LaCie offers 500GB drives in storage solutions

LaCie today announced that it will offer 500GB drive storage solutions using Hitachi's new high-capacity Deskstar 7K500 hard drives. The new drives will be used in LaCie's 2TB Biggest F800, 500GB Ethernet Disk mini and 2TB Bigger Disk Extreme storage solutions. The Biggest F800 is a 4-bay RAID subsystem that supports RAID levels 0, 0+1, 5 and RAID 5+hot spare in a sturdy aluminum enclosure with both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 interfaces. The LaCie Ethernet Disk mini is an affordable network hard drive for use in homes or small offices with 500GB shared storage space. Anyone plugged into the dual-purpose Ethernet Disk mini can instantly share files via Ethernet or the drive can be attached to any Mac/PC via USB 2.0. LaCie's Bigger Disk Extreme is a compact and sturdy drive designed to support multi-stream audio/video editing in a variety of formats with burst transfer rates reaching up to 85MB/s and up to 2TB capacity; it offers built-in RAID 0 configuration.

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