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Also on the positive side, once this software is run on a 2Big the device remembers the settings even when used on different systems and even after power loss… as it is changing the controller settings and these settings are stored internally in the equivalent of a BIOS chip – aka the changes are non-volatile in nature. Instead 99.9999 percent of people will use one of the three options offered. Mix in loss of increased performance over JBOD and few will care that the SPAN option is MIA. In reality, while it is true that the controller will first fill the first drive to capacity before writing to the second drive few actually get it right. In theory, spanning technically allows for double the capacity like RAID 0 but without the whole ‘if one dies all your data is toast’ downside.
SPAN is not an acronym for anything, rather it simply means what its name implies… and that the drives are spanned. This is a bit unfortunate as technically the internals should also allow for SPAN configuration. As the name suggests this software solution gives you ‘full access’ to the list of RAID capabilities that the 2Big RAID offers… in reality (with the 2Big RAID model) you only gain JBOD on top of RAID 0 and 1.
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In order to change this model into a two separate drives in one-unit model (aka JBOD or Just a Bunch Of Disks) you need to install the second software solution: LaCie RAID Manager. Basically, in addition to being able to setup automatic backup, sync’ing plans, and even firmware updating, you can also change the device from a dual bay RAID 0 model (aka twice the speed, twice the capacity… none of the redundancy of RAID) to a dual bay RAID 1 model (aka speed and capacity of a single drive with the second drive being used for redundancy).
The first is of course LaCie’s “all in one” Toolbox which in this instance allows for basic configuration of the drives in addition to the usual laundry list of features anyone who has used it before has come accustomed to. So, while the accessories are not quite as impressive… they are still pretty darn good.Īlso included is two key pieces of software. Instead, it is simply does one thing and does it well: provide copious amounts of fairly fast storage. This is to be expected as this external storage solution (more aptly described as a Direct Attach Storage solution) does not offer device charging or card reader abilities. Instead of using removable cables for various plug adapters this PSU uses slip in prong adapters – much like those that come with certain Seagate external 3.5-inch hard disk drive based models.
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The power supply is much smaller and less impressive than the ones the 1Dock series makes use of.
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To be precise, expect to find a single USB Type-C cable, a single USB Type-C to Type-A cable, a nice instruction manual, one free month pass for Adobe’s all access/ all software plan, and a relatively small direct plug-in power supply. Where the LaCie 2Big RAID can be considered older and less expensive it should come as no surprise that the accessory list is a bit of a… down grade compared to the 1Big Dock series. In most cases we doubt the 2Big RAID inside would even notice the bumps and bruises that typically happens while a parcel is in transit. To be blunt, this shipping container will probably shrug off anything this side of being run over by a car.
Basically, the 2Big RAID may be a bigger, and sometimes less expensive, model but that does not mean LaCie takes its protection any less seriously. To be specific, it does use the same low-density foam packaging that allows the 2Big to ‘float’ in the center, and it even uses the same carboard accessory box to act as a secondary shield in case of sudden drops, it just is everything is a bit bigger. In addition to a lot of information listed on the outside, the internal protection configuration has also been scaled up compared to the 1Big Dock series. We however think of it as being ‘Right Sized’ instead of being “2 big”.Īlso on the positive side, the moderately increased dimensions have been put to good use. Of course, if you have not recently handled multiple 1Big boxes you probably will feel otherwise. It is bigger than the 1Big variants we recently looked at. Do not get the wrong idea it is a big box. Considering this is a model called ‘2 Big’ the shipping container used to house it is not as big as we were expecting.
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