Lacie has the most applicable solution so far for fast, portable DIT drives. These little guys are the Little Big Disk with dual Thunderbolt ports, each housing two 500GB 2.5" drives for a total of 1TB each. In their demonstration, the first two drives and last two drives are setup in a software RAID 0 (striped). Final Cut Pro is playing back full 1080p Uncompressed 10-bit footage, one resized and overlayed over the other, and is playing back at FULL speed. The laptop? Just the 13" Macbook Pro. Scary how good the performance on these little drives are.
This drive is also available retail with FireWire 800, eSata, and USB if you want it now. The prototype, however, only had dual Thunderbolt ports, limiting its connectivity. There is no word on the final shipping product.
Thunderbolt is a new trend in data storage and now I think it's not only available for Mac but working now on Windows PC.
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