Anyone replaced the HDD for SSD in Lacie D2?

[RecentlyConverted]

Hi,

I am looking to buy a Lacie D2 with 7200 rpm drives and replace with SSD. Anyone done this? What is the read and write speeds you are getting?

Thanks

 

[matreya]

I haven't used a Lacie D2, but if it's anything like other Thunderbolt->SATA enclosures, it will get around 360 MB/sec read/write.

If you want faster speeds than that, then another option is to get something like this, and use SoftRAID to create a RAID array of 4 SSDs...

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/AKiTiO/3QMT3DIAY/

 

[RecentlyConverted]

Thanks.

I think I might be better with the Transcend 500 Storejet 500 then.

I was going to go for the Lacie as it was a good price, looks nice and had Thunderbolt loop through. Unfortunately the Transcend doesn’t have a Thunderbolt out. I can work around that.

 

[matreya]

I think I might be better with the Transcend 500 Storejet 500 then.

According to the Transcend website, it's only a Thunderbolt 1 connection.

 

[foliovision]

I've successfully transplanted a 2 TB SSD into LaCie 9000489 Rugged external drive which previously had a 2 TB hard drive. Works great. About 333 MB/sec read/write speed.