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LaCie Unveils Designer Mirror Hard Drive, New Rugged RAID Thunderbolt Drive

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LaCie today unveiled two new products ahead of this week's Consumer Electronics Show, including the new LaCie Mirror, a hard drive encased entirely in Gorilla Glass, and the LaCie Rugged RAID Thunderbolt hard drive, the newest product in its Rugged collection.

The LaCie Mirror is a 1TB hard drive that's designed to be fashionable as well as functional. Created by product designer Pauline Deltour, the LaCie Mirror features a mirrored design that comes with an accompanying ebony stand.

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"You have to look twice to discover the LaCie Mirror's true ambition," said Deltour. "Covered by mirrored glass, it's first an elegant and functional object, and only on second glance is it revealed to be a slim high-performance hard drive."
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Through a collaboration with Corning, the LaCie Mirror is encased entirely in Gorilla Glass 3, making it ultra durable and resistant to chips and scratches. The 1TB LaCie Mirror will be available in late January for $279.99 from the LaCie website.

LaCie's second new product is the 4TB Rugged RAID Thunderbolt hard drive, which LaCie is calling the fastest HD available on the market with upload speeds that reach 240MB/s. Like all of LaCie's Rugged lineup, the new bus-powered Thunderbolt drive includes an aluminum shell that's encased in orange rubber for maximum protection and portability when used in the field. At 4TB, it includes two 2TB hard drives with RAID 0/1 options to optimize for speed or data security.

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Aimed at audio/photo/video professionals and those who often travel, the Rugged RAID is the first mobile RAID hard drive with Thunderbolt and with resistance to shock, dust, and water thanks to its rubber casing. LaCie's Rugged RAID 4TB Thunderbolt hard drive will be shipping during the first quarter of 2015 for $449.

LaCie's parent company Seagate is also introducing several new products, including the Seagate Seven, the Seagate Personal Cloud, and the Seagate Wireless hard drive for iOS devices.

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Every LaCie I've ever owned died a horrible click-of-death.

That pretty mirrored surface will scratch horribly if you take it out of its fancy holder (e.g.: into a bag), making it a glamorous, portable prisoner of your desk, from where you will never be able to move it. The rather obvious while cable also doesn't do much to hide "the LaCie Mirror's true ambition".

P.S. I guess Seagate sponsors MR while LaCie doesn't.
 
with upload speeds that reach 240MB/s
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Upload speed? I assume that means write speed?

I never really understood the whole "designer hard drive" concept, although I have always liked the design of the Rugged drives. They are durable, compact, and don't need a power supply, that's awesome. The perfect "throw it in your bag" utility drive.
 
Mirror drive

See, here I thought the "true ambition" of this drive was to be a mirror in a RAID 1...
 
"You have to look twice to discover the LaCie Mirror's true ambition," said Deltour. "Covered by mirrored glass, it's first an elegant and functional object, and only on second glance is it revealed to be a slim high-performance hard drive."
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These guys have been watching way too many Jony Ive videos.
 
batchtaster said:
Every LaCie I've ever owned died a horrible click-of-death.

That pretty mirrored surface will scratch horribly if you take it out of its fancy holder (e.g.: into a bag), making it a glamorous, portable prisoner of your desk, from where you will never be able to move it. The rather obvious while cable also doesn't do much to hide "the LaCie Mirror's true ambition".

P.S. I guess Seagate sponsors MR while LaCie doesn't.
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I also have that perception tha LaCie drives are not reliable.

Anyone here who experienced a reliable LaCie?
 
McGiord said:
I also have that perception tha LaCie drives are not reliable.

Anyone here who experienced a reliable LaCie?
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I bought a LACIE RUGGED 500GB HDD U2/FW/FW800 in Sept'09, which is still going strong. It is permanently hooked up to my Mini, and holds all of my work-day data files.
 
McGiord said:
I also have that perception tha LaCie drives are not reliable.

Anyone here who experienced a reliable LaCie?
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i've had a 1TB LaCie since 2008, hooked up to my mini as backup of a backup updated daily, still works like a charm :D

Though the new-er LaCie's i believe come with Segate drives, and these are quite notorious for having a rather short lifespan...
 
justperry said:
Why they have to use expensive thunderbolt while USB 3 would do is beyond my comprehension.

Again, owned by Seagate, WD/Seagate = terrible.
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It wouldn't do for those of us with 2011 vintage Macs. Thunderbolt but only USB 2.0. Plenty of cheaper USB 3 external drives abound. No need to even look at these if you are not in the market for any TB drive.

That said, I would never buy a drive with an inbuilt TB cable. I don't trust LaCie's engineering nor design credentials for that to not go wrong anytime soon.
 
Well, this is for these people, who like to watch/look at themself all the time. So the need a mirror. Get it? ;)
 
opeter said:
Well, this is for these people, who like to watch/look at themself all the time. So the need a mirror. Get it? ;)
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That was my first thought. A mirrored surface would also be a magnet for fingerprints. I fail to see how that design is classy. I would not want to see a reflective surface while I work. It would be distracting if nothing else.

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I need to ask - which MacBook is in that photo? I don't recognize the hinges or what appears to be an infrared receiver on the very front edge of the body... is that a third-party laptop mimicking a MacBook Air?
 
Should the company now be called LaSeagate? I didn't know LaCie had been bought out.

I've had mixed results with various hard drive manufacturers over the years: bad luck with Western Digital; good luck with Seagate. But not always. I don't trust any of them for long-term data storage. Just by their micro-mechanical nature, dense hard drives are incredibly fragile. I'm amazed they last as long as they do. I prefer cloud to local backup, but bandwidth is still the big issue with that. I'm sure in ten years we'll all look back in astonishment at how we put up with such inferior technology (as we do now with floppy drives).
 
The LaCie Rugged RAID drive ticks almost all the boxes (portable, configurable RAID, has USB). I was looking at WD My Passport Pro, I liked everything about it but since it only comes with Thunderbolt interface, I had to look for alternatives.

This one has both Thunderbolt and USB, but it seems to require an external power source if used with USB, I hope this isn't case and that it's only there for USB ports that cannot provide enough power.
 
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batchtaster said:
Every LaCie I've ever owned died a horrible click-of-death.

That pretty mirrored surface will scratch horribly if you take it out of its fancy holder (e.g.: into a bag), making it a glamorous, portable prisoner of your desk, from where you will never be able to move it. The rather obvious while cable also doesn't do much to hide "the LaCie Mirror's true ambition".

P.S. I guess Seagate sponsors MR while LaCie doesn't.
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Seagate and LaCie are essentially the same company and neither "sponsors" MacRumors.
 
LaCie Unveils Designer Mirror Hard Drive, New Rugged RAID Thunderbolt Drive

im sorry but that mirror like design is not fashionable, it is just so 70's... only a discoball is missing... lacie porsche design was so much better.
 
LaCie drives often look cool and/or are nicely portable, but they cost extra, and everyone I've known with a LaCie drive has had it fail. I've learned why: They use Seagate hard drives. No thanks!
 
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