Ah, flash drives. Everyone needs one and everyone has one. But here’s a flash drive that’ll make all your mates’ flash drives look like cheap plastic toys. LaCie just put out the FastKey, which technically isn’t a flash drive. It’s actually a real mobile solid state drive that’s packed into a metal case to make it as portable as any other flash drive. The advantage of doing that is speed and a bigger storage capacity, to the tune of transferring files up to 100 times faster via a USB 3.0 connection that makes it 100 times better than the average flash drive.
Mobile hard drives: everyone who regularly uses a computer needs ‘em, a lot of companies make them, and they’re well worth it if you consider the price per gigabyte you can bring with you. They’re all pretty straightforward storage devices, differing only on interfaces, designs, and capacity, but this really stands out from the rest of the bunch. LaCie worked with designer Philippe Starck again on this one, and the result is a really slick drive that’s wrapped in a brushed aluminum shell.
LaCie just put out a new external drive enclosure that makes use of a pair of the latest techs to give you the largest storage capacity you can get with a pair of hard drives. Called the 2big USB 3.0, the device comes with a pair of drive bays that can hold up to 6TBs via two 3TB drives.
Seriously, the marketing guys over at LaCie seem like a fun bunch. Not that we’re surprised… they did call their other USB keys the CooKey and WhizKey after all. So now, we have this tiny new thing called the MosKeyto. Tiny is probably an understatement; the MosKeyto has got to be one of the smallest USB drives available right now—at least the smallest we’ve seen without featuring a flat, chip-on-board interface that really doesn’t work with that well with older USB ports.
LaCie just upped their Rikki Go portable hard drive’s capacity to 1TB, which is a good way to go if you’re looking for a portable drive that looks like it can handle a beating. The slim drive’s encased in aluminum to keep it tough and light, and features a very handy feature that seems to be on every portable device coming out right now: a built-in, swing-out USB cable that handily clips back on to the body for portability.
