1TB external bus-powered SSD drive with Thunderbolt?

I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has Thunderbolt 2
and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not bus-powered, and I need
a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of storage.

Any ideas?


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Sandman[.net]

In article , Sandman
wrote:

I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has Thunderbolt 2
and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not bus-powered, and I need
a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of storage.

Any ideas?

la cie is well known for power supply failures.

On 30/05/2014 12:57, Sandman wrote:
I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has Thunderbolt 2
and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not bus-powered, and I need
a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of storage.

Any ideas?

WD My Passport Pro, available in 2TB and 4TB, integrated TB cable,
buspowered. Contains 2 HDs, which can be used RAID 0 or RAID 1.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1240


G-Tech G-Drive mobile, 1TB, both Thunderbolt and USB3, buspowered.
http://www.g-technology.com/products...le-thunderbolt

Seagate GoFlex. 1TB, buspowered.
http://www.seagate.com/external-hard...c-thunderbolt/

On 30/05/2014 14:19, Joe Kotroczo wrote:
On 30/05/2014 12:57, Sandman wrote:
I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has Thunderbolt 2
and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not bus-powered, and I
need
a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of storage.

Any ideas?

WD My Passport Pro, available in 2TB and 4TB, integrated TB cable,
buspowered. Contains 2 HDs, which can be used RAID 0 or RAID 1.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1240


G-Tech G-Drive mobile, 1TB, both Thunderbolt and USB3, buspowered.
http://www.g-technology.com/products...le-thunderbolt

Seagate GoFlex. 1TB, buspowered.
http://www.seagate.com/external-hard...c-thunderbolt/


Sorry, I didn't see the "SSD" when I read your post.

Elgato do a 512GB SSD, buspowered.
http://www.elgato.com/en/thunderbolt...lt-drive-512gb

In article , nospam wrote:

In article , Sandman

Sandman:
I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has
Thunderbolt 2 and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not
bus-powered, and I need a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of
storage.

Any ideas?

la cie is well known for power supply failures.

And disk failures, which I think is less of a factor with SSD's.


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Sandman[.net]

On 2014-05-30 11:57:28 +0000, Sandman said:

I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has Thunderbolt 2
and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not bus-powered, and I need
a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of storage.

Any ideas?

Every HDD failure I have experienced has been with LaCie. I have gone
through several LaCie FW800 drives, they look great and construction is
solid. However, their major downfall lies in the brick [ower supplies
they use and the poor quality drives the hide in their great looking
enclosures.
I have long since stopped buying and using LaCie drive regardless of
how great they look, they are sort of Ferraris, or Porches powered with
a Yugo engine.
I highly recommend all that OWC has to offer except LaCie.
http://eshop.macsales.com
....including their Thunderbolt stuff.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/

My recommendation would be to consider their Mercury On-The-Go 1TB
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other.../MOTGTBH5T1.0/
....and they provide international shipping.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/shipping

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Regards,

Savageduck

In article , Joe Kotroczo wrote:

Sandman:
I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has
Thunderbolt 2 and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not
bus-powered, and I need a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB
of storage.

Any ideas?

Joe Kotroczo:
WD My Passport Pro, available in 2TB and 4TB, integrated TB cable,
buspowered. Contains 2 HDs, which can be used RAID 0 or RAID 1.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1240

G-Tech G-Drive mobile, 1TB, both Thunderbolt and USB3, buspowered.
http://www.g-technology.com/products...le-thunderbolt

Seagate GoFlex. 1TB, buspowered.
http://www.seagate.com/external-hard...c-thunderbolt/

Sorry, I didn't see the "SSD" when I read your post.

Elgato do a 512GB SSD, buspowered.
http://www.elgato.com/en/thunderbolt...lt-drive-512gb

Yeah, I've seen it. I would prefer a 1TB drive though. Maybe I have to
build one myself. I should be able to buy an external enclosure and put a
1TB SSD disk in it.

The neat thing about the Lacie one is that it's PCIe SSD, so it's crazy
fast.


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Sandman[.net]

In article , Sandman
wrote:

I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has
Thunderbolt 2 and very impressive read/write rates, but it's not
bus-powered, and I need a good mobile disk with preferably 1TB of
storage.

Any ideas?

la cie is well known for power supply failures.

And disk failures, which I think is less of a factor with SSD's.

disk failures are not la cie's fault.

la cie doesn't make the disks. they buy them from disk manufacturers.

they do make the power supplies though, and they're generally not that
reliable.

In article , nospam wrote:

In article , Sandman

Sandman:
I've been looking at the Lacie "Little Big Disk" which has
Thunderbolt 2 and very impressive read/write rates, but it's
not bus-powered, and I need a good mobile disk with preferably
1TB of storage.

Any ideas?

nospam:
la cie is well known for power supply failures.

Sandman:
And disk failures, which I think is less of a factor with SSD's.

disk failures are not la cie's fault.

If they choose poor disks to cut costs, I would blame them. All my failed
external drives have been Lacies.

la cie doesn't make the disks. they buy them from disk
manufacturers.

In some cases, they do have a raid card in the enclosure, which can fail
and corrupt the disks as well.

they do make the power supplies though, and they're generally not
that reliable.

Which is why I'm looking for a bus-powered solution.


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Sandman[.net]

On 30/05/2014 14:49, Sandman wrote:
In article , Joe Kotroczo wrote:
(...)

Elgato do a 512GB SSD, buspowered.
http://www.elgato.com/en/thunderbolt...lt-drive-512gb

Yeah, I've seen it. I would prefer a 1TB drive though. Maybe I have to
build one myself. I should be able to buy an external enclosure and put a
1TB SSD disk in it.

If you find an external enclosure which is both Thunderbolt and bus
powered, let us know.