LaCie External Data Storage with Free Online Storage from Carbonite

Lacie, one of the pioneers in portable personal external storage devices has partnered with Carbonite to offer offsite backup services free for one year for every external hard drive device sold.  This is an added bonus to LaCie buyers, giving them a greater sense of security and peace of mind knowing that they’ve got a secure data redundancy in the form of an offsite backup.

LaCie is a prominent name in the Mac market, as they have been manufacturing external storage devices for the Mac since the 1980’s. Their backup solutions are scaleable and easy to install, setup, schedule and maintain.  The company’s current offerings is up to 7.5TB capacity in a 5-disk set of RAID 5 or RAID 6.  Though it has concentrated on Mac solutions, LaCie has other products compatible with Windows, as well as home entertainment solutions.

With last year’s introduction of Time Machine, the Mac OS X backup software, Mac users can easily backup their hard disk contents to an external drive with no problem at all.  Now with the partnership between LaCie and Carbonite, Mac users concerned that their data (and the backup) would disappear in case of fire or theft have a Plan B in the form of an offsite backup at a secure data center.

Carbonite ensures that the backup is secure by encrypting the data twice before uploading to a secure data center.  User privacy and further security is assured as the data remains encrypted while at the data center.  Strictly speaking, the backup cycles are not on a fixed schedule as the process is only active during the Mac’s idle cycles.