LaCie and Symwave announce 2Big USB 3.0 dual-drive RAID

No monkeys this time, but LaCie has just announced new storage option that should get folks plenty excited on its own: a new dual-drive 2Big USB 3.0 RAID drive developed in partnership with Symwave. As you've no doubt been able to surmise by now, this thing is big and fast, with it able to support up to 4TB of storage, and provide a peak burst read transfer speed of 275MB/s thanks to a new dual SATA and RAID bridge controller developed by Symwave. Unfortunately, there's still no indication of a price, and LaCie isn't getting any more specific than "early 2010" in terms of a release date. It is promising to show off the drive at CES next month though, and hopefully offer a few more details about it as well.

[segers909 Posted Dec 17th 2009 4:41PM]

Any idea what this would cost? Like a rough guess, i have absolutely no idea...

[bahoo Posted Dec 17th 2009 4:51PM]

Write speeds? I need a 200+ MB/s storage solution, and if the read speeds are that high, maybe the write speeds are as well

[miquonranger03 Posted Dec 17th 2009 4:52PM]

Yeah, but I'd never use a non-RAID dual-drive HDD configuration after reading that horror story from that guy who lost a lot of photos and voice recordings from his mother who had recently died after backing them up to a LaCie dual-drive HDD.

[miquonranger03 Posted Dec 17th 2009 4:53PM]

@(Unverified) Disregard that comment, I didn't RTFA properly.

[tylersmyler Posted Dec 17th 2009 5:11PM]

All I read was 4TB and USB 3.0 >>> SOLD

[Alex Posted Dec 17th 2009 5:24PM]

Interesting. I currently have a dual-1TB external HD in Raid 1, on which I store all of my data for piece of mind.

Perhaps USB3 will enable these dual-disk external hard drives to be purposed for performance instead of mere data security.

[Langdon Alger Posted Dec 17th 2009 5:30PM]

But is it "2Big 2Fail"?

[solarpos Posted Dec 17th 2009 5:32PM]

time time is a big selling point

[TrumanHW Posted Dec 17th 2009 6:49PM]

If it isn't NAS... if it isn't RAID.. its just a hard drive. Its transfer speeds reported are not going to be real world anyway.

[the steven Posted Dec 17th 2009 6:54PM]

After my last experience with LaCie, it will be a cold day in hell before I ever buy something from them again.

[juststayfocused Posted Dec 17th 2009 7:05PM]

Had to chime in and add my two cents as I try to do almost every time I see Lacie releasing new equipment. The company is miserable. Everything I've ever purchased from them has failed with the exception of one external firewire drive (and that one probably just died as I typed that). The best part being, the drives don't usually die, but the controllers ... THE PART THAT LACIE ACTUALLY HAS A HAND IN ... fail. Miserable miserable miserable. And over priced because they somehow have managed to market themselves as a premium company. It's a shame. They have very nice -looking- hardware and I have to say the alternate solutions I've replaced my failed Lacie drives with are pretty fugly, but they WORK.

[MMcCraryNJ Posted Dec 17th 2009 7:26PM]

I've had 4 LaCie drives over the years, from 2003-2008, and they all have failed on me. All with the same issue actually, if there's dual hard drives inside of the system, one drive always died causing the entire thing not to work. When I disassembled, the other drive worked properly as an internal drive, for about 8-10 months, then that one would die as well. I've switched to a combo of WD and Seagate, and Glyph drives for audio/video editing. Haven't had a drive die since. F this company