When you’re giving the pros and cons of a 1.6TB (terabyte) hard disk array, like the LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme, and the only con is “bulky,” then you’re probably doing pretty good by my estimation. As a follow up to previous Bigger Disk external storage drives, there’s no question the 1.6TB version is impressive, smashing together four 400GB drives into a single array that requires no special drivers to be used in Windows XP or Mac OSX. And it looks sufficiently swanky, too, if aluminum doesn’t grate on you.
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LaCie also says they are offering a 19-inch rackmount kit for the drive, but looking at the picture, doesn’t it look like you could get way more in a two-inch rack than just a single unit? I’m thinking two, at least, if not four. Might be a down and dirty way to make a cheap SAN, albeit one without proper hot-swapping and RAID >0 and all that good stuff.
