Everyone likes a lot of storage, but with the number of network-attached devices proliferating at an ever-increasing rate it can be hard to decide what device ought to get that nice shiny new disk. LaCie’s latest piece of hardware helps you avoid that dilemma. The Lacie LaPlug is a small (4.5″ x 4.5″ x 1.5″) box equipped with four USB 2.0 jacks that will allow you to share hard drives, flash drives or even PostScript printers on your local network (multifunction printers aren’t supported).
Everyone likes a lot of storage, but with the number of network-attached devices proliferating at an ever-increasing rate it can be hard to decide what device ought to get that nice shiny new disk. LaCie’s latest piece of hardware helps you avoid that dilemma. The Lacie LaPlug is a small (4.5″ x 4.5″ x 1.5″) box equipped with four USB 2.0 jacks that will allow you to share hard drives, flash drives or even PostScript printers on your local network (multifunction printers aren’t supported).
The LaPlug connects to your network via either a Gigabit Ethernet port or 802.11b/g/n wirelessly. Since the device serves as a DLNA/UPnP server, photos, music and video can be streamed from the attached drives to a PlayStation3, XBox 360 and some smartphones. It supports the FAT32, NTFS, HFS and HFS+ (journaled and unjournaled) filesystems, so it can be used for both Windows and Mac backup duties. Functionally the device is similar to the company’s Network Space 2 product, except in this case you supply the hard drives.
The LaCie LaPlug retails for $74.99 and is available now.
