LaCie Little Big Disk Uses Thunderbolt Tech

[exfileme]

This summer LaCie is shipping a version of its Big Little Disk external drive that uses Intel's new Thunderbolt technology.

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[mikem_90]

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I keep hearing that LARPer going "Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt!"

 

[daniel123244]

Isnt this kind of useless? The drive wont actually back up a movie in 30 seconds unless its running at 10gb/s, which this is not.

 

[kinggraves]

Nothing but a marketing gimmick.

The external connection would be TBolt, a connection that's currently a rarity. But what about the internal connection? Intel's 510 series use the SATA3 bus which means the TBolt connection will be bottled down to SATA3 speeds. You won't get any advantage from TBolt's extra bandwidth, and since TBolt is using an electrical connection currently, there are also no latency advantages from optical transmission.

All it really is is Lacie wanting to say they have a TBolt enabled product. This is still not a useful mainstream tech

 

[papaswedine]

Actually SATA3 times 2... which equates to 12Gbps. Obviously they're not going to saturate that entire bandwidth, but the overall results are going to be better than anything else offered for external storage. The one thing that throws me off is why the he11 you would connect your monitor to your external HD..

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Oh well at least there releasing more products,so we all can have a lot more to choose from...

 

[chaos133]

I'd rather not have RAID 0 for my backups, it seems a bit too risky for me.

 

[BartG]

uhm, unless you run SSD in the machine you connect this thing too its useless! The bottle next will be from the source or the destination unless both are equal with a fast enough connection...

 

[Be0wulf22]

[citation][nom]BartG[/nom]uhm, unless you run SSD in the machine you connect this thing too its useless! The bottle next will be from the source or the destination unless both are equal with a fast enough connection...[/citation]

What an odd statement. Useless unless both ends are equal? While I see what you are suggesting, this could be said for any hard drive technology of the past 30 years. "My PC hard drive is 7200rpm but my backup drive is 10,000 rpm...therefor my backup drive is useless."

 

[Be0wulf22]

Where did they say this was a backup drive anyway?