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Since I didn't get myself coordinated in time, I missed the stopwatch on my first boot and decided to power-down and try again. But let that same device take ten minutes to launch, and everybody will think it's a lemon.
Users might never notice a storage device that runs for 12 months without losing any data or giving trouble of any kind. On my first power-up, I intended to run a stopwatch to time the unit's boot-up. The Network Space 2 probably needs more than just the blue LED at the front. When something is as simple as the LaCie, the designer should remember that users need feedback about what's going on - particularly for stuff like power-up and power-down. So with the power supply and Ethernet connected, there's nothing to do but wait for the machine to boot and take it for a test drive. It's also not hopelessly over-packaged I have bought power adapters with more junk packaging than LaCie uses, which is very nice. Driven partly, I suspect, by the impact of Apple's design attitudes - like the AirPort that has itself and not much more in the packaging - the rest of the industry has tried to reduce what I might call the physical overhead of buying and setting up new kit.Īnd so it is with the Network Space 2: there's the black box itself, a booklet and CD (both of which I will try to ignore for now), a universal power supply with male connectors for Australian, American and English outlets, Ethernet and USB cables, and that's the lot. One of the things I like about developments in home computing equipment in the last few years is the way things have become simpler and smaller, with less stuff in the box to fool around with before you hit the "on" switch. I have also run into a NAS that would, if rebooted, default to acting as a DHCP server no matter how many times it was configured not to do so while another NAS from a big-name vendor, currently in use but shortly to be retired, suffers a persistent file permissions problem that makes file-sharing difficult and irritating.īecause of all this, I have become a devotee of open-source D-I-Y NAS using the Linux-based FreeNAS operating system.įor the ordinary home user, however, that's a bridge too far, which is why I was interested to take the new LaCie Network Space 2 for a spin: does it, as LaCie says, work out of the box with no setup, and does it share files without pain? I have had a machine lose its controller after the manufacturer went out of business, which not only meant it was not restorable, but due to the encrypted RAID setup, it was also not recoverable. In no particular order, I have suffered from devices that dropped hard drives (once, the device refused to come back to life when a new drive was installed the other wanted a new drive that was more expensive than a new machine).
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