LaCie Demos Its Little Big Disk With Thunderbolt [Video]

LaCie has given SlashGear a demonstration of its Little Big Disk, a Thunderbolt enabled hard drive enclosure capable of delivering astonishing speeds.

The first demo was a raw speed test, reading and writing to the drives with 4GB files. As you can see in the video, the MBP was able to write at up to 352.5 MB/s, while read speeds reached 827.2 MB/s. The company told us that the same setup had hit 870 MB/s peaks in their own testing.

The second test was playing back three simultaneous video files stored on the drives, each coming in at 1080p Full HD resolution. Again, as in the video, playback was stutter-free whether windowed or full-screen. We were also able to scrub back and forth through the clip - with the two others running in the background - with no lag or pauses.


LaCie estimates that the SSD Little Big Disk will be available this summer and the HDD version will be available sometime after. No word yet on price. You can check out the video demo below...

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