You can buy single hard drives that are 10TB in size these days, but for most people that’s overkill. Even consumers who take plenty of photos and videos only need a few terabytes of local storage right now. But LaCie is going after professionals with its new external drive. The 12big Thunderbolt 3 offers up to 96TB of storage for the discriminating video editor. Maybe one day we’ll all need dozens of terabytes, but for now the 12big is being pushed as a solution for storing hour upon hour of 4K video in a single rig.
As the name implies, the 12big includes 12 7,200 RPM hard drives. It has a hardware RAID controller that can handle RAID 5 and 6. The amount of usable formatted space will depend on the RAID configuration chosen. With RAID 5 any one of the array’s drives can fail without damaging the data. RAID 6 adds additional redundancy that can handle two failed (or missing) drives without losing data. With the largest 96TB variant in RAID 5, LaCie estimates editors will be able to store about 100 hours of 4K video in ProRes 444 XQ format.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/226889-lacie-announces-gargantuan-96tb-external-hard-drive
