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Seagate buys LaCie for $186 million

Rue Liu, May 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Seagate has announced that it is buying a majority stake in rival hard drive maker LaCie for $186 million. The Paris-based LaCie is a long-time maker of premium consumer hard drives for Macs and the first ones to feature Apple's Thunderbolt technology. Seagate believes that the acquisition will complement its mainstream hard drive lines and help it expand into new consumer markets, particularly in Europe and Japan. Read The Full Story

LaCie shipping eSATA hub for Thunderbolt glory

Chris Burns, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Last year we were introduced to the fabulous implementation of the technology Apple now calls Thunderbolt - now the fantastic speed and high-quality video transfer can be yours on legacy devices with LaCie's new eSATA Hub. What you'll be doing with this hub is connecting your Thunderbolt-port-having Apple device to the hub with a Thunderbolt cable (sold separately) and the hub then out to your eSATA drives for the full speed that they'll newly be capable of. Sounds like magic to me! Read The Full Story

Reviews

LaCie Little Big Disk SSD Review

Chris Davies, Nov 8th 2011 Discuss [2]

LaCie’s Little Big Disk is the Thunderbolt drive your MacBook Pro has been waiting for. It’s a fact of life that, while it’s rarely cheap to be an early adopter, you do get to have the best toys: a nearly palm-sized twin SSD external drive that looks like a friendlier HAL 9000 and promises previously unseen levels of data transfer speed. Problem is, that speed comes with a $899 price tag; can the Little Big Disk make a Big Strong Case for all that cash? Read on for the full SlashGear review.

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LaCie LaPlug promises simple USB HDD network shares

Chris Davies, Sep 29th 2011 Discuss [3]

LaCie has unveiled the LaPlug, a straightforward network bridge that can get USB hard-drives and printers shared across your local network and set up for remote access across the internet. Packing four USB 2.0 ports, gigabit ethernet and a WiFi b/g/n connection into one of LaCie's typically discrete boxes, the LaPlug offers DLNA/UPnP streaming to send multimedia content from hooked up drives to your PS3, Xbox 360 or smartphone/tablet. Read The Full Story

LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt now available

Rue Liu, Sep 20th 2011 Discuss [6]

The LaCie Little Big Disk portable external hard drive with the Thunderbolt connector port has finally arrived. The device was first announced back in February when Apple's early 2011 MacBook Pro revamp was confirmed to sport the Thunderbolt port, which was jointly developed with Intel and promises up to 10Gbps of bi-directional transfer speeds and supports daisy chaining. Read The Full Story

LaCie Announces USB 3.0 Rugged Mini External HDD, Ultimate Protector Of Your Data

Rue Liu, Jul 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

LaCie today announced a new addition to its Rugged family of external hard drives called the LaCie Rugged Mini. Designed by Neil Poulton, the Rugged Mini has a bright orange bumper and is 40% smaller than other HDDs in the series. It's ideal for anyone on the go and even better for those who need to brave more treacherous conditions with their data in tow. Read The Full Story

Reviews

LaCie CloudBox Review

Chris Davies, Jul 4th 2011 Discuss [7]

Backup devices are generally at the “less glamorous” end of the gadget scale, but ironically some of the most important. Not having the very latest smartphone or gaming device may be frustrating, but not as much as discovering the hard-drive in your computer has crashed and taken with it all your files, multimedia and other content. LaCie is hoping its CloudBox will prevent some of those headaches, a local/cloud double-act that pairs a simple network drive with a companion web backup service. Setup is, so the promise goes, simple; problem is, you pay for that convenience. Is the CloudBox heaven-sent or an unwelcome stormfront? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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LaCie And Porsche Design Partner For Next-Gen Hard Drives

Rue Liu, Jun 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

LaCie is well known for its high-end external hard drives that pair great design with top-notch functionality. They will be one of the first to introduce Thunderbolt-enabled portable hard drives, with their Little Big Disks, using the Apple and Intel proprietary technology that promises up to 10Gbps transfer speeds. But today, they have partnered with Porsche Designs to introduce a new luxury lineup of hard drives that feature USB 3.0 technology. Read The Full Story

Featured

LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt hands-on [Video]

Chris Davies, Jun 24th 2011 Discuss [6]

Apple’s 2011 MacBook Pro laptops have been on the market for several months now, and there’s one port that has resolutely refused to be used in the way it’s intended. Devices bearing Thunderbolt ports – Intel’s high-speed connectivity standard co-developed with Apple – are yet to hit the market, but SlashGear caught up with LaCie for a pre-launch demo of the new Little Big Disk. The name might be daft but the performance is anything but: over 825 MB/s read speeds.

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LaCie Little Big Disks Thunderbolt Series, Fastest Mobile Storage Demoed At Computex 2011

Rue Liu, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [2]

So now that you've picked up a new MacBook Pro or a new iMac, you want to take advantage of that ultra speedy 10Gbps Thunderbolt port. Well, one of Intel's first partners to release Thunderbolt compatible peripherals is LaCie, and they've just demonstrated at Computex 2011 blazing speeds in a daisy chain configuration of its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series portable external hard drives. Read The Full Story

LaCie Announces Little Big Disk Featuring Thunderbolt

Rue Liu, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel's Light Peak technology, known commercially as Thunderbolt has been confirmed in Apple's new MacBook Pro series. However, we also mentioned that a few other Intel partners will soon be unveiling Thunderbolt products as well. First one up is La Cie's announcement today of the LaCie Little Big Disk featuring Thunderbolt technology. Read The Full Story