LaCie Launches Thunderbolt SATA III SSD 'Little Big Disk' with Up to 635MB/s Read

Correct the older hard disk ones have slower boards than the new SSD ones.

Does anyone know more about the new chips? Is it now possible to use any raid-case? Does it support port-multiplier? The old chip supported very few raid-enclosures which had special oxford chips (I think it was oxford).

So are there pictures of the board inside or other concrete informations about the new Little Big Disk?

Can I just have a TB to USB adapter so I can plug a third device into my Macbook Air? And can it not cost $400? That'd be greeeeeat.

g4cube said:

Drobo mini:

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Since the Drobo website doesn't list any performance benchmarks, anyone have a clue of the performance to expect with the Drobo?

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http://onemansblog.com/2013/01/27/drobo-mini-review/

He benchmarks a Drobo Mini w/ 4x1TB WD Blue + 128GB Crucial M4 SSD "accelerator". Unfortunately, he only uses Xbench.

http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/drobo_5d_and_drobo_mini_review

"So the real question is: Just how fast are we talking here? Using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app for Mac over Thunderbolt with a 5GB stress setting, we saw 184MBps writes and 256MBps reads from the Drobo mini using four 1TB 7,200-rpm hard drives."

olowott said:

Fast
Expensive
Cute

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that's the design mantra, because they think that people belive Expensive=Quality