LaCie has launched three new Thunderbolt 3 desktop storage devices, the 12big, 6big and Bolt 3. All three devices are, according to LaCie, the fastest desktop storage solutions currently on the market, making them suitable for storing and editing 4K and 6K video content, among other things. The Bolt 3 offers 2TB of storage, the 6big offers up to 60TB, and the 12big offers up to 120TB. The Bolt is the smallest of the three products, offering speeds up to 2800MB/s. According to LaCie, this model can handle raw video from a Blackmagic or RED camera, and can be used to transcode up to 6K footage using Adobe Premiere Pro or something similar. It only takes about 5 minutes to transfer a terabyte of 4K ProRes 4444 XQ video from the Bolt 3 to the 12big.

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The LaCie 6big offers speeds up to 1400MB/s and the 12big has speeds up to 2600MB/s. These models can be used to edit uncompressed 10-bit and 12-bit HD videos or multiple streams of ProRes 422 HQ and ProRes 4444XQ footage. The company also says raw photos can be accessed and edited in Lightroom without lag. A custom Pelican Storm case will be available for these two models. The storage devices will be available this quarter starting at the following prices:. LaCie Bolt 3: $1,999. LaCie 6big: $3,199.

LaCie 12big: $6,399. Pelican Case: $349 Press release. LaCie Announces World's Fastest Desktop Storage and Complete Thunderbolt 3 Portfolio for Creative Professionals CUPERTINO, CALIF. Today, LaCie, the premium brand from Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), announced its Thunderbolt™ 3 portfolio of storage solutions aimed at helping video professionals excel with ultra high-resolution footage. First, the LaCie® Bolt3 combines Thunderbolt 3 speed with the latest M.2 PCIe SSDs to create the world’s fastest desktop drive. In addition, the LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3 and 6big Thunderbolt 3 are ready to handle massive amounts of content thanks to fast transfer speeds, RAID 5/6 security and enterprise-class drives. These storage solutions, design by Neil Poulton, are ideal companions to the all-new MacBook Pro.

For the Bolt3, LaCie harnessed the breakthrough performance potential of Thunderbolt 3 and paired it with two M.2 PCIe SSDs striped into a 2TB volume. Bolt3 delivers record speeds of up to 2800MB/s and cuts valuable time off of post-production workflows, such as ingesting RAW footage from RED® or Blackmagic® cinema cameras or transcoding 4/5/6K footage using Adobe® Premiere® Pro or DaVinci Resolve. What’s more, videographers can transfer a terabyte of 4K ProRes 4444 XQ footage from the LaCie Bolt3 to RAID storage—such as the LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3—in only 5 minutes and 11 seconds.

The LaCie Bolt3 is engineered for long term reliability—from the enclosure to the internal components—to endure intensive storage tasks. Each product is individually Computer Numerical Control machined from solid aluminum blocks for rigid durability and heat dissipation. Effective cooling helps to ensure long-term component health. The stand securely docks the product with powerful neodymium magnets—and detaches for easy transport. With up to 120TB of massive capacity, the breakthrough performance of Thunderbolt 3 and RAID 5/6, the LaCie 12big, and the new LaCie 6big help video professionals meet the data demands of 4/5/6K cameras.

Both feature Seagate enterprise-class drives with 256MB cache and 7200RPM for superb accessibility, reliability and robust performance. “From ultra high-resolution cameras to virtual reality to drones, the new experiences that content creators can bring to life are truly exciting,” said Tim Bucher, Senior Vice President of Seagate and LaCie Branded Solutions.

“Creating these experiences generates unprecedented amounts of data while requiring extreme performance, and today we’re thrilled to help our customers by offering best-in-class storage solutions that excel in even the most demanding video workflows.” Thunderbolt 3 speeds of up to 2600MB/s for LaCie 12big and 1400MB/s for LaCie 6big slash time off nearly every post-production workflow task. Users can then edit multiple streams of ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 4444 XQ, as well as uncompressed HD 10-bit and 12-bit video. What’s more, photographers can transfer RAW photos quickly and edit in Adobe Lightroom without lag. Plus, with up to 120TB of capacity, the LaCie 12big can store 100 hours of 4K ProRes 4444 XQ footage in RAID 5. With double the video bandwidth of its predecessor, Thunderbolt 3 lets a user daisy chain dual 4K displays or a single 5K display to the LaCie 12big or LaCie 6big. With two 4K displays, users can spread out their workspace by dedicating one display to the timeline and the other to previewing 4K footage, for example. It’s even possible to power a compatible laptop through the USB-C cable.

Additionally, the user can connect to USB 3.0 computers via the included USB-C to USB-A cable. The LaCie 12big and LaCie 6big are engineered to handle demanding video workflows. Front-accessible drives offer convenient and quick drive replacement and front-facing drive status LEDs help the user keep track of drive health and RAID build status. The aluminum enclosure dissipates heat far better than plastic, while two thermoregulated fans pull heat away from internal components. Both the LaCie 12big and LaCie 6big are protected by a five-year limited warranty that covers drives, enclosure and spare parts. LaCie has also partnered with Pelican Products to offer custom cases to safely transport the LaCie 12big or 6big to and from set. The Pelican™ Storm Case™ is an injection-molded case made of HPX® high-performance resin that is virtually unbreakable and resistant to dents and shatter.

