Do good things come in small packages? Most ladies would say no unless you are packing a Little Big Disk Quadra 1TB portable hard drive from the Lacie stable. Amazingly the device fits in the palm of your hand and runs off USB 2.0 so no need for a clumsy power brick on your desktop. The Quadra uses two 500GB hard drives working in a RAID 0 configuration for maximum speed with the option for Raid 1 for data security. If USB 2.0 is too slow for you, it can shift data at a rate of 110MB/s using eSATA or up to 80MB/s using FireWire 800.

Hea is taken care of by use of a LaCie d2 heat sink design. Noise levels are kept to a minimum thanks to the lack of fans and effective sound insulation. LaCie claims the unit is up to 60% lighter than traditional external HDDs. 

Here's the blurb from Arnaud Prezelin, LaCie Product Manager for Creative Pro solutions.

"Powerful yet portable, the Little Big Disk Quadra is an essential tool for meeting a professional's mobile needs. While travelling, users no longer need to carry heavy devices and power cables to operate a high-capacity 1TB external hard drive."

This is an innovative and highly desireable product for your desktop and to have a sexy little unit like this will set you back some £400 here in the UK. Not cheap as you can pick up a couple of 1TB drives now for around £100 each but then you have the hassle of installing them, setting up raid, finding space in your case. To be honest we'd rather pay for the Quadra 1TB and have the freedom to take data on the move. Nice one Lacie!

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