CES 2015: Seagate Gets Stylish with Portable Storage Drive Solutions [Video]

[[Coi] Mr.CLuBBeR]

Who would have thought storage could be so sexy?

Peanut butter and jelly go together, and the same goes for Coke and Rum. Heck, we can think of any number of combinations that make sense, but storage and sex appeal? That's a first for us, and when we heard Seagate was combining the two, Maximum PC Online Managing Editor and self-proclaimed fashion expert Jimmy Thang made an all-out sprint for Seagate's section at the Consumer Electronics Show. What he saw was, well, himself! And you could see yourself, too, if you look at the LaCie Mirror, an external hard drive with a mirror finish.
LaCie, which is Seagate's premium subsidiary, built a rather unique external storage solution with the help of French designer Pauline Deltour. The Mirror consists of a 1TB drive housed in a case made of Corning Gorilla Glass, which itself is intended to rest on an ebony wooden display stand.
"You have to look twice to discover the LaCie Mirror's true ambition. Covered by mirrored glass, it's first an elegant and functional object, and only on second glance is it revealed to be a slim and high–performance hard drive," Deltour notes.
The asking price? A cool $280 MSRP. Cheaper than an SSD of the same capacity, but obviously on the expensive side for an HDD storage solution, even one that allows us to pull nose hairs, should the need arise (tweezers not included).
Seagate also showed off its LaCie Rugged, which features 4TB of storage encased in an orange enclosure. You can configure the drive to run in RAID 0 for speed for RAID 1 for added peace of mind.
As for Seagate's own brand products, it brought to the show its Seagate Seven, the thinnest portable hard drive around at just 7mm. At first glance, we thought it might be housing a solid state drive inside due to its thin stature, but there's actually a spinning hard disk in there, up to 500GB.
Check it out, along with other items Seagate had on display, in the video below:
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