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LaCie and Symwave unveil first USB 3.0 dual-drive RAID solution

Shane McGlaun, Dec 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

USB 3.0 products and accessories are coming hot and heavy ahead of CES 2010. USB 3.0 promises lots more speed and performance than the USB 2.0 products we have today. LaCie and Symwave have announced they have teamed up to produce the first USB 3.0 dual-drive RAID storage solution. Read The Full Story

LaCie Rikiki tiny external HDD is monkey catnip

Chris Davies, Dec 16th 2009 Discuss [1]

Your eyes do not deceive you: that is a monkey, and it's attempting to steal your LaCie Rikiki hard-drive. The grabby little simian has obviously spotted that LaCie's new external drive is the most compact 2.5-inch model on the market, offering up to 640GB of capacity in an aluminum chassis. "Rikiki", meanwhile, is French for tiny, so the drive is a linguistics lesson as well as a place to offload your media files to. We're not sure if the monkey is French - surely he'd be wearing a beret if that were the case. Read The Full Story

LaCie 12big Rack Network NAS/iSCSI packs up to 24TB

Chris Davies, Dec 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

LaCie have outed a new NAS, and while the LaCie 12big Rack Network isn't likely to end up in many home installations, it all makes for pretty impressive reading. A 19-inch 2U rack-mounted unit, the 12big has a full twelve 3.5-inch hard-drive bays and is offered in 6TB, 12TB and 24TB versions. A hardware RAID controller allows for multiple different setups (RAID0, 1, 10, 5, 50, and 6, in fact) while Windows Storage Server 2008 is installed to manage data deduplication, file replication, encryption and automatic backup. Read The Full Story

LaCie Sound2 Speakers promise Cabasse sound on a budget

Chris Davies, Sep 30th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

LaCie LaCinema Rugged HD drive announced

Brenda Stokes, Jul 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

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

Chris Davies, Jun 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

LaCie LaCinema Classic Bridge HDD media player

Chris Davies, Jun 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

LaCie upgrades NAS RAID devices; 10TB capacity now possible

Brenda Stokes, May 11th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network with BitTorrent

Chris Davies, May 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

LaCie announces 3 new RAID solutions, up to 32TB

Steven Grady, Apr 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

LaCie Rugged XL external drive announced

Brenda Stokes, Apr 15th 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

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

Daniel Lim, Feb 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story