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LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive 500 GB

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LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive 500 GB

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Finally LaCie worthed the price

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4 Mar 29th, 2009 

3 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
complete connection ports for easy use, Windows & Mac compatible

Disadvantages:
fanless, may be a heat issue

Recommendable Yes:

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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).

LaCie D2 Quadra 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 drive also with 7200 rpm 16MB cache. Average most desktop internal Hard drives So its sufficient fast.

Performance

mostly the performance should be for the file transfers.
Firewires
are best to transfer very large size files.. faster than USB...
transfer rates are 400Mbps (Firewire 400) and 800Mbps (Firewire 800). So its faster to copy large movie files, especially the Blu-Ray quality movie collections. For Mac user, this ports are very much acceptable.

USB 2.0
On the other hand, USB can copy almost as fast as Firewire for lots of small files.
transfer rate is up to 480Mbps. Slight higher than Firewire 400. but a little bit slower copying large size files.

eSata is definitely the fastest of all, but usually only connects to Desktop PC.

Packages

among the packages, includes all four cables, power adaptor, power cable, and a stand bracket to stand this HDD vertically.

Conclusion

Overall, I have to say this is one LaCie that is worth the price tag.. the four ports are the best.. The slim dimension is also an advantage, so it looked so compact although its packed with 4 connector options. 

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morticiaaddams 31.03.2009 06:48

Souns useful! Nice review.

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