Totally lost getting external storage for the new Mac Pro

[g4cube]

Does it support TRIM?

SSDs without TRIM support can turn into molasses - sweet, but slow.

Not necessarily...PCIe ssd uses some new technology controllers. Will have to wait and see on the new LaCie after it ships.

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Well this is very confusing since many SSDs and SSD docks (like the Blackmagic Multidock) don´t have any fans at all.

With heavy read/write use high performance SSDs get rather hot, so careful consideration for cooling is neccesary. From the internal photos, the heatsink/sad sandwich of the LaCie, along with the ducted fan indicates that reducing noise and keeping cool was a priority in the LBDv2 design.

Up close, it looked really cool; pun intended...

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Why did all the HD manufacturers change their names and charge higher prices.

Isn't Lacie and GTech rebranded versions of products from manufacturers with a history of poor reliability?

No. Whatever gave you that idea?

Lacie has been independent company for most of its 20+ years. Now owned by Seagate.

G-Tech is now part a part of WDC, via HGST (new name for Hitachi). WDC acquired Hitachi after Hitachi acquired G-tech.

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We had a wide range of failures from PS, controllers to physical disks. I wouldn't touch them with a 10' pole.

Drobo has been pretty good to me. Although the fans can kick in a little and the USB 2 versions are ... well, a lot slower then I would like. I use it primarily for media storage.

Consider yourself lucky in not having any Drobo issues. Good that you found something that satisfied your needs, though a lot slower than the alternatives being discussed.

 

[ApplesAOranges]

Dude - relax! I am talking about what you are talking about.

EDIT: Except that I just saw you hate RAIDs... you are not understanding the specs for any of these multi-drive enclosures. THey are all quoting speed based on RAID....
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The J4 does 750MB/s with multiple drives in RAID (RAID0 probably). So you do not seem to understand the BM box has four independent SATA II controllers and bays that you can configure anyway you wish. And they scale - 350MB/s each - not all together. So - like I have said in this thread a couple of times-- BM with two bays in RAID0 with SSDs IS 700MB/s. I didn't try 3 in RAID (cause it doesn't matter to me but I see no reason it wouldn't be 1000MB/s.

Also means you can access all four drives at once and pretty much max out the TB1 connection. The aggregate speed is more than a J4 or J2. But for a SINGLE drive if the J4/j2 are SATA III internal they would be faster. If 750MB/s is all they go - then for 2 drives in RAID they are the same.

If you want SPEED - Pegasus V2 with TB2.... or the just announced Lacie - you will love the price and their fan... but still there is no mention yet why is all of this speed so important to you? If its all about the fastest - then the BM dock is a non starter... I am not trying to sell you one!

Now be nice

I have no idea what you just said.

If the J4 can´t do more than 750MB/s for each drive then it sucks.

I just want 3 (maybe 4) separate SSD drives with great read speeds. I don´t want to combine the drives with RAID, I want to keep them separate.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Thread here about Little Big Disk fan: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1331276/

 

[pprior]

I bought one of those lacie 4 or 5 disk RAID units a couple years ago, it was marketed as designed by blah blah with emphasis on fan quietness, etc.

It was horrid. Fan fluctuated speed and made a hugely annoying noise. I returned it.

Whatever their definition of design is, it was crap in the real world of noise. I wouldn't recommend them at all.

 

[ctyrider]

I just want 3 (maybe 4) separate SSD drives with great read speeds. I don´t want to combine the drives with RAID, I want to keep them separate.

Just reading through the thread - gotta say, you have a lot of bizarre preconceived notions about SDD vs HDD, JBOD vs RAID, fanned vs fanless.. Most of which are wrong. As my college professor used to say - little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Good luck finding what you (think) you need - it doesn't exist.