Apr 04

Sonnet Echo 15 Thunderbolt dock piles on 15 ports, optical drive, disk bay for $400

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Sonnet Echo 15 thunderbolt dock brings all the ports, drives

There are Thunderbolt docks, real and ethereal, and then there’s this beast from Sonnet: the Echo 15. As implied by the name, it’s lavished with 15 ports front and back, including four USB 3.0, two eSATA, two audio in and out, an extra Thunderbolt, GigE and FireWire800 ports. If you’re thinking that’ll finally let you hook up a Blu-ray or hard disk to your laptop, back up a second — Sonnet’s dock has those items built in as well, giving you SATA III-level disk throughput and freeing up your ports for more interesting peripherals. You’ll be able to grab one this summer with a built-in DVD for $399, or configure it to the max with a Blu-ray drive and 2TB HDD for $549 — assuming it avoids any untoward delays.

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Sep 07

LaCie 2big, 4big Quadra drives hop the USB 3.0 bandwagon, give Macs 12TB of speedy storage

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LaCie 2big, 4big Quadra drives hop the USB 30 bandwagon, give Macs 12TB of speedy storage

LaCie has been sprucing up its smaller drives to handle a new crop of Macs that support USB 3.0. It’s now turn for the big boys to play. Updated versions of the 2big Quadra and 4big Quadra (not yet shown here) use the faster port to reach the potential of their high-capacity RAID arrays, peaking at either 210MB/s for the dual-drive 2big and 245MB/s for its quad-drive cousin. We’re not seeing a fundamental shakeup of the design apart from the higher speeds, although that’s not necessarily a problem given the FireWire 800 to catch legacy users and hot-swappable bays for future upgrades. Video editors and other storage mavens should just prepare themselves to pony up. The upgraded Quadra models will start at respective $499 (4TB) and $1,099 (8TB) prices when they ship in October, and they’re only poised to get more expensive when LaCie sets the costs for the higher-end 6TB and 12TB models.

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