Lacie D2 big disk extreme - raid 0 with a single disk doesn't make any sense to me

[kudukudu]

Lacie indicates that the 1 TB D2 big disk extreme has built in Raid-0 support. Given that the form factor suggests a single disk, what does this actually mean? Raid-0 suggests there are 2 500 GB disks paired together with Raid 0.

 

[robanga]

I have one of these, and I was under the impression it was two 500GB disks. Now I will go look for the documentation.

 

[kudukudu]

1 TB d2 big disk extreme
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10922

2 TB triple (2 disk raid)
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10967

The former looks like a single disk form factor while the latter is clearly a 2 disk form factor. Also the latter is described as a 2 disk raid while the former says nothing about having 2 disks.

Maybe I am missing something here, but isn't raid 0 with a single disk an oxymoron?

 

[kudukudu]

I ended up getting the 1 TB Lacie disk. While the form factor looks the same in pictures as an older 250 GB Lacie that I have it is twice as long. As soon as I got the 1 TB it was self-evident that this thing has two 500 GB 16 MB cache hard drives set-up in a Raid 0 configuration.