LaCie introduces LaCie mini for Mac mini

By Dave Caolo

First and foremost, let me say, I love LaCie drives. I've got two ancient, 2GB external SCSI drives by LaCie (in enormous, beige cases, no less) that still work like they did seven or eight years ago. I've had similar luck with LaCie drives I've purchased more recently as well. Ok, enough of the love fest.

Today LaCie introduced the LaCie mini for the Mac mini. We've seen a few of these external enclosures that are designed to act as a sort of pedestal for the mini, but what makes this one unique is its "crown design." This allows air to flow between the mini and the drive itself, which aids in cooling both devices. The LaCie mini features a 7200rpm, 80-250GB drive with a 2MB or 8MB cache, 2 FireWire ports (6-pin), 400Mbits/s transfer rate and a <11ms seek time.

LaCie intends to ship these by the end of September 2005 to a cost of $119US for the 80GB version, and $149.99US for the 160GB.

Update: I've discovered my error.  While the 80GB and 160GB versions have been available for a while now, the 250GB LaCie mini will ship later this month for $199.99US. Stars for all of you. Well done.

[Via 123MacMini]
 

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