

LaCie's new Porsche Design Desktop Drive comes in 4TB, 5TB and 8TB capacities and uses a single 3.5-in hard disk drive. The LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive will available in March with a starting price of $110. The LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive with USB 3.1/Type-C connectivity. Unlike the Chromé, the Porshe Mobile Drive offers USB 3.1/Type C connector technology and has a USB 3.0 adapter for backward compatibility. The Porshe Design Mobile Drive comes in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities. Both are targeted at Apple hardware with its brushed aluminum finishes and rounded edges. LaCie also announced two new drives based on designs from Porsche. The Chromé is expected to be available as early as this quarter (but likely in the March time frame) at a retail price of $1,100, LaCie said. The LaCie Chromé features a two-year limited warranty that can also be extended and upgraded. The drive can then be detached for transport. The drive enclosure docks via aneodymium magnet to a round pedestal. The Chromé drive, fashioned by industrial designer Neil Poulton, comes in an angular chromed zinc enclosure polished to a mirror finish. With it's leading performance, LaCie claims the Chromé can store two hours of 4K GoPro footage in a little over one minute. The Chromé drive features a pair of 500GB M.2 SATA SSDs configured in RAID 0, which is purely for increased performance and provides no fault tolerance or redundancy. Lacie claims the Chromé is the fastest USB storage product on the market, with up to 940MB/s throughput. The 1TB Chromé desktop drive features a pair of 500GB M.2 SATA SSDs configured in RAID 0 and USB 3.1 connectivity. LaCie said the new Chromé is the fastest USB storage product on the market, with up to 940MB/s throughput.
