Just looking at the picture, wouldn’t it be a shame if the Porsche-inspired USB hard drive from LaCie got a scratch on it? Not many tech products are designed after household names like Porsche, but it seems LaCie is making a good business out of it.

The exclusive design is available in 500GB and 1TB sizes, with an even more exclusive 750GB version only available at Porsche stores. Wouldn’t that be odd: “Honey, I’m going down to the Porsche dealership to pick up a hard drive to expand the TiVo box.” But after she saw the hard drive, I’m sure she would understand.

So when you can find a 500GB USB hard drive for about $80, why bother? Drop another $20 and get the LaCie Porsche version. Now that is money well spent.

For the tech folks, it’s USB 3.0, so you get great transfer rates. For the Uber-Geek, forget about Thunderbolt — the spec had just come out at the time, and I’m sure it took Porsche at least six months just to approve the design. So stop getting theoretical on me about why it should be Thunderbolt and get some perspective.

For those who ended up buying a bulk lot of the LaCie drives (image-conscious marketing companies come to mind), may I suggest a USB hard drive copier like the one from Nexcopy to make data loading a quick task?

Source: LaCie News.