By Desire Athow
LaCie is an unknown brand to most people but the storage company, which was acquired by storage giant Seagate a few years ago, has a cult following amongst Apple aficionados. That explains why the brand has the largest number of DAS (direct-attached storage) devices on Apple’s online store.
Visually, LaCie is also very close to Apple’s minimalist design. The company has used some great designers in the past – including legendary French designer Philippe Starck and Scottish artist Neil Poulton – for its product lines.
The Porsche Design company is behind LaCie’s latest creation, a 4TB external hard disk drive that is equipped with a USB Type-C connector and is an obvious storage option for the Apple MacBook.
The drive comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable plus a USB-C to USB cable with a maximum theoretical output speed of 5Gbps (USB 3.0).
As expected, the device is fashioned from aluminium, with the words ‘Porsche Design’ rather than LaCie printed on top. The name of the drive maker is written in tiny characters on one side.
It’s bigger and heavier than the other 4TB external HDD we’ve previously looked at, the Seagate …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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