LaCie Announces 2big Dock With Thunderbolt 3 Connectivity

[Marx55]

LaCie should bring SSD. Mechanical disks are obsolete already!

 

[theluggage]

LaCie should bring SSD. Mechanical disks are obsolete already!

I'd agree that spinning rust is dead as far as system/swap/working storage is concerned, but for situations where you need 10TB+ of storage, the inconvenient truth is:

SSD: ~ $300 per TB (even at non-Apple prices)
HD: ~ $30 per TB (maybe twice that for RAID?)

...you can quibble about the precise values and what a valid comparison would be (clue: there isn't one) but although SSD is superior in most respects, if you need 10-20TB of storage you can't get away from the ball-park 500% - 1000% price premium.

I'm also guessing that Fusion-like solutions with a SSD 'cache' and HD bulk storage don't work too well for pro video/graphics applications with huge, cache-busting single files.

 

[Shootn]

Not a Lacie fan, had two of their drives in my time and both failed. I prefer to go the route of NAS, far more reliable, accessible outside the network and for most people is more than fast enough 150 MB/s over wifi. I totally get video editors who want faster speeds but for most people they're just backing up pictures and archiving on such a disk and they're vastly over spec'd. Personally I would use an SSD USB 3 drive, edit the video project and then archive to cheaper spinning media on a network device so it can be accessed anywhere anytime if needed later on.

[doublepost=1493998413][/doublepost]I have used LaCie drives for over 10 years now and have 20TB of storage on various Lacie devices. I have just had my first disk failure on a disk that has been running almost constantly for four years. It was a mirrored drive in a RAID 1 setup so no catastrophe with zero data loss and Seagate are replacing it for free. I love their simplicity and design and I found their service second to none.

 

[jdiamond]

i would love a feature to automatically download every photo/data off an external card as soon as you plug it in.
just save everything to /CardName/DateAndTime, then blink to inform that transfer is over. boom.

I know - we do so much copying (typically volume backups), and it would be so awesome not to tie down a computer every time - just hook one hard drive directly to another and have them to the copying, much as modern printers can directly print images from a card without a computer. 🙂

 

[btrach144]

Anyone hear any rumors as to when this will drop? It's summer and I'm keep waiting 😀

 

[MacCurry]

Anyone hear any rumors as to when this will drop? It's summer and I'm keep waiting 😀

I just ordered the 12TB version 6TB x 2 for use with my new Mid 2017 27" iMac. I intend to use it in RAID1 configuration where 6TB will be mirrored on the 2nd disk. Primarily photos and videos from a Canon 5D MkIII DSLR.

I will use another USB 3.1 drive to back up my applications with Time Machine. The LaCie 2big Dock with TB3 was just the solution I was looking for my photo collection.

 

[potatis]

LaCie should bring SSD. Mechanical disks are obsolete already!

They did have a range of SSD options, but not anymore. What happened?

 

[MacCurry]

They did have a range of SSD options, but not anymore. What happened?

SSD is still relatively expensive. The 2x6TB version is $800. A 2TB SSD is $500. Mechanical drives for large storage under 10TB still be with us for another 5 years due to cost constraints.

 

[VictorTango777]

Lacie lists that "No matter what Thunderbolt interface your computer runs on, the LaCie 2big Dock will connect to it via the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter." Does that really mean you could hook a Thunderbolt 2 computer up to this unit? Because if that is the case that is pretty darn cool.

Why do Apple and others use the term "Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C)"?? As far as I know, there is only one type of Thunderbolt 3 connector available so there is nothing to differentiate. In fact, the "(USB-C)" at the end just adds confusion. By the same logic, why don't they also use the term "Thunderbolt 2 (Mini DisplayPort)"?