LaCie Mobile Hard Drive Design by F.A. Porsche USB 2.0 80 GB

Designer drive

Advantages: It works fine, looks great and is a good price.
Disadvantages: None.

We bought our Porsche-designed LaCie external hard drive around two months ago, essentially to use as a back-up storage device - my other half and I run a graphic design studio so have lots of big files that need to be kept somewhere that's easy access. Although it's kind of important to us to have something that's good to look at, the most important thing really was price per GB of available back-up space - and this little beauty didn't disappoint! I think we paid around £80 or thereabouts for it which, for an external drive isn't bad anyway, but when it's as well-designed (ie. it looks good and is pretty lightweight too so easy to transport) as this one, I think it's a really good buy. We do a fair bit of backing up, and subsequently transferring onto DVDs and have had to reformat the drive after removing a load of files to give ...

kpbunches 23.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Hard Drive Design by F. A. Porsche USB 2.0 500 GB

Porsche Performance?

Advantages: Good Looking, Robust
Disadvantages: Scratch Easily, Heavy

of the feet fell off at the back. One went bouncing off under a desk never to be seen again and the other is now super-glued to the bottom in the middle. I shudder to think of poor Porsche drivers speeding along the motorway suddenly finding their back wheels have sprung off... and I doubt super-glue would be of use! The drive has maintained a minimalist look. A tiny orange LED appears when the drive is on, and flickers to show activity. Aside from that there is no indication of the drive's status. At various points around the housing, the "Lacie" logo and "Design by F.A. Porsche" are engraved into the aluminium giving the unit a sort of personalised/prestigious feel. Let's not get carried away here though, it's still a hard disk no matter who designed it and does the same job as your regular unit! Moving away from appearances, as we all know ...

Radical-Machine 04.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Mobile Hard Drive Design by F.A. Porsche FireWire and USB 2.0 80 GB

lacie hard drive 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)

******************************************************************* ************ Update. I didn't know we got reviewed or whatever on these and apparently I ain't good enough =P I was just letting people know it's robust, because i always look for that in reviews and nobody ever mentions it. ok so......point by point.... Memory/Capacity - is obviously nearly what it says it is. It has about as much missing as any other hard drive of the same size. Reliability - I've had it nearly a year and it still works. If you knew me, you'd know how much that means. It's taken more knocks and bumps than you can shake a stick at. Design - I put as excellent because although it's essentially a silver brick and there's way too much emphasis put on the design of it, i don't think it looks bad. plus it's practical, it fits in small spaces and can be stacked and turned up whatever way you want it. some people may have issues ...

deathdrop666 27.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of LaCie Hard Drive Design by F. A. Porsche USB 2.0 500 GB