Units !
Is that 2.6Gb or 2.6GB ?
Is it really difficult for a supposed technical journal to get it right ?
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 …
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.
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.
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
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)