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LaCie Hard Disk, a USB 2.0 cable, an external power supply with both a UK and a US power cable, a Quick Install Guide and LaCie Utilities already preloaded on the drive (User Manual, LaCie '1-Click' Backup Software for Windows & Mac, LaCie SilverKeeper Backup ... Read review
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design in professional storage. The LaCie Golden Disk adds a daring uniqueness to your work environment. Its distinctive golden wave design created for LaCie by the world-renowned designer Ora-to brings a liquid-motion look to your digital life. With Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface this cross-platform hard drive can be used with your PC or Mac. Simply plug it in to instantly store all of your treasured files music photos and video in one central location. Its plug&play driver-free (Windows 2000 Windows XP&Mac OS X) and fan-free for quiet operation. The Golden Disk comes with our LaCie 1-Click Backup Software for easy backups (Windows&Mac).---
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design in professional storage. The LaCie Golden Disk adds a daring uniqueness to your work environment. Its distinctive golden wave design created for LaCie by the world-renowned designer Ora-to brings a liquid-motion look to your digital life. With Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface this cross-platform hard drive can be used with your PC or Mac. Simply plug it in to instantly store all of your treasured files music photos and video in one central location. Its plug&play driver-free (Windows 2000 Windows XP&Mac OS X) and fan-free for quiet operation. The Golden Disk comes with our LaCie 1-Click Backup Software for easy backups (Windows&Mac).---
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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 needed a replacement and after quite a lot of research decided to risk buying a Lacie again.
Build Quality
This is an inexpensive 1TB (approximately 1000 GB) disc in ... ...interface. All of my other Lacie drives have FireWire, which was much faster than USB 1.1 (400 Mbps versus 12 Mbps), but USB 2.0 is actually faster (480 Mbps) and seems to be becoming the industry standard because it is cheaper to implement. Firewire800 is faster still at 800 Mbps but is rarely used. Firewire has the advantage that it can be daisy-chained (e.g. several disks pluged into one FireWire port) whereas USB is hub-based requiring a USB ... more
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 needed a replacement and after quite a lot of research decided to risk buying a Lacie again.
Build Quality
This is an inexpensive 1TB (approximately 1000 GB) disc in a stylish compact case: 4.6 x 7.6 x 1.8 inches, which is actually slightly larger than the previous Porsche designed models, so it doesn't stack neatly with them. The power-supply is separate and the case has no cooling fan. The design is very simple and neat with a fairly robust looking case and a shiny black finish. The power switch and connections are at the rear and a strip light runs along the bottom of the case, at the front, giving an interesting blue glow from underneath. This would not look out of place in a lounge, attached to a HiFi or home cinema system. I was impressed with the styling and apparent quality, when I took it out of the box, but by the time I had plugged it in, the case was covered in dust (O.K. maybe I should have cleaned my desk before I started installing it) which shows up very well on the shiny black surface. I am also not sure how resilient it will be to scratches. The most important thing however is how robust the disk inside is, which I have yet to find out.
Connectivity and compatibility
The disk-drive has just one USB 2.0 interface. All of my other Lacie drives have FireWire, which was much faster than USB 1.1 (400 Mbps versus 12 Mbps), but USB 2.0 is actually faster (480 Mbps) and seems to be becoming the industry standard because it is cheaper to implement. Firewire800 is faster still at 800 Mbps but is rarely used. Firewire has the advantage that it can be daisy-chained (e.g. several disks pluged into one FireWire port) whereas USB is hub-based requiring a USB port for each disk.
What do you get in the box:
LaCie Hard Disk, a USB 2.0 cable, an external power supply with both a UK and a US power cable, a Quick Install Guide and LaCie Utilities already preloaded on the drive (User Manual, LaCie '1-Click' Backup Software for Windows & Mac, LaCie SilverKeeper Backup Software (Mac), LaCie Setup Assistant)
Is it any good?
This disk-drive is billed a being quiet (fanless), stylish and fast all for an affordable price. It is certainly inexpensive (I paid £87 from Amazon and it will probably be even cheaper now) It doesn't have a fan, so there is no fan-noise, but the disk itself is fairly noisy. It probably wouldn't be annoyingly loud in a lounge home cinema or HiFi situation although would occasionally be audible. In an office it would be quite acceptable. Obviously the speed of the device is not just down to the speed of the interface used, but using my newish macbook I would guess that it is about as fast as the other Lacie disks, using FireWire (I haven't done accurate speed tests) My old iMac only has USB 1.1 which of course would have been painfully slow, but I have not been able to make that work, yet. This is probably because the old iMac has an old version of the Mac OS X 10.2 so I would probably need to reformat the disk or instal a later version of the OS to make it work, which I won't bother trying.
Ease of Use
This really is a "plug and play" device. I took it out of the box, plugged it in, turned it on, followed the simple on-screen setups menu, using the default setting, which took about a minute. After that it was simply a case of clicking on the Lacie icon on the screen to access the disk drive in the usual way. Unfortunately when I then unmounted it and tried plugging it into my old iMac (as described above) it wasn't recognised, although it does clearly state in the specification that only OS X 10.3 and later are supported. It took about 7 hours to backup nearly 1TB of data from four of my other disks although if I had done it using USB 1.1 it would have taken a week.
Specifications
Capacity : 1 TB Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Rotational Speed (rpm) : 7200 Cache : 8MB Transfer Rate : Up to 480Mbits/s (60MB/s) Burst Transfer Rate : Up to 30-35MB/s Fan : Fanless Size : 4.6 x 7.6 x 1.8 in. / 117 x 193 x 45 mm Weight : 33.5 oz. / 950 g System Requirements : Computer with USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 compatible); Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows VistaTM Mac OS X 10.3 or higher; Pentium II 350MHz processor or greater G3, G4, G5 Mac Intel processor or greater; 32MB RAM minimum
Conclusion
A good inexpensive back-up disk, which looks good if you dust it regularly and should be compatible with most new computers (although if you have Apple Mac OS X 1.2 or older it won't work straight out of the box) Summary: Good value back-up disk
AndrewPo 09.02.2009 (10.02.2009)
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Review of LaCie Hard Disk Design by Neil Poulton Hard drive 1 TB
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 keep reminding us that it was designed by Neil Poulton, someone who I'm not aware of, but must be pretty good judging by the design of this product. It is rare when talking about an external hard ... ...what is included? well, the LaCie supports lots of different transfer methods, I used the firewire, but it also comes with cables for USB and a few others, I think this choice is great. Unfortunately the cables are very short, which would be fine if you want the hard disk to sit right next to your desktop PC. But I'm using a laptop, and the nearest desk, which was only a short distance away, was too far for the cable to reach. I had to resort to ...
salmonchaplin 14.06.2009
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Performance
Interface Transfer Rate
480 Mbps
Max Data Transfer Rate
35 MB/s
Spindle Speed
7200 rpm
Manufacturer's product description
The user-friendly LaCie Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton adds sophisticated style to your desktop yet its presence is quiet and unobtrusive. It has a unique distinguishing feature - a cool, blue LED strip on its underside that creates an ambient glow. Its subtle, all-black design blends perfectly into dark home entertainment setups and workstations. Very small for its vast capacity, this lightweight, compact drive has a fashionable, mirror-polished finish. The smartly engineered design allows for heat dissipation and near-silent, fanless operation. Setup is nearly effortless; it’s plug and play and offers customizable formatting. LaCie '1-Click' Backup Software for PC and Mac is included for quickly saving files in one click.
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