Lacie Desktop Hard Disk 320 GB

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 Hard Disk 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...

carl.mcqueen 28.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of LaCie Desktop Hard Disk 320 GB

Quality, Affordable Back-Up Hard Drive

Advantages: Very Fast, Efficient, Stylish, Easy Installation
Disadvantages: Only a minor point the 1m usb cable

...bigger as its only 1 meter long, something to bear in mind if you plan to have it as a permanant fixture on your computer desk. Installation manual was very easy to read and very helpful with diagrams. So easy I didn't use it though.Plug up the cables, usb and power then power on using the on/off switch located at the back of the drive and away you go, Installation on a Vista Computer was lightning fast and was detected immediately and the driver was installed in a matter of 10/15 seconds.It is very quiet in operation and has a quality blue light which flashes during data transfer.I used Acronis True Image 10 to make a full backup of my 320GB hard drive in less than 45 minutes although it only had a 100gb of data to backup. I thoroughly recommend this external hard drive to all....

robert232 06.06.2007 (08.06.2007) · Read review
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Review of Iomega HDD External Desktop Hard Drive 320 GB

External Hard-drive fit for rugged adventures

Advantages: Fast transfer speed, protection from knocks and drops
Disadvantages: Fairly high price

...they have less than what they state. For e.g. a 320 GB hard-drive will have about 290 GB, which is quite a chunk away from the stated amount. So, looking at the LaCie external hard-drive you will be looking at a memory capacity of 230-240 GB, which in this case is not a large chunk, but is still considerable. There is no known reason why all hard-drives (including the LaCie) have less memory than stated, it may be due to the internal disk within the outer case not being able to hold the stated amount or it may be that company's want to make a profit out of its customers. No on really knows. If you don't believe me about the memory capacity of a hard drive being less than stated, you can yourself check your hard-drives capacity by going into 'My Computer' and then right clicking the computer hard-drive icon and going into its properties...

yassarikhan786 07.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of LaCie Rugged Hard Disk Hard drive 250 GB

It's not hard to drive in the west

Advantages: good space, great price and works a charm
Disadvantages: not quite the full 320GB stated but hey....

...grammes So, in layman?s terms, it is a good sized storage unit for inside certain laptops, it runs at a whisper, (almost) and with all the technology to save your battery from draining to quick. ** IN CONCLUSION? Once this hard drive was delivered, (and may I say it came well protected in recyclable packaging and it was delivered within 48 hours of ordering, which, considering there was a postal strike, is some speedy delivery indeed, so hats off to amazon and the Royal Mail for that), It was a simple matter of putting the information onto it from the old hard drive. So, using the caddy/enclosure which housed the 2.5? SATA hard drive, turning it into an external hard drive, I went about cloning all the data from the 80GB onto the new WD 320GB. Then, once done it was a matter of taking the old hard drive from my daughters Laptop...

blissman70 10.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320 GB

Seagate barracuda SATA 320gb hard drive review

Advantages: Fast, Value for Money, Quiet, 5yr warranty
Disadvantages: none that i know

...to transfer data between pc's without using a network, or for backup storage on many pc's. Also with external hard drives from seagate you only get a 1yr warranty, instead of 5yrs for internal drives like this one. The formatted usable size is 298gb, not 320gb, it is very quiet I do not notice it at all. It is lightning fast thanks to its 16mb cache which helps make windows and programs load up quicker. The downside with the low price I paid was that as it was OEM (original equipment manufacturer) hard drive, this means that it is for computer manufactures and the hard drive is the only item incuded, so there is no instruction manual, or the sata cable to connect your hard drive to the motherboard. I had to buy the cable seperatly, but this was only a couple of quid. However nnon OEM drives come with the cable included. Although no...

simpson123 17.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB

External Hard Drive Fun

Advantages: Size, Easy to Use, Quick, Simple
Disadvantages: Could be a little bigger in capacity

