Thursday, February 20th 2014
LaCie Ships Industry's First 5 TB External Hard Drive
Today, LaCie announced the availability of 5 TB, 7200 rpm hard-drive capacities in its 5big Thunderbolt Series, 2big Thunderbolt Series and d2 Thunderbolt Series. Delivering external storage products that range from 5 TB single drive systems to 25 TB RAID solutions boosts storage capacity by 20 percent. This increase showcases the company's commitment to provide the fastest, highest capacity storage solutions on the market.
Increasingly larger file formats for film and photography have driven the demand for more storage capacity. The availability of 5 TB hard drives enables LaCie to deliver significantly more storage capacity in its same compact desktop designs. This saves professionals valuable desktop space.
LaCie's 5big Thunderbolt now features a capacity of up to 25TB, which makes it the largest 5-bay storage solution on the market. Combined with industry-leading speeds up to 785 MB/s, it is the ideal product for video professionals to pair with a Thunderbolt-enabled computer, like the new Mac Pro, to drive 4K workflows. Photography professionals will appreciate the larger capacities of the d2 Thunderbolt and 2big Thunderbolt, with the same fast transfer speeds and responsive photo browsing that they depend on from these products.
The new capacities are also available on the LaCie 2big Quadra and d2 Quadra storage solutions. All products can be purchased at the LaCie Online Store and LaCie Resellers.
LaCie professional storage solutions are protected by a three-year limited warranty. It includes comprehensive, complimentary web-based resources, expert in-house technical support, and worldwide repair/replacement coverage. Warranty extensions and Advance Care Option can also be purchased.
Increasingly larger file formats for film and photography have driven the demand for more storage capacity. The availability of 5 TB hard drives enables LaCie to deliver significantly more storage capacity in its same compact desktop designs. This saves professionals valuable desktop space.
The new capacities are also available on the LaCie 2big Quadra and d2 Quadra storage solutions. All products can be purchased at the LaCie Online Store and LaCie Resellers.
LaCie professional storage solutions are protected by a three-year limited warranty. It includes comprehensive, complimentary web-based resources, expert in-house technical support, and worldwide repair/replacement coverage. Warranty extensions and Advance Care Option can also be purchased.
12 Comments on LaCie Ships Industry's First 5 TB External Hard Drive
This is a never ending story. This drives the industry into "Growing forever" when we need to DIS-grow a lot of things.
For many years I have been guilty for the same in gaming: it was "hotter" to constantly upgrade your grafix card and other parts to play all the latest games because every 6 months they were more defined and prettier, not better games, just more pixels. This made me play only one time every game and jump on to the next.
The PC gaming industry being nearly non evolving since some years has made me enjoy games much more, without the stress to finish them and look for more, newer ones... In fact recently I am installing older games and enjoying... The same can be said about VHS movies etc. But I suppose there will be people that throw their movie collections out of the window to buy or "acquire" everything again in Blue-ray or 4K :)
Beep.
Rant over.
Myself will probably never need more than 250GB... I'm pretty comfortable with my 160+80GB drives. :)