LaCie Hard Drive Design by F. A. Porsche USB 250 GB

LaCie 250GB USB Hard Drive My PC is about three years old and has a 160GB hard drive installed. I had always been amazed at how quickly the size of standard hard drives had grown and thought the days of juggling software and stored data were long gone. I'd never come close to filling a hard drive since they started getting bigger than 30GB and could back up all my important files to a few CDs. That was before I got into video editing, digital photography ...
...of products these days and LaCie seem to have gone beyond the merely functional with this and produced something that looks great. Brushed steel casing with a mirror finish steel front, four discrete indents on the top and a single LED on the front, with no visible branding or identification it is a minimalists dream. About the size of a hardback book, it is quite small and can be easily transported in a laptop case. If you intend to use it purely ...

brereton66 17.05.2006 · Read full review
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...plug it in. There is Lacie "1 click backup" software supplied if needed and all required cables and power supply. The USB cable is however probably about half a meter long which is ridiculous so you may need to consider purchasing a longer cable or USB extension. One further downside: slightly loud and has a humming noise but nothing severe. Would get a 5 star rating from me, excellent product and amazing value for money. Highly recommended 2 ...

Kevmeister 09.03.2007 · Read full review
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LaCie have obviously marketed this external drive at the people who want both a functional computer system and a good-looking one. The drive has been designed with F. A. Porsche and has a nice minimalist look to it, a metallic grey case with all most mirrored front the drive looks great, even better when stacked with another one. With only one LED on the front your not left with loads of bright lights flashing at you when your trying to keep the ...
...ensure its still on. LaCie have released the drive in a range of sizes with a range of connection such as USB and Firewire so whatever your need you should be able to find a drive to suit. I personally purchased the 250GB as it was both the largest and best value for money at the time, no doubt as time goes on this will be superseded. Two very minor issues with the drive are that it does scratch easily when its in a bag with the external power ...

salsacolin 12.04.2006 (21.04.2006) · Read full review
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This Lacie drive looks very nice when taken out of the box - designed by Porsche - minimalist styling etc etc but that isn't worth anything unless it works. All I can say is that I had it up and running with all my data and backups from my hard disk within about 2 minutes of plugging in the USB. My PC is 3 years old running XP with all the Service packs and was slowing down because of the amount of space taken up by my old stuff - a lot of scans ...
...-assigned Drive letter and name LACIE and that was that. As far as the design goes it sits on the floor underneath the PC so the design doesn't matter but the size does. It is about the size of a VCR cassette. The power supply is a bit clunky but that doesn't matter to me. Data transfer rates seem very fast - I transferred about 60 GB of files on installation and it zipped through it quick enough for me. I don't notice any difference whether I ...

terrapin 17.03.2006 · Read full review
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To start this drive looks good and feels heavy which gives an immediate impression of sound quality. There is an instruction manual on provided disc. Its 190 x 110 x 35 mm in size, so small enough to tuck away out of sight, although it's best to give adequate ventilation whilst running as it's passively cooled (no fan - near silent). If using as a backup device you will need to install Silverlining 98 from the mentioned disc, or use your own software. ...
...Windows/Linux/Mac as it's seen as just another drive, so backups can be done without software (remember that this is not incremental though). If your computer allows boot from USB (check bios settings) you can use this device to boot from. I've successfully managed to boot Linux from it through a preinstalled Windows laptop, and it runs at a good speed. Overall transfer speed is as good as you can get with USB2 (around 400mbps). The drive needs formatting ...

tommyp1983 25.06.2007 · Read full review
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