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1. #La cie hard drives for mac 2011 manuals#
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#La cie hard drives for mac 2011 mac#

The LBD took only 11 seconds to transfer our standard 1.22GB test folder to the drive via Thunderbolt the same task took 22 seconds via FireWire 800 and 35 seconds via USB 2.0 with our latest Mac Storage Editors' Choice, the Iomega eGo BlackBelt Mac Edition ($199.99 list, 4 stars). Performance is the reason why you'd buy the Little Big Disk over, say a $50 Western Digital My Passport Essential 250GB USB 2.0 drive. One thing missing is a Thunderbolt cable: Thus far the $49 Apple Thunderbolt cable is the only one on the market, and you'll need at least two if you want to daisy chain your LBD Thunderbolt drives together. The drive comes with a three-year limited warranty, which is better than the one-year standard warranty that comes with more pedestrian drives.

The drive works perfectly well with Time Machine, and is formatted for the Mac-native HFS+ file system out of the box.

#La cie hard drives for mac 2011 manuals#

The drive also comes with an AC power adapter, a screw-on desk stand, and a utility CD that contains the drive's manuals and a full copy of Intego Backup Manager Pro, which gives Mac owners more control over data backup and restoration than Time Machine does. LaCie claims that chaining together four or more LBD drives will get you up to 800MBps throughput. The chassis houses two 120GB 2.5-inch solid-state drives (SSDs) in a SATA RAID array, allowing more potential bandwidth than you'd get from a single SSD or spinning hard drive. Like the Pegasus R6, the LBD comes in a few capacities: 2TB (5,400rpm), 1TB (7,200rpm), and 240GB (SSD) (our review unit, the fastest and most expensive). On the back is a pair of Thunderbolt ports, which can be connected directly to your Mac, an Apple Thunderbolt Display, or daisy-chained to another drive like a second or third LBD or Promise Pegasus R6 (the only other Thunderbolt drive model on the market so far). It's a nice bit of industrial design, but the single fan will still make its presence known with a constant droning whine. The LBD has the same ribs extending down the sides of the case to aid cooling. The Little Big Disk (LBD) Thunderbolt looks identical to its predecessor, the LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra ($450 list, 3.5 stars), from its all-aluminum construction to its compact 1.6-by-3.3-by-5.5-inch (HWD) chassis to the LaCie-brand-ID blue-LED-lit hemisphere embedded in the drive's front face.

There are good reasons to get the LaCie Thunderbolt drive instead of more commonplace spinning hard drives, but even so it's strictly for professionals. The Little Big Disk is the "saner" alternative to the Promise Pegasus R6 ($1,999 list, 3.5 stars) line of hard drives, though in the end you're still going to pay a lot of money for a little storage. And, because of their high prices (the LaCie costs costs $899.99 list), you have to have a profitable, billable project like a six-month graphics production contract to make it worth the extra money over a FireWire 800 drive. Thunderbolt drives like the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt (240GB SSD) are a rare breed at the moment.

#La cie hard drives for mac 2011 software#