If you’re a Roman Prelate or Roman Centurion General named Minimus, it may raise some eyebrows, a few laughs from the crowd or disrespectful jeers from an invading barbarian horde. But if it’s a LaCie ultra-compact 1 Terabyte external hard drive with USB 3.0 interface and resistant aluminum enclosure – even if it’s name Minimus, it’s no laughing matter. With the new LaCie Minimus, you’ve got the power and performance of USB 3.0 combined with a handy portable size. Compared to other desktop drives, it’s one of the smallest on the market making it the perfect hard drive for those who want to carry Terabytes worth of data on them without the extra bulk. With USB 3.0, the fastest interface on the market, it’s also easy to move HD movies, photos, and sound files between drives. Since the LaCie Minimus is backward compatible with USB 2.0, it’s guaranteed to work with any PC or Mac.
The LaCie Minimus USB 3.0 shows that size and performance do matter a lot. LaCie delivers the industry’s fastest transfer speeds at 5 GB/s in its small and lightweight form factor – mobility and performance on one small drive. Encased in sturdy brushed aluminum, the Minimus exudes an elegant and aesthetic appeal. The aluminum enclosure also offers protection from blunders, improved heat dissipation, and is fully recyclable. Designed to be trouble-free from inside out, Minimus comes with LaCie’s Software Suite to ensure flawless setup and backup support for Mac or PC. Furthermore, this new gadget product comes with 10GB worth of Wuala online storage so you can securely store and share files online.
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What’s fast, heat resistant and can survive underwater for 3 days? No, it’s not a nuclear submarine and it’s not even an amphibious assault vehicle. It’s the new ioSafe SoloPRO, the business-class edition and award-winning external hard drive made available in USB 3.0, eSATA and USB 2.0 formats, providing unparalleled support for Windows, Linux servers, and desktop operating platforms. The eSATA and USB 3.0 provides fast transfer speeds well over 100 MB/s. That’s 3 to 4 times faster than your usual USB 2.0 speeds. One Terabyte worth of data can be transferred to a SoloPRO in just a few short hours versus 10 hours or more with the USB 2.0.
The new storage gadget still retains its well-known rugged disaster proof design. Both the USB 3.0 and eSATA versions of the SoloPRO can guard against data loss in extreme heat up to 1550° F for 30 minutes per ASTM E119 standards or being submerged underwater to a depth of 10 feet for up to 3 days. To go the extra mile, there’s the heat-resistant paint and bright emergency orange colored coating option to help make the SoloPRO easy to recover in disaster aftermath. Fireproof, waterproof and fast – you can’t go wrong with that, you can’t go wrong with entrusting your data to the ioSafe SoloPRO external HDD. It is available in 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB capacities starting at $249.99 for the 1TB model and it comes with the ioSafe Advanced Replacement Service and 12 months Data Recovery Service Standard.
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The modern geek is not only concerned about function – style is also a must. And so, Western Digital teamed up with artistic young individuals from California State University, Long Beach to create the ultra-stylish portable drives that geek and non-geek alike will surely love. Introducing the new additions to the line-up of My Passport Essential drives: five stylish limited edition 500GB portable drives!
These portable drives feature USB 2.0 interface. Simply plug them into your computer’s USB port and they will be ready for work, backing up and storing all your important files. Plus, you can be sure that all your data are protected with the device’s 256-bit hardware encryption. Pair this with password protection and you won’t have to worry anymore about other individuals gaining unauthorized access to your personal files. And while the limited edition My Passport Essential is powerful and reliable inside, it’s packed with style outside! Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuchsia Leaf, and Wave – these are the designs that you can choose from. You can go bold or tamed, colorful or classic… Whichever you choose, there’s just one guarantee – you’re apt to stand out with any of these five unique gadgets.
The 500GB limited edition My Passport Essential models are compatible with Windows and come with a 2-year limited warranty. They’re offered at $119.99. But while you’re bound to find The usual WD My Passport Essential at Amazon
With the emergence of different external hard drives competing to be the best storage solution out there – it’s the space race all over again. Leading with some of the industry’s first and never before seen features, Hitachi is going to the moon with their next generation LifeStudio Drive family. Outside, it features a unique upright angled design; it basically looks like a modern day skyscraper sitting on your desk. The series comes in different models: there’s the LifeStudio Mobile and Mobile Plus that range from 250GB to 500GB and available with Platinum and graphite color options. There’s also the black only LifeStudio Desk and Desk Plus that range from 500GB to 2TB.
In case you’re wondering what the “Plus†is all about, for an additional fee, you can get a 4GB (expandable up to 32GB) thumb drive along with your LifeStudio. This Hitachi thumb drive can be magnetically mounted on the face of the drive’s docking station and is designed to automatically download and store information that you usually need on the go. When you mount it again to the docking information, its content will be automatically uploaded into the main external drive. No more hassle of bringing the entire drive with you.
Another industry’s first is the handy automatic organization and easy sharing feature. LifeStudio automatically sorts out your digital files for you from your computer and other storage devices and displays them on a stunning 3D wall. As an added bonus, Hitachi LifeStudio comes with a free 3GB free format online storage.
Information is power and like all powers, the last thing you would want is for it to fall in the wrong hands. To protect your data and information, you can always go old school–Cold War style, like invisible and coded messages, microchips and the ever familiar handcuff and attaché case combination. Or you can use the latest mobile storage solution from LaCie, the LaCie Rugged Safe. When your mobile hard disk looks like the underbelly of a military grade hovercraft, you know it deserves to call itself a secure all-terrain hard disk.
The 500GB capacity portable HDD Rugged Safe is virtually an information and data vault; it’s protected by different levels of hardcore data protection from software to hardware. To prevent any unauthorized access and data theft, the Rugged Safe features an Advanced Encryption Standard 128-bit hardware based encryption. It also features biometric authentication able to contain up to ten users for a more personal level of data control. To top it off is the shock proof enclosure that can withstand everyday’s abuse of nicks and bumps. Aside from the vault like properties, the Rugged Safe supports Hi-Speed USB 2.0 for transfer rates up to 480Mbits/s and FireWire 800 for rates up to 800Mbits/s.
The Rugged Safe is exclusively designed for LaCie by none other than Neil Poulton, a multi awarded product designer with 2 Red Dot Design Award and a German “IF” International Forum Design prize under his belt, and that’s just for the year 2009.
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