Totally Redundant—Totally Reliable
In addition to the 12 hot-swappable disks, dual RAID
controllers, and individually-tested enclosures, its two power
supplies and redundant cooling units are hot-swappable,
providing the ultimate in security. Its casing adheres to SSB
international standard references, delivering increased
quality and affordability. With the 12big Rack Fibre 8, there
is no single point of failure and a backup battery helps to
ensure that cached data within the RAID controllers can even
survive a power failure. And, with the 5–Year Gold Protection
Plan, you receive a five-year warranty on drives and casing.
A Total Storage Solution
The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 offers the most storage, the
highest speeds, and unparalleled reliability. It’s the ideal
solution for post-production professionals working with HD,
as well as for IT managers looking for a rock-solid storage
solution. With an 8Gb/s Fibre Channel interface, it’s faster
than ever, with performances reaching over 1200MB/s
with only 12 drives. The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 has 12
individually-tested enterprise class disks, supports six RAID
modes, including 5, 50, and 6, and allows the user to create
up to 60 cost-effective enterprise class SATA disks or 96
high-performance SAS drive disk arrays.
Perfect for Your Office Today—
and Tomorrow
The 12big Rack Fibre 8 allows scalability and simple
integration, since it can easily expand along with your
organization. With its four Fibre Channel connections, you
can share storage among four desktop machines or even
integrate it into a SAN environment, as a larger solution. Its
pre-configured RAID setups, remote tech support analysis
capabilities, and 5-year warranty and product swap help to
make it one of the best-supported, most reliable options on
the market. The 12big Rack Fibre 8 can be expanded through
dynamic disk array and LUN expansions, and even supports
multiple disk sizes. In addition, the 12big Rack Fibre 8 comes
standard with the best customer support in the industry
through advance product swap, access to specially-trained
tech support in your country, and escalation to the 12big Core
Team if your issue isn't resolved within 24 hours.
The Fastest Speeds on the Market
The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 is perfect for creative
professionals who need to work with multiple streams
of uncompressed HD video. It features four 8Gb/s Fibre
Channel connections, and with active/active dual RAID
controllers, it can provide enough bandwidth to support one
full non-interlaced 4K video stream* with only 12 drives. It
can even reach up to 2590MB/s with expansion units.
• 1200MB/s with only 12 drives and up to 2590MB/s
• Fully redundant and reliable for post-production or IT professionals
• Dedicated, trained support in your country with 5-year warranty
and product replacement
• Enterprise class drives; supports mixed SAS and SATA drive configurations
LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 Box Content
• LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 dual controller enclosure
• 2 x SFP connectors per controller
• 4 x 8Gb/s Fibre Channel LC to LC optic cables (3m)
• Rack mounting rail kit
• UK, EU, US power cords
LaCie 12big Rack Expansion Box Content
• LaCie 12big Rack Expansion dual I/O
module enclosure
• SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 Mini SAS cable (2m)
• Rack mounting rail kit
• UK, EU, US power cords
Minimum System Requirements
• PC or Mac
®
or server with a 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA
• Windows
®
Server 2003 (IA32, EM64T, IA64); RedHat Linux
AS4/EL5 (IA32, EM64T, IA64); SuSE Linux 9/10 (IA32,
EM64T, IA64); or Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
• Supported web browsers: Internet Explorer
®
6.0 or higher,
Mozilla
®
Firefox
®
1.5 or higher, and Safari
®
2.0 or higher
The 12big Rack Fibre 8 comes with LaCie's
top-of-the-line 5-Year Gold Protection Plan,
which features:
• Five-year warranty on your 12big Rack
Fibre 8's casing and drives
• In-house technical support in 13
subsidiaries worldwide
• 48-hour advance product replacement
