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This article shows how to repair a LaCie external hard drive with corrupted, not working, unrecognized or 'fails to show up' error without losing data. First, you need to follow provided methods on this page to repair the corrupted LaCie external hard drive. Next, download EaseUS hard drive recovery software to recover data from the LaCie external hard drive.
If your LaCie drive is not recognized or corrupted, please take it easy! Follow provided solutions on this page to get rid of this issue and make your device work again.
Workable Solutions | Step-by-step Troubleshooting |
---|---|
Fix 1. Make LaCie Detectable | 1. Check Lacie external hard drive state; 2. Make LaCie external hard drive shows up, detectable on PC...Full steps |
Fix 2. Recover Data | Run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and under the External Devices tab, choose the LaCie drive to scan...Full steps |
Fix 3. Repair LaCie Hard Drive | 1. Format Raw to NTFS; 2. Fix the device showing the no media error...Full steps |
How to repair LaCie external hard drive without losing data
The LaCie external hard drive is a great drive. People always use it for saving backups. With huge storage capacity, it's widely used for saving lots of files such as photos and videos. However, sometimes the disk is prone to be corrupted, not recognized or not showing up. When it happens, the data you stored on the hard drive is at a risk
To thoroughly troubleshoot this issue, making the LaCie external hard drive work again, follow the tips here as a guide:
- Stop using the problematic external hard drive, make the device detectable
- Apply reliable LaCie hard drive repair software to recover lost data in Part 2
- Repair corrupted, not recognized or not working external hard drive with solutions in Part 3
Part 1. Make LaCie external hard drive detectable, recognizable
To get rid of the issue, first, you should check out and make sure that external hard drive can be detected by the computer. Follow the guidelines to make your Lacie external hard drive detectable again:
# 1. Check Lacie external hard drive state
- Step 1: Connect the Lacie external hard drive to your PC via its USB cable.
- Step 2: Open File Explorer and check if the external hard drive appears.
- If not, open Disk Management and check the external hard drive state.
- Step 3: If the external hard drive shows as RAW, or No Media, follow Part 2 with the provided solution for help.
- Step 4: If the device doesn't show up at all, move on and make it detectable.
# 2. Make LaCie external hard drive shows up, detectable on PC
- Step 1: Restart PC, change USB port and USB cable, reconnect the LaCie external hard drive on PC.
- If it still doesn't show up, continue with Step 2.
- Step 2: Update USB Hub drivers in Device Manager
- Open Device Manager > Click 'View' and select 'Show hidden devices' > Expand Universal Serials Bus controllers > Right-click each USB Hub and select 'Uninstall device'.
- Step 3: Restart PC and reconnect the external hard drive, check if the LaCie device shows up in Disk Management.
- Step 4: If not, update the external hard drive driver
- Open Device Manager > Expand Disk drivers > Right-click on the external hard drive and select 'Update driver' > Click 'Search automatically for updated driver software'.
- Reboot the computer and reconnect the external hard drive again.
There, you should be able to see the external hard drive showing up in Disk Management again. Notice that when the external hard drive shows up on your computer, try to open the device and check the saved data.
If you can't access the data, follow Part 2 to restore the saved data first. If you just want to make the device work again and don't care about the data, jump to Part 3 for repairing solutions.
- Notice:
- If the external hard drive still doesn't show up, it may have some physical problems and we suggest you take it repaired at a local storage device repair center.
Part 2. Recover data from the LaCie external hard drive
To recover data from a LaCie external hard drive when it is accessible, professional hard drive recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can help.
With its user-friendly interface, you can retrieve multiple types of files including documents, photos, music, videos, emails, and archives, etc on inaccessible storage devices.
The step-by-step guide to recover data from the inaccessible LaCie external hard drive:
Step 1. Choose the external hard drive
Since you're going to recover data from the external hard drive, run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and under the External Devices tab, choose the exact drive where you lost data. Click Scan.
