Wednesday, September 21st 2011
LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series Now Available
LaCie announced the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series is now available for purchase. It is the first portable solution to feature the shocking 10Gb/s speeds of Thunderbolt technology. This next-generation Little Big Disk is the first product in LaCie's series of high-end Thunderbolt solutions.
Designed for the most demanding applications, the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series will bring a new level of performance to creative workflows and professional storage users. It offers ultra-fast data transfers, complete system backup in minutes, and faster content editing than ever before.
"Performance can come in small packages," says Jason Ziller, Intel's director of Thunderbolt Marketing. "LaCie's Little Big Disk with Intel's Thunderbolt technology delivers blazingly fast transfer speeds in a truly portable form factor; we think media creators and entertainment enthusiasts alike are going to love it."
A FEATHERWEIGHT POWERHOUSE
The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series sets the new standard for the storage industry. Featuring a pair of 2.5" drives in a Mac OS RAID configuration, the Little Big Disk delivers stunning read speeds more than 480MB/s in SSD and up to 190MB/s in HDD.
The more Little Big Disks you chain together, the more impressive the performance. Users can daisy chain several Little Big Disks to maximize the interface's capabilities and reach transfer rates around 800MB/s - truly rackmount storage speeds in a portable solution.
NEXT GENERATION STORAGE
A game changer for content creators and professional users, the Little Big Disk is the ultimate portable solution for fast access to data or on-set editing. It supports multiple RAID levels (0,1 and JBOD) and daisy chaining for storage expansion or connecting other peripherals. Additionally, it features a heat sink casing and quiet fan for dual cooling.
"The great thing about the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series is its versatility," said Erwan Girard, Professional Business Unit Manager, LaCie. "No matter which Little Big Disk model you choose, it will serve your most demanding applications with ease and portability. It's the ultimate in storage technology."
For more than 20 years, LaCie has worked in the Apple marketplace, introducing innovative products and launching cutting-edge technologies. LaCie developed the first Apple branded storage solution and showcased the first implementations of FireWire technology. Since then, LaCie has collaborated with Intel and Apple to develop a range of professional storage solutions featuring Thunderbolt technology.
AVAILABILITY
The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series HDD models are available through Apple retail stores worldwide and Apple.com. The SSD model will be shipping this October. All models will be available shortly through LaCie's reseller channel and LaCie.com. The Thunderbolt cable can be purchased separately on Apple.com. For full specifications and product information on the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series visit this page.
PRICES:
Designed for the most demanding applications, the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series will bring a new level of performance to creative workflows and professional storage users. It offers ultra-fast data transfers, complete system backup in minutes, and faster content editing than ever before.
A FEATHERWEIGHT POWERHOUSE
The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series sets the new standard for the storage industry. Featuring a pair of 2.5" drives in a Mac OS RAID configuration, the Little Big Disk delivers stunning read speeds more than 480MB/s in SSD and up to 190MB/s in HDD.
The more Little Big Disks you chain together, the more impressive the performance. Users can daisy chain several Little Big Disks to maximize the interface's capabilities and reach transfer rates around 800MB/s - truly rackmount storage speeds in a portable solution.
NEXT GENERATION STORAGE
A game changer for content creators and professional users, the Little Big Disk is the ultimate portable solution for fast access to data or on-set editing. It supports multiple RAID levels (0,1 and JBOD) and daisy chaining for storage expansion or connecting other peripherals. Additionally, it features a heat sink casing and quiet fan for dual cooling.
"The great thing about the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series is its versatility," said Erwan Girard, Professional Business Unit Manager, LaCie. "No matter which Little Big Disk model you choose, it will serve your most demanding applications with ease and portability. It's the ultimate in storage technology."
For more than 20 years, LaCie has worked in the Apple marketplace, introducing innovative products and launching cutting-edge technologies. LaCie developed the first Apple branded storage solution and showcased the first implementations of FireWire technology. Since then, LaCie has collaborated with Intel and Apple to develop a range of professional storage solutions featuring Thunderbolt technology.
AVAILABILITY
The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series HDD models are available through Apple retail stores worldwide and Apple.com. The SSD model will be shipping this October. All models will be available shortly through LaCie's reseller channel and LaCie.com. The Thunderbolt cable can be purchased separately on Apple.com. For full specifications and product information on the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series visit this page.
PRICES:
- 1TB HDD 7200RPM $399.00
- 2TB HDD 5400RPM $499.00
17 Comments on LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series Now Available
Picture is a little disingenuous. 5 wall warts needed and not shown! Once you start dealing with power and cabling, then rack storage systems become more attractive IMO. But nice concept art so communicate its capabilities.
Apple is all about proprietary connections, so something like Thunderbolt was right up their alley.
oh an the link to Lacies website states that you have to buy the cable separate
System Requirements : Computer with Thunderbolt port
Mac OS X 10.6 or greater
Thunderbolt cable (sold separately)
and to top it off they don't sell them but you can buy them from here for $49.00USD
Display port with drive connectivity? Who'd of thunk?
ALL I know is that this pipe dream will never work maybe on a non Apple laptop sure or in 2015.
Everyone just upgraded to USB3.0 and not everyone was stupid enough to buy the only thunderbolt device Apple.
I can not see why I need to replace my USB3.0 devices with a more expensive weaker spec'd thunderbolt device just because Apple was too stupid to go with industry usb3.0 and thunderbolt in the mac book pro and 90% of my hardware is USB3.0 and not thunderbolt compatible.
Fact:
1. Apple Mac book Pro $2200 Aug 2011 can not even run for 1 hour on battery power with just osx active and nothing else in sleep mode. Call Apple genius they will tell you they know about it and it is normal.
2. Major heat issues on the power supply / brick just with the laptop connected to it nothing else / no USB.
3. The likely hood that Thunderbolt actually works in OSX 10.7 is less than zero but just guessing here based on 10.7 experience so far. OSX 10:banghead:7 is my fav:nutkick:orite.
Lacie thanks for the product just not sure if or when I would be able to make use of it, maybe in 2015 when it is PC/Laptop ready / standard or OSX 10.7 + Mac Book Pro is fix:banghead:ed.
Not sure if Apple wants to fix OSX10.7 as they want to iCloud everything where you need to spend 5000+ days just to upload your files to their cloud that would have been hacked and compromised about 12k times during that upload. This is based on a normal USA internet connection that would if lucky get 35KB/s upload or max 512KB/s if on crystal meth.
Lacie-Solution / fix.
Great idea it just needs dual port ie: (thunderbolt and USB3.0) then drop the price to USB3.0 enclosure prices and you would have lots of sales. Make it transition friendly.
My WD 1TB USB3.0 device from 1st quarter 2011 for then $99.00 works perfect compete with this.