Lacie Little Big Disk 240GB External Thunderbolt Storage Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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now this guys this is the ly little big disc this is a Thunderbolt external
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storage device from obviously L and it
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has two Thunderbolt ports which means it is compatible with daisy chaining this
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particular configuration uses ssds 240 gigs worth of Intel ssds to
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achieve just beastly speed and right
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speed so let's have a look at what lissy has to say for themselves speeds up to 10 gbit per second macOS raid Z or 1 so
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you can configure whatever's in there however you want dual ports dual cooling
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fan and passive aluminum heat sinky thing going on here and uses Intel solid
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state drives what else we got here so protocols PCI Express data video dual
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mode DisplayPort remember guys um Thunderbolt can pass through a display
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port signal so you can plug into this and then plug out of this into display
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port monitor here it says a fair bit okay 10 GB per second 10 GB per second
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10 GB per second and 10 GB per second if you didn't gather it already it is
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capable of up to 10 GB per second you can uh daisy chain up to six Thunderbolt
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technology compatible devices preconfigured in a raid zero stripe for
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ultimate performance so if you were using this as a scratch disc or
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something where you need Extreme Performance in an external drive say you
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have a laptop that use for video editing or photo editing for example this is the
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solution to your problem power mode cables technology active copper active
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copper cables are purchased separately remember guys Thunderbolt requires
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active cables which means there are actual processors inside each end of the
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cable in order to pass through the signal all right performance comparison
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this is all theoretical of course but Thunderbolt technology basically just
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rips apart everything else because it is dramatically faster okay you can daisy
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chain a bunch of devices in a row and then finally output to a monitor with
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DisplayPort so Thunderbolt Thunderbolt Thunderbolt DisplayPort and the Dual
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cooling with heat SN and fan is going to be fairly evident once we open it up so
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this isn't the first time this particular product has been opened because this is a demo unit that we're
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taking a look at For an upcoming NC Tech tips about Thunderbolt wow this thing's
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heavy it's actually pretty nice looking got a little like blue eye thing going
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on in the front one eye and then um
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we've got a cooling fan in the back two Thunderbolt ports a Kenington lock as
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well as power you can see the uh the ribbed texture here on the heat sink
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that definitely makes it uh cooler to
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use if nothing else
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okay so in terms of accessories we've
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got a variety of different uh International plugs that it comes with
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so this is clearly an international version we've also got wow check this out this is also made of uh presumably
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aluminum although some kind of metal for sure and it slides in from the
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back does not slick way to go okay well we'll figure it out give me a sec here
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guys so it comes with screws so you just take out the included ones put this on
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here plug in the included screws with the included Allen key and then it'll
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sit on this handy little stand that looks very nice very professional
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looking right what else we got here okay
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active Thunderbolt cable not included but ours has one just because uh we need
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one for the demo we're going to be doing so uh yeah that does that doesn't come
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with it that's not part of the unboxing ignore that part all right power adapter
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and finally oh okay that will need so that
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goes there that one actually does slide
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in there presumably in order to you know
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do something good oh I see you don't actually have to
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take out those other ones you just screw that into there and then the whole thing
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is slide inable aable cuz I guess it was probably a lot more expensive to make
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out of a solid piece of metal something with a flare on the end I can see that
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okay all right I guess that's a pretty good solution then you can see I can
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shake this to get something out of it because it doesn't have mechanical dries inside so I'm kind of tempted to open
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this up just because uh otherwise you know we're not going to see how sexy it
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is inside so give me a second here guys so we're undoing the last screw here and
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uh let's take these out oh wow these are pretty long it's
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almost like they're compensating for something here we go one two three oh
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okay let's be careful with this and four
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so uh oh the front comes off okay you
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can see the Intel SSD is loaded in there so let's uh oh okay more screws we got
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to undo these ones too I guess so those um are attached right
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there and one and
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two and
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uh okay ah there we go
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H and there we go all right so this is
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the inside of the little big disc so there's your two Thunderbolt ports
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there's your cooling fan that's installed there's your 120 gig Intel 320
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Series ssds so these are modern Intel ssds um there's your front LED as well
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as your front switch which oh no that's
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not a front switch that must be like a some kind of a hard reset or something like that so we're not going to touch
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that um yeah I think that's pretty much it not much else to say so this drive is
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attached here I mean if you wanted to change the drives you could which is kind of cool very simple looks like
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there's some kind of beefy like chipset thing going on under there but we're not
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going to take it apart any more than that thank you for checking out our unboxing and
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complete disassembly of the the see
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little big disc and don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos and the the reason we have such
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high-end ssds in here so that we can properly showcase the performance of
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which Thunderbolt is capable sorry guys we have to clarify
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something to turn the device on you do have to press on this right here