LaCie Unveils Enterprise External Storage

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The folks at LaCie aren’t newcomers to the external HDD space and today, they’ve introduced a whole new family of external HDDs aimed at the enterprise space. They’ll be apart of the new Quadra line and, as you would expect, will come with a ton of features you don’t find in your average external HDD.

Each model in the new Quadra line will offer six levels of data protection, as well as “government-grade” 128-bit AES encryption. LaCie is including desktop software to allow you to create up to 10 different user accounts to give access on the external HDDs to certain people, without giving everybody the admin password.

Each of the hard disks in the drives are SATA based and will spin at 7,200RPM with 32MB of cache memory. These are high quality disks, and LaCie predicts that each drive will have a MTBF (mean time before failure) of 1.2 million. All the drives will include a 5-year warranty, which includes product replacement.

Each HDD will come with specialized 24k gold plated data cables for super-fast data transfer, and LaCie’s press release points out that users who use the LaCie 4big Quadra external HDD (their biggest offering) and have it configured for RAID 50 (5+0) can expect transfer speeds of 700Mbps.

In addition to the security user management software, LaCie is also throwing in Genie backup software, which they’ve included with HDDs before. The drives will come in three cases, the smallest being the LaCie d2 Quadra ($300), the LaCie 2big Quadra ($650) and the LaCie 4big Quadra ($1350). Of course, those prices are with the default storage sizes, which can be customized with between 1TB and 8TB. No word on when we can expect these to start shipping.