LaCie Offers Unlimited Online Backups For a Year With Hard Drive Purchase [Storage]

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/lacie_5big_01.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="487" style="display:block;float:none;" /LaCie, designers of some of the a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/lacie/"best looking hard drives around/a, are offering one full year of unlimited online data backup free of charge when you purchase any one of their external drives. Each drive will be bundled with Carbonite's storage technology that promises to automatically back up the LaCie drive (when the computer is idle) "by finding new and modified files, encrypting them twice before leaving the original workstation, then transmitting them by HTTPS (SSL) to a secure data center, where the information remains encrypted." All-in-all, the package represents a $50 value. The promotion is applicable to all drives purchased after October 15th and customers can start taking advantage the free online storage beginning next month./p blockquote p"LaCie Carbonite Partnership"br New One Year Unlimited Online Backup Offer/p p· Unlimited online backup for one full year at no additional costbr · Carbonite software available on LaCie drives after October 15thbr · Automatic backups provide complete data securitybr · Data encryption ensures user privacy/p pPORTLAND, OR (October 2008) * LaCie announced today a new service package tobr benefit hard drive consumers: LaCie One Year Online Backup. This uniquebr service provides unlimited online backup for one full year afterbr installation with the purchase of any LaCie external storage device./p pRecognizing the importance of secure digital media for both consumers andbr professional users, LaCie has partnered with Carbonite, Inc., an innovatorbr in online backup technology, to ensure that each LaCie drive purchased willbr be bundled with their award-winning services./p pFor one year following software installation Carbonite will automaticallybr backup the LaCie drive by finding new and modified files, encrypting thembr twice before leaving the original workstation, then transmitting them bybr HTTPS (SSL) to a secure data center, where the information remainsbr encrypted, protecting the user¹s privacy. Additionally, backups arebr completed only when the computer is idle, so the process never interferesbr with computer performance./p p³Taking into account the quality of information users place on our drives webr wanted to go beyond our expertise in hardware to provide the best options tobr our customers,² said Philippe Spruch, LaCie Chief Executive Officer. ³LaCiebr Online Backup provides one year of unlimited online storage to showcase thebr importance of backup strategies that keep data safe, and our dedication tobr helping users get there.²/p pLaCie is known for developing security technology products for Mac, PC, andbr Linux users, and the creation of the LaCie One Year Online Backup packagebr aims to increase the overall value to consumers who choose to manage theirbr digital content through external hardware. LaCie One Year Online Backup willbr be available in November for PC users, with a Mac version to be released atbr a later date./p pAvailabilitybr Unlimited LaCie Online Backup will be available at no extra charge for onebr full year beginning November 2008 on LaCie consumer hard drives./p /blockquote p[a href="http://www.lacie.com/us/"LaCie/a and a href="http://www.carbonite.com/"Carbonite/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3901800d133d95080064e38fb1aebdb2" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=XTqcyOZP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=oRqLJZQf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=fCv0aFQw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=fCv0aFQw" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=IZeGfH5w"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=IZeGfH5w" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/lTUB8p_gvK4" height="1" width="1"/