Step 2. Scan for lost data
The software will start immediately to scan all over the selected drive for all lost data. During the scan, you could see more and more data showing up in the results.
Step 3. Preview and recover data
After the scan is over, check the scan results for the desired data. You can preview the file by double-clicking on it. Click Recover and choose another location to save the recovered data.
Remember to save the restored files and data to another secure device before making the device work again.
Part 3. Repair the LaCie external hard drive
The solutions to repair LaCie external hard drive are based on the error state displaying in Disk Management.
# 1. LaCie device shows as RAW: Format device to NTFS
- Step 1: Right-click on This PC/My Computer, select 'Manage'.
- Step 2: Click 'Disk Management', locate and right-click the 0 bytes hard drive partition, then choose 'Format'.
- Step 3: Select NTFS as the file system for the partition and click 'OK' to confirm.
# 2. LaCie device shows as No Media
If the LaCie external hard drive shows No Media in Disk Mangement, what you can do is very less. All you can do is to go back to Part 1 and update the device driver.
Then try to change the drive letter in Disk Management, and format it to NTFS.
However, most possible ways provided here may not be able to help resolve this issue. You'll only have the last solution which is to take your device to be repaired at the local storage device repair center or its manufacturer support center.
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Computer hardware |
---|---|
Founded | Oregon, 1987 Paris, 1989 |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
Products | Data storage, computer displays |
Revenue | €351.8 million |
Number of employees | 450 |
Parent | Seagate Technology (2014–present) |
Website | www.lacie.com |
LaCie (pronounced Lah-See, for 'The Company') is an American- French computer hardware company specializing in external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, Flash Drives, and computer monitors. The company markets several lines of hard drives with a capacity of up to many terabytes of data, with a choice of interfaces (FireWire 400, FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, and Ethernet). LaCie also has a series of mobile bus-powered hard drives.
LaCie's computer display product line is targeted specifically to graphics professionals, with an emphasis on color matching.
Company history[edit]
LaCie began life as two separate computer storage companies: in 1989 as électronique d2 in Paris, France, and in 1987 as LaCie in Tigard, Oregon (later Portland, Oregon), USA.
In 1995, électronique d2 acquired La Cie, and later adopted the name 'LaCie' for all of its operations. At the early founding stages of both companies, both focused their businesses on IT storage solutions, based on the SCSI interface standard for connecting external devices to computers. SCSI was adopted by Apple Computer as its main peripheral interface standard and the market for both LaCie and d2 became closely, but not exclusively, associated with the Macintosh platform.
In Europe, the French company électronique d2 was founded in 1989 by Pierre Fournier and Philippe Spruch, working from their apartment in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. d2's main activity was assembling hard drives in external SCSI casings and selling them as peripheral devices.
By 1990, the company had outgrown its small beginnings and moved to new 900 square meter premises in rue Watt, also in Paris. By this stage, designing casings was no longer sufficient for d2 to maintain a competitive edge, and so the company began to develop its own products and invest in R&D. d2 began to open subsidiaries around Europe, the first in London in 1991, followed by offices in Brussels and Copenhagen. The company began to expand its business beyond the Mac market and target PC users. In 1995, électronique d2 acquired the US company La Cie, a subsidiary of Quantum. LaCie was operating in the same market niche as électronique d2, and the buyout gave d2 a foothold into the North American market. In 1998, it was decided to adopt the name LaCie as a worldwide brand, dropping the d2 name from its product range (although even today, several products still retain reference to it).
In the United States, La Cie, Ltd. (La Cie) was founded in July 1987 in Tigard, Oregon, USA. Joel Kamerman, his parents Robert and Tudy Kamerman, and Roger Bates founded La Cie. Joel Kamerman was La Cie's president and general manager from July 1987 through January 1997.
Joel Kamerman founded La Cie on three principles:
• Profit was more important than revenue
• Product differentiation would create profit
• Vertical integration was key to La Cie's long term viability
La Cie's objective was to create premier products and differentiate the company through industrial design and value added software.
