LaCie

LaCie (pronounced Lah-See, for "The Company") is a 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

LaCie began life as two separate computer storage companies: as électronique d2 in Paris, France, and as LaCie in Portland, Oregon, USA. The parent company, électronique d2 began in 1989 in Paris, France, and LaCie, which was later bought out by électronique d2, began in 1987 in Tigard, Oregon. 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.