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You lot tin can buy single hard drives that are 10TB in size these days, but for about people that'south overkill. Fifty-fifty consumers who take plenty of photos and videos only need a few terabytes of local storage correct at present. Just LaCie is going after professionals with its new external drive. The 12big Thunderbolt iii offers up to 96TB of storage for the discriminating video editor. Maybe one mean solar day nosotros'll all need dozens of terabytes, but for now the 12big is being pushed as a solution for storing hour upon hour of 4K video in a single rig.

As the proper noun implies, the 12big includes 12 seven,200 RPM hard drives. It has a hardware RAID controller that tin handle RAID 5 and vi. The amount of usable formatted space will depend on the RAID configuration chosen. With RAID five any one of the array'due south drives can fail without damaging the data. RAID half dozen adds additional redundancy that can handle two failed (or missing) drives without losing data. With the largest 96TB variant in RAID 5, LaCie estimates editors volition be able to store about 100 hours of 4K video in ProRes 444 XQ format.

To keep an heart on the health of all those drives, the 12big has LEDs on the hot-swappable drive bays. The 12big is designed to operate continuously and includes four temperature-controlled fans to go along the internal drives absurd. LaCie says one of the fans could even neglect without causing harm to the system.

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The proper noun as well tells yous well-nigh the connectivity situation — the 12big Thunderbolt 3 is based on the Thunderbolt 3 standard and offers read speeds upwardly to 2,600MB/due south and writes of 1,700MB/due south, though that'southward but in RAID 0. With the much safer RAID five or 6, you'll meet roughly ii,400/i,200 MB/southward. That's nevertheless plenty to have multiple 4K video streams running at one time. With Thunderbolt 3, you tin also daisy chain up to two 4K displays with the 12big, or even evangelize power to a laptop.

Thunderbolt 3 is office of the USB Type-C spec, and there are a few devices out there that already back up that standard over Blazon-C ports. LaCie includes both Thunderbolt and Blazon-C cables with the hard drive, but it can be connected to regular USB 3.ane devices besides. You merely won't get the insane information rates. Thunderbolt is really merely common in video editing, then it makes sense to focus on that standard for this product.

LaCie has not announced a cost for the 12big Thunderbolt 3, just you tin expect it to exist high. Information technology will come in 48TB, 72TB, and 96TB capacities when it launches this summertime.

Now read USB-C vs. USB 3.1: What'southward the difference?