TimeMachine and LaCie 2Big Network

Hi all,
I want to buy a LaCie 2Big Network 1TB mirrored 1:1 RAID and I want to backup 2 iMacs and one MacBook Air onto that drive via network. The drive will be connected via ethernet to my router and get its own IP. From what I read here TimeMaschine and those drives seems not working or many people having problems setting this up. So I ask myself, do I better buy TimeCapsule which is not a Raid or is it possible to setup a LaCie 2Big Network with TimeMachine without a problems.
My father setup and very old and cheap external drive with TM and it did work within seconds and now after three weeks he has also no problems. Where is the problem-bottleneck with TM that I should take care off.
Thanks a lot for any hint.

I have the same problem, the strange thing is that if you go to the lacie support site to download the manuals you get a list of all the available Hard Disks and you will find two LaCie 2Big Network:
LaCie 2big Network
LaCie 2big Network (2-disk RAID)
If you check the docs the first one supports time machine while the second one does not report time machine support and the describe the web-interface I see using my LaCie 2big Network (no time machine button).
I hope it is only a firmware problem, but it seems that I have the latest update:
Manufacturer and model: LaCie 2big Network
Software version: Linux 2.6.12.6-arm1-lacie5e
Processor: armv5tejl
Physical memory: 62 MB
Package version: 2.0.7rc4
Factory package version: 2.0.7rc4
FAN status:ON
I am going to check it in more details

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Note: I did not flash the bios when I installed, which I have now heard is a bad idea, apparently. l:
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