Swipe to scroll horizontallyValueDecent and well-balanced hardware at an entry-level price, but the software still needs development.4/5DesignCompact, well-designed box with a better finish than the price suggests.4/5FeaturesDecent hardware feature, aside from the slower choice for the ethernet port, and let down by an unfinished OS. This result will change once all is accessable3/5PerformanceFine for basic NAS tasks, network speed limits the full potential of the NVMe storage, and remote connection just doesn’t work at present3/5OverallInteresting hardware in need of software development; wor
The LaCie 8big Pro5 256TB is the fastest storage device of its type that I have connected to either a Mac or a PC by a long way; in fact, no other HDD drive of any type that I have ever tested comes even remotely close. The Real-world read speeds of 3,811 MB/s in CrystalDiskMark and 2,645 MB/s in AJA System Test just reflect the speed at which data was delivered and saved when editing 4 and 8K video directly from the array on both macOS and Windows. The single Thunderbolt 5 cable that both powers the MacBook Pro M1 Max at 140W while providing the main data connection is essentially like many o