In the US, La Cie was acquired by Plus Development, a subsidiary of the storage manufacturer Quantum in December 1990.[1] As a subsidiary of Quantum, La Cie was licensed as the exclusive manufacturer of Apple-branded external SCSI hard drives, using Quantum hard disks. Joel Kamerman and Scott Phillips negotiated the deal between Apple Computer and La Cie. After the 1995 acquisition of La Cie by électronique d2, company management was headed by Philippe Spruch, who continues to head the combined company as of December 2013.
Seagate Technology announced in March 2012 it would purchase LaCie for $186 million, with the transaction expected to close in 2014.[2] In August 2013, the US headquarters were moved back to Tigard.[2]
Timeline[edit]
- 1987 Joel Kamerman, Robert Kamerman, Tudy Kamerman, and Roger Bates found La Cie, Ltd. in Tigard, Oregon, USA. It introduces the Cirrus Drive, the first external drive to win an industrial design award[citation needed].
- 1989 Pierre Fournier (32) and Philippe Spruch (26) found électronique d2 in Paris.[citation needed]
- 1990Plus Development, a Quantum Corp. subsidiary, acquires La Cie, Ltd.[1]
- 1990 d2 expands and moves to new premises in rue Watt, Paris.[citation needed]
- 1991 Establishment of the first subsidiary in London (UK); development of the first d2 SCSI card for PC environment.[citation needed]
- 1992 Belgian offices open in Brussels and Danish offices in Copenhagen; Philippe Starck and Neil Poulton design new drive models.[citation needed]
- 1993 German subsidiary established in Düsseldorf; d2 moves its HQ to larger premises in Massy (southern suburbs of Paris).
- 1994 Subsidiaries opened in Rotterdam and Basel.[citation needed]
- 1995 Subsidiaries opened in Madrid and Milan; électronique d2 buys LaCie, a subsidiary of Quantum; d2 gains a foothold in the North American market.[citation needed]
- 1996 Offices open in Stockholm and the Canadian subsidiary of LaCie is opened in Toronto. électronique d2 is listed at the nouveau marché in Paris.[citation needed]
- 1997 Transfer of LaCie US to new premises in Portland; électronique d2 acquires NATI, a repair and maintenance company; LaCie launches range of high-end 21' monitors and colour management devices.[citation needed]
- 1998 the name 'LaCie' replaces ' électronique d2' as the worldwide brand name of the group.[citation needed]
- 1999 LaCie disposes of NATI.[citation needed]
- 2000 Establishment of the Australian subsidiary; launch of the PocketDrive, a 2.5' peripheral disk drive.[citation needed]
- 2001 Creation of the Japanese subsidiary; launch of the 18-inch flat panel monitor and DVD players.[citation needed]
- 2002 Launch of the Fusion CD-RW.[citation needed]
- 2003 Launch of 500 GB external Hard Drive: LaCie Big Disk; portable drives designed by F.A. Porsche line of storage solutions; first Triple Interface Hard Drives.[citation needed]
- 2004 1 TB external Hard Drive the LaCie Bigger Disk.[citation needed]
- 2009 LaCie acquires Caleido, a Peer to peer storage start-up, with their product named Wuala.
- 2012 Seagate announces plans to purchase LaCie for $186 million US Dollars, pending regulatory review.
- 2014 Seagate acquires Lacie and is now working on merging both companies.[3]
Products[edit]
LaCie's original business was external SCSI hard drives, but its range has expanded over the years to include early CD writers, some of the first DVD drives, magneto-optical drives, SyQuest drives, tape backup, RAID arrays, and mobile USB and FireWire drives.
Format Lacie Drive For Mac And Pc
Designers[edit]
During the 1980s, little attention was paid to design aesthetic of computers and peripherals to it.
Design – if any – was minimalistic, and tended towards beige metal boxes with no frills.
