LaCie Hard Disk 1 TB FireWire 400/USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton 301315U by Lacie
|
List Price: Category: CE See more digital camera details and other models |
|---|
(Click here)
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: Great LaCie quality
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this drive. The aesthetics are great, the footprint is small compared to other drives I've used, and the connection options are great.
Only wishes? Firewire 800 and an anodized aluminum enclosure--the shiny plastic is a fingerprint magnet, but it looks gorgeous.
Great buy!
Digital camera Review: Great Lacie Design meets subpar performance
Summary: 3 Stars
I've been using my Lacie drive for the past three months. The triple interface and great capacity is why I purchased this. If your computer has a firewire port, you'll take advantage of much faster real-world transfer rates over USB 2.0.
However, less than one month in, my drive, which is used as my Mac's time machine backup volume, would not mount in Finder. I was unable to repair it with Disk Utility, or Disk Warrior. Lacie support would not service the drive without me paying for shipping both ways and would not swap the drive. I found this disappointing for a company that has such a good track record with customer service. I had to wipe the drive and ended up losing all of my backup data.
The drive was good until today when the same symptoms happened. I will need to wipe the drive and start over. This is incredibly irritating and I'm not sure how to rectify this.
There is a chance that I have either a defective drive or software interfering with the drive, which is why I still rated this 3 stars. I would recommend turning Time Machine off and only manually backing up every week or so, to cut down on write-time to the disk.
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
Overall, this triple interface drive performs well. The LED light is a nice effect and like many other reviewers, I can attest that this drive runs a bit loud at times. Aside from my two major problems, the drive has performed ok.
Digital camera Review: Great drive / great price
Summary: 5 Stars
Picked up this drive after my second Western Digital failed - don't ask - I shouldve known not to go WD again after the first failure. Live and learn.
Anyway, was delighted to find this well reviewed, and good-looking LaCie at a great price.
The good: Sleek, minimalist, huge space, firewire 400, drive powers itself down when not in use.
The bad: A little loud, no firewire 800
All in all, this is a smart looking, sharply functioning drive. Big enough to dump heaps of music and photos, while also partitioning in a big enough chunk for system backup.
Digital camera Review: Great drive, not only looking but working.
Summary: 5 Stars
Recieved it and within 20 minutes was storing all my data. Great product, a little heavier than I thought but better looking. No problems transferring 300 initial gigs. The only flaw was the short USB cable but I can't wait to test esata port.Digital camera Review: Great drive, worth the money!
Summary: 4 Stars
This drive has a very fast transfer rate (at least when using the Firewire interface), runs quietly and cooly, and looks great without looking like some kind of space ship. Not to mention has loads of room. There isn't a better 1 TB external drive out that is better and cheaper, and I've gone through enough to know.