LaCie's new Golden Disk external hard drive sports a unique, liquid-gold look from designer Ora-Ito, with fanless operation and a 500 GB capacity. Boasting a unique liquid-inspired, shiny gold casing by famed designer Oro-Ïto, the Golden Disk offers USB 2.0 connectivity (via a single port) and comes with backup software for both Windows and Mac OS X. The drive itself is a 7,200 rpm device with an 8 MB cache and an average seek time less than 11ms. Perhaps best of all, the fanless drive offers nearly silent operation. "The Golden drive encompasses all that is glamour while having the guts to perform flawlessly with glowing performance," said LaCie's Lise Manteau. "Coming preloaded with utilities for automatic backups, the Golden Disk shines with its ease-of-use when needing to exchange information with friends and family." Expect to see it in October at a retail price of $189.

Source: http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/1..._disk_is_golden

gold, the best conductor for electricity...

At room temperatures silver and copper are much better.

Not really..silver and copper heats up the fastest too.. it all depends on how you look at it..

Thnk you for the correction, but I stand by my biased fact that I downloaded from the internut.
That aside, if that casing is pure gold
- Either it get stolen frequently
- Sources of electrocuted death XD

$189 wont be real gold..real gold would cost even more lolz

but its nice..but i want it in other paint job other than this gold

i think real gold mix with other stuff...

Sterling silver coated with gold XD

which means it still conduct electricity, and can be short circuited XD

Maybe it's just gold leaf? Or plated with gold but the casing isn't gold itself. After all...gold is soft.

Should check on how percentage of gold that they're incorporating to the case.

Many metal hard drive cases today. Not that big a difference really. If it is strong enough to kill you with this case, it's strong enough to kill you with any case. The human body's resistivity makes the case resistivity look like nothing. And besides, the power brick converts the voltage to 12v before it reaches the case. So no instant death for anyone. Unless that person tries to be an hero.

i was just being sarcastic thank you very much. And my first fact still stands. It will be stolen frequently

Bro...your full of theory man...

Technically, in Europe, it is mandated that electronics conforming to EU standards come with grounded metal cases , this is also due to EU laws on radiated waves by electronic devices.

So was i. And my facts also stand. Fancy that.


I'm sure you're full of it too.

he must be some engineer of some sort...

it's not even gold

its gold lookalike (= gold look)

obviously its not gold.. haha..

with that price can get gold at that size?
dream...
what i think its just gold coating or gold plated..
its just design purpose lo..

you didnt read my post properly


its not even gold coating/plated

it is gold lookalike