LaCie 8big Pro5 brings 256TB to studios

LaCie 8big Pro5 brings 256TB to studios If you work with huge RAW libraries, multi-camera video projects or high-resolution commercial shoots, storage is one of those things you only really notice when it slows you down. That is exactly where the LaCie 8big Pro5 comes in. This is Seagate’s latest eight-bay RAID storage system for creative professionals, and it is very clearly aimed at photographers, filmmakers, retouchers and production teams who need a serious amount of fast, reliable desktop storage. With capacities running up to 256TB, the LaCie 8big Pro5 is built for the kind of studio workflow where 8K video, stacked image files and long-term project archives can quickly eat through ordinary external drives. The headline feature here is Thunderbolt 5. Seagate says the LaCie 8big Pro5 supports transfer bandwidth up to 120Gbps, with speeds of up to 2,800MB/s in RAID 0 and 2,500MB/s in RAID 5. In practical...