The LaCie Little Big Disk

The LaCie Little Big Disk

Thunderbolt despite its many advantages, it's still in its early years, so there are few peripherals supporting the 10Gbps interface and overall they are very expensive.  For this little test we'll be reverting to a Lacie Little Big Disk with is locked and loaded with two Intel 320 128GB SSDs. Not exactly the fastest SSDs on the planet, but it'll have to do. The two SSDs will be setup in widows as RAID-0, Striping (in Windows) and that thus should be resulting in better performance. But these are SATA2 3Gbps drives. The 320's performance is not exactly astonishing in performance.

The Little Big Disk lacks native RAID-0 and TRIMM support and instead relies on Windows to support RAID-0. Reach read speeds of up to a maximum 480MB/s. That's far away from Thunderbolts maximum, but it'll have to do.

We only have one at hand, but you can actually daisy chain multiple Little Big Disks together to increase overall transfer rates. The more products you chain together, the higher performance you get if your RAID them.

Daisy chain four Little Big Disks with SSDs to maximize Thunderbolt interface capabilities and reach transfer rates of around 800MB/s (up to 782MB/s with the hard disk version).