The custom, durable foam configuration houses a LaCie 12big or 6big, multiple LaCie Rugged® drives and accessories such as cords or a power supply. The cases are lightweight, airtight, watertight and backed by Pelican’s lifetime warranty. AVAILABILITY 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 custom Pelican Storm cases start at $349.00.

All LaCie Thunderbolt 3 solutions and the custom Pelican Storm cases will be available at LaCie resellers this quarter. Based on 764GB per hour of 4K GoPro footage (source) and 764GB per hour of 4K ProRes 4444 XQ footage (source).

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See pelican.com/warranty for full details. Reminds me of those great big SCSI enclosures parked next to every Video Toaster Flyer setup. Except in the same space you had.maybe. 40GB of noisy Seagate Cheetah hard disk array, but probably less.

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Although ten or twenty megabytes a second isn't much nowadays, back in 1994 you needed all those big fat SCSI cables to get it. Then you had to properly number and terminate each drive. With jumpers and active term blocks, and don't forget to do the high bits at the controller if you were using Phase5's onboard 16bit SCSI with 8 bit SCSI peripherals and cables. Barrym: Funny I've never had an SD card fail as data storage, the cases can fall apart. Had one tiny failure once with a compact flash card, back in 2003. And I see you ignored the price I specified for the 1TB PCIe SSDs, that's a few hundred dollars a piece, so much much less than the proposed 1500 dollar total.

Again you're not going to pick these SSDs up for 300 dollars apiece and simply put them in a USB 3 compatible case you got for 20 bucks. As others have pointed out if you want to sell the thing, you have to test it, warranty it, and of course spend less than 1500 dollars on the hardware you assemble it out of. Barry makes his point clearly. An individual user can build this for $500 cheaper and they probably couldn't care less about how it looks aesthetically or if it has the LaCie badge. His point wasn't that companies aren't going to make their own because they have unlimited funds and don't care (and they probably need good warranty/customer service). The same goes for individuals who want to customize their own system rather than buying any Apple computer. All the companies who buy Apple by the dozen don't care about the price (nearly as much).

Thunderbolt Mac Backup Drives Shopping for the fastest Apple ThunderBolt backup drive? The emergence of ThunderBolt 3 is radically shifting the Macintosh compatible data storage peripheral market as the interface of 10Gbps and 20Gbps ThunderBolt changes from the Mini DisplayPort style to a smaller, reversible Type-C connector that's also used by modern USB-C devices. Multiple generations of Apple ThunderBolt backup drive solutions are on the market. We're seeing far more affordable with prices starting around $150 and up. We've also seen the emergence of combo interface hard drives for Mac that incorporate BOTH USB 3.0 and ThunderBolt ports on the drive. Combo interfaces give alot of flexibility for transferring data among Macs or PC's, old or new. Additionaly, ThunderBolt and USB 3.1 SSD drive solutions are getting much cheaper as solid-state SSD drive prices have steadily plummeted over time.

ThunderBolt Backup Drives For Mac Combo USB3 + ThunderBolt Drive LaCie ThunderBolt 2 Drive It isn't just Pro Video Editors, Music Studios or DVD and Photo Archive Companies that benefit from Mac backups and auxillary storage over ThunderBolt. Anyone who has large sets of data to move from point A to B will appreciate the lighting speed ThunderBolt ports can provide. If there's one 'gotcha' to reading from - or backing up to - a ThunderBolt harddrive, it's limitations in the current speed of conventional mechanical hard drives.

Even Solid-State SSD backup drives for Mac and Windows need 2 or more drives for truly impressive ThunderBolt performance. (Remember, ThunderBolt is a cross-platform technology that will benefit both Apple and PC users.) While 2 to 4 times faster than mechanical hard drives, even the fastest single SATA SSD made can't fill even half of ThunderBolt's amazing data pipeline. ThunderBolt SSD Drives For Mac LaCie Combo USB3 + ThunderBolt Solid-State TBolt Drives The ONLY technology that can truly leverage 10GBps TBolt and provide best Mac backup speeds is in multi-drive platter arrays or pairs of flash-memory based hardware.

The most demanding, data-intensive commercial users will want multiple-drive ThunderBolt RAID HDD storage systems - or those using 2 or more SSD's for peak throughput. However, benchmarks have shown that conventional drives in RAID units of 4 or more are highly efficient spanning reads and writes across mechanical drives and deliver suprisingly fast reads and writes at a musch lower cost per Gigabyte than SSD solutions. ThunderBolt Drives For Mac. There's more Apple ThunderBolt external drive solutions to choose from than ever!

With both single and multi-drive storage products using either conventional hard drive or solid-state SSD technology, there's a wide range of affordable consumer to high-capacity professional ThunderBolt drives available. Just when you thought the promise of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives were soon going to take the pain out of long OSX system backup and restore procedures, or greuling 1st time Time-Machine backups or OSX drive cloning - Along comes Intel and Apple with ThunderBolt. Offering more than twice the potential bandwidth of USB 3.0 - and literally 20 times that of USB 2.0 - a 10Gbps ThunderBolt backup drive can make copying, transferring and backing up a ton of data happen in mere minutes. For a more complete selection of Apple computers and ThunderBolt peripherals visit this site. Or, for additional high-speed TBolt backup drives for Mac and PC check out the resource for a variety of hard disk, solid-state SSD and multi-drive RAID array storage solutions.