LaCie adopts Oxford 912

LaCie just announced the release during February of a new Big Disk Firewire, based on the new chip Oxford 912. LaCie promises performances up to 88 MB/s on its 500 GB hard drive.
We managed to get additional information about Oxford 912 from a trustworthy source. It is actually an Oxford 922 without USB 2 and optimised for performance. It supports natively (thanks to its firmware) RAID 0 on one canal (but not RAID 1). For instance, the Big Disk is made out of two chained 250 GB discs. According to Oxford, the maximum theoritical datastream is indeed 88 MB/s with RAID 0. The 912 has been particularly optimised for transfering samll files. It seems that bigger files won't benefit much (to confirm in the near future).
Furthermore, we know from a sure source that other discs manufacturers are about to adopt it very soon.