LaCie Previewed Thunderbolt-Based Little Big Disk

With a high transfer speed of 10Gb/s, it is obvious that storage devices are going to benefit tremendously from Intel’s new I/O technology, the Thunderbolt. While it is not in the market yet, LaCie has already unveiled quite a number of details from their Thunderbolt variant of Little Big Disk external hard drive.

Featuring an aluminium body shell designed by their long-time collaborator Neil Poulton, the Thunderbolt-based Little Big Disk body also works as a heat sink to dissipate heat generated by its internal parts. Inside, it contains two 250GB solid state drives (SSDs) from the upcoming Intel 510 Series which reads at 450MB/s and writes at 300MB/s. These two drives are also preconfigured in RAID 0 for better performance, according to LaCie.

No pricing details are available yet but since the 250GB Intel 510 Series SSD itself is priced around RM 1768 (USD 579) per unit, expect to pay top money for LaCie’s upcoming Thunderbolt solution. The LaCie Thunderbolt-based Little Big Disk is expected to meet users sometime in the second half of this year.

[Source: LaCie and Fudzilla] 

Article From: Lowyat