Lacie debuts Little Big Disk Quadra

1TB of removable storage in the palm of your hand.

Joing Lacie's fleet of 400GB (7200RPM) and 500GB versions is the new portable Little Big Disk. This mobile device is based around two 2.5in hard disks working in unison on a RAID 0 format. It offers 110MB/s burst transfer rates over eSATA or up to 80MB/s using FireWire 800.

The glory-holes accompanying the device are an eSATA 3Gbits, two Firewire 800 with a Firewire 400 adaptor and a USB 2.0 interface. It can also be daisy-chained with other Lacie hard disks or DVD±RW drives, using one of the two Firewire interfaces. All of which hits the sweet-spots needed by today’s external storage devices, hurrah!

Little Big Disk Quadra 1TB
Little Big Disk is entirely fanless, instead it's using Neil Poulton’s d2 heat-sink, allowing it to operate quietly without sounding like a commercial airline jet taking off inside a box. Weighing in at just over .64kg, it’s still up to 60 per cent lighter than conventional desktop drives.

"The Little Big Disk is suitable for multiple in-the-field applications. A professional photographer will take thousands of RAW photos in one photo shoot, while a videographer needs tremendous capacity and transfer rates to edit their footage," bragged Arnaud Prezelin, Lacie Product Manager for Creative Pro solutions.

It’s fully plug and play enabled for those-who-shall-not-be-named and their Mac Cat themed OS, along with Windows Vista for dual compatibility. Little Big Disk Quadra arrives preloaded with the Lacie Setup Assistant software for optimising the device according to your needs – whether this be Dirty-Mac, Windows or even a cross-platform environment.

Palming off a terabyte has never been easier. µ