used lacie big disk d2?

[Keebler]

Hi there,

A buddy is selling his used (less than a year) lacie big disk d2 triple interface 1 TB (fw 400, 800 and usb2).

How much should i offer? new ones are anywhere between $290 and $350 from what I can find. i don't want to lowball him of course, but i really don't know what to offer (and he doesn't know what to sell it for).

I have plenty of externals, but another could easily be used.

thoughts?

Cheers,
Keebler

 

[puckhead193]

180-200?
but check ebay

 

[kuebby]

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I agree, 200ish is fair.

 

[Outsiderdude26]

200... 250 on the high side.

 

[krye]

$200 tops.

Reminder, the d2's use two drives in a RAID. So the 1T enclosure contains two 500G drives. If one drive dies, you loose ALL your data. You can't get your data off one drive if the other dies. I'd rather spend the $200 on a single drive solution. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Keebler]

$200 tops.

Reminder, the d2's use two drives in a RAID. So the 1T enclosure contains two 500G drives. If one drive dies, you loose ALL your data. You can't get your data off one drive if the other dies. I'd rather spend the $200 on a single drive solution. Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for the feedback. It's going to house my music and photos which are backed up on DVD, as well as another external.

The only question is which RAID # is it formatted in? Isn't there 1 version that copies to the other HD so if one crashes, the data is there? I'm all backed up anyways, but it's a thought.

Cheers,
Keebler

 

[dcubed20]

$200 tops.

Reminder, the d2's use two drives in a RAID. So the 1T enclosure contains two 500G drives. If one drive dies, you loose ALL your data. You can't get your data off one drive if the other dies. I'd rather spend the $200 on a single drive solution. Just my 2 cents.

As opposed to if you have a one drive solution and one drive dies, and you lose all your data?

Is there a way to re-configure the d2 to mirror instead of stripe?