LaCie Fuel: a portable digital media library

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LaCie Fuel: a portable digital media library

2TB of mobile storage, the new LaCie Fuel is big enough to store a family's complete digital life, but small enough to drop into a bag. With a built-in battery that offers 10 hours' use between charges and with integrated wi-fi, the portable hard drive is capable of supporting up to five smartphones or tablets simultaneously. All of which could mean the end of arguments about which songs to listen to or which movies to watch on a long car journey or those days when, thanks to the weather, the holiday has been confined to the hotel room. 

                                [BGR.in]

LaCie Fuel: a portable digital media library | BGR India

Smartphones and tablets are revolutionizing the way we work and play, but thanks to their limited storage capacities, we either have to make sacrifices about what digital content we store on them, or have to look to the cloud for accessing film and music libraries on the go.

And when it comes to tablets, very few consumers are yet to be tempted by devices with 3G or 4G connectivity, making internet access impossible unless using a wi-fi connection anyway. Then there’s long-distance travel; no one wants to clock up huge roaming charges for accessing the web via their devices while on holiday, and on a flight or train connecting to the web in the first place can be a challenge.

But as well as being great for families, the Fuel could be the ideal companion for those of us working on the go who generate a lot of digital content — photographers, journalists and digital artists — but are limited by the 16-64GB of storage an iPhone or iPad offers.

The LaCie also has some other neat tricks. It supports Apple’s AirPlay so it can stream content to a TV via an Apple TV or other supporting device, for example, and has USB 3 connectors so that it can be plugged directly into a PC or Mac. And it can be configured as a wi-fi hotspot. That means that devices can conceivably access the internet via the hard drive — great for places like hotels where wi-fi often isn’t free. Pay once and split the bandwidth.

The company usually designs its products with Apple’s ecosystem of products in mind, and while the Fuel is no exception, thanks to the supporting Seagate Media app, Kindle users and owners of Android smartphones and tablets will also be able to get just as much use out of it.

As for availability, US consumers can order the LaCie Fuel 2TB now for $249.99 and the device will roll out internationally later this month.

                                                                                                                [BGR.in]

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