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Lacie, as far as I am aware, never manufactured their own hard drives. Look here for example in 2006 http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,85231,85262 http:/

by chx 9y ago

Lacie, as far as I am aware, never manufactured their own hard drives. Look here for example in 2006 http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,85231,85262 http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,85231,85262 > Thank you for your email. We use a few different manufacturers, so we would not be able to tell you which drives go to which item (except the 500GB drives which are Hitachi). In general we do use Western Digital, Seagate, and we did use Maxtor before they were bought by Western Digital. For DVDs, we use Samsung. Wikipedia says , much earlier: > As a subsidiary of Quantum, La Cie was licensed as the exclusive manufacturer of Apple-branded external SCSI hard drives, using Quantum hard disks.

Theodores 9y ago
This confirms what I remember. A 3D modeller I worked with was deeply upset when Maxtor took over Quantum as the 2Gb SCSI disks that were carried around at the time were LaCie, apparently with Quantum disks which were allegedly the best for replaying video frames. At the time I did not know LaCie was owned by Quantum. Back then there wasn't the internet to quickly Google brands so you only had marketing information to go on.
- chx 9y ago
  o_O Maxtor purchased Quantum in October 2000. This is the same month when Adwords left beta. What the heck are you talk of? By 2000 home broadband is beginnning to spread, dial up Internet is everyday in most of the so called developed world.
giobox 9y ago
I'd always assumed La Cie's storage business model the past however many decades was to take stock drives from other manufacturers and put them in nicely designed enclosures. The premium on their stuff has always seemed to correlate to the nicer materials and design on the cases, not the drives themselves. I guess occasionally they also seem to tap the early adopter market when a new storage interconnect comes out (FireWire 800, Thunderbolt etc). They often seem to be one of the first out of the gate with support when Apple add a new port.

by chx 9y ago

Theodores 9y ago

This confirms what I remember. A 3D modeller I worked with was deeply upset when Maxtor took over Quantum as the 2Gb SCSI disks that were carried around at the time were LaCie, apparently with Quantum disks which were allegedly the best for replaying video frames. At the time I did not know LaCie was owned by Quantum. Back then there wasn't the internet to quickly Google brands so you only had marketing information to go on.

chx 9y ago
o_O Maxtor purchased Quantum in October 2000. This is the same month when Adwords left beta. What the heck are you talk of? By 2000 home broadband is beginnning to spread, dial up Internet is everyday in most of the so called developed world.

giobox 9y ago

I'd always assumed La Cie's storage business model the past however many decades was to take stock drives from other manufacturers and put them in nicely designed enclosures. The premium on their stuff has always seemed to correlate to the nicer materials and design on the cases, not the drives themselves. I guess occasionally they also seem to tap the early adopter market when a new storage interconnect comes out (FireWire 800, Thunderbolt etc). They often seem to be one of the first out of the gate with support when Apple add a new port.