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Lacie gives birth to 500 gig bouncing baby
HARD DRIVE HAWKERS Lacie have announced the birth of a chunky new member of the family.
Boasting a whopping half Terabyte of capacity, the Neil Poulton-designed drive comes in an rubber case that looks like it's made out of orange flavoured Chewits and draws power from either a USB 2 or Firewire socket. Which means you don't have to cart around an ugly, tangle-prone power supply.
The Rugged 500 works out of the box on Macs and PCs and is designed to withstand the kind of abuse that being banged about in a laptop bag entails.
Based on an Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-inch unit, the pocketable drive should be showing up on a shelf near you for around £150. µ
L'Inq
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Good to see such a large capacity in a drive that doesn't need external power. 

Hopefully someday someone will be smart enough to integrate a little circuit in their 3.5 inch external drives that can recognise what sort of connection is being used, and adjust the motor speed so as not to exceed the maximum power draw of that particular interface. Sure, you'd get slower performance but at least you wouldn't be up s**t creek without a paddle if you happened to forget your power brick.