The word “pretty” is not one that appears too often in PC Gamer. The games themselves are often full of monsters designed to be as unpleasant as possible, while Lumpen heroes are rarely better. Games such as Infinity Nikki and Cose Games Movement enters into its prettitude, but this will never stop the industrial design of motherboards and GPU cards from enabling functions.
And although internal elements can be useful, peripheral are often worse. When was the last time you saw an attractive printer? The outer drives are nothing more than black rectangles-if we have recently seen them in red and silver-so in reality it is a thrill to open a package containing a petite pillow-shaped drive, ideal to support the head, if you are about 12-inch height and which is such a nice shade of blue, which, combined with its speed, seems to be Hedgehog is froza.
Lacy Rugged Pro 5 SSD looks like it should be inflated with a petite pump before going on vacation, maybe for operate in the pool or some terrible campsite in which a man with a guitar sings by the fire.
Fortunately, the only thing on this day (Geddit?) Is is the speed at which he can send data. Pro 5 is equipped with the Thunderbolt 5 interface, one better than the sockets even on the best motherboards and laptops that we have recently seen outside the Apple showroom. The latest version of the technology offers up to 120 GB / s Width of the band in one direction, i.e. 80 Gb / s cooksrenally, twice as much as the speed of Thunderbolt 4. It still uses USB Type-C connectors, which confuse people from Thunderbolt 3, although they are intended to facilitate.
Rugged pro 5 specifications
Speaking of Thunderbolt 3, this drive does not support it – you need TB4, USB4 (you can try a slower USB port, but it must provide 15 W Power, which will be a section, as USB 3.1 offers only 4.5 W) or TB5. It is so complicated that Lacie has the whole website that goes through her needs. You will also need Windows 11 23H2 or higher or a sewer from a Mac, if it’s more your business.
Of course, the best speeds result from connecting it to the TB5 port, due to the relative lack of the Thunderbolt 5 set, which has been sitting on my shelf for over a month, waiting for the appropriate computer to test it. If you intend to test the fastest disk, you will want to put it in the fastest port, just as you would not put a key T705 in the PCIe 3.0 nest.
Inside the Lacie Rugged Pro 5 box there is exactly one accessory – a very tiny cable. It is probably intended for MAC users who hold the computer on the desk or hang out of iMac, but if your tastes run more to the towers, it will simply not be long enough to reach in the back. Fortunately, you can pick up 1M Thunderbolt 5 cable From Amazon at a low price of £ 37 or 70 £, if you buy it at Apple. Version lacie drive 4 tb to USD 550So what is a little more upstairs?
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Lacie, which is the property of Seagate, believes that the disk can transfer when reading 6700 Mb/sage of the record of 5300 Mb/s. In our TB5 tests, this claim persists, with amorphousdiskark (similar to crystals that works on the Mac, because at this point you can find most TB5 ports). Which is quite good, although we noticed that the disk is becoming heated while it did it brisk.
Connecting the disk to Thunderbolt 4 means transfer speed 3941.73 Mb/s Reading and 2919.5 Mb/s Write, while USB4 reduces 1941.6 Mb/SI write 1469.6 Mb/s. The slowest of them was USB 3.2 10 Gb/s, which jumped out about the power draw before registering the read speed 803.5 Mb/SI 687 Mb/s Write.
In the context of Adat SD810 is capable of a peak reading 2 003 Mb/si peak record of 1 739 Mb/s, but requires USB 3.2 Gen 2×2. USB 3.2 10 Gb / s drives usually for about half, what key X9 is a good example, and you will definitely be able to find slower examples, up to the speed of USB thumbs. Three times faster than the nearest competition, Lacie Rugged SSD absolutely screams, although in the same way SSD PCIe 5.0 M.2 has a slight impact on the time of charging games, we suspect that such a brisk external drive may not cause a revolution of reaction to the game. This will change the difference in creating a backup of the game installation to make room for internal SSD or relieving the gigabytes of intercepted video after a streaming session.
Buy if …
F. This is not a drive for storing a couple’s library, although it will do it great.
Don’t buy if …
❌ literally everything else will do: If riding a life in nothing worse than a dusty bedroom, spends the tenth of money on something else.
Because it is a disk with a “uneven” name, you can expect that it will be able to oppose punishment. Pro 5 is evaluated by IP68 for the protection of penetration, which is the same as many newfangled smartphones that can stand in the pool in the pool or good laundry, if it is not too deep or too long. The USB-C port is the obvious point of the water entrance and although I did not intend to take it with me in a bath to test it, because the ride is intended for people who create 8K documentary in the desert, I go out to the limb and suggests that it is sealed.
It is not exactly the pursuit of players, and we experience the same decreasing phrases as with SSD PCIe 5.0, which connect to the latest motherboards. If you manage to get a laptop from games from Thunderbolt 5 ports – MSI sells you Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth, which is equipped with them for £ 6,200 – and then an additional 4 TB of brisk storage can be worth costs. For the rest of us, charging times from USB 3.2 Gen 2 disks are brisk enough that you have not left your thumbs.
Such disks may leave the producers of documents based in the desert, but damn, fun with it.
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