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LaCie Sound2 Speakers promise Cabasse sound on a budget

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 30th 2009 No Comments

lacie sound2 speakers 1 LaCie have outed their latest set of USB speakers, the Sound2, and they’ve partnered up with acoustic engineering specialists Cabasse to quash any talk of sub-par audio quality. The LaCie Sound2 look a little like the paddles you use to play on an air-hockey table, but actually pack 30W of amplification, magnetic shielding and a bass reflex system.

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LaCie LaCinema Rugged HD drive announced

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Jul 9th 2009 No Comments

LaCie revealed their latest multimedia drive today with the LaCinema Rugged HD. This device offers new upgrades, greater functionality and the ability to play 1080p video through the HDMI port on any compatible TV.

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Buffalo, D-Link, LaCie & Seagate sign up to offer Marvell Plug Computers

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 24th 2009 No Comments

Marvell’s SheevaPlug wall-wart Linux PC has finally come of age, with the company announcing mainstream retail partners including Buffalo, D-Link, LaCie and Seagate, together with beginning distribution of the Plug Computer development kit in Europe. The original SheevaPlug has a Marvell Kirkwood processor with a 1.2GHz Sheeva processor, 512MB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage; resembling a wall-wart, it plugs directly into a power socket and offers a single USB 2.0 port and a gigabit ethernet port. Suggested uses included a home server, NAS or other form of network-connected device.

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LaCie LaCinema Classic Bridge HDD media player

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 9th 2009 No Comments

Can we have too many glossy, glowing boxes? LaCie don’t seem to think so, hence their latest toppled-obelisk design, this time housing a hard-drive media player. The LaCie LaCinema Classic Bridge can be used with any existing 3.5-inch hard-drive, outputting upscaled 1080p video via HDMI, but it also has a USB port for external, removable drives.

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LaCie upgrades NAS RAID devices; 10TB capacity now possible

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, May 11th 2009 No Comments

LaCie gave their NAS RAID product line up a significant overhaul today by upgrading their LaCie 2big Network and 5big Network. With this upgrade, you can expect a performance boost, additional features, backup support and a serious expansion of capacity.

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LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network with BitTorrent

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, May 6th 2009 No Comments

LaCie have announced two new storage servers intended for small workgroups. The LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network can each support up to 50 users (15 simultaneously), with the Big Disk having dual RAID 0 drives for up to 4TBs capacity, while the d2 Network has 1.5TB of its own storage plus an eSATA port for adding external high-speed drives.

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LaCie announces 3 new RAID solutions, up to 32TB

By Steven Grady on Monday, Apr 20th 2009 No Comments

If any of you can actually use 32TB of RAID storage, I’ll be amazed. Users can combine either two or four LaCie 4big Quadras, which feature four hot-swappable disks, seven RAID modes including RAID0 and RAID5, and storage up to 32TB at 700Mb/s transfer speeds.

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LaCie Rugged XL external drive announced

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Apr 15th 2009 No Comments

LaCie announced the latest offering in their Rugged series yesterday with the Rugged XL, an external hard drive than can hold up to 1TB of information–that’s double what the older model could hold.

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LaCie d2 Blu-ray drive boasts 8x BR recording speed

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Feb 2nd 2009 No Comments

Lacie has announced its fastest d2 Blu-ray external drive with improved 8x BR recording speed. The drive features a pair of firewire 400 and an USB 2.0 connectivity to enable HD video and data recording, rewriting, and playbacks at high speed with ease.

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LaCinema Classic streams media to your TV

By Shawn Farner on Wednesday, Jan 7th 2009 No Comments

LaCie is rolling out a new external hard drive called the LaCinema Classic, offering media lovers a simple way to consume their movies, music and photos – through their TV. All the user has to do is hook the device up to their computer via USB, copy files onto the Classic and then hook it up to their TV via composite or HDMI.

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