LaCie Introduces 'World's Fastest Desktop Drive' With Thunderbolt 3

[MacRumors]

Following the launch of the new MacBook Pro with four Thunderbolt 3 ports, LaCie has introduced its new lineup of Thunderbolt 3 storage solutions: the Bolt3 desktop drive and the enterprise-class 6big and 12big RAIDs.

LaCie's new Bolt3 desktop drive with Thunderbolt 3​

LaCie's Bolt3 combines dual Thunderbolt 3 ports with a pair of the latest M.2 PCIe SSDs, striped together into a 2TB volume, to create the "world's fastest desktop drive," with speeds up to 2800MB/s for 4K-6K video editing.

That kind of speed slashes time off nearly every task in your post-production workflow. Ingest RAW footage from RED® or Blackmagic® cinema cameras in a fraction of the time. Transcode 4/5/6K footage much faster using Adobe® Premiere® Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Then transfer a terabyte of footage from the Bolt3 to RAID storage--such as the LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3--in minutes instead of hours.

Thunderbolt 3 permits daisy chaining and provides twice the video bandwidth of any other cable, meaning you can daisy chain one USB-C or up to five Thunderbolt 3 devices, or connect dual 4K displays, through a single USB-C cable.

The Bolt3 is designed with an aluminum enclosure featuring a magnetic cable door and display stand to place it upright on a desktop. Included in the box is a Thunderbolt 3/USB-C cable, power supply, cleaning cloth, and quick install guide.

LaCie's 6big features up to 60TB of storage and Thunderbolt 3 speeds up to 1400MB/s, while the 12big is available with up to 120TB of storage and delivers speeds up to 2600MB/s -- up to 2400MB/s in RAID 5.

Both enterprise-class RAID storage solutions feature support for hardware RAID 5/6 and have 7200RPM Seagate enterprise-class hard drives with 256MB cache. Thunderbolt 3 lets users daisy chain dual 4K displays or a single 5K display to the 6big and 12big.

LaCie's new 6big RAID storage solution -- the 12big is twice as tall​

The LaCie Bolt3 will come in a 2TB SSD capacity for $1999.00. The LaCie 6big will come in 24TB, 36TB, 48TB, and 60TB capacities starting at $3199.00. The LaCie 12big will come in 48TB, 72TB, 96TB, and 120TB capacities starting at $6399.00.

The trio of storage solutions will be available at LaCie resellers this quarter.

Article Link: LaCie Introduces 'World's Fastest Desktop Drive' With Thunderbolt 3

 

[keysofanxiety]

LaCie's Bolt3 combines dual Thunderbolt 3 ports with a pair of the latest M.2 PCIe SSDs, striped together into a 2TB volume, to create the "world's fastest desktop drive," with speeds up to 2800MB/s for 4K-6K video editing.

The LaCie 12big will come in 48TB, 72TB, 96TB, and 120TB capacities starting at $6399.00.

Pure unfiltered techgasm.

 

[naeS1Sean]

That's cool looking. I like when people design things a little differently.

 

[Traverse]

Pure unfiltered techgasm.

And I actually think the cost of the 2TB isn't *that* bad for what it is.

$6400 is a lot, but for 120TB. 1-2-0!

 

[shareef777]

And everyone thought Apple's 2TB cost was bad! $2k for 2TB!?

 

[Borin]

And everyone thought Apple's 2TB cost was bad! $2k for 2TB!?

For 2TB M.2 PCIe, it's definitely a premium, but it's not that outrageous.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Too bad LaCie has the highest rate of drive failure on the market. I'd never trust my data with them unless you're looking to pay a recovery company big money.

Source: Data recovery expert

 

[itsmilo]

With the prices of thunderbolt its no wonder it still hasnt been widely adapted.

Pretty funny when i search for thunderbolt on amazon the first like 10 results are adapters

 

[BornAgainMac]

In 2016, I wish it was possible to get about 40 TB of very fast storage (RAID-10) fast SSD for a few hundred bucks.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

world's fastest desktop drive???

no dual X4 cards each with there own full pci-e link is faster then 2 + other TB data shearing the at best pci-e X4 TB 3.0 link.

