LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 - professional external drive worthy of Apple

Five luxurious aesthetics minutes for professionals and connoisseurs. Today Layfhaker prepared for you an overview of a difficult drive. This top-end French LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 - HDD 6 TB, working through the SuperSpeed ​​USB 3.0 and two ports Thunderbolt. He is clad in aluminum body design by Neil Poulton. Inside the vault is installed LaCie d2 SSD Upgrade 128 GB, effortlessly distilled huge amounts of data in seconds.

And to just avoid misplaced indignation in the comments, we do not in any way refer to this premium product "affordable solution for everyone." Official HDD price of 6 TB from the manufacturer of €529. Additional SSD-module costs more €359. Total € 888. Such things are not bought by people who use nouneymovymi charger for your iPhone 6. With the same success you can criticize those who choose Rolex and Omega instead of conventional mechanical watches.

LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 acquire professionals who work with graphics, video, other heavy content and aesthetes with money. They sit behind their Mac Pro, the top-end 27 "iMac and MacBook Retina Pro in the maximum configuration. The issue price for them is not always primary. But when it comes to external storage, is 100% necessary when working with large amounts of data, then in their understanding of this accessory must be at least as good standing next to the computer.

LaCie can provide such accessories. And it provides. This French brand, the Seagate acquired, but not loss of identity, involved in the development of its products are very famous people, often from very different spheres of production. Products Doktor Ingenieur honoris causa Ferdinand Porsche Aktiengesellschaft knows everyone, and in fact the designers of the company create a form not only luxury cars, but some models drives LaCie.

In the case of the LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 designer Neil Poulton made a cult. drive concept can be described as "aluminum, style and ease." Indeed, in this miracle metal, harmonises perfectly with Apple technology, there is no excess bending. All strictly and minimalistic. It was invented and created in order to he was standing next to the same iMac or MacBook and please the owner of its kind and an amazing job.

Yes, and work too. Often the design of the product implies the loss of functionality, but we are talking about disk storage. Drives are inside and work to the best of his ability. There is nothing stopping them. Six terabytes - that's a lot. Enough to store a large, very large project, moving it to the active part, ie, the one with which we are working right now on the embedded SSD. SSD combined with Thunderbolt gives fantastic performance read and write speeds. You can watch the measurements in the screenshots below.

But SSD Upgrade installation process. There is only one small minus, which, however, is not relevant for Mac owners. We are talking about the loss of the Port USB 3.0. However, why you need it, when there is Thunderbolt?

If we talk about the HDD speeds, the LaCie d2 Thunderbolt here shows crazy 200+ MB / s, that is, in fact, is the limit for magnetic hard drives at the moment.

By vertically arranged accessories are always a bit more critical. Kind of like this tower will fall down as soon as possible, well and pull it off the table the power of even a fly. This is not quite true. LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 weighs 1.5 kilograms. And another 100 grams adds SSD. Move such a mass is not so easy, especially if it is on a flexible rubber sole, resisting displacement.

With far more likely to fall will begin to friends and acquaintances who have seen this chic accessory on your desk.

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