Guess what’s back? Back again. Something’s back. Tell a friend. Guess what’s back, guess what’s back, guess what’s back… (*insert hums here). Are you curious? No it’s not some shady rapper, but the renowned LaCie Rugged external hard disk drive that’s back. The LaCie Rugged Hard Drive is now smaller than ever (dimension of mere 3.4 x 5.3 x 0.75 in.) and it’s back ready to take on rougher rumblin’ and stumblin’. Still sporting the Series’ original orange color and popular design, the new LaCie Rugged Mini comes with whole new features and options that turn this hard drive into a perfect mobile storage and backup solution.
Like its predecessors, the LaCie Rugged Mini Hard Disk is shock and drop-resistant thanks to its rubber sleeve; but it doesn’t end there. The new Mini is also tougher than ever, it is now rain-resistant and more importantly – it’s pressure-resistant to the point of surviving being run over by a 1 Ton truck! The LaCie Rugged Mini’s advanced ultra-tough exterior offers the hard drive inside the perfect protection against shocks, drops, rain water, and extreme pressures. Aside from external protection, the Rugged Mini portable HDD additionally comes with user-friendly applications like Private-Public secured access, Backup Assistant, Eco-Mode, and 10GB Wuala Secure Online Storage.
Unlike a lumbering knight in full armor, the LaCie Rugged Mini Hard Disk is amazingly fast and agile; courtesy of its backward compatible USB 3.0 interface. The USB 3.0 hard drive has a transfer rate of up to 5 GB/s and can relocate a 700 Megabyte movie file in less than 7 seconds, that’s about 3 times faster than regular USB 2.0 based hard drives. The included LaCie Mac USB 3.0 Driver can even enhance the transfer speeds of Mac computers up to 30 percent as compared to FireWire. The LaCie Rugged Mini portable HDD will be available in standard 500 GB, 7200rpm 500G, and 1TB models, all backed by a 2-year LaCie limited warranty.
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Protecting digital data is a risky business that’s why an extra measure to keep them safe goes a long way. To the truly paranoid, where no regular back-up drives are safe enough and no solid steel vault is thick enough, consider securing your data where nobody but you can reach it – up in the cloud. Taking full advantage of the latest in cloud computing, LaCie developed the CloudBox – a hybrid hard drive and cloud storage and back-up solution. This easy to use device automatically and independently back ups your files online every time you transfer or copy paste your files on the CloudBox. Basically your data is backed up in an external drive and in the cloud for stress-free double protection. The 100GB online cloud storage is free for the first year and can easily be renewed to continue the service.
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The military always gets the best gears and not just weapons but gadgets as well. They even got to try the internet for the first name, and it wasn’t for the demanding physique needed to join the armed forces – the military is every geek’s gadget haven. Thankfully, techies and geeks need not perform a hundred push-ups or do countless laps on track to get their hands on military standard equipments. Many consumer electronics company now offer military grade-gadgets to the public for a reasonable price. One such is Clickfree and their C2 rugged portable hard drive. This tough back-up system has been tested for the Military Standard Transit Drop Test (MIL-STD 801F Method 516.5 Procedure IV) and successfully passed, survived, and stimulated 4-foot or 1.22-meter drops. Additionally, the C2 rugged portable HDD is covered with a protective blue rubber surface.
