LaCie Hard Disk 1 TB FireWire 400/USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton 301315U by Lacie
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Digital camera reviews of LaCie Hard Disk 1 TB FireWire 400/USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton 301315U
Digital camera Review: 3 laCie hard drives wnt down after 1 year of use
Summary: 2 Stars
I work with a lot of images, and about a two years ago purchased three laCie hard drives, 500 gb, 1 tb and 1.5 tb. All three are dead now, and they all died same way - after a long non use period of time (from a week to a couple of months) you turn them on and nothing happens, they are dead, the disk is not spinning and no means can help. If you are looking for something reliable, please find something else.Digital camera Review: A little hiccup at first, but with a call to Lacie, all is good...
Summary: 4 Stars
It is a really a thing of beauty. Simple looking and elegant. Nice blue light underneath. These were might first impressions.
I plugged it into my computer, and the space under My Computer only said 9.99 MB!!! I couldn't believe that Lacie would send out a TB hard drive with 1/100,000 the space. I called Lacie support, waited on the phone for a while, and an agent told me I needed to right click My Computer>> Manage. Then there is option to manage disk drives. My computer recognized there was 931 GB unallocated. So I just needed to delete the only volume there of 10 MB, and then create a new larger volume.
In the end, it works, thanks to the good support from Lacie. It's quiet and doesn't overheat. I think my case was an aberration, but it could happen to more people.
Digital camera Review: AVOID! Loud - and endless permission problems so you cant even access it!
Summary: 1 Stars
This sleek backup drive is a pleasure to look at, and also great if you like hearing it clack like an old typewriter. Not only does it make loud, disturbing noises, but it constantly has permission errors. On a mac you get the error "you do not have sufficient privileges" to access the drive! You have to go into terminal and type out these complicated CHMOD commands to regain access, only to have it inexplicably happen again a few weeks later. At first I thought this error was caused by something other than the drive, perhaps the particular files being backed up, but I have two other hard drives (Western Digital and Maxtor) that perform the same functions as this one and backup the same files with the same software, and this problem never occurs with them. This piece of junk is also overpriced. DO NOT BUY IT.Digital camera Review: Above and Beyond Expectation
Summary: 5 Stars
It has been 10 months since I bought this hard-drive, and I have had nothing to complain about. The truly great experience - where you forget about it till you use it, it works, and then they forget about it again!
It has been very easy to use, very reliable, and completely silent - I am surprised that many found this noisy. Maybe they got a bad piece, or maybe they have very sensitive ears. I am not hearing-challenged, get irritated by the desktop fan, can discern when the computer makes less noise because of less programs running et. al, but have no complaints about this drive.
I have attached this with a USB 2.0 cable because it doesn't have firewire, but it works pretty fast. Take backups with Acronis and plain copy, and everything works fine.
And the form factor is sheer simplicity. The black color and the nice blue/green led light when on is so nice.
Now I have to see if they have another larger size I could buy! Too many home-videos on my MAC that could do with an external home!
Digital camera Review: An affordable terabyte with firewire... it's been good to me.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a home rig that's PC-based, but it's not ready to handle HD footage yet... as well as two PC based laptops equipped to do the same. A few months ago, I picked up a MacBook Pro and a deck-based HD camera from Sony (to go along with my two SD cameras and DSLR still cam). Needless to say, when capturing whole tapes (HD and SD), a ton of clips, or huge batches of RAW files, you really start to burn through gigs like they're megabytes from the the 90's (hope that makes sense). I wound up filling my MacBook's HDD up so much that it wasn't able to do it's OS updates.
I picked up the LaCie 1 terabyte drive (with eSATA, FW 400, USB 2.0) and had it installed and ready to roll within 5 minutes of receiving it at work. I've read some concerns that it doesn't have FW 800, but for a $150-170 terabyte drive, you can only expect so much. Since the drive is dedicated to my Mac I haven't used the eSATA connection, but I know for a fact that it's a great connection (speed-wise) for rigs able to accommodate that connection. The only connection I've used is the FW 400 (there are two of these ports), and I've found that transferring roughly 150 gigs over didn't take an excruciatingly long time. I've found the connection to be fast enough to edit SD video- reading and writing to the external drive. There's a bit of lag, but barely enough to notice or have any effect on syncing audio and video.
Design-wise... there's really nothing to say. I didn't seek a hard drive masquerading as art, I was looking for something with a decent rating, a good price, and 1 TB. There's no real design to speak of here... it's a shiny black box the size of a medium-largish print novel, and it has a blue LED that increases and decreases in luminosity as the drive does its job. You can't turn the light off, so if you really hate lights either turn the drive around or put some electrical tape over it. I don't find it distracting, personally. Pretty much everyone has mentioned that this thing collects fingerprints like Chris Hansen collects pedos, and they're all right. There's absolutely no way to handle the case without blemishing it unless you hold it from the bottom and pretend you're a waiter, which is probably not a good idea unless you've actually got the skills of a seasoned professional food service employee. It's too clean to stay clean, so if you have an obsessive compulsive disorder that causes you to make sure everything's spotless, stay away from this product. Personally, I don't care... it's a hard drive. A big fat terabyte of real estate.
If you picked up the Swiss Army backpack with your Mac (the one capable of holding the 17" model), rest assured that this drive will fit in the center pocket of that particular backpack unless you've already crammed that with books or stolen fast food condiments.
So far, the drive has worked flawlessly as both a drive to batch-dump massive amounts of data on, as well as work off of directly (as you would with most video applications, page layout and design apps, presentations, etc).
One brief note... I've read reviews about this drive and its noise or lack thereof. The only time I ever notice a noise on this thing is when I turn it on (there's a brief wind sound up as it starts to spin up), and occasional HDD noises you'd expect when initiating the drive or putting it through its paces in one way or the other. It sounds quiet... err... it barely sounds at all to me. It's about as loud as a hard drive-based laptop (one working well).