LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 – dual SSD sizzler It’s not exactly uncommon to find manufacturers making claims for product performance that few of us would actually be able replicate. Often the testing methods are not typical or are adorned with an asterisk or two – involving a bit of effort to find the relevant footnote. Battery life and data rates are among the worst …
"You can extrude the horizontal fins directly but you'd need costly and time consuming machining to do vertical ones."
Or break the casing into multiple panels that could be extruded directly, but that's more assembly work and industrial operations.
Hmm. I guess you could stand this thing on end, right? Prop it up a bit to get the necessary airflow space to the fan and you've got your vertical fins.
Not Quite.
1TB would get you 7+ Hours of 4K REDCODE RAW, 4+ Hours of ProRes, or 2+ Hours of ProRes 4444
So no, you aren't going to be grading a feature off of it, but you could certainly cut a commercial on it and then dump the project to an RDX drive or even DLT for archive.
The pricing is fine if it's reliable. With LaCie it's a tossup over whether it will be or not. Time will tell.
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"The RD MacBook Pros have two Thunderbolt 2 ports and, just to make the point, the Mac Pro has six of the blighters although it’s likely several will be taken up for DisplayPort monitor duties in a video editing suite."
Even though Thunderbolt 2 aggregates two 10 Gbit/s channels into a single 20 Gbit/s one, according to Wikipedia, "Intel claims Thunderbolt 2 will be able to transfer a 4K video while simultaneously displaying it on a discrete monitor." Well, maybe not read it at quite 1375 Mbyte/s = 11 Gbit/s, but close.
So there's very little hit in putting even a Thunderbolt 2 RAID array in the same daisy chain as a (single) monitor. You could even do it on a late model Mac mini, which has two Thunderbolt 2 ports.
"Intel claims Thunderbolt 2 will be able to transfer a 4K video while simultaneously displaying it on a discrete monitor." Well, maybe not read it at quite 1375 Mbyte/s = 11 Gbit/s, but close."
Not really. Thunderbolt has several logical channels. The video output on Thunderbolt uses the Display Port channel on Thunderbolt, but data uses the PCIe channels. The 2 x 10Gbps channels are dedicated for PCIe.
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No, the extra cost is for packaging it all up, and putting a warranty on it. And ensuring that there is enough margin on it so that stores and distributors will stock it, despite it being a low-volume sales item.
While it is expensive, it is one of those items that if you need it, ALL of the alternatives are expensive too. Clearly, your p0rn collection does not need it....
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