Because d2's original target market was Apple Macintosh users – many who tended to work in creative, artistic professions – such as designers, printers, digital video artists, etc., d2 tailored its products much more carefully – by offering 'designer drives' to satisfy the tastes of these 'content creators' than other manufacturers were doing.
Prior to the électronique d2 buyout in 1995, Ziba Design, in Portland Oregon, designed the majority of LaCie's products, including the award winning Joule tower, the Cirrus and the Tsunami drive. By 1995 LaCie had won awards for industrial design for every external storage product they introduced.
If your LaCie drive is not recognized or corrupted, please take it easy! Follow provided solutions on this page to get rid of this issue and make your device work again.
Workable Solutions | Step-by-step Troubleshooting |
---|---|
Fix 1. Make LaCie Detectable | 1. Check Lacie external hard drive state; 2. Make LaCie external hard drive shows up, detectable on PC...Full steps |
Fix 2. Recover Data | Run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and under the External Devices tab, choose the LaCie drive to scan...Full steps |
Fix 3. Repair LaCie Hard Drive | 1. Format Raw to NTFS; 2. Fix the device showing the no media error...Full steps |
How to repair LaCie external hard drive without losing data
The LaCie external hard drive is a great drive. People always use it for saving backups. With huge storage capacity, it's widely used for saving lots of files such as photos and videos. However, sometimes the disk is prone to be corrupted, not recognized or not showing up. When it happens, the data you stored on the hard drive is at a risk
To thoroughly troubleshoot this issue, making the LaCie external hard drive work again, follow the tips here as a guide:
- Stop using the problematic external hard drive, make the device detectable
- Apply reliable LaCie hard drive repair software to recover lost data in Part 2
- Repair corrupted, not recognized or not working external hard drive with solutions in Part 3
Part 1. Make LaCie external hard drive detectable, recognizable
To get rid of the issue, first, you should check out and make sure that external hard drive can be detected by the computer. Follow the guidelines to make your Lacie external hard drive detectable again:
# 1. Check Lacie external hard drive state
- Step 1: Connect the Lacie external hard drive to your PC via its USB cable.
- Step 2: Open File Explorer and check if the external hard drive appears.
- If not, open Disk Management and check the external hard drive state.
- Step 3: If the external hard drive shows as RAW, or No Media, follow Part 2 with the provided solution for help.
- Step 4: If the device doesn't show up at all, move on and make it detectable.
# 2. Make LaCie external hard drive shows up, detectable on PC
- Step 1: Restart PC, change USB port and USB cable, reconnect the LaCie external hard drive on PC.
- If it still doesn't show up, continue with Step 2.
- Step 2: Update USB Hub drivers in Device Manager
- Open Device Manager > Click 'View' and select 'Show hidden devices' > Expand Universal Serials Bus controllers > Right-click each USB Hub and select 'Uninstall device'.
- Step 3: Restart PC and reconnect the external hard drive, check if the LaCie device shows up in Disk Management.
- Step 4: If not, update the external hard drive driver
- Open Device Manager > Expand Disk drivers > Right-click on the external hard drive and select 'Update driver' > Click 'Search automatically for updated driver software'.
- Reboot the computer and reconnect the external hard drive again.
There, you should be able to see the external hard drive showing up in Disk Management again. Notice that when the external hard drive shows up on your computer, try to open the device and check the saved data.
If you can't access the data, follow Part 2 to restore the saved data first. If you just want to make the device work again and don't care about the data, jump to Part 3 for repairing solutions.
- Notice:
- If the external hard drive still doesn't show up, it may have some physical problems and we suggest you take it repaired at a local storage device repair center.
Part 2. Recover data from the LaCie external hard drive
To recover data from a LaCie external hard drive when it is accessible, professional hard drive recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can help.
With its user-friendly interface, you can retrieve multiple types of files including documents, photos, music, videos, emails, and archives, etc on inaccessible storage devices.
