Advantages: Cheap, stable and reliable, 2 year warranty. Disadvantages: Slightly noisy, USB interface can be slow.
...decided to purchase was the LaCie External 500GB Drive, main reasons being price and size, they were spot-on for my budget. Once I took shipment of the drive I opened the packaged to find little more than a black box and two cables, all I needed to get it going. It was well packaged in a nice cardboard carton and luckily it arrived okay even though it was brought by City Link. Inside the box there was; ..: - An elegant black box with the words LaCie ... ...and square with an etched LaCie logo on the top. It has nice little rubber feat that seem to stop any vibration. The only problem I have is with the green LED on the front, this is pretty much on all the time and can be quite distracting (so I stuck a bit of black electrical tape over it). Unfortunately it does not have an on/off switch so unless you remove the power from this device, there is no real way to turn it off. Personally I have pretty ...
Wheelchair.Wiz 20.02.2009
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Advantages: Very good value, good transfer rate Disadvantages: Fan noise may be annoying for some
I recently bought one of these hardrives for around £60. So far, this hard drive has not given any problems what so ever. The physical size of the hard drive is not very big, so chances are you can find a place close to your PC tower to put it. The hard drive also dosnt weigh much so it is also fine to carry it around if you wish to connect it to a laptop.
It's got a very smart look and feels quite sturdy, unlike some other hardrives that feel like ... ...is not the fastest since it uses a USB 2.0 connection to transfer files. Anything faster would be something with a firewire connection.
Value for money is also very good, 500 GB of memory for £60 and free delivery to your doorstep is indeed quite the bargain at this point in time. We all know things get cheaper as technology advances.
Fan noise is something that alot of people are fussy about so let me discuss that too. The hardrives's fan is not ...
emerald_fang 24.02.2008
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