Although LaCie’s backup package is better than most, the lack of RAID and poor performance don’t justify the comparatively high price. There’s no denying the Ethernet Disk is a beautifully built appliance, but XP Embedded doesn’t give it any advantages over the current crop of Linux based appliances.
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Alas, performance was uninspiring with a full backup of 12GB of test data completed at an average of 11MB/sec. You can also run full, incremental, differential or copy backups, encrypt and compress the data and password protect it.
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The Genie backup software makes light work of creating workstation backup schedules, and destinations can be anything from the Ethernet Disk to removable storage devices, FTP sites and optical media. Copying a 1.3GB video clip over Gigabit Ethernet returned read and write speeds of 22MB/sec and 13MB/sec, and FTP speeds were even slower, with the FileZilla client utility reporting read and write speeds of around 16MB/sec with the same test file. However, our real world tests showed performance to be below par.
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Both Windows and Mac users can back up their own data to the appliance as LaCie includes Genie Backup Manager Pro for Windows and Intego Backup Manager for Macs, each with a three-user licence. Use a local or RDP connection and you can access the standard Windows Backup utility and schedule tasks to secure data from the appliance to a network location. Client support is good as you have Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac users on the list, plus the appliance offers FTP services and supports Apple’s Time Machine backup feature.īackup choices are extensive, as from the web interface you can pick a volume and secure all its contents, or select folders to a USB storage device or backup the latter to the appliance’s storage. Tabs are provided for the remaining features, where you can plump for workgroup mode or AD authentication, create users and groups, add shares, define access restrictions and view hardware status. Your next stop is the appliance’s web interface, which offers a quick start wizard for creating new public shares. LaCie’s Network Assistant installs as a background task accessible from the System Tray, where it spots the Ethernet Disk as soon as it has loaded and provides a basic screen for selecting DHCP or a fixed IP address and accessing shares for mapping. If one drive fails you lose everything, and the chassis can’t be opened without invalidating the warranty. The review model has 2TB of storage provided by a pair of 1TB Hitachi SATA drives, but RAID is not an option. LaCie Network Assistant is a tool designed as a companion for the storage devices attached to the LaCie Network that provides you with a quick and effortless way to manage. This in turn reduces hardware demands, and the appliance employs a simple 1GHz VIA processor backed up with a modest 256MB of DDR memory – 64MB of which is shared with the embedded graphics adapter. In the eventuality that you are managing several storage devices in your LaCie network, then there is a good chance that you may be on the lookout for a tool that enables you to configure and troubleshoot them accordingly.
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