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 a stylish compact case: 4.6 x 7.6 ... ...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 ...
AndrewPo 09.02.2009 (10.02.2009)
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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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