LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ 1 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 Desktop External Hard Drive 301199U by Lacie
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Digital camera reviews of LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ 1 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 Desktop External Hard Drive 301199U
Digital camera Review: solid External Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I have two of the 2TB LaCie external hard drives. I purchased both of them when they were first released on Amazon. Both drives have worked flawlessly. I have both connected via Firewire800. Highly recommended over the cheaper external drives. These are solid and reliable. Digital camera Review: it died in a year
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought a Lacie 301199u (1TB) last spring. It start making noise "clicking, clicking, ..." after 6 months. I read someone's review to complain the same problem and his disk is finally dead, so I hurry up backup all my files to a WD disk. I had no good luck either. Now, the Lacie 301199u cannot be mounted. When I use MAC OS X Disk Utilities as suggested, the tool cannot gather disk information of this disk. Well, it does not make noise any more, my Lacie 301199u died in a year. Digital camera Review: La Cie Terrabyte drive
Summary: 4 Stars
Performs as promised but would recommend the latest in upgrade on computer bus speed as to access this hard drive requires a few extra minutes of indexing when accessing info.Digital camera Review: Yet another failed drive!
Summary: 1 Stars
Sure, Lacie drives LOOK sexy, but beware: these drives are cursed! And, frankly, it's beyond belief how failure-prone they are; just search for reviews here, and on other sites, search google or whatever, and see for yourself: although there are *some* users who don't experience problems, those fortunate users are in fact the minority. The extremely small, lucky minority. The shocking state of affairs is that Lacie drives, especially the larger capacity ones, are just not very good quality and FAIL very very SOON on the vast majority of their customers.
I'm writing this because I JUST had this model drive fail on me! And this is the FOURTH Lacie drive I've had that's simply FAILED. They work fine for a while, then they start acting a *tad* funky (iffy mounting, whirrring noises) for a day or two, and then... FAIL!
About 4 years ago, i bought two 250G Lacie drives. And, after about a year one of those drives up-and-died on me. I thought "hmmm, bad luck, I guess?" So (stupidly) I bought another one, and at the same time bought a Lacie "Bigger Disk" (2TB RAID x4) at the same time to back up my video and music library. But then BAM! That Bigger Disk started acting and sounding really funny after about a month, so Lacie replaced it. And then THAT drive completely FAILED almost immediately, taking my entire music and video collection with it! So, Lacie (reluctantly) sent me THIS drive as a replacement (but offered no help w/ my lost data). That was about 9 months ago, and today, all of a sudden, with no warning, BAM! This drive failed too. Yay! This time I'm not even going to bother with dealing with Lacie. I'm just going to destroy it, and get another drive from another company. It's just not worth dealing with them. It's not worth the worry.
Lacie drives are simply terrible. They're shoddily put together, the parts are obviously very cheap, and their customer/tech service absolutely refuses to acknowledge that there's even a problem. It really is one of the worst product lines available in ANY industry... much less something that's supposed to be "safe and secure" and "reliable" so you can "back up" your precious data.
I'm by no means a "power" external hard drive user. I use them mostly for, well, "backing up" things. Like photoshop files, photos, videos, images, etc, etc. I rarely use them for "serious" AV or Music work, so I really push them to the limit. In fact, I keep them turned off most of the time. And yet the Lacies all failed anyway.
So last year I wised up and bought a Glyph as my main storage/AV drive, and then a MyBook 2TB to back EVERYTHING up. So, this time, my "backup" was "backed up". No thanks to Lacie.
Seriously, I can't stress this enough: AVOID THESE DRIVES AT ALL COST !!!
Digital camera Review: LaCie 2TB External HD
Summary: 5 Stars
It works great. It seems very fast and holds a lot. It is very quiet. Use it for back ups.