While LaCie has positively combined some fanciful product designs over a years, its product naming is mostly quite succinct. Take the Rugged series, a drop-proof external storage resolution, which is right away welcoming the Rugged Safe model into a family. This chronicle adds the fingerprint scanner recessed into the armor-plated box, that encapsulates possibly 500GB or 1TB of storage which is now additionally cloaked in 128-bit AES encryption. Up to 10 registered users can be combined, who can entrance files around USB or FireWire, but sadly conjunction USB 3.0 nor eSATA have been on suggest. Despite a singular connectivity you’ll of course be profitable the more for the combined security, with the 500GB indication costing $189 and a 1TB chronicle jumping to $299. Compare which to $119 as well as $159 for a biometric-free versions as well as you can see only how most which little fingerprint of yours can cost you.
LaCie Rugged Safe

Show full PR textLaCie Rugged Safe - Safest Mobile Hard Drive

LONDON, UK (Tuesday 25th May, 2010) – LaCie today voiced the safest mobile tough drive on a marketplace – a LaCie Rugged Safe, charity multiple levels of data insurance. The Rugged Safe facilities unbreakable government-grade 128-bit AES hardware encryption, the safest biometric authentication record, and a military-grade shock-proof enclosure.

Designed for people upon a go, a LaCie Rugged Safe is bus-powered through USB or FireWire as well as is concordant with Mac or PERSONAL COMPUTER. Where alternative protected products need program designation upon every workstation, the Rugged Safe is block & play. Once configured, it will grant the user entrance to his or her interpretation upon any mechanism with a singular finger appropriate.

More than only the higher solution for portability, a Rugged Safe combines the 128-bit AES encryption engine as well as biometric fingerprint entrance – preventing unapproved entrance. Professionals can strengthen as well as share supportive files or egghead skill with up to 10 registered users.

“The LaCie Rugged Safe was grown to capacitate veteran or in isolation users to protect their profitable interpretation as well as egghead skill from burglary and unapproved entrance,” pronounced Erwan Girard, LaCie Business Unit manager. “We’ve synthesised the operation of technologies to safeguard this device is a safest as well as most mobile storage resolution – the genuine safe for your data.”

Like the award-winning cousin, a LaCie Rugged Hard Drive, the Rugged Safe was written by a world-famous engineer, Neil Poulton. With its protecting rubber bumper and inner tough drive mounted upon 4 eccentric suspensions, a Rugged Safe is shock-resistant for limit trustworthiness as well as interpretation protection.

The Rugged Safe comes with the higher three-year singular guaranty as well as includes the easy-to-use and customisable LaCie Backup Assistant for Mac as well as PERSONAL COMPUTER users.

Availability
The LaCie Rugged Safe will be accessible in 500GB as well as 1TB by a LaCie Online Store, LaCie Corner, LaCie Reseller+ and LaCie Storage Partner starting during a suggested sell price of £169 (Incl. VAT). For some-more information, visit www.lacie.com/uk.

About Neil Poulton

Neil Poulton was innate in Thurso, Scotland. A connoisseur in Industrial Design from Edinburgh University as well as Milan’s Domus Academy, Poulton initial came into open view in 1989 as a creator of “the ageing pens,” pens done from the “living,” wearing cosmetic that changes colour and form with make use of. Today, Neil Poulton designs and develops best-selling, award-winning products for a accumulation of general clients including LaCie & Artemide. Since 1991, Poulton has lived and worked in Paris, France. www.neilpoulton.com

About LaCie

Located in a USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Europe, Singapore as well as Hong Kong, LaCie is the leading manufacturer of mechanism peripherals for Windows, Apple as well as Linux users. LaCie creates outmost storage solutions and colour monitors which assistance professionals as well as everyday people simply manage their digital lives. LaCie has differentiated the products by strange designs as well as leading-edge technology. Established in France in 1989, LaCie is listed upon Euronext under FR0000054314 (LAC). For some-more report, revisit www.lacie.com/uk