![]() Curiously, however, you do get a download manager, but it does Torrent downloads only. The 5big is primarily focused on file serving, so you won’t find any media servers. The slideshow will walk you through most of the 5big’s admin screens. Drive and fan noise is low and power draw was measured at 43 W. The 2.5 TB model that LaCie provided for review came with five Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB drives (HDP725050GLA360 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s).Ī single 4.5″ fan is mounted above the drives and pulls air in the top perforated opening and exhausts it down over the drives and main board and out the perforated bottom of the case. The single 10/100/1000 Ethernet port is provided by a Marvell 88E1118, which supports 4K and 9K jumbo frames. Due to the large number of drives there is also a Marvell 88SX6081 8-port SATA II, 3 Gbps PCI-X host controller. Memory is on the low side, too at 128 MB or RAM and 4 MB of flash. Not surprisingly due to its relatively low performance among five-drive NASes, the 5big uses a Marvell 88F5182 "Orion" processor 500 MHz). But pulling out all the drives gave me enough of a look at the main board that is mounted below the drives to be able to determine the components used. The drive carriers don’t have locking levers, so these locks are the only thing that holds the drives seated into their backplane connectors.Īs I noted above, I couldn’t figure out how to get the case open. But any external drive used to back up the 5big must be formatted in XFS, which is the filesystem used by the internal drives.ĭrives are locked into position using a screwdriver, coin or plastic "2-in-1 RAID mode change and drive lock tool" that LaCie throws in. External drives formatted with FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, EXT3, REISERFS or XFS can be mounted by the 5big. There is only one USB 2.0 port, but three eSATA ports that are usable only for attaching external storage-the 5big lacks UPS support and does not include a print server. ![]() ![]() Link speed and activity LEDs are built into the single 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, which supports jumbo frames with 40 byte fixed settings. For that, you have to turn to the rear drive status lights.įigure 1 shows the rear panel features. Under normal conditions, the button glows blue and doesn’t blink to indicate network or drive activity. It also serves to start the automatic copying of an inserted USB key to a folder. The front has a big button similar in size and function to that on the 2big, which blinks patterns of blue and red colors to convey status. There are no visible fasteners and I have to admit that I couldn’t figure out how to get it open for internal photos! The case is heavy-duty aluminum, but eschews the heatsink fin look of the 2big for a smooth look. The 5big has LaCie’s trademark monolithic look and perhaps takes the "clean" design look a bit too far.
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