On 6/27/05, dominik.schastok@xxxxxxxxxxx <dominik.schastok@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After all I heard, this has to be an hardware error, maybe the internal > controller isn´t working correctly. > I formated a 600GB raid5 array (software raid) on my fc4 box yesterday > without any problems. > > kind regards > Dominik Schastok > > >On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote: > >> I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head > assembly > >> and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar > make and > >> performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just > larger > >> platters (thus larger casing). > >I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-) > >They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using > >standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD... > >To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an > internal > >controller and several smaller harddisks. > > > >Peter. > > > >-- I am returning it and getting my $$ back and this is what i'm thinking of doing now, just get a case and a 4-5 hotswap sata bay and use sata-to-sata for backup, I think i would get much better performance and I can do it for the same price. I wont fill all the drives up just yet, just get them as I need them and expand the lv.