LaCie’s Crazy $1,100 Chrome Desktop SSD Storage Thingy

Meet LaCie Chrome, a $1,100 external SSD designed by award winning technology designer Neil Poulton, who has been collaborating with LaCie since 2008. Inside you’ll find two 500GB M.2 SSDs running together as a RAID0 array that are capable of sequential data transfer speeds of up to 940 MB/s over a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C interface. Not too many external drives feature USB 3.1 Gen 2 technology for 10 Gb/s of bandwidth potential, but this is one of the few that does. LaCie describes the Chrome as a “trophy for tech connoisseurs.”

LaCie notes that this level of performance lets users ingest two hours of 4K GoPro footage in a little over one minute and that architectural and 3D modeling tasks will be smoother and faster.

When we saw the LaCie Chrome at CES 2016 it did look like a trophy, but it seemed to blend in with the environment too much and didn’t stand out as something that would cost over a grand.

The demo table in a banquet room certainly doesn’t look as good as the well lit press release images that we were given!

The other thing that we noticed is that is showed fingerprints and smears really bad and the LaCie booth staff had to give it a good rub down after each tech journalist touched it.

The LaCie Chrome is a unique desktop SSD storage device, but it’s expensive and made for those that have FU money and are looking to make a statement in their office!