The step-by-step guide to recover data from the inaccessible LaCie external hard drive:
Step 1. Choose the external hard drive
Since you're going to recover data from the external hard drive, run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and under the External Devices tab, choose the exact drive where you lost data. Click Scan.
Step 2. Scan for lost data
The software will start immediately to scan all over the selected drive for all lost data. During the scan, you could see more and more data showing up in the results.
Step 3. Preview and recover data
After the scan is over, check the scan results for the desired data. You can preview the file by double-clicking on it. Click Recover and choose another location to save the recovered data.
Remember to save the restored files and data to another secure device before making the device work again.
Part 3. Repair the LaCie external hard drive
The solutions to repair LaCie external hard drive are based on the error state displaying in Disk Management.
# 1. LaCie device shows as RAW: Format device to NTFS
- Step 1: Right-click on This PC/My Computer, select 'Manage'.
- Step 2: Click 'Disk Management', locate and right-click the 0 bytes hard drive partition, then choose 'Format'.
- Step 3: Select NTFS as the file system for the partition and click 'OK' to confirm.
# 2. LaCie device shows as No Media
If the LaCie external hard drive shows No Media in Disk Mangement, what you can do is very less. All you can do is to go back to Part 1 and update the device driver.
Then try to change the drive letter in Disk Management, and format it to NTFS.
However, most possible ways provided here may not be able to help resolve this issue. You'll only have the last solution which is to take your device to be repaired at the local storage device repair center or its manufacturer support center.
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Computer hardware |
---|---|
Founded | Oregon, 1987 Paris, 1989 |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
Products | Data storage, computer displays |
Revenue | €351.8 million |
Number of employees | 450 |
Parent | Seagate Technology (2014–present) |
Website | www.lacie.com |
LaCie (pronounced Lah-See, for 'The Company') is an American- French computer hardware company specializing in external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, Flash Drives, and computer monitors. The company markets several lines of hard drives with a capacity of up to many terabytes of data, with a choice of interfaces (FireWire 400, FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, and Ethernet). LaCie also has a series of mobile bus-powered hard drives.
LaCie's computer display product line is targeted specifically to graphics professionals, with an emphasis on color matching.
Company history[edit]
LaCie began life as two separate computer storage companies: in 1989 as électronique d2 in Paris, France, and in 1987 as LaCie in Tigard, Oregon (later Portland, Oregon), USA.
In 1995, électronique d2 acquired La Cie, and later adopted the name 'LaCie' for all of its operations. At the early founding stages of both companies, both focused their businesses on IT storage solutions, based on the SCSI interface standard for connecting external devices to computers. SCSI was adopted by Apple Computer as its main peripheral interface standard and the market for both LaCie and d2 became closely, but not exclusively, associated with the Macintosh platform.
In Europe, the French company électronique d2 was founded in 1989 by Pierre Fournier and Philippe Spruch, working from their apartment in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. d2's main activity was assembling hard drives in external SCSI casings and selling them as peripheral devices.
By 1990, the company had outgrown its small beginnings and moved to new 900 square meter premises in rue Watt, also in Paris. By this stage, designing casings was no longer sufficient for d2 to maintain a competitive edge, and so the company began to develop its own products and invest in R&D. d2 began to open subsidiaries around Europe, the first in London in 1991, followed by offices in Brussels and Copenhagen. The company began to expand its business beyond the Mac market and target PC users. In 1995, électronique d2 acquired the US company La Cie, a subsidiary of Quantum. LaCie was operating in the same market niche as électronique d2, and the buyout gave d2 a foothold into the North American market. In 1998, it was decided to adopt the name LaCie as a worldwide brand, dropping the d2 name from its product range (although even today, several products still retain reference to it).
In the United States, La Cie, Ltd. (La Cie) was founded in July 1987 in Tigard, Oregon, USA. Joel Kamerman, his parents Robert and Tudy Kamerman, and Roger Bates founded La Cie. Joel Kamerman was La Cie's president and general manager from July 1987 through January 1997.
