Hands On with Lacie's Gorgeous Sphere Hard Drive

[JMcEntegart]

Lacie melds 'old world luxury with modern technology' with its latest Sphere HDD.

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[firefoxx04]

over 400MB/s via usb2? I doubt it.That thing is huge and overpriced. WD and other brands have 1TB usb 3.0 offerings for under $100 that have realistic speed rating.

 

[aevm]

Cute, but for that kind of cash I'd rather buy three 3-TB drives.

 

[aevm]

@firefoxx04: 480 Mb/s (Mb with small b) means 60 MB/s. Mind you, I still doubt it. I have a USB flash drive that gets 170 MB/s in a USB 3.0 port and 30 MB/s in a USB 2 port. I suspect this sphere thing would also get 30 MB/s in my USB 2 port.

 

[firefoxx04]

aahhhh I guess I missed the lower case b. I stand corrected but I do agree, i doubt it will even get those kinds of speeds. All my USB 3 drives max at about 40MB/s and drop from there on long transfers.

 

[nebun]

thanks but no thanks....ugly

 

[applegetsmelaid]

This is perfect! I buy hard drives to make a fashion statement, not for storage space.

 

[g-unit1111]

I feel like snow should fall out of this thing when you turn it upside down. :lol:

 

[wittermark]

whats the point of a mobile storage solution that isn't mobile? with meager 1TB storage that takes that much real-estate space, even my 3TB enclosures stacked on top of each other is much easier to carry than this. what a garbage design.

 

[Novuake]

$490??? Got to be kidding me?

 

[sunnycheeba]

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