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Hey, if you happen to be in Las Vegas at the moment, perhaps you might want to swing over to the NAB Show that is happening right now, where LaCie has taken the opportunity as well as venue to announce that they will be offering the largest range of Thunderbolt solutions certified for use with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac or PC, in the world. LaCie prides themselves in being the preeminent provider of Thunderbolt peripherals, and right now is the only manufacturer in the market that has five products in its Thunderbolt Series which will play nice with Mac OS X and Windows 7 and 8 computers.

The Thunderbolt certification program from Intel is actually a thorough process which will ensure that an optimal end user experience with both Mac and PC is delivered, which is why LaCie adheres to their normally high standards, making sure that its collection of Thunderbolt products will be able to deliver universal compatibility and reliable performances of up to 800MB/s even with the most challenging media applications. I guess when you think ThunderBolt, think LaCie!

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Elecom is going to release a 3TB high-capacity HDD that is compatible with 3 kinds of interfaces (USB3.0/FireWire800/eSATA) – the “LaCie d2 quadra USB3.0″ originally made by LaCie (France).
It has 1 USB3.0 port (USB2.0 compatible) that allows for fast data transfer speeds – up to 5Gbps. And it has 2 FireWire 800 ports and 1 eSATA port making this unit very convenient.
Specifications:

Storage: 3TB
Size: 60 x 167 x 183(mm)
Weight: 1.7kg
Compatible OS: Windows …

During CES earlier this month, we got our hands on LaCie’s Blade Runner storage device, which features a unique design by Philippe Starck. The device is now available for $299.99, includes 10GB of cloud storage, and is only being offered in a limited run of 9,999, at which point you’ll be out of luck. Check out the specs and more pictures after the jump.

The Blade Runner’s most obvious feature is its design, which features aluminum fins with a blob-ish splay of metal in the middle. The chassis itself is gray with a matte finish, and can be oriented upright or flat, depending on the user’s preference. While the design is certainly part of its appeal, the device itself is a solid offering with nice specs all around.

The Blade Runner has a USB 3.0 interface, and runs cool because of how it is designed, with the blades serving as a type of radiating mechanism to dissipate heat. Power is indicated by an orange cross on the front illuminated by an LED that doubles as the power button. The button will glow green instead of orange when the unit switches into Eco Mode for power conservation.

Eco Mode is automatic, and reduces energy consumption by up to 75-percent when the drive isn’t being used. Backups are also automatic after being set up, and work with both Mac and PC. The integrated LaCie Private-Public software can be used to encrypt data at AES-256 and password protect the drive if desired. Overall, the Blade Runner is a combination of both form and function, the mark of any good device.

[via LaCie]

LaCie launches Blade Runner by Philippe Starck, offers 4TB of storage is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Should LaCie’s Blade Runner have enough style but not enough space for your external data needs, fear not; the company has a pair of new 5big arrays with a choice of network or Thunderbolt connectivity for those with big storage demands. The 5big Thunderbolt and 5big NAS Pro each follow the monolithic design language of previous LaCie drives – all brushed aluminum and glaring blue power-light “eye” – but offer up to 20TB of capacity or optional RAID redundancy.

The 5big Thunderbolt supports RAID 0, 1, and JBOD across its five hot-swappable bays; however, it’s also possible to mix and match those RAID setups, so for instance you could have a three-disk array in RAID 0 for performance, and then leave the remaining two disks in RAID 1 for backup redundancy.Two Thunderbolt ports are included, and up to six devices can be daisy-chained. LaCie reckons the 5big is good for up to 785MB/s when used with the five 7,200rpm/74MB cache drives in the standard RAID 0 configuration.

As for the 5big NAS Pro, that ditches Thunderbolt in favor of dual gigabit ethernet (with link aggregation support); LaCie also throws in a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a further pair of USB 3.0, and a VGA port for hooking up a display for management. Inside there’s a dualcore 2.13GHz Atom 64-bit processor and 4GB of RAM, plus a choice of RAID 5, 5+spare, 1, or 0 setup.

LaCie will offer the 5big NAS Pro in barebones, 10TB, and 20TB capacities, priced from $549. The 5big Thunderbolt is priced from $1,199 for 10TB, with a 20TB option.

LaCie 5big Thunderbolt and 5big NAS Pro hands-on is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Last year LaCie showed up to the Thunderbolt party with its 2big RAIDs that promised capacities of up to eight terabytes. A number we all foolishly oohed and awed at not realizing how pitiful it would sound compared to the company’s new 5big RAID that tops out at 20 terabytes and speeds of up to 785MB/s. More »