LaCie lets loose a pile of new products

Getting the jump on the CES and Macworld madness, LaCie has announced no less than a half dozen new products providing various sorts of external storage, with a pair of speakers thrown in for good measure. Likely to grab the most attention is the company's new external Blu-ray burner, compatible with Mac and Windows and packing dual USB and FireWire ports for your connectivity pleasure; it's set to ship later this month with a $1,149 price tag. On the hard drive-based front, LaCie's busted out the 500GB LaCie Quadra Hard Drive (available now for $299), the biometric-enhanced 500GB LaCie D2 SAFE Hard Drive (also now available for $299), the LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini and Ethernet Big Disk network storage solutions, available in a range of sizes from 250GB to 1TB for between $199 and $499, and the LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID, which'll give you up to 2TB of storage for $1,299. Lastly, LaCie's announced what appear to be the first bus-powered FireWire speakers, which will supposedly provide better sound than their USB-based counterparts while still letting you leave the AC adapter at home -- they'll set you back $79.

[Via MacMinute]

[Rick Youck @ Jan 5th 2007 12:25PM]

the ethernet disk raid looks a lot like this one from intel - out for over a year......
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ss4000-E/

[CharlieX @ Jan 5th 2007 12:27PM]

Today LaCie released a bunch of new products designed to spectacularly fail at any given critical moment in your production studio.

[kOa7 @ Jan 5th 2007 12:39PM]

I had heard a lot of bad things about LaCie products, but bought an external d2 drive anyway - surely those were all flukes. It failed with a burning smell on second power up. Exchanged it for a WD MyBook.

[Erc @ Jan 5th 2007 12:44PM]

that speaker is a copy cat from a taiwaness or hongkong maker. i thought i read it before here at tuaw... foook lacie, they are cheap compannies copy Apple et. al.'s fancy design and then stick some ebay quality harddrive within... no selfrespect at all... screw 'em

[Mike @ Jan 5th 2007 1:25PM]

Where are the intelligent readers of Engadget. Seems like commenters left their brain in bed.

I seem to recall that most forums talk about problems with every vendor's products. It is rare that I see a positive comment unless it is from a particular vendor's fanboys.

Mike

[Eric @ Jan 5th 2007 3:44PM]

Mike

I just feel sorry to see lacie tricks his customers with its fancy looking and marketing staff. Quality wise Lacie is merely a below average product and does not deserve any pence of the premium it charges.

I hate companies treat their customers like idiots. thats it.

[John Lisherness @ Jan 5th 2007 1:27PM]

It looks like the "Ethernet Disk RAID" is a re-branding of Intel's SS4000-E (aka "Baxter Creek"):
http://www.intel.com/design/storage/sb.htm#NAS
This unit runs for $550-$600 w/o HDDs

[Blake @ Jan 5th 2007 1:45PM]

The mac support for this looks pretty weak. Anyone got a recommendation for a great 2 TB+ mac NAS?

[narco @ Jan 5th 2007 2:07PM]

I don't care what any one says, those speakers look sweet.

Fishes,
narco.

[Christiaan @ Jan 5th 2007 6:51PM]

I must say, it really sucks how Engadget doesn't include links in its text to relevant websites.

[torpedo20 @ Jan 5th 2007 8:27PM]

Blake:
I'm currently looking at ReadyNAS NV from Infrant.
Looks like it can fit the bill (mac support).

[umijin @ Jan 5th 2007 11:48PM]

I wonder if they'll actually get the EtherDisk Mini software/firmware to work properly so current users of their products can use them adequately.

[Dave @ Jan 6th 2007 3:00AM]

I like the external Blu-ray burner. Awesome! It runs on MACs too!