LaCie Offers 1.3-inch Portable Hard Drive
January 17, 2008 | by Geoff Duncan
LaCie has collaborated to Samsung to pack a 30 and 40 GB 1.3-inch hard disk drives into its Little Disk form factor.
It's funny: some of LaCie's hard disk products keep getting bigger, adding more bays and more capacity, while others keep getting smaller. LaCie's latest update to its Little Disk form factor packs either a 30 or 40 GB 1.3-inch hard disk drive into a package that barely fills the palm of your hand, offering a solution for folks who need portable storage but don't have much room to carry it.
The 30 and40 GB Little Disks pack 1.3-inch, 3,600 rpm hard disk drives from Samsung, which were designed to offer the most efficient use of capacity per volume. "The development of these small products was enabled due to Samsung's new 1.3-inch technology that offers a small footprint with vast capacity improvement," said LaCie mobile product manager Nolwenn Rozen, in a statement. "By using this technology in these new mobile offerings, LaCie was able to see an increase in maximum capacity from 12GB to 40GB." The Little Disk's operate off power from a USB 2.0 port and operate without drives on Mac OS X 10.2 or newer, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and Linux systems. The 30 GB version of the Little Disk is $129.99, with the 40 GB version retailing for $159.99.
LaCie also updated its credit card-sized USB Key Max flash storage devices with capacities of 30 and 40 GB; the 30 GB version retails fo $119.99 while the 40 GB version carries a $149.99 price tag.
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