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 little drive!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've used LaCie drives for years and they seem to fail far less often than other drives I've used (WD, Seagate, Maxtor.) Perhaps one of the reasons that my hard drives fail often is that I tend to be a little rough on them. I edit video, often on location, so I drag my drives all over the place. I'm hoping with it's rubberized shell, this LaCie will go the distance. I love that it is self-powered so I don't have to lug a power adapter with me. It's one of the few portable drives that is fast enough for video editing. I purchased the case LaCie Cozy 3.5-Inch Hard Drive Carrying Case 130903 (Grey) for it as well to further protect it. I'll update this review if it dies.
Update: I've used this drive for a year and it's still going strong. I'm going to upgrade to a larger capacity model soon.
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Digital camera Review: Great portable drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I've used several of these and they all work great. I do miss the dual firewire plug.Digital camera Review: Have Used the 120 GB Version of this HDD for 2 Years with Zero Problems
Summary: 5 Stars
Two years ago, I got the 120 GB version of this LaCie Rugged drive for my MacBook Pro. Since then, I have used it with the FireWire 400 interface almost exclusively. I have used the USB 2.0 interface as well, just not near as much so as to keep the 2 USB ports on my MacBook Pro available for other devices that do not support FireWire. In fact, this was one reason for my initial purchase - the flexibility of the triple-interface design.
I use this drive literally every day, as it stores my iTunes & iPhoto libraries, both of which are quite large. I also use it to carry these libraries to my desktop iMac for backup. The drive has performed flawlessly over the two years I have had it. Only once did it act like it had crashed (it wouldn't mount), but running DiskWarrior (an indespensible product if you have a Mac, BTW) on it & rebuilding the drive's directory structure resolved the problem. Since this was a logical (data) error instead of a physical / mechanical one, I do not pin this on the drive itself, but rather the OS or an application - Hence the "Zero problems" in the title of my review.
On top of this great functionality, I love the design of this drive. It looks very cool - I like the orange "bumpers" around the circumference of the drive contrasted against the silver body.
Bottom-line? I would buy another one of these drives in a second if I needed it.
Digital camera Review: I have two
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not an expert on computer items, but these both( I bought two) work well.Digital camera Review: LaCie 320GB
Summary: 5 Stars
This portable hard drive is all I expected it to be. Compact, easy to use, fast.