LaCie on Tuesday announced the Porsche Design Mobile Drive as the world's first external hard drive with a built-in USB-C port. The LaCie Mobile Drive features a reversible cable that supports Apple's latest MacBook with USB-C technology, delivering data transfer speeds up to 100 MB/s for quickly transferring photos, videos and other files or backing up with Time Machine."The LaCie™ Mobile Drive features a USB-C port — the user-friendly connector of the future. This new technology makes the LaCie Mobile Drive incredibly easy to connect, since both ends of the cable are identical and the connector is reversible. As a result, there is no need to worry about which end goes to which device or about plugging it in upside down."The LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive is made with a 3 mm-thick solid aluminum enclosure designed to match the look of Apple's latest MacBook and other anodized aluminum products. The external hard drive will be available next quarter in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and also includes an adapter with standard USB 3.0 (Type-A) or USB 2.0 ports for backwards compatibility with older Macs or USB-equipped devices.
Pricing information was not disclosed.
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62 months ago
Certainly possible, except for one important consideration: not all devices with Type-C connection can supply 100Watts of power.
There would have to be some sort of notation or mark to indicate what power could be provided from any particular computer. For example, how much power might the new Macbook deliver from its Type-C connector?
We only know that the new charger for the Macbook is rated to supply 29Watts to charge the Macbook. A far cry from 100Watts.
What's interesting is that the including power supply doesn't follow the fixed profiles of the USB Power Delivery Specification.
Still, anything which can support Profile 2 should provide enough power for most external desktop hard drives.
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