“When we read ‘up to 2800MB/s speeds,’ you can imagine how anxious we were to review the LaCie Bolt3 Thunderbolt 3 drive,” rob-ART morgan writes for Bare Feats.
“The LaCie Bolt3’s large sequential READ speed didn’t reach 2800MB/s. It did reach 2513MB/s which makes it competitive with other Thunderbolt 3 external storage solutions like the Thunder3/Amfeltec combo,” morgan writes. “However, the large sequential WRITE speed is much slower than the competing Thunderbolt 3 external storage solutions and the internal Apple flash storage.”
“As for small random READ speeds, it surprised us by being much faster than the both the Thunder3/Amfeltec storage solution and Apple internal flash storage,” morgan writes. “But the small random WRITE speed was much slower than the internal Apple flash and significantly slower than the Thunder3/Amfeltec solution.”
Much more in the full article, including the benchmark results, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Rejoice, lovers of small random READ speed!
Why is LaCie doing a wheelie with my data?
Not “anxious,” instead “eager.”
(Sorry, it’s a grammar gripe)
Oh good god!
$1999 for 2 TB? With performance that is maybe 2x that of a USB 3 drive that costs $100? Thunderbolt could have been great, but it was murdered the instant Intel announced USB 3.
Remember, this solution uses 2X 1TB M.2 PCIe Solid-State Drives—if you buy them without an enclosure, you will spend $400 – $600 per 1TB, i.e. easily around at least $1000. So Thunderbolt 3 is only part of the cost equation.
This solution is for people who can bill per minute.