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: Great Drives
Summary: 5 Stars
I've got 3 of these drives now: a 40GB one I bought about 8 years years ago (called the Pocket drive then), a 120 GB from a few years ago, and a 320 GB which I've had about a year now. I use these purely for backing up: I do clone backups of my main computers, and I keep two sets of clones. I have the 320 partitioned into 3 and I put clones of 3 different computers on it (80 GB each one). These little drives are great because of the size....they fit nicely in a bank safe deposit box, and can also be carried around with you easily if necessary. They are bus powered via firewire, so you don't need to mess with a power cord. They are fast. The drive does get hot, which is why you do your backing up and then disconnect it. I haven't had one die yet. In fact, I've been buying various La Cie drives for backup purposes since the early 1990's, and out of the 10 or 12 I've bought, only one has died...that was one of the Porsche drives from a few years ago, and it died after maybe a year or so, just wouldn't start one day. But other than that one, I'm very happy with the La Cie brand and that's why I keep buying them. Also, I like having the 3 connection possibilities in one drive, although the only one I currerently use is the Firewire 400. Since these drives don't have fans, I suspect they would NOT be a good drive to leave on all the time as you would with other types of external drives. These are strictly for backup storage in my opinion.Digital camera Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
Worked great out of the box. Had it for a month with no problems so far...Digital camera Review: Great drive
Summary: 5 Stars
This external drive is great. I haven't dropped it yet to test its ruggedness, but I'm sure it will happen someday. Ive been using it with a MacBook Pro and it's fantastic. You plug it in and a few minutes later you are set for life! It works very well with Time Machine.
Only problem; it gets a little hot, but which drive doesn't right? Also, did it really have to be orange? They sell other skins for it, but they should have just used a different color on this product.
Overall, great drive. I'm very happy I bought it.
Digital camera Review: Great drive
Summary: 5 Stars
The drive works great. I like it because it runs great using only firewire for power off my Macbook. Easy to carry around as well. The FW 800 port is also handy for downloading stuff to my Mac Pro.
The Lacie Ruggeds definitely work better than the WD passport, and Pina Farina portrable hard drives that I've used.
The only downside I can think of, is the included firewire 400 cable is a little too stiff, and tends to tweak the port on my laptop if it's not laying in just the right way. I've starting using a thin firewire cable from a Lexar Card reader and it works much better with the laptop.
Digital camera Review: Great for the price, but not so good for very large file backups.
Summary: 4 Stars
I own two of these and I use them to backup my ever growing library of home videos. This might not have been the best choice for that purpose, as regardless of what the data transfer rate on the firewire is supposed to be, they bog down badly when transferring files that are hundreds of megabytes in size, like avi files.
However, they do the job. I've got two of them. One is at home backing up stuff, and the other is in off-site storage in a safe deposit box should the unthinkable happen. Every so often I rotate the two so that they are perpetually kept up to date.
And, the one thing I really don't care about is the orange color.
So, with these I was able to implement a genuine off-site backup solution for about two hundred and fifty bucks. Not bad at all.