In order to fuel further growth, D2 brought in external investors, selling a 10 percent stake to venture capital group 3i Investors in Industry that year. The investment pr ovided D2 with the capital it needed to enter the North American mark etplace. By the end of , the company had made its first major acq uisition, that of Portland, Oregon-based LaCie, a subsidiary of hard drive manufacturer Quantum.
Founded in and acquired by Quantum i n , LaCie had developed a range of products complementary to D2's own line, coupled with a strong brand name and proprietary software technologies.
Yet LaCie offered other advantages to D2. The company's relationship with Quantum, a major supplier of drives used in D2's l ine, enabled D2 to renegotiate its purchasing agreement with Quantum.
At the same time, LaCie enjoyed the exclusive rights to develop Appl e-branded external hard drives. The combined company now laid claim to being the largest aftermarket data storage supplier for the Apple computer market. D2 prepared for a new phase of growth, moving to larger headquarters in Massy in The public offering helped the company in its next series of investme nts. In , for example, the company made a brief foray into the af ter-sales repair and maintenance sector, buying up NATI.
In the meantime, D2 added new markets, including Sweden and Canada i n , and the launch of an Australian subsidiary in By then, the company had decided to regroup its operations under a si ngle brand name, LaCie. The company itself adopted the LaCie brand na me in , then opened a communications office in London as part of a worldwide public relations effort.
Also in that year, the company a cquired another U. An important factor in LaCie's continuing success was its ability to adapt to the changing computer market. Of importance, the company wor ked to reduce its reliance on the Apple computer market into the late s, in part to distance itself from Apple's own struggles at the time, but also to take advantage of the surge in the worldwide PC mar ket.
The rise of multimedia-equipped computers in the mids creat ed a new demand for larger and faster data storage solutions. LaCie r esponded with a number of innovative and highly successful products, such as its external 2.
The comp any also expanded its presence in the high-end professional graphics and corporate markets with the launch of its own high-end flat-panel displays, such as an inch display launched in LaCie expanded beyond its core European and American markets as well, adding a Japa nese subsidiary that year. The development of a consumer market for high-capacity, high-speed st orage devices encouraged LaCie to launch itself into the retail chann el for the first time in Until then, the company's products had been sold through catalogs, or by value-added resellers, and remaine d geared toward the professional and corporate markets.
Yet the consu mer market, driven by music and video applications, became one of the data storage market's primary growth drivers. The arrival of new-gen eration high-capacity drives, as well as the CD writers, followed by DVD writers, opened a new range of possibilities for consumers. LaCie launched its Big Disk in , an external hard drive featuring gigabytes of capacity. The company also responded to the develop ment of a new generation of high-speed transfer protocols with the la unch of its first Triple Interface hard drives, which featured USB 2.
The company also teamed up with the FA Porsche design t eam, developing a new line of sleek and sophisticated products.
LaCie continued developing high-capacity storage devices. In , fo r example, the company launched its Bigger Disk, featuring one terrab yte of storage capacity. These hard drives are designed keeping in mind the type of rough use the external as well as the internal components might encounter.
The Porsche Design Drive, which is deemed a personal external drive, also comes in many different sizes. These Rugged backup machines are very portable and can be brought on the go with you and your computer. The Rugged drive is also water resistant, drop resistant, shock resistant, and has an SSD option. It must have USB 2. Therefore, since it must use a stationary drive, you cannot connect a portable drive to your Canon XL H1A video camera.
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