Thunderbolt Hard Drives

The Thunderbolt Interface is here!

Thunderbolt is a revolutionary I/O technology that supports high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices through a single, compact port. It sets new standards for speed, flexibility, and simplicity. It was developed by Intel and initial adopters have been Intel, Apple and LaCie. Those of you who purchase Mac products have probably noticed the little lightning bolt interface on the new generation of the products. LaCie has released the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt range of products to take advantage of this interface. Key features include 10GB/s transfer speeds, the ability to daisy chain 6 devices even if they are different type (e.g. monitors and external hard drives) and increased transfer rates when daisy-chaining multiple Little Big Disks together. This product will appeal to anyone working with large multimedia files who needs the high transfer rates, read and write speeds.

Prices in NZ dollars. Excludes GST (NZ only) and freight
228493	Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 1TB 7200rpm Drive	$499.00
228492	Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 240GB SSD Drive	$1339.00
228494	Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2TB 5400rpm Drive	$799.00

The New Era for Speed

The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt™* Series heralds a new era for storage performance. Featuring a preconfigured RAID0 striped set with optional hard disks or SSDs through the 10Gb/s Thunderbolt interface, it delivers astonishing transfer rates. Reach read speeds of up to 480MB/s with the SSD model, and up to 190MB/s with the hard disk model. Now you can truly get the power of fibre channel rackmount storage—in a portable solution!

You can even daisy chain multiple Little Big Disks together to increase overall transfer rates. The more products you chain together, the higher performance you get. Daisy chain four Little Big Disks with SSDs to maximize Thunderbolt interface capabilities and reach transfer rates of around 800MB/s (up to 782MB/s with the hard disk version).

All in all, the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series makes it possible to acquire, edit, and play back multiple uncompressed A/V streams directly from the drive with ultimate ease and portability, no matter the size or resolution of the content.

Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Overview | More Information on Thunderbolt