LaCie and Seagate confab with creators at NAB
Each year, the National Association of Broadcasters’ NAB Show brings together the people and technology driving the future of media and entertainment. More than 100,000 attended last month’s show in Las Vegas, including representatives from Seagate’s premium storage brand LaCie, known for its sleek design and unmatched technical performance.
LaCie showcased its wide range of high-performance storage products for creative professionals at NAB; those solutions included the new 48TB enterprise-class version of the creative pro favorite, the LaCie 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2.
For bandwidth-intensive 4K video and 3D rendering
With eight Seagate Enterprise Class drives and a five-year warranty, the LaCie 8big Rack gives pros 24/7 accessibility and rock-solid reliability for bandwidth-intensive 4K video or 3D rendering projects. Seagate’s Enterprise Class drives feature 1.2 million hours MTBF (mean time between failure). Storage this reliable lets creative pros handle massive files and turn projects around faster.
David Helmly, Adobe’s worldwide technical field manager for professional video, dropped by LaCie’s booth to talk about how his team uses the LaCie 8big Rack to consolidate their storage needs and increase their video-workflow efficiency.
What it means to streamline creativity
“I was able to add (the LaCie 8big Rack) to my system, and the best part was, I could take a lot of different devices and remove them once I backed them up,” Helmly said. “I was able to streamline everything, and it’s been fantastic.”
Also stopping by LaCie’s booth was Jason Ziller, Intel’s director of Thunderbolt marketing and planning, who spoke about the lightning-fast performance of the LaCie 8big Rack, which offers speeds of up to 1440 MB/s.
“This is a great implementation of Thunderbolt 2,” Ziller said. “It’s got eight drives, which, RAIDed together, nearly maxes out the speed of Thunderbolt 2.”
