LaCie's newest external drive is called the Porsche Design Desktop Drive and comes in 4, 5 and 8TB models, giving you plenty of room to back up important files and to take your stories with you when travelling. It connects via Type-C USB 3.1, finally giving you a peripheral to plug into that port on your motherboard although it requires an AC power adapter to be plugged in when in use. Benchmark Reviews tested the drive and saw reads and writes hitting just under 180MB/s which is not bad, although far short of the theoretical maximum performance of the new USB protocol. You can check out the full review here.
"Utilizing the latest USB-C connector and providing up to 8GB of storage as well as simultaneously charging your laptop computer, the LaCie Porsche Design Desktop Drive is powerful, stylish, and usable with any computer with a USB 3.0/3.1 port. There are other features as well, which Benchmark Reviews will test in this review of this interesting external drive system."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Corsair Neutron XTi 480GB @ Kitguru
- Toshiba TransMemory-EX II 128 GB USB 3.0 @ techPowerUp
- Seagate Enterprise Capacity v5 8TB Review @ Hardware Canucks
Maybe pointless, but Porsche
Maybe pointless, but Porsche Design is not a subdivision of Porsche, the automotive company. Sure, go back to Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and you’ll find they sprung from the same family tree, but that is as far as it goes. I’m just tired of the same memes used online whenever either of the companies are brought up. Futile, I know, but eh. Have a nice day.
According to Wikipedia it is
According to Wikipedia it is a subsidiary: Porsche Design Group (Porsche Lizenz- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG), based in Ludwigsburg, Germany, was founded in November 2003 as a majority-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG
If by that you mean it was
If by that you mean it was founded by Butzi in 1972, then sure, whatever.
Still made myself laugh.
Still made myself laugh.
Made me smile too, but not as
Made me smile too, but not as much as Capt. Killjoy Clueless with his totally unnecessary (and totally incorrect) “correction” to your joke.