An SSD version of the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series will be coming to market soon and I’m anxious to see the test results for that one.
If you do have a recent Mac with Thunderbolt, especially a MacBook Air, then the Little Big Disk is the least expensive, smallest Thunderbolt drive, and fastest portable hard drive currently available. If you don’t have a Mac with Thunderbolt, then this device is not for you as it doesn’t offer any backwards compatibility. The AJA System Test showed more of a difference between the two, with the Pegasus reaching 707.6MBps on the write test and 532.0MBps on the read test. That performance gap increased to 15 percent on the folder read test, 22 percent on the file read and 27 percent faster than the LaCie on the folder write test. When compared to the Pegasus R6 12TB RAID array, the LaCie definitely held its own on the file and folder transfer tests, especially the 2GB file read which the Pegasus was just 6 percent faster than the LaCie. Since its inception in 2011 there have been different. When reading a 2GB file, the Little Big Disk sped along at 167.0MBps, compared to 74.5MBps for the Avastor. Thunderbolt is the name that Intel and Apple gave to an interface originally developed to allow the connection of external devices to a PC. Whereas the Avastor topped out at about 75.0MBps throughput, the Little Big Disk topped 207MBps in the AJA System read test and 190.0MBps in AJA System write test. That said, the LaCie drive is fast-at least twice as fast in most tests than a similar RAID array that we tested, the Avastor XMR Mobile RAID Drive ( ), which was tested using FireWire 800. If the drive requires external power, why not use a design that uses 3.5-inch drives that are generally faster and less expensive than the 2.5-inch drives that are used?
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