LaCie serves up Enterprise Class versions of Quadra external drives

LaCie dabbled in the CES extravaganza with a few minor offerings, but it decided to wait a few weeks for things to calm down before busting out a new range of wares. Today, the outfit is slinging out a trio of products in the freshly created Enterprise Class: the d2 Quadra Enterprise Class, 2big Quadra Enterprise Class and the 4big Quadra Enterprise Class. Obviously engineered for the more hardcore among us, these units pack enterprise-class SATA drives, a five-year warranty, 128-bit AES hardware encryption and hardware RAID with hot-swappable disks. Each HDD within spins at 7200RPM and boasts 32MB of cache, and 700MB/sec are promised when using a RAID 50 array with four 4big Quadra Enterprise Class units. The whole slate of Neil Poulton-designed drives offer up quad interfaces (FireWire 400 / 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA), and prices get going at just $299.

[cloudyskies Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:23AM]

Whats with the design, it looks similar to alienware

[MackinZach Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:30AM]

This was a triumph

Im making a note here, great success...

[chispito Posted Jan 28th 2010 12:00PM]

@MackinZach The line is actually "huge success."

It does remind me of HAL crossed with EVE from WALL-E or something.

[dannylewis Posted Feb 1st 2010 12:14AM]

@MackinZach The one in the middle especially looks like a portal turret!

"I see you.... There you are!"

[Slim Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:57AM]

HAL's relatives... hello there!

[Dank Dillweed Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:36AM]

@Slim

First thing I thought of also. Too bad the bulby thingy isn't red.

[Jacob1 Posted Jan 28th 2010 10:03AM]

@Slim I'm afraid you're going to unplug my eSATA cable, and I can't allow that Dave. lol, I'm buying one of these drives, maybe I'll slap a red LED in there.

[Slim Posted Jan 28th 2010 10:35AM]

@Jacob1 worth the effort LOL!

[Prasand J Posted Jan 28th 2010 10:07PM]

@Dank Dillweed on activity, it switches from red to blue; or at least that is the case with the 2big, 4big, and 5big Network.

[Don Corleone Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:02AM]

That big blue thing becomes goofier looking as the cases grow in size.

[SirNoDroin Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:08AM]

Cool now not only foolish mac fanboys, but your business too can loose massive amounts of data when you get a classic Lacie "I've owned it for 9months and have my entire life on it" random harddrive crash.

(went to design school, was the only guys w/o a Lacie and a Mac...also was the one of the only ones to never have a external harddrive crash)

[liamrickerby Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:28AM]

@SirNoDroin Whats this got to do with Mac's

provided you have this in backup raid config when a drive dies just have it replaced under the warranty.

[MarkB Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:08AM]

From left to right: Space Heater, Space heater, Washing Machine.

[TheSniperZERO Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:41AM]

From my experience, Lacie Quadra drives (and similar models) are cheap garbage. Every drive I've ever owned from that line has died within a year. One didn't last for more than 3 months. Either it's the casing, or the drive itself.

On the other hand, I own an Lacie F.A. Porsche that's running a-ok. But I don't trust it as far as I can throw it.

[ToniCipriani Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:50AM]

Quadras... brings back old times.

Remember the Apple Quadra 610? Pizza boxes?

[Xbits Posted Jan 28th 2010 11:16AM]

Calling this Enterprise Class is just a bad joke!

[think before you react Posted Jan 28th 2010 12:10PM]

@DarkElfa
I was also hoping for usb 3.0. Damn.

[Bad Beaver Posted Jan 28th 2010 1:41PM]

I'd totally trust my enterprise to something made by LaCaaaahayhahahaa. Sorry, can't do it.

[sonicyoof Posted Jan 28th 2010 5:28PM]

Awesome! I'm going to store soooooooooo many iBooks from my iPad on these things!

[citroenDS Posted Jan 29th 2010 7:41AM]

notice the remarkably similar spec to the original line-up, with a substantial hike in the price? Could it be a new way of paying in advance for the returns and replacements under the new 5 year guarantee?