The Internet is a great medium to dive in for any information one might ever need. Until so, many entrepreneurs will present their Internet gadgets to offer end users new possibilities in using Internet resources. LaCie have came up with a new idea how increase the amount of information that flows in and out our PCs. Not a novelty actually, but a very useful gadget anyway, especially for those, who face a strong need to make their personal data accessible any time and anywhere. How did they in LaCie manage? – Easy. The device is simple external hard disk, but with some new features.
Once again the device is aimed to make user's personal archives or media libraries accessible and transferable via Internet resources. It is called LaCie Internet Space. Hard drives come only with huge space on it starting with 500 GB up to 1TB. The basic idea of the gadget is simple. Owner of one is free to store everything on it as on a PC, but it remains opened for him from any other work station connected to the World Wide Web. It doesn't even matter if the local computer with a LaCie Internet Space connected is turned off. All one needs to access his personal data is to go to HipServ Home Server's web page, sign in and that's about it. By the way, if you are going to perform some serious data change, to download or upload some large media files for example, be ready to push your Internet connection to its limits. In rest, any type of connection will do. Another benefit of LaCie Internet Space hard disk is that more than one person can use the link to the local computer. A multi access is settled via invitation email system. To avoid possible unpleasant situation when one from the trusted list deletes needed data HipServ Home Server backs it up (they call it DesktopMirror). In addition, LaCie Internet Space is equipped with an extra USB2.0 port.LaCie designed their gadget to make its users more independent – a real helper in work for people who travel a lot. But in practice, many people notice Internet Space hard disk a good one for home usage, who have more than one computer at home and a notebook maybe. With a help of it, all the shared data is stored on one disk and internal hard drives save their space for personal files
