LaCie reveals new incredibly powerful Raid array using Thunderbolt 3. Faster than MacBookPro Retina PCI-E SSD!

[AlTech]

If you're anything like me, you're an absolute sucker for Storage Speed on your OS Drive. You need the very best performance and nothing less.

 

Well LaCie might have a solution for you. A 12 drive RAID array with the ability to store 96TB of storage and maintains speeds faster than the Retina MacBook Pro's PCI-E SSD.

 

It can operate at UP TO 2.6GB/s and can store UP TO 96TB.

 

Holy freaking shit. For reference. The current 2015 refresh of the MacBook Pro Retina features SSDs which can go UP TO 1.5GB/s. This RAID array is a whole 1GB/s faster than MacBook Pro Retina.

 

 

 

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Regular people

don't need Thunderbolt 3. It's wasted on us. We're too weak to even look at that much bandwidth. We have to turn the page quickly past the peripherals section when perusing the latest copy of MacMall, for fear of seeing something too radical. Those video professionals, however... those are some bandwidth aficionados; dog-eared copies of MacMall under their arm, always looking through their viewfinders to see if there's more MB/s off on the horizon. They want all the speeds, and all the storages.

LaCie put both speed and capacity in its new "12big" RAID, which it just announced at the video professional-centric NAB trade show. Basically, it's a huge box with 12 drive bays, huge 7200RPM Seagate drives in those bays, and a Thunderbolt 3 plug out the back. In a RAID 5 configuration (people who own video cameras know all about "RAID 5"), you get 96TB of storage and 2400MB/s transfer speeds. If you tweak the settings a bit — RAID is all about finding a balance between speed, capacity, and safety — you can go as fast as 2600MB/s. Which means, basically, you can get through a lot of 4K uncompressed footage.

 

 

 

 

This will be available in Summer 2016 with no word yet on pricing.

 

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/18/11452656/lacie-12big-thunderbolt-3-raid

 

@Slick I don't suppose you guys could get your hands on this when it is released, could you?

[TheRandomness]

For only $4999999999

[suicidalfranco]

better get them in pairs 

[potoooooooo]

Meh.

 

I'm still waiting for thunderbolt 3 to become more common and not stupidly expensive

[JAKEBAB]

I just can't wait to see the price on it especially since it's from LaCie lol. It does however look gorgeous with a futuristic PC tower look. I really wish Apple would go back to that design for there monitors too.

[Dabombinable]

I thought it was with SSD, but HDD? WTF? I don't think 12 of the 2TB Seagate drive I'm using now could even get near 1GB/sec, especially with the heat generated.

[rattacko123]

12 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

I thought it was with SSD, but HDD? WTF? I don't think 12 of the 2TB Seagate drive I'm using now could even get near 1GB/sec, especially with the heat generated.

Note that this is maximum speed. You are more likely to get something close to 1GB/s.

My 7200rpm hard drive can sustain 150MB/s so 1GB/s from 12 drives isn't really that absurd.

[Guest]

IOPS are still going to be faster on an SSD.

[ShadowCaptain]

7 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

IOPS are still going to be faster on an SSD.

Also

 

A huge desktop sized tower of drives the size of my desktop being as fast drive I can fit inside my wallet is hardly amazing

 

its like going "yeah but that server is faster than your phone" -.. yeah let me just carry that around

[elfensky]

I really like it, but

 

1) price

2) no ethernet option at all. Which, I guess, is the point of this product, but I would have liked a (few) ethernet ports alongside the thunderbolt and usb C.