LaCie Rugged All-Terrain 250 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Portable External Hard Drive 301291 by Lacie
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Digital camera reviews of LaCie Rugged All-Terrain 250 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Portable External Hard Drive 301291
Digital camera Review: Excellent Connectivity and Design
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are like me and use portable drives on a regular basis...then this drive is for you. I LoVE it!!! It is rugged enough so that I dont have to worry if it slips out of my hands or gets bounced around my bag. It is a little bigger then most portable drives...but not big enough for me to give it a bad review.
The connectivity on this drive just blows away the competition. I mean USB, Firewire 400, Firewire 800... that pretty much handles it all.
The drive is bus powered but also has the option to be powered by an AC Adaptor that can be purchased separately.
The speeds of this drive are awesome and due to the various options cannot be compared to anything else.
Get one asap...you wont be sorry.
Digital camera Review: Expensive but good
Summary: 4 Stars
In the last few months I dropped/killed two hard drives so this time I went for the rugged one. It's fat and ugly but I hope it will give more protection than the regular ones - although I don't want to test it but incident could happen...
I have a MacBook Pro so I bought the triple interface drive to be able to use the speed of the FW800 and I am not disappointed, it is much faster than USB 2.0. I am looking forward to buy the rubber set with different colors because I don't like the orange but currently they are not available. For this price at least one other color could have been included in the package.
Digital camera Review: External hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
Very nice product at a great price.
I would buy another in a minute.
Digital camera Review: Fast, Simple, Reliable
Summary: 4 Stars
LaCie Rugged Hard Disk is indeed about as "rugged" as these inherently touchy machines can be.
It is fairly simple to install and use. My only complaint (a very minor one) is the lack of any external light indicating its status (e.g., connected and functioning). Since it is important that such devices not be disconnected from a computer while still in operational mode, a signal light indicating the drive's status would have been nice. However, it does its job very easily and quickly -- fully meriting a 4-star rating.
Digital camera Review: FireWire makes all the difference
Summary: 5 Stars
I looked at several different manufacturers of hard drives before settling on LeCie. Although other brands had better prices, I have a Mac and decided to go with LeCie because it interfaces well. Set up was simple and I was able to transfer my iTunes and iPhoto library easily. I mistakenly purchased the non-firewire unit for myself. I never realized the difference between transferring data via usb and firewire until I bought the firewire version for my husband. His iTunes library is 3-4 times the size of mine yet the data transfer was actually faster. LeCie makes a great hard drive and it's worth the extra money to upgrade to the firewire version.