle drive power down or scheduled startup, shutdown. The "idle" mode is more like when you put a PC to sleep manually.

[lhl]

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. (I just started reading through your reviews - they've been quite useful, especially the power consumption and noise levels. I like that all these Orion-based NAS's are pretty low-power, but a bit frustrated by their crap performance.)

Thanks for all the info. Do you know if you can replace or upgrade failed drives with non Lacie supplied ones. It would really bite if, 3yrs after buying the unit, a drive fails and i have to track down a now rare 5Big 500GB proprietary coded/formated drive.