Joel Kamerman founded La Cie on three principles:
• Profit was more important than revenue
• Product differentiation would create profit
• Vertical integration was key to La Cie's long term viability
La Cie's objective was to create premier products and differentiate the company through industrial design and value added software.
In the US, La Cie was acquired by Plus Development, a subsidiary of the storage manufacturer Quantum in December 1990.[1] As a subsidiary of Quantum, La Cie was licensed as the exclusive manufacturer of Apple-branded external SCSI hard drives, using Quantum hard disks. Joel Kamerman and Scott Phillips negotiated the deal between Apple Computer and La Cie. After the 1995 acquisition of La Cie by électronique d2, company management was headed by Philippe Spruch, who continues to head the combined company as of December 2013.
Seagate Technology announced in March 2012 it would purchase LaCie for $186 million, with the transaction expected to close in 2014.[2] In August 2013, the US headquarters were moved back to Tigard.[2]
Timeline[edit]
- 1987 Joel Kamerman, Robert Kamerman, Tudy Kamerman, and Roger Bates found La Cie, Ltd. in Tigard, Oregon, USA. It introduces the Cirrus Drive, the first external drive to win an industrial design award[citation needed].
- 1989 Pierre Fournier (32) and Philippe Spruch (26) found électronique d2 in Paris.[citation needed]
- 1990Plus Development, a Quantum Corp. subsidiary, acquires La Cie, Ltd.[1]
- 1990 d2 expands and moves to new premises in rue Watt, Paris.[citation needed]
- 1991 Establishment of the first subsidiary in London (UK); development of the first d2 SCSI card for PC environment.[citation needed]
- 1992 Belgian offices open in Brussels and Danish offices in Copenhagen; Philippe Starck and Neil Poulton design new drive models.[citation needed]
- 1993 German subsidiary established in Düsseldorf; d2 moves its HQ to larger premises in Massy (southern suburbs of Paris).
- 1994 Subsidiaries opened in Rotterdam and Basel.[citation needed]
- 1995 Subsidiaries opened in Madrid and Milan; électronique d2 buys LaCie, a subsidiary of Quantum; d2 gains a foothold in the North American market.[citation needed]
- 1996 Offices open in Stockholm and the Canadian subsidiary of LaCie is opened in Toronto. électronique d2 is listed at the nouveau marché in Paris.[citation needed]
- 1997 Transfer of LaCie US to new premises in Portland; électronique d2 acquires NATI, a repair and maintenance company; LaCie launches range of high-end 21' monitors and colour management devices.[citation needed]
- 1998 the name 'LaCie' replaces ' électronique d2' as the worldwide brand name of the group.[citation needed]
- 1999 LaCie disposes of NATI.[citation needed]
- 2000 Establishment of the Australian subsidiary; launch of the PocketDrive, a 2.5' peripheral disk drive.[citation needed]
- 2001 Creation of the Japanese subsidiary; launch of the 18-inch flat panel monitor and DVD players.[citation needed]
- 2002 Launch of the Fusion CD-RW.[citation needed]
- 2003 Launch of 500 GB external Hard Drive: LaCie Big Disk; portable drives designed by F.A. Porsche line of storage solutions; first Triple Interface Hard Drives.[citation needed]
- 2004 1 TB external Hard Drive the LaCie Bigger Disk.[citation needed]
- 2009 LaCie acquires Caleido, a Peer to peer storage start-up, with their product named Wuala.
- 2012 Seagate announces plans to purchase LaCie for $186 million US Dollars, pending regulatory review.
- 2014 Seagate acquires Lacie and is now working on merging both companies.[3]
Products[edit]
LaCie's original business was external SCSI hard drives, but its range has expanded over the years to include early CD writers, some of the first DVD drives, magneto-optical drives, SyQuest drives, tape backup, RAID arrays, and mobile USB and FireWire drives.
