back to article Video folk, you'll love the 96TB, 2.6GB/sec LaCie 12big HDD

Seagate's LaCie external storage drives unit has come up with a video editing workstation user's wet dream: 96TB capacity and 2.6GB/sec throughput from a Thunderbolt 3-accessed desktop tower. The 12big Thunderbolt product features: 12 drives bays and 8TB, 7200rpm drive support RAID 5 and 6 support from RAID hardware …

  1. jms222

    Units !

    Is that 2.6Gb or 2.6GB ?

    Is it really difficult for a supposed technical journal to get it right ?

    1. Michael Hoffmann Silver badge
      Meh

      Re: Units !

      Uhm, it says 2.6GB/sec and 2,600MB/sec. I don't see any Gb. Seems fairly clear - or was that changed after you wrote your comment?

    2. Kurt Meyer

      Re: Units !

      There seem to be a fair few of these errors lately, and they disappear after the first post which points them out/complains.

      1. gv

        Re: Units !

        Clearly some kind of mysterious feedback loop.

        1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge

          Re: Units !

          If only there was a link to "Send Corrections" to El Reg...

          1. chivo243 Silver badge
            Coat

            Re: Units !

            @A Non e-mouse

            Psssst.... There is one somewhere, I've used it in the past. Although, I think it's location has moved in the new layout.

            Yes, my coat...

            1. Anonymous Coward
              Anonymous Coward

              Re: Units !

              Whooosh

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              2. Boothy

                Re: Units !

                Also lots of people use the mobile site, and the Corrections button seems to be missing when viewing via the m. rather than www. URL.

          2. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Units !

            "If only there was a link to 'Send Corrections' to El Reg..."

            Oh, the "Do the job of editing for us so we can silently fix our mistakes" link?

    3. Clemento07

      Re: Units !

      The article is correct, it is 2.6GB/s aka 2600MB/s

      The Thunderbolt™ 3 interface is 40Gb/s.

  2. Mine's a pint
    Facepalm

    Noise on the desktop

    Just where you need it, 12 spinning drives and probably a few fans right before your ears.

    Noise, noise, noise. </Grinch>

    1. Kelli

      Re: Noise on the desktop

      12x8TB drives in RAID5, what could possibly go wrong...

      1. Danny 14

        Re: Noise on the desktop

        Raid6 probably wont do much better for a 96Tb array. 4Tb drives are bad enough never mind these monsters. Z3 for 8Tb drives really.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Noise on the desktop

          @ Danny 14

          TB not Tb ffs

          1. Danny 14

            Re: Noise on the desktop

            Posting on mobiles capitalises letters as it sees fit. I cannot be arsed to sort it out. Sure if I was complaining about 2.6Gb/sec or 2.6GB/sec then yes, there is ambiguity there that needs clarification. You get the gist of it and it is fairly obvious in the context (on a tech site) what I am getting at so don't be an arse.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Noise on the desktop

      Just where you need it, 12 spinning drives and probably a few fans right before your ears.

      What marketing people do for a photo (or El Reg :) ) is not representative of real world deployment. It's a tower, so for a start it will live on the floor, not on a desk, and if gets too noisy I reckon it won't take long before either LaCie gets an earful (pardon the pun) or someone dreams up a way to quiet it.

  3. picturethis
    Go

    Backups?

    With all the hubub re: backups lately, I'm wondering how does one backup this volumulous master piece - another of the same unit? LaCie would love that to be the case.

    Or is it at this point where backups just get sent to the cloudy-mcCloud? All 96TB.. I'm surpised they don't offer this service (or maybe they do? I haven't actually checked since I have no need)

    And yes, I know it has RAID, but RAID != Backup

    1. Danny 14

      Re: Backups?

      usually incrementally I imagine. Restoring on the other hand.....

      edit: I'm also guessing that the 96TB is 12x8TB drives so even using (gulp) RAID6 you are now down to 80TB. Plus if you are using this as a primary storage extension (rather than a backup box), then you wont be using RAID6 anyway and probably want either multiple RAID10 mixed with RAID1 volumes anyway. So you are looking at 48TB. Our SAN is 24TB and we don't have many issues backing up nightly to another SAN (which is archived over the weekend to rotating weekend tapes)

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    TWO SECONDS to transfer a DVD?

    But I want it NOW!

    1. TRT Silver badge

      Re: TWO SECONDS to transfer a DVD?

      I can do that for you in 0.5 seconds. Ready? CATCH.

  5. Phil W
    Joke

    Leap into failure

    "The Seagate drives are built for 24/7 operation; 8,760 hours a year"

    Are they ok with running for 8,784 hours a year as well?

    1. AndyS

      Re: Leap into failure

      No, but nobody will find out for another 3 years, so you'll be grand!

    2. Pedigree-Pete
      Happy

      Re: Leap into failure

      24hrs off for Christmas :) PP

  6. Efros

    Pricing is unlikely to be cheap.

    Well given that it's LaCie, it's going to be even less cheap than you thought anyway.

    1. cd

      Re: Pricing is unlikely to be cheap.

      Also budget for replacement power supplies. An unreliable case brand with an unreliable drive brand.

      1. TRT Silver badge

        Re: Pricing is unlikely to be cheap.

        You find this too? As far back as 1992 I've been having to replace LaCie PSUs. Dreadful quality on the old electrics.

  7. Chris Wicks 1
    Thumb Up

    It's the

    "Included USB-C to USB-A cable" that really makes this a great product

  8. Shadow Systems

    Gimmie! =-D

    So. Much. Porn...

    *Comedic happy drooling*

    I'll get my coat, it's the one with all the Youtube cat videos.

  9. Bluto Nash

    Really.

    Pricing is unlikely to be cheap.

    In other news, sky blue, water wet.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Wowsa

    Paint that black and the chimps surrounding it will go nuts.

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