Advantages: complete connection ports for easy use, Windows & Mac compatible Disadvantages: fanless, may be a heat issue
From my personal opinion, the very first word that will pop up from your head if you heard LaCie... Overpriced..
I mean seriously, what does this brand offer compared to other competitors..
But I got to admit, this Quadra HDD is quite a great offer..!!
Features
Quadra is for Four connectivity that this device have.
1. firewire 400
2. Firewire 800,
3. eSata,
4. USB 2.0.
Each port has its own advantages and disadvantages. It depends on the files you are transfering (size and how many files).
LaCieD2Quadra is a fanless vertical upright enclosure, so definitely a quiet external Hard Drive. So the cooling of the HDD really depends on the aluminum casing.
The Inside
500GB of capacity should be more than enough to store your favorite movies, musics and your work files. Surely best for backing up your files also. The Hard ...
Advantages: Price, Capacity, Reliability Disadvantages: Size, Requires own power supply
I have owned this external hard drive for over a year and have found it to be an extremely reliable product. It has a 500GB capacity, which is more than enough for most people, and I also picked it up for a relatively low price, compared to other drives of a similar capacity on the market.
It is a fairly large drive, and requires its own power supply, so it is definitely not a portable device. However, as a secondary drive to your desktop pc, it is more than capable, as it has reasonably fast transfer speeds. It is also pretty durable, as mine has fallen off of its desk more than once while running, and still works as good as new.
It is extremely quick and easy to set up, taking a matter of seconds once the wires are all in place.
I would definitelty reccommend this to a friend who required a cheap, reliable storage drive, but did ...
Advantages: Does what it says on the tin. Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!
During my final year of uni, this little gem turned out to be a Godsend. Doing a course which required a lot of camera work, I needed somewhere to store all the raw footage, which anyone who's ever worked with footage from a high quality video camera knows, takes up a hell of a lot of space.
So I needed somewhere to keep it locked away safely to take around from uni computer to uni computer. My weapon of choice for an external hard drive was the Lacie Desktop HardDisk 320 GB.
Having brought it online for just under £50, that instantly stuck me as a bargain. Purchased approximately 18 months ago, that was a steal. Naturally, with the passing of time and the increasing availability of external hard drives, the price of this items has began to fall, as is the case with all types of technology.
Once plugged in and inserted into a USB ...
Fully loaded with all the best interfaces - eSATA 3Gbits, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 - LaCie d2 Quadra all-in-one professional hard disk offers universal connectivity for PC and Mac users. For easy setup, the LaCie Setup Assistant helps format according to your needs. The unique, fanless aluminum heat sink design with 60% more surface area for heat dissipation keeps it quiet and safe. With the LaCie Shortcut Button , easily launch any application in one push. Perfect for digital content creation, audio/video editing, DVD authoring, and web animation, etc., the d2 Quadra can handle multiple demanding professional tasks. It can be daisy-chained via FireWire or connected to your DV camera and is even bootable in FireWire for Mac and in eSATA for Mac/PC.
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