Faster 3.5" FireWire Hard Drives

1999–2004August 2, 2001Macs Only!Peripherals
LaCie is equipping its 3.5" external drives with a new FireWire controller that provides double the data throughput performance of previous FireWire drives. Available through authorized resellers, the suggested retail prices for the LaCie FireWire hard drives are 20GB - $229, 40GB - $279, 60GB - $329 and 75GB -$429. The 7200 rpm drives stream data to the computer at a sustained transfer rate of 35MB/s and provide burst performance to 50MB/s.

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