Epic FAIL (1TB Lacie Ethernet Big Disk)
Well crap. It’s official… My Lacie 1TB Ethernet Big Disk NAS took a dirt nap and I have lost a *lot* of data - some personal, tons of research, more than a few hard-to-come-by hacker / security videos and lots of other fun stuff. Sadly, attempts to recover the data have failed as one of the RAID 0′d 500G Samsung drives is already dead and the other is well on it’s way to mechanical failure. A total loss. I’m sure if I had TONS of money, I could send it off to a clean-room recovery company, but who has that type of cash?? (Any sugar daddies out there?) The other sad thing is that I was just days away from a major file sort/cleanup and backup evolution - making this drive failure a bit more tolerable… (sadhat)
I’m planning on sending the unit back to Lacie for total replacement. Thinking seriously of taking the new drive and selling it on eBay and using that money to get a Buffalo Linkstation Pro. At least the Buffalo is hackable (wiki link) with custom firmware (wink).
Nekkid Lace Pics:
My Lacie 1TB Ethernet Big Disk’s Guts
One of the two Samsung drives in the EBD
Interested in a Buffalo NAS? Check the links:
Buffalo Linkstation (UK)
Firmware passwords
Firmware FAQ
FreeLink for Linkstation Pro Info Page
Turn a FreeLink LSP into a Slim Server (SqueezeCenter 7)
