LaCie today announced its next-generation 2big professional 2-bay RAID storage solution, debuting the LaCie 2big Dock with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity for use alongside the new 2016 MacBook Pro, which supports Thunderbolt 3.
The LaCie 2big Dock is a docking station designed for media professionals, offering a wide range of ports for a streamlined creative workflow. There are front-facing SD and Compact Flash Card slots to pull images off of memory cards from cameras and drones, plus it can connect to 1080p and 4K displays.
There are dual Thunderbolt 3 ports for driving a compatible laptop while daisy-chaining up to five additional Thunderbolt or one USB-C drive, and included USB-C ports can charge an iPhone or other similar device. An adapter cable is included for use with USB-A devices.
LaCie's latest dock offers up to 20TB of storage, a 25 percent increase over the previous version, enabling it to store up to 650 hours of 4K 30fps footage or up to 200,000 RAW images. It supports transfer speeds of up to 440MB/s, for transferring the equivalent of an hour of 4K footage in a minute.
The dock features a stylish aluminum enclosure and a thermoregulated fan to keep it cool, and it supports Seagate IronWolf Pro enterprise-class devices and RAID optimization.
The LaCie 2big Dock will be available in 12TB, 16TB, and 20TB capacities through LaCie resellers starting this summer.
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just save everything to /CardName/DateAndTime, then blink to inform that transfer is over. boom.
SSD: ~ $300 per TB (even at non-Apple prices)
HD: ~ $30 per TB (maybe twice that for RAID?)
...you can quibble about the precise values and what a valid comparison would be (clue: there isn't one) but although SSD is superior in most respects, if you need 10-20TB of storage you can't get away from the ball-park 500% - 1000% price premium.
I'm also guessing that Fusion-like solutions with a SSD 'cache' and HD bulk storage don't work too well for pro video/graphics applications with huge, cache-busting single files.