LaCie Launches 60TB and 120TB desktop enclosures

[bobhays]

LaCie introduces 2 drive enclosures that come pre-filled (6 drive and 12 drive) that can support up to 60TB or 120TB as of right now.

 

 

The rated speeds are 1.2GB/s to 2.4GB/s in RAID 5 which is pretty good for 4k content

To be honest I think it looks pretty good and might be a good solution for a creative professional who doesn't want to waste the time setting up a storage server via FreeNAS, unRAID or something else.

The biggest issue with it is the pricing which you can see in the chart below (shout out to Anandtech).

 

The LaCie 6big and 12big DAS
		6big	12big
HDDs		Enterprise Capacity 10 TB Enterprise NAS 8 TB (?) Enterprise NAS 6 TB (?) Enterprise NAS 4 TB
Maximum Number of HDDs		6	12
Capacity		60 TB (6 × 10 TB) 48 TB (6 × 8 TB) 36 TB (6 × 6 TB) 24 TB (6 × 4 TB)	120 TB (12 × 10 TB) 96 TB (12 × 8 TB) 72 TB (12 × 6 TB) 48 TB (12 × 4 TB)
RAID		0/1/5/6/10/50
RAID 0	Read Speed	1400 MB/s	2600 MB/s
	Write Speed	1400 MB/s	1700 MB/s
RAID 5	Read Speed	1200 MB/s	2400 MB/s
	Write Speed	1150 MB/s	1200 MB/s
Ports		2 × Thunderbolt 3 1 × USB Type-C
Fans		2	4
PSU		250 W	400 W
Dimensions (W x H x L)		161 × 225 × 237 mm 6.3 × 8.9 × 9.3 inch	161 × 447 × 237 mm 6.3 × 17.6 × 9.3 inch
Cables Included		USB-C (Thunderbolt 40Gb/s or USB 3.1 10Gb/s) cable USB-C to USB-A cable Power cable
Software		LaCie RAID Manager LaCie Private-Public for AES 256-bit software encryption Intego Backup Manager Pro Genie Backup Manager Pro
Prices		24 TB starts at $3199	48 TB starts at $6399

 

what do you guys think? For that price I'd rather build my own server for cheaper (which I am) especially since this one is just a DAS not NAS.

At least for that price you get enterprise grade helium filled drives, it's basically a top of the line DAS.

 

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10803/lacie-launches-6big-and-12big-external-storage-up-to-60-120-tb-thunderbolt-3-raid

[79wjd]

Imagine all the porn you can download.

[CarterTJames]

For the love of me, I am trying to figure out where the costs are going, I get large hdd cost, but where on earth are the other costs coming from...

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, bobhays said:

For that price I'd rather build my own server for cheaper

Its gonna cost more and you also you need 40gbe to get those speeds. You also have support. 

 

 

It would be nice to have SAS connectors.

[The Benjamins]

4 minutes ago, bobhays said:

LaCie introduces 2 drive enclosures that come pre-filled (6 drive and 12 drive) that can support up to 60TB or 120TB as of right now.

 

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The rated speeds are 1.2GB/s to 2.4GB/s in RAID 5 which is pretty good for 4k content

To be honest I think it looks pretty good and might be a good solution for a creative professional who doesn't want to waste the time setting up a storage server via FreeNAS, unRAID or something else.

The biggest issue with it is the pricing which you can see in the chart below (shout out to Anandtech).

 

4 minutes ago, bobhays said:

what do you guys think? For that price I'd rather build my own server for cheaper (which I am) especially since this one is just a DAS not NAS.

At least for that price you get enterprise grade helium filled drives, it's basically a top of the line DAS.

 

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10803/lacie-launches-6big-and-12big-external-storage-up-to-60-120-tb-thunderbolt-3-raid

I would build your own.

I have a windows server with 512GB 950 & 4 8TB HDD for a good price. Its a Xeon D-1541 32GB ram.

[Orangeator]

Finally, a storage solution that allows me to have my Steam library all downloaded at once!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, The Benjamins said:

I would build your own.

I have a windows server with 512GB 950 & 4 8TB HDD for a good price. Its a Xeon D-1541 32GB ram.

But do you have 40Gbe to get those speeds? Do you have support if something goes wrong?

[bobhays]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its gonna cost more and you also you need 40gbe to get those speeds. You also have support. 

 

 

It would be nice to have SAS connectors.

You're right it would cost more if I wanted the full speeds so there is an advantage there.

 

That being said my server has 4 Gbe so if I can properly set up teaming then I should be pretty set.

[The Benjamins]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

But do you have 40Gbe to get those speeds? Do you have support if something goes wrong?

I have 2 10Gbe ports (currently not used need to get a 10Gbe switch)

I dont get support.

 

Its up to your use case, I like building it and messing with it, upgrading it. and it does some extra things like I have Plex on it and the Xeon CPU eats though the transcoding. I also have 4 VM's running on it.

 

 

[bobhays]

4 minutes ago, CarterTJames said:

For the love of me, I am trying to figure out where the costs are going, I get large hdd cost, but where on earth are the other costs coming from...

Well 6*4TB Enterprise drives should be something like 1200-1500. The other 1500ish probably goes to the enclosure (which looks pretty nice), the power supply assuming they used something high quality, the internals, and their custom OS. It's not absolutely ridiculous, but still pretty expensive.