Power is supplied via an external AC adapter that ships with swappable plugs for use in the US, UK, Australia and the EU. The Little Big Disk does not come with a Thunderbolt cable, so be sure to tack on another $50 to your budget. If you want a bit more stability however, LaCie supplies a small stand in the box that slides onto the bottom of the unit to prevent it from toppling over. There's not much assembly required, the unit is ready to go as is. Even if you don't travel with it, the Little Big Disk's size makes it a considerate resident on a desk.
LaCie likes to think the Little Big Disk is small enough to be portable, but its weight may discourage you from taking it wherever you go. The design is beautiful and the construction very solid. The blue orb at the front functions as a power/activity LED as well as an on/off button. I only had a limited time with the Little Big Disk and wasn't allowed to take it apart, so forgive me in advance for the brevity of this review (although I did try to hit pretty much all of the highlights of the device).Īs its name implies, the Little Big Disk is pretty small. The 240GB SSD model is still several weeks away from availability, so what we're looking at today is the 2TB HDD solution. The drives are available on Apple's online store as well as Apple's retail locations. LaCie's pricepoints are a bit more attractive than Promise's, although you are getting a far lower performance solution in return: Sadly our hopes of meeting a BYOD Thunderbolt enclosure remain unfulfilled. Like Promise, the Little Big Disk is available only with drives pre-installed. Last month LaCie released its Little Big Disk, a two bay (2.5"), all metal Thunderbolt enclosure. Note that I said more affordable, and not just affordable. LaCie hopes to offer an alternative for those who want more affordable Thunderbolt storage. As great as the Pegasus is for professionals who need the storage and performance, it's priced too high for most consumers who also want fast external storage. Less than $500 of that $2K bill is the retail cost of the hard drives, the rest is all chassis, controller hardware and of course manufacturer profit. And the top of the line 12TB model is priced at $2000. Want the 6-bay version? That'll be $1500. In its cheapest configuration, the 4TB Pegasus R4 with four 1TB 3.5" HDDs will set you back a cool grand. There are just two problems with Thunderbolt today: 1) It's practically only available on Macs, and 2) the Promise Pegasus is extremely expensive. We proved this in our Pegasus R6 review where we sustained transfer rates of 1GB/s (8Gbps) from an array of five SF-2281 SSDs. Thunderbolt is the absolute fastest consumer interface available for users who want high-speed external storage.
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