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Data backup is becoming more and more important, because although a large part of our critical things in the cloud, we are generating so many photos, video, documents, and so on, it is advisable to keep a local copy. Many people use external storage for backup, which is fine, but if you want any automated things or the capabilities of your server, you must upgrade your storage area network, and they're not all that convenient.
LaCie has updated their devices with a new operating system, they are called NAS OS, which they hope will make a backup and maintenance easier. Let's just take a quick look.
Here's your little home screen. A little cluttered, I'd say you can use several large buckets in order to facilitate the work of non-enthusiasts. But there are a lot of info at-a-glance there:
Potential, action and service management:
The main changes, not super large but worth having. Better support for RAID, works on a lion, scheduled up/down time, centralized backup management and mnogostoecnym of course a brilliant new interface. Unfortunately, only three devices have right now, update the network series 2, 2big and 5big d2.
More information on LaCie.
