Lacie network assistant pro#
Lacie network assistant mac#

Lacie network assistant pro#

For a mid-range SMB NAS, it is essential that multiple iSCSI targets be supported (particularly since LaCie claims the 5big NAS Pro is suitable for up to 50 users). A limitation of the FCS firmware will be that only one iSCSI target is available right now. The ability to allow protocols to operate on certain interfaces only provides the network administrator with more control over performance in the bigger scheme of things. However, we set up the network interfaces for link aggregation in our benchmarking. An interesting aspect is that each of these protocols can be set to be active on one or both of the network interfaces. NFS evaluation will follow in the second part of the review. In today's review, we will be only looking at SMB (CIFS) and iSCSI. The available file serving protocols include SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP, SFTP and iSCSI.

Certain additional options are available thanks to the 5-bay and dual GbE link nature of the offering. The UI of the NAS OS 3 hasn't really changed since the 2big NAS review. The short message is that it is good for LaCie to have a novice-friendly RAID solution similar to its competitors. We will go into detailed evaluation of SimplyRAID in the second part of our review. In this case, there is no difference between RAID-5 and SimplyRAID. However, for today's review, we will just be using SimplyRAID with 5x 4TB disks with a 1-disk redundancy. LaCie's review configuration of 2x 1TB and 3x 2TB drives would have been an ideal setup to show how SimplyRAID works. Disks can be added and the firmware can be upgraded, amongst other things

Lacie network assistant mac#

After entering the MAC ID of the network interface, the unit can be configured as per the user requirements.

One needs to simply plug in the key to one of the USB 2.0 ports of the NAS and boot up the unit. The rescue disk can also be downloaded from the website and put on the user's own USB drive, if necessary. Instead of relying on the internal firmware to do this (which might be an issue if that is itself corrupted), LaCie provides a bootable USB key. LaCie adopts an innovative strategy here. On the other hand, some NAS vendors make their unit obtain a DHCP address even when diskless (without waiting for any special setup procedure / timeouts). For example, Netgear uses the RAIDar utility while Synology has the Synology Network Assistant. Tackling the Diskless Configuration IssueДiskless NAS units often require some sort of setup program running on one of the clients to be able to get the NAS up and running with the proper configuration. Cat 5E LAN cable (we would have liked two, given the dual GbE links in the NAS). In the box, we have the unit itself, a USB key, a plastic 'key' to lock/unlock the drive bays, a 150 W AC/DC adapter and a single 6ft. The 5big NAS Pro comes in a package similar to the 5big Storage Server. Setup Impressions - Rescue Web Admin & SimplyRAID