LaCie's Bigger Disk gets… bigger

After our various gripes about product names, we were pleased to discover the LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme, in capacities of 1, 1.6 and now 2TB (that's TB as in terabyte, as in 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, not TB as in tuberculosis). It's bigger than the average hard disk, it's a disk and it has an extremely fast Firewire 800 interface, hence Bigger Disk Extreme.

The only problem with this Orwellian newspeak is that it can't be sustained. The 2TB Bigger Disk Extreme holds more data than LaCie's 500Gb Big Disk Extreme, which is fair enough. However, with the upgrade to 2TB, it now holds as much data as the final model in the range, the Biggest F800. In September we'll be looking at the Bigger than the Biggest Disk Extreme, and then we'll get Even Bigger than the Biggest Disk Extreme, not to mention the Not So Big but More Extreme Disk.

Nevertheless, in a world where hard drives are increasingly sexy, we can't help being excited by the prospect of 2TB of storage, even if it does cost £1,525. That's enough space for over 100 hours of Mini DV footage, or over 15,000 hours of MP3 music. We'll have one. Each. -ML