Format Lacie Drive For Mac And Pc
Designers[edit]
During the 1980s, little attention was paid to design aesthetic of computers and peripherals to it.
Design – if any – was minimalistic, and tended towards beige metal boxes with no frills.
Because d2's original target market was Apple Macintosh users – many who tended to work in creative, artistic professions – such as designers, printers, digital video artists, etc., d2 tailored its products much more carefully – by offering 'designer drives' to satisfy the tastes of these 'content creators' than other manufacturers were doing.
Prior to the électronique d2 buyout in 1995, Ziba Design, in Portland Oregon, designed the majority of LaCie's products, including the award winning Joule tower, the Cirrus and the Tsunami drive. By 1995 LaCie had won awards for industrial design for every external storage product they introduced.
In Paris, France, électronique d2 began to make a name for itself as early as 1991 by hiring designers like Philippe Starck and Neil Poulton. The emphasis was on ergonomics, distinctive moulding and some radically different designs.
The French designer Philippe Starck designed three products for the company: 'K1', 'Apollo' and 'Tokyo'. These three 'toaster' drives were manufactured in gravity-cast, hand polished aluminium and gained their nickname because of a passing resemblance to 1950s chrome toasters. Neil Poulton and Christophe Pillet, then Starck employees and both future LaCie designers, ran the projects. A fourth Starck-designed product was completed to model stage in 1992 but was never manufactured.
Industrial designerNeil Poulton has the longest running history with électronique d2/LaCie. From 1991 onwards, Scottish-born Poulton designed numerous products for d2, including the 'Shark' and 'FM Tuner' and the award-winning, phallic 'le Coq' hard drive. Poulton also designed d2's graphics, literature, packaging, trade fair booths, and the two électronique d2 logos. When d2 bought out LaCie in 1995, Poulton was brought in to design the current LaCie logo and the company's corporate identity.
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Poulton is responsible for the design of the best-selling 'd2' range, the 'Pocketdrive' range, the 'Rugged' drive, the 'Little Big Disk' and numerous professional and 'unsigned' d2/LaCie products dating back to 1991. His funnel-inspired 'Firewire Speakers' won the French 'Janus de l'Industrie' award in 2007.
Christophe Pillet, better known for his high-end furniture, designed products for d2 /LaCie from 1994-96 after quitting Philippe Starck's office.
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In 2003, Philippe Spruch commissioned an agency to identify the world's 'best known' design studio. He then hired the world-famous Porsche Design company to design a product range which would become best-sellers for LaCie between 2003-6.
A spate of colorful products released in 2006 included Karim Rashid's 'shocking' dayglo products and the popular Brick drive designed by Frenchman Ora-Ito. Never far from controversy, Ito's award winning USB Hub of 2007 had to be renamed to avoid infringement with the original name.
In 2007, the French national museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris acquired LaCie products for its permanent collection including Poulton's 'le Coq', 'd2',' LBD', 'Firewire Speakers', 'Pocketdrive' and 'Rugged', Ito's 'Brick' and 'USB Hub', and two Porsche Design drives.
Poulton and Ito continue to work as designers for LaCie.
Innovations[edit]
LaCie developed the first universal disk formatting software for SCSI drives, Silverlining.[citation needed]
LaCie was one of the first companies to include switchable, built-in termination with their Cirrus, Tsunami, and ZFP SCSI drives for Macintosh computers.[citation needed]
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Competitors[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Plus Acquires Direct Marketer of Apple Drives'. InfoWorld. IDG Communications. 12 (49): 40. December 3, 1990.
- ^ abNirappil, Fenit (August 14, 2013). 'LaCie, international storage device maker, moving from Hillsboro to Tigard'. The Oregonian. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
- ^'Seagate and LaCie Announce Exclusive Agreement with Intent for Seagate to Acquire Controlling Interest in LaCie'. May 23, 2012. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.