 

[centauratlas]

And yet all to be driven by a MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. .....

 

[cdmoore74]

I know it's not external Thunderbolt 3 but the fastest consumer Desktop drive is the Samsung 960 Pro M.2. Sequential Read speed is 3500MB/s and sequential Write is 2100MB/s. So fast that you need large chucks of data to even notice the speed difference.

 

[Kajje]

I know it's not external Thunderbolt 3 but the fastest consumer Desktop drive is the Samsung 960 Pro M.2. Sequential Read speed is 3500MB/s and sequential Write is 2100MB/s. So fast that you need large chucks of data to even notice the speed difference.

This 960-pro is based on the OEM drive that Samsung manufactures for the rMBP. Good stuff. And strangely, even affordable!

 

[tennisproha]

Too bad LaCie has the highest rate of drive failure on the market. I'd never trust my data with them unless you're looking to pay a recovery company big money.

Source: Data recovery expert

Don't they just use Seagate or WD drives? So it would be the HD manufacturer that fails then?…

But if not LaCie, what's your recommendation?

 

[Kajje]

Don't they just use Seagate or WD drives? So it would be the HD manufacturer that fails then?…

Lacie indeed just uses Seagate. That is the whole problem. It's the Snapchat of harddrives.

 

[cdmoore74]

This 960-pro is based on the OEM drive that Samsung manufactures for the rMBP. Good stuff. And strangely, even affordable!

Are you sure it's the 960 pro? It's not even out in large numbers yet because I can't get my hands on it or the 960 Evo. You might be thinking the 950 pro. Even a 960 Evo destroys the 950 Pro at half the cost.

 

[macduke]

Pure unfiltered techgasm.

Pretty much this! If I could get this drive in 120GB, I'm pretty sure I would be set for the next 15 years at least. I think the drive I put into my first PC build in 2002 was 120GB, which is 34 times smaller than my 4TB external today which I don't even use all of (although I have a 2TB archive of older files). But 34*4TB is 136TB so yeah, doable, lol. Although I bet 3GB/s would be crawling in 2031, and good luck finding something that works with TB3.

In 2016, I wish it was possible to get about 40 TB of very fast storage (RAID-10) fast SSD for a few hundred bucks.

I wish I could get 4-6TB of fast SSD storage for a few hundred bucks. That would be fantastic, lol.

And yet all to be driven by a MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. .....

This really is the biggest problem with this new machine and why I didn't buy one. It's probably for the best because I think what I really need is a 5K iMac so I'll just wait for that unless it's dead. I'm hoping for an early 2017 release on new processors.

This 960-pro is based on the OEM drive that Samsung manufactures for the rMBP. Good stuff. And strangely, even affordable!

Wondered what they were using. Samsung makes incredible SSDs—probably the best you can get and definitely the best for the money. Say what you want about their mobile division, but I love their displays and SSDs.

 

[ikir]

Really fast!

 

[MacsRgr8]

Waiting for this alongside a new iMac Kaby Lake with 8 GB VRAM AMD gfx >>> X-Plane 11!!

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Don't they just use Seagate or WD drives? So it would be the HD manufacturer that fails then?…

But if not LaCie, what's your recommendation?

They do but they build their own firmware which causes the issues. Back in the Firewire days, unlike all the decent drive makers who used Oxford bridge boards, they used their own which lead to tons of issues.

 

[tennisproha]

It's the Snapchat of harddrives.

Hah! Nice.

 

[Jacquesvw]

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[morcutt11]

How is it Enterprise class RAID with 7200 RPM drives? The servers we run RAID on are running 10k or 15k RPM drives.

 

[bobdobalina]

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[Kajje]

Are you sure it's the 960 pro? It's not even out in large numbers yet because I can't get my hands on it or the 960 Evo. You might be thinking the 950 pro. Even a 960 Evo destroys the 950 Pro at half the cost.

Sorry I was wrong. Samsung does indeed make the OEM unit for Apple but it's a modified version of the 950 Pro design so not the 960 range.