LaCie introduces Porsche-designed, aluminum-framed USB 3.0 HDDs

LaCie, a company that’s no stranger to employing aluminum and high profile designers on its external storage drives, is back at it today with the announcement of a pair of new HDDs. The P9220 Mobile and P9230 Desktop drives — one’s thin and portable, the other’s chunkier and stores more data, guess which is which — harness the creative minds at Porsche Design to deliver… well, some pretty tamely designed peripherals. We guess it’s all about minimalism and letting the scratch-resistant aluminum casing speak for itself, but we still kinda feel like the Porsche guys did this on a Thursday lunch break. As simple as it is, the look of these drives still managed to impress the guys at CrunchGear , whose hands-on coverage can be read at the link provided below. If you want to get to grips with one yourself, the P9220 starts out at

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