LACIE NETWORK ASSISTANT WINDOWS 10 DOWNLOAD TORRENT
Yes: the d2 comes with a torrent downloading program built in. Looking about the web interface, you notice the usual things – folder permissions, administration, user sharing control of shares – and a surprising extra: "torrents". This is excellent for devices such as Windows Media Centers or Apple's iTunes you can put your entire iTunes library on it and iTunes will find it.
That is, it advertises itself and its files to any media-playing device on your network. The d2 has UPnP/DLNA – Universal Plug & Play/Digital Living Network Association software. You can even set it up as a Time Machine backup drive for an Apple machine (which I don't recommend over a wireless connection too slow). I used it with an Apple machine, where it shows up immediately (no messing with workgroups, thank heaven) you can configure network shares for Windows, Mac or Linux boxes. There is also a LaCie Network Assistant program you can use for Windows, Mac and Linux, which has a so-so interface – but in fact, a web browser is plenty. The d2 has a faintly worrying blue light on the front, but that can be controlled remotely – as of course all of it can through a web interface. You can see that the sweet spot is 1TB apparently the hike in price-per-gigabyte for the 1.5TB version is to do with how many platters can be squeezed into the enclosure, and the high price-per-GB of the 500GB version is to do with the cost of, well, the enclosure and so on. The prices are respectively £145, £170 and £230.
I think I've found the last networked hard drive I want to buy: the LaCie d2 Network, which comes in 500GB, 1TB (that's terabyte) and 1.5TB flavours. That is, make sure that it's big enough to have tons of room for huge amounts of files because if you have to replace it after a year, copying the files over from the old one will be tedious. However, when you buy a networked hard drive, make sure it's your last one ever.
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