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LaCie 512GB SATA III SSD Thunderbolt Little Big Disk Hard Drive

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  • Is the power source for the LaCie 1Tb Sata iiiSSD compatible for use in Australia?

    The description "external power supply" doesn't really tell me if if I can use this product as is in Australia, or do I need to simply change the power cable to suits our wall socket fittings.

    This product is at least $400 cheaper in US than in Australia.

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    Yes. Universal power adapter is included with the drive, plus various outlet adapters for worldwide use.

  • Main drive for 2012 iMac?

    I asked about another SSD raid setup but think this sounds even better. Could this be my main drive for iMac?

    I was disappointed to read its noisy though I'm sure it's not that bad. Mac peeps prolly have higher standards. One possible use case for me if possible would be with windows and the new mech warrior game if that might work? The speed boost might really make my stock iMac a capable game machine for even new titles (it's easily handled the few older Mac titles I've experimented with.

    But mainly my reason is speed without compromising my iMac's style. My two previous computers are a Linux box and MacBook Air both with 128GB SSDs and I find it hard to go back from near instant booting and app loading they give me to the retro waiting experienced with old timey spinning platters.

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    Alexander thanks for your reply.

    Funny but I did decide on the Mercury Helios/Accelsior and it is very fast. It's not as fast as I was imagining (for $800) and I think that has to do with latency with Thunderbolt as I think you were suggesting- sustained reads and rights get a blazing 700 mbps so yes the target case is someone who has to do fast transfers and this is certainly blazing for that.

    So that's 10 times faster than the stock HDD which gets in the 60s but Application loading and booting are definitely not 10 times faster but probably closer to 4 times faster (time to login screen went from one minute to fifteen seconds). I do agree now that the internal one would likely be faster but still it's a $1300 option.

    The Mercury Helios is noisy...not super noisy by any means (I would have said really quiet before I owned my iMac) but when you're talking about an addition to a whisper quiet iMac it may be a concern. I got a 2 m thunderbolt cable so I may see about putting it a bit away off my desk. I'm also going to look into replacing the stock Helios fan with a super quiet fan.

  • can you replace the hard dive on the new laCie 1tb salta 111 ssd thunderbolt little big disk hard drive.

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    There is no HDD inside this product. For this product there are 2 500GB SSD devices inside, and the Apple Disk Utility formats these devices to act as one large 1TB drive in a RAID-0 configuration.

    Perhaps you are thinking of the other 1TB or 2TB HDD configurations of this product which are also available at the Apple Store.