![]() The 5bigPro isn’t designed for the lowest manufacturing cost, since separate power and data cables are used to connect the drive backplane and main board. Yes, you can get a LaCie five-bay NAS apart and the board photo below proves it! The photo isn’t good enough to identify the components, but I’ve done that in Table 1 below. This compares favorably with the 512MB or RAM and 512KB of flash found in the previous version. LaCie also realized that you need lots of memory for good performance, and has included plenty of RAM- 4 GB-and included 4 MB of flash. The 5bigPro’s hardware platform looks more like the current crop of business / prosumer NASes being based on Intel’s dual-core D2700 Atom. LaCie has finally realized that you can’t use a Marvell platform for a RAID5 NAS if you want to play with the big boys. It looks like LaCie traded in the two eSATA expansion ports found on the previous version, the LaCie 5big Network 2 for the pair of USB 3.0 ports. You get two USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and a VGA port. The rear panel of the 5bigPro is shown below. There is still a big ol’ lighted blue button on the front that alternates with red when there is a volume failure. It still looks like it was carved out of a large block of aluminum, with a matte finish that you’ll need to work at to get it to show fingerprints. The 5bigPro, as I’ll refer to it in this review, looks like every other five-bay NAS that LaCie has produced. But after a visit with LaCie at Seagate’s (LaCie’s new owners) demo suite at CES and promises that this product was really different, we relented and agreed to review the 5big NAS Pro. ![]() So when LaCie once again asked nicely if we would review their latest five-bay NAS, we initially demurred. ![]() Performance has been uncompetitive and feature sets have paled beside the lets-make-it-do-everything approach of QNAP, Synology, NETGEAR and others aiming for the same wallets. In spite of the sleek Designed-by-Neil-Poulton physical design, LaCie NASes have offered little to spark reader interest. That’s not because LaCie has stopped producing new models, but more a reflection of reader interest. This discount is valid until 31 October 2015.It’s been two years since we last reviewed a LaCie NAS. We want to make your transition to vBoxxCloud as easy as possible and offer you a special 15% discount on your first year of vBoxxCloud. Start now and make sure your files are moved to vBoxxCloud before 15 November 2015, otherwise Wuala will delete all of your data. Companies such as Microsoft and Dropbox can aim to provide data storage only within the EU but cannot avoid certain legal obligations they have for American companies. Also, as vBoxx is not an American company, is not a subsidiary of any American company and has no American employees, it cannot be forced to surrender data to the United States of America. vBoxx cannot be requested to give up or reveal information according to Dutch and EU laws and regulations. The Netherlands has excellent laws and regulations in relation to data storage and privacy. Our data is stored in data centers within The Netherlands. We would love to offer you free support to help you transfer your data to vBoxxCloud. Beside that, we are known for excellent services for businesses who need to complete large data migrations. We understand how inconvenient it is to have to transfer bulks of data stored throughout the years, which is why we would like to offer a special price, without any strings attached, to all Wuala users looking for an alternative. ![]() VBoxxCloud is a fantastic alternative, here are three reasons why you should contact us: Wuala service will terminate and delete all dataĪlthough Wuala will no longer be offering storage service, alternative options are available for users that need encrypted Cloud storage. Wuala service will transition to read-only No further renewals or purchase of storage ![]()
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