LaCie external hard drives mean ultimate fashion statement in the geek world. Along with sleek,chic designs LaCie uses Serial ATA, or SATA, which is fast becoming the standard for high-speed hard drive interfaces in PCs, which until recently had to be internal ones.

LaCie has achieved a breakthrough by using SATA in their d2 Hard drives and provided one of the fastest data transfer interface in the world of external memory extension devices. While doing so LaCie continued to bring to market more traditional USB port external hard drives with designer look and feel to it. Having designer tags like Ora-Ïto, Neil Poulton which are no less than Versace for the techie world, LaCie desktop drives are more than memory backup devices. They can be a conversation piece with visitors at home or work.

We have reviewed a couple of popular LaCie Desktop Drives for you for size, price and features:

LaCie 500GB eSATA, USB 2.0 and FireWire Hard Drive

Compact design and massive storage capacity with a sleek black design by Neil Poulton, this desktop drive looks a part of the ensemble with dark workstations and home entertainment systems.

eSATA offers data transfers as fast as 80mbps which is ideal of high speed applications. It has firewire ports too which enables you to use it with camera, camcorder or what have you.

Features:

• Triple interface for universal connectivity on PC/Mac
• Simple, compact, efficient and quiet storage
• Surprising, unique blue LED for underside glow
• Back up your files, music, photos & video to one place

eSATA is available from £85.85 in UK.

LaCie Little Disk 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive

Compact, highly portable and clean simple black design makes the Little Disk your memory backup devide of choice. Along with commendable performance, its Sam Hecht design provides practical utilities like removable protective cap and retractable USB cable so as never to lose it ever again!

The LaCieSync software included enables you to sync the files on your PC with plug-and-play ease.

Features:

• Simple, compact, efficient and quiet storage
• Retractable USB Cable
• Removable protective cap
• Back up your files, music, photos & video to one place

Little Disk is available from £89.95.

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