DAM Technology

I had ordered LaCie’s 2big Triple a few weeks ago and it just arrived today. It’s a mini RAID array (1 or 0, meaning that the drives can mirror each other for redundancy or be striped, writing data on both at the same, so it feels extra fast) and I got it with 2 1TB drives.

I’m blown away. It’s hard for me to imagine that disk space has gotten so cheap that I just added 1TB (with redundancy) to my desktop. I’ve always had a bit of a drive fetish, never quite feeling like I’ve had enough, but I think I can pause for a few minutes here, especially when I think back to my first LaCie drive when I paid $700 for 700MB.

In any case, it’s a nice bit of engineering, took just a few seconds to flip a switch to select the RAID style, and then formatted it with Disk Utility. All seamless and transparent. Oh, and it’s got a huge honkin’ blue light on the front which all technical people know — the blue LED is the sure sign of coolness.

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