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LaCie's latest external hard drive is a winner on price and performance.
This compact external hard drive packs a lot of speed and storage space into a sleek, stylish package. It's a bit pricey, but well worth the money.
Spot-on colour, high brightness, and advanced adjustment options make this 21-inch LCD a worthy rival to even the best CRTs.
LaCie have announced their new SCSI and Firewire CD_RW-161040 drives, which boast the fastest writing speed of the industry. The 16x record speed helps churn out discs faster, letting users burn an entire 650MB CD-R media in just four minutes (excluding lead-in and lead-out times.
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