Tag archive: Neil Poulton

Storage and peripheral vendor LaCie has taken the wraps off its new LaCinema Classic Hard Disk, which looks to bridge the gap between a traditional hard drive storing photos, music, and video, and a media device users hook up to their HDTVs or living room setups in order to enjoy their digital media. The LaCinema Classic Hard Disk offers either 500 GB or 1 TB of storage capacity, and users can load it up via USB 20=.0 from any PC. One the… Read More

LaCie has announced a new 500 GB version of its Rugged Hard Disk, available with either a USB 2.0 interface or with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0 interfaces. And even better for storage fiends on the go, the drives are bus-powered, so there's no need to carry around a separate external AC adapter…although folks with low-power USB ports will need to use the included power-sharing USB 2.0 cable that can draw more juice… Read More

Peripheral and accessory maker LaCie has long believed that a hard disk only gets better if it sports a designer case—that's why the company has pulled in industrial designers like Sam Hecht, F. A. Porsche, and Ora-Ïto to spiff up its storage offerings. But the company apparently also believes a hard disk isn't any good unless you can plug it into a computer, and to that end the company has revamped the LaCie Hard… Read More