NAS - any opinions on this Lacie 1TB ethernet HDD?

[samhs]

http://www.ibood.com/uk/en/product_specs/12479/LaCie_Internet_Space_1TB_Network_Harddisk/

Only available at this price today - anyone got experience of these drives or advice to offer? I need additional space urgently, but I'm concerned about access times - how much slower will it be to save to this than my installed hard drive?

TIA

[Matt]

Its Lacie, I personally wouldnt trust it at all, too many issues, poo & useless support.

[Rosco]

I'm with matt, bought a Lacie NAS (500GB) drive a couple of years back for one of our satellite offices' workgroup, was shite to set up, browser based admin panel was as slow as a week in the jail and the drive failed within the year, support was terrible.... I had to rip the drive out of the case and run file recovery software on the filesystem.  That office (as well as two more since then) have Iomega StorCenters now, no problems with them at all

[keri]

We have a 2TB Lacie NAS (4x500Gb RAID) in work and it is pretty slow to use even on gigabit.
I second the dodgy support from lacie, the PSU died in ours not long after we had it, still waiting for them to give us a replacement and it is probably a year on. Even though it has a small PSU luckily it is the same connectors as full size PC ones so we have a bastardised creation in the bottom of one of our racks so we have somewhere to backup our servers to.