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Very slow and it failed

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Disadvantages: Failed and no guarantee from Lacie

...My drive failed only half way through its two year guarantee period. Lacie do not offer any data recovery only repair. I then found out that they will not honor their guarantee even after a specialist data recovery firm using all the required clean rooms ...

PaulRobinson01 11.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Desktop 1 TB

Black Box

Advantages: Inexpensive with a large capacity
Disadvantages: a bit noisy

I have several Lacie external hard-disks attached to my Apple Mac computers and have mostly found them to be reliable, quiet and fast, until a few weeks ago when one of them (a 500GB Porsche designed one which I purchased about 18 months ago) failed. I ne ...

AndrewPo 09.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Hard Disk Design by Neil Poulton hard drive - 1 TB - USB 2.0

Great capacity hard disk for the price, stylish and simple too.

Advantages: Great Value, very reliable
Disadvantages: Short cables, and shows up fingerprints

I purchased the LaCie 1TB as my first external hard drive, about 6 months ago. I wasn't sure how much space I would be needing, but as the LaCie was on offer for £75 for 1TB I couldn't really resist. The promotional literature for this Hard disk seems to ...

salmonchaplin 14.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Hard Disk Design by Neil Poulton hard drive - 1 TB - USB 2.0

Stylish USB Hard Drive

Advantages: Stylish, fast and realiable.
Disadvantages: Noisier than other drives, cache size varies.

I purchased this LaCie drive about 1 year ago, and I can happily report that it is still going strong. The drive uses a 3.5" hard drive in a case that connects it up to a USB2 port. As it is a large drive, it does require a power cable. In the box ...

afccarl1994 22.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Hard Disk Design by Neil Poulton hard drive - 1 TB - USB 2.0

This drive is amazing

Advantages: USB, eSATA, FW800 & 400, all cables included, aluminum heat sink design, compact, high capacity
Disadvantages: a bit heavy

I bought the 2TB desktop drive in 2010. It's been working flawlessly. When purchasing this drive, you get the hard drive itself, a cable for each of the connection ports (USB, eSATA, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800), the AC cord, Genie and Intego Backup Ass ...

Ewing12 29.06.2011 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk 2 TB