Thread: LaCie Rikki portable hard drive

If James Bond took a portable hard drive it would be LaCie’s Rikiki. Definitely his range would fire harpoons and self-destruct with the press of a button but it would appear and function a lot like this less-known wonder. The Rikikiwhich means litle in French is between the smallest and subsequently most portable hard drives on the industry and it doesn’t sacrifice speed or jack up the cost to get there.

Like LaCie’s same simple-but-refined Network Space 2 the Rikiki rise black box to an art form. The chassis is just a rectangle extruded from aluminum and anodized black but the sharp corner and brushed grain give it more words than anything you can create out of plastic.



At 4.3 inches in length 2.9 wide and half an inch thick the Rikiki lives up to its name It’s skinnier than Western Digital’s My Passport Elite a full inch shorter than Iomega’s eGo and beats Seagate’s Free Agent Goby the same counted. Unless you want to go concrete view you really can’t get very smaller.

Even if the Rikiki would happily live in a pocket the angular graphic does come back to bite it into this regard. The corners as this thing could double as weapons wherein another reason Bond would have the Rikiki. The prickly corner came comparatively close to tearing our pockets when sliding in and out and looked like they could easily chew through denim with sufficient wear over time. Save this one for the backpack.