Wednesday, September 21, 2011

LaCie start selling external hard drive connected Thunderbolt

On 20/09/2011, the company launched LaCie external hard drive equipped Little Big Disk Thunderbolt port through retail stores and Apple online store.
Since the interface Thunderbolt was introduced in MacBook Pro laptops from Apple 7 months ago, only a few peripheral products based on the Thunderbolt was released. Most of these devices are aimed at the professional video editors, such as Aja Io video capture box or Blackmagic Intensity XT Extreme, and the high-end RAID array hard drive as Pegasus Promise R4 and R6. Meanwhile, Little Big Disk drives are designed to provide speed for video editors and photographers, with compact size, simple design and mobility equipment to become more attractive to the Mac users Thunderbolt port.
Little Big Disk equipped with two 2.5 inch hard drives, configured as RAID 0 for the Mac. You may also be configured as RAID 1 or JBOD. Little Big Disk version equipped with two hard drive speed 7200 rpm / min, while the 2TB model equipped with two drive 5400 rpm / min. LaCie said the Little Big Disk drive read speed 190 MB / s (standard communication theory Thunderbolt speeds up to 10 Gb / s).
1TB Little Big Disk is priced at 399 USD (~ 8.3 million), while the Little Big Disk 2TB $ 499 (~ 10.4 million). Site Apple Store online store, said delivery time is between 1-2 weeks.
LaCie Thunderbolt cable not supplied by Little Big Disk drives. You have to buy separate cable for $ 49 USD (~ 1 million) from the only vendor today is Apple
Also have a LaCie Little Big Disk version uses SSD (solid-state drive), but the company said it will begin selling from October 10/2011.
From 20 / 9 to 13/10/2011, LaCie promotional campaign on a hard-luck at the Little Big Disk 1TB Facebook's site.

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