Review: LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3 Array
By Jim Bask
Just when you thought you had enough online hard disk space that you could edit your HD footage, you now have 4K+ ProRes files. The codec setting I use with my Blackmagic Design Ursa cinema camera gives you one minute of footage on 4GB of storage. An hour of footage takes up 240 GB.
That means you need more than 2 TB for 10 hours of footage. And if you are editing, you will create preview files that require even more space — not to mention that you will need speed. If you just have a large drive, you may have the space, but not the speed.
A simple RAID 0 with two or more drives will increase the speed for editing and storage space. RAID 5 gives you speed, space and redundancy by using an algorithm to back up data if a drive goes bad. That’s why the LaCie “big” series uses 12 drives in the RAID 5 configuration: speed, space and reliability.
The LaCie 12big that I got for evaluation…[continue reading]