LaCie Rugged All-Terrain 320 GB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 301832 by Lacie
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Digital camera reviews of LaCie Rugged All-Terrain 320 GB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 301832
Digital camera Review: DO NOT PURCHASE
Summary: 1 Stars
Terrible. I had another portable hard drive and "upgraded" to this one. The worst thing I did is I did not start using it upon arrival. Now that it's fully loaded with all my documents, it's TERRIBLE. After ONE MONTH of use, it gets very warm and is loosing it's connection to my laptop. It's larger than the others, which is fine because I thought it was more rugged but it doesn't work very good so the larger body is not worth it. I have not dropped, bumped, or misused this unit - not one time. I've been very careful with it. It keeps dropping the connection and then reconnecting (like I've unplugged it). NOW it's making a noice upon start up and takes a while before it will connect. I waited too long to use it and so now I can't return it to Amazon. Taking it as a full loss and going to Seagate GoFlex. TERRIBLE! Don't purchase. My IT department at the office is saying to never go with a LaCie. If you look at the other reviews, not many people that rate it high have used it for any length of time.Digital camera Review: Dead after a few hours
Summary: 1 Stars
First ever Amazon review... and it is a negative one. This item is almost (but not quite) DOA. I bought this item as a backup device. It received very light duty (for perhaps a total of 25 hours of operation). It sits on my home office desk, and was "plugged in" only long enough to copy files onto it. After just a few hours of operation, the unit ceased to function (can't be found by the host). Now, after "plugging in", I can hold it up to my ear and hear a metronomic clicking sound (I assume as the unit abortively attempts to initialize itself). Disappointing. I will steer clear of LaCie in future.Digital camera Review: Died on third use.
Summary: 1 Stars
I use this drive for monthly backups. I clone my Mac's harddrive onto it an HFS partition and clone a Linux netbook onto another. I did this for the first two months just fine. This time it died. Every time I try to start the backup it clicks and unmounts. Mac diagnostics indicates it cannot recover the drive. I will contact Lacie for repair. But this is the SECOND LaCie device that failed on me this way. So my opinion is that it sucks.Digital camera Review: Drive is worthless - buyer beware!
Summary: 1 Stars
DO NOT buy this piece of garbage. It may look cool, and have all the endorsements for shock protection this and that, but this hard drive is an expensive paperweight. I bought into the "rugged" factor, and no more than six months later, the drive died. Luckily I didn't have much on it, and had my stuff backed up elsewhere. But blowing $100+ is not my favorite pastime. May have been just my luck, or a lemon, but I'm still giving it a terrible review, because I spent some decent money on this, and no matter how crappy something is, it should last longer than 6 months for $100+.
And for a concept I've never understood... the Lacie one year warrenty? It might even by two years, who knows, but who wants to send a broken drive with personal data (which may be still accessible) into the hands of the unknown/a bunch of techies who can hack into anything. For 100 some odd bucks, I'd rather sleep at night and just buy another drive. Who knows who is taking apart the drive and trying to recover your info or fix the drive. So if they send me a new one, what happened to the old one? Did they safely dispose/destroy the drive or is some dude on the other side of the globe going through a trash bin of broken hard drives and cpus trying to get soc numbers, credit card numbers, etc.? Suddenly yachts starts showing up on my credit card bill - no thanks.
Well, my point is don't buy it for the warrenty, don't buy it for the looks, or convenience/compact size, because this drive is crap. I bought myself a g-raid mini (slightly smaller than this), which actually is elevated to let air circulate - bright idea, might want to think about it Lacie. I used the Lacie for video editing and animation - FCP and After Effects, Photoshop, etc. Took good care of it, did extensive research before purchasing it in order to get a quality long lasting drive, but have realized that they just make things so cheaply these days. I have an old school western digital drive from 6 years ago which still runs like the wind, and dvd burner from 9 years ago which still works with no drivers, both have surpassed more modern units I've tried to buy. If you like throwing [..] out the window, then go for it.
Digital camera Review: Drive quit working in less than a month old.
Summary: 2 Stars
Barely a month in use and it quit working. Having someone check the drive. See if its the volume. The computer sees it. It just not running.
Big disappointment.