Hard Drives > LaCie Hard Drives

Advantages: Capacity, looks, decent manual, cheap
Disadvantages: A bit slow, a lot to lose in one go

...years ago. The LaCie (pronounced Lassie, like the dog) 1TB unit is a reasonably basic device that only has a USB2 (although USB1 is supported) interface and comes with a suitable lead, external power supply and software CD. It can work with both PCs and Macs although by default it's formatted for PC use so Mac users will need to reformat it first but that's no hardship really. On first opening the box, it looks really good with a great finish making ...
...drives suffer. The LaCie tries to be as quiet as possible with a case designed to cool passively but it does have a fan around the back that kicks in when needed. In my case, this was fairly often but then I only tend to switch the drive on to use it, it's rarely left idling. The front contains an on/off button that also doubles as a power and activity light. The combination of blue against the aluminium case is pretty nice so thumbs up there. A ... Read review

Advantages: Fast transfer speed, protection from knocks and drops
Disadvantages: Fairly high price

The LaCie Rugged All-Terrain External 250 hard-drive is a portable storage device which will allow you to store 250gb of multimedia files such as pictures, music and video. You will obviously also be able to hold documents and other files as well (e.g. software installations). Measuring at 9 cm wide, 14.5 cm long, 2.5 cm in height and weighing just 250 grams, making the LaCie external hard-drive very light as well as portable. The hard-drive is ...
...amount. So, looking at the LaCie external hard-drive you will be looking at a memory capacity of 230-240 GB, which in this case is not a large chunk, but is still considerable. There is no known reason why all hard-drives (including the LaCie) have less memory than stated, it may be due to the internal disk within the outer case not being able to hold the stated amount or it may be that company's want to make a profit out of its customers. No on ... Read review

Advantages: looks nice, works fine and i havent broken it yet!
Disadvantages: on/off button a little fiddly, short usb cable (can be extended)

I am a VERY clumsy person and this thing has inevitably been dropped, thrown, kicked, trodden on and sat on. It still works. recently it's started making quite a loud noise but that was after being thrown off a bed while being read from so I think thats my fault, not the product. it looks neat and is really compact. because it's flat you can have it whichever way up you want and you can put stuff on top of it which is always a plus. on/off switch ...
...it is so i dont think it's really a problem. I think it's pretty much an ideal hard drive. it's cheap, compact, looks nice and most importantly, is pretty much indestructible. one thing i'll mention about my ratings is that I've put manufacturer help and user manual as satisfactory because I've never had a reason to use them ******************************************************************* ************ Update. I didn't know we got reviewed ... Read review

Advantages: Large Capacity and handly
Disadvantages: Expensive

External hard drive - 7200 rpm - IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB this i brilliant to have a lard hardisk , with high speed aUSB now u can take ur harddisk ain ur bag to any where and u dont have to delete any thing from it . u can download store alot more musiq , games , movies and data files to it and alot more than ur imaginations a external hard drive 7200 rpm With hi - speed UsB gosh i m gonna love it, fast proccessing ... Read review

Advantages: 300MBs per second plus 500GBs
Disadvantages: nothing

The interface transfer rate of this 3gigabit hard drive is phenomenal! Its literally blisteringly fast at almost 300 MBs per second. Now this is faster than most dual-core pcs can manage and its a shame this isn't a desktop processor instead! I usually got around 281 MBs when testing it at work and this really is designed for speedy transfers. I like the ease of use of this hard drive, which is twice as fast as offerings currently on the market. ...
...The tower-like appearance with a stable base and contemporary white casing is a pleasing move by Lacie. Its slim, rectangualer design means that it is a space saver and can be stored upright close to your pc. Performance Its a superb platform for archiving and backing up your media files such as dvds, videos, JPEGS etc due to its blisteringly fast transfer rate. The Firewire 800 and Firewire 400 software that is provided works well with both windows ... Read review