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    The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch-Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives

    LaCie's Sound2 USB Speakers Look Like Disembodied Earbuds for Giants

    LaCie's LaCinema Rugged HD Enclosure Outputs 1080p Video, Ruggedly

    LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang

    LaCie Debuts 8TB 4big Quadra Bundles Including a 32TB RAID

    Lacie Rugged XL Reaches Up to 1TB, Down to $160

    LaCie MicroSD-Reading USB Keys Are More than Just Metaphors

    LaCie d2 External Blu-ray Burner Joins the 8x Crew

    LaCie 2big Quadra RAID Drive Does Quad-Interface On The Cheap

    LaCie Neil Poulton-Designed Hard Disk Max Now Does RAID
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    Image of sxs3200 sxs3200
    10/06/09

    In reply to The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch-Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives
    LaCie + Touch sensitive can only mean that when you touch them, they crash and die. I'm also seeing comforting words in their description like "explodes exponentially" and "magma."
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    10/06/09

    In reply to The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch-Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives
    I like the black boxes better. I like it when people come up to my desk and ask "What's that?"
    I like black lacquer. I wish the furniture would come back in style.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/06/09

    In reply to The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch-Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives
    Looks more like T1000's ottoman.

    Don't trust LaCie drives. They use really shitty chipsets in their enclosures that are prone to having mounting issues, and ultimately no mounting at all after repeated attempts.
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    Image of Davy Grolton Davy Grolton
    10/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Really? This concerns me. I just bought one. And my father has several. No problems as of yet...

    Were yours older versions? or their newer ones?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/06/09

    @Davy Grolton: Mine were the Porsche drives, but really the low cost of LaCie's peripherals generally means that the internals are shoddy. Some may last you a long time, but after my observation of my own equipment and other people I know that have purchased it, reliability has become enough of a concern for me to never purchase one ever again, same for Western Digital. On top of questionable reliability, their customer service is terrible.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 10/06/09 12:16 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Evan, How Dare you Sir! Evan, How Dare you Sir!
    10/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Dude you don't buy a Lacie hard drive to use it. You just buy it to look at it.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment Edited by Evan, How Dare you Sir! at 10/06/09 12:18 PM Evan, How Dare you Sir! was starred Evan, How Dare you Sir! was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/06/09

    @Evan, How Dare you Sir!: OWC's drives are more interesting to look at, with their translucent casings and bright blue LED's.
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    Image of Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!! Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!!
    10/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: tee hee, right there. You said mounting issues.
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    Image of USB_Humping_Dog USB_Humping_Dog
    10/06/09

    In reply to The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch-Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives
    Damn. That thing is GORGEOUS. Better than the Neil Poulton ones.

    Does anyone know whose drives LaCie uses?
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    reddingofish promoted this comment Edited by USB_Humping_Dog at 10/06/09 11:46 AM USB_Humping_Dog was starred USB_Humping_Dog was unstarred
    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    10/06/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: Mine is a Hitachi.
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    09/30/09

    In reply to LaCie's Sound2 USB Speakers Look Like Disembodied Earbuds for Giants
    You know, this reminds me, whatever happened to FireWire speakers? DId they suddenly die out or something?
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    Image of YankBoffin YankBoffin
    10/01/09

    @(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: You know, that reminds me, whatever happened to FireWire? Did it suddenly die out or something? ;)
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    Image of zaxwashere zaxwashere
    09/30/09

    In reply to LaCie's Sound2 USB Speakers Look Like Disembodied Earbuds for Giants
    USB powered?

    doesn't seem like enough energy _

    unless it's secretly USB 3.0 compatable....
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    Image of YankBoffin YankBoffin
    10/01/09

    @zaxwashere: Yamaha found a way to do it (basically using big capacitors), and it actually sounds pretty good: [www.yamaha.com]
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    09/30/09

    In reply to LaCie's Sound2 USB Speakers Look Like Disembodied Earbuds for Giants
    Those would look great next to my LaCie shinny black box hard drive.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    04/28/09

    In reply to LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang
    gadget porn, in it's purest form
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/28/09

    In reply to LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang
    Damn you Herman. I came in to make some sort of reference to the number 69, only to see that you beat me to it in the article. Well played, jerk.
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    04/28/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Not including that would have been ground for termination, I think.
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    Image of PanhandleJoe PanhandleJoe
    04/15/09

    In reply to Lacie Rugged XL Reaches Up to 1TB, Down to $160
    Where are the air vents and cooling fan? I've lost count of the external drives I've seen go belly-up because of overheating, including two of my own. If you get one, be sure to run a HDD temp-monitoring utility and PAY ATTENTION to it. Also remember that S.M.A.R.T. Data CANNOT BE read via USB.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    04/15/09

    @PanhandleJoe: I'm guessing the massive aluminum surface area acts as a heatsync.
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    Image of RT100 RT100
    04/15/09

    In reply to Lacie Rugged XL Reaches Up to 1TB, Down to $160
    I feel like that form factor would be much much better in a 2.5" drive
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    04/15/09

    @hungry mr. RT100: it is a 2.5" drive. Mark was making a joke.
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    04/15/09

    @ZLevee: MY bad -- I went ot the product specs and this version actually is a 3.5" drive.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    04/15/09

    In reply to Lacie Rugged XL Reaches Up to 1TB, Down to $160
    Hey Biff, get a load of this drive's life preserver. Drive thinks it's gonna drown!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    @UsingTheColbert_GitEmSteveDave: Ah +1 for original BTTF!
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    Image of macabron macabron
    03/03/09

    In reply to LaCie MicroSD-Reading USB Keys Are More than Just Metaphors
    Now we only need a door lock that uses the usb key.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/03/09

    @macabron: I had a similar thought several months back. If I recall correctly, there was a post about some conceptual gadgets, one of which was a USB drive shaped like a padlock. Now if you could program the USB 'key' for use with multiple locks, that would eliminate the need for huge key rings.


    Of course the downside is if you lose it, you're locked out of all your stuff and not just one door. Also anyone who finds it will have free reign to raid your stuff, assuming they know where you live.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/03/09

    In reply to LaCie MicroSD-Reading USB Keys Are More than Just Metaphors
    I would like a robot or monkey head on mine, thanks.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/03/09

    In reply to LaCie MicroSD-Reading USB Keys Are More than Just Metaphors
    Ceci n'est pas un key.
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