...from the device. Width - 4.8cm Depth - 4.4cm Height - 1.4cm Weight - 40g Once again this like some of the flash drives that are going around at the moment this hard drive is also plug and play with most operating systems however encase it doesn't install automatically a driver is included in the package but I haven't really had to use this very often at all unless your using an old operating system like Windows 98 which was well before this time of hard drive or portable device. Specifications ***************** Capacity - 4GB Interface - USB 2.0 OS Required - Apple MacOS X 10.2.4 or later, Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP/VISTA System Requirements - 64MB RAM Conclusion ************** I would definitely recommend this external hard drive to anyone that need to carry files around with them for things like work purposes...

burns2007 13.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Archos ARCDisk Hard Drive USB Key 4 GB

No Fuss, No Click Backup Hard Drive

Advantages: Easy to use even for beginners.
Disadvantages: None that I have found.

...Having experienced one or two fatal computer crashes in the past and lost every single file on my hard drive and on the first occasion without a back-up, I have been very careful about backing up my files to DVD disks since, but it was quite a slow and laborious task waiting for those disks to burn, and then on some occasions I would get that dreaded message, "back-up failed!" appear on the screen and have to start all over again! Watching the QVC shopping channel one Sunday morning, I noticed that they were demonstrating the ClickFree external hard drive, and all you had to do was to plug it in to your USB port and wait. It would search and back-up every file on your hard drive without you having to click or do anything, and then once it had done its job, all you had to do was simply unplug it and put it away. This was something that...

derek-j-a 18.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Clickfree 120GB USB Integrated External Hard Drive

LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Hard Drive

Advantages: Capacity, looks, decent manual, cheap
Disadvantages: A bit slow, a lot to lose in one go

...With people starting to amass more and more data on their PCs, the old methods of backup such as tape or CD & DVD are becoming woefully inadequate. As a result, by far the most cost efficient method for either storing data or backing it up is the external hard drive. That said, 1TB or 1 Terrabyte is a crazy amount of space and the sort of storage that would have kept a multinational company ticking over nicely ten years ago. The LaCie (pronounced Lassie, like the dog) 1TB unit is a reasonably basic device that only has a USB2 (although USB1 is supported) interface and comes with a suitable lead, external power supply and software CD. It can work with both PCs and Macs although by default it's formatted for PC use so Mac users will need to reformat it first but that's no hardship really. On first opening the box, it looks really...

ilaskey 19.04.2007 (01.05.2007) · Read review
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Review of LaCie Big Disk Hard drive 1 TB

Great capacity hard disk for the price, stylish and simple too.

Advantages: Great Value, very reliable
Disadvantages: Short cables, and shows up fingerprints

..., and about the height of two and a half. Nice and compact. On my mac, it instantly was recognised as a storage device with no trouble and I assigned it to be a backup drive, it's been perfectly reliable ever since. It's not particularly noisy, you can hear it, but it's hardly noticeable unless you think about it, it doesn't have in internal fan, which allows for a much quieter drive. Often it is argued that you should only use external hard disks to back up data, and not as extra storage space when you are running out. With the 1TB LaCie you can have both. I partitioned my device, setting aside 250GB for personal files,HD movies, photos etc. and the rest for backup. I used free software downloaded from the net for this on my mac, but I think there is a utility for doing this without any extra software on windows, not sure though...

salmonchaplin 14.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of LaCie Hard Disk Design by Neil Poulton Hard drive 1 TB

Seagate External Hard Drive 120GB

Advantages: Great invention, reasonable price, large capacity
Disadvantages: Bulky, noisy

...approx. 3.5 inches in height, 10 inches across and 3.5 inches deep. When it is running it is also has quite a loud buzzing noise, which can be quite tedious. The hard drive has 120GB and can store approx. 2,000 hours of digital music, 38,400 digital photos, 120 hours of digital video or 60 PC games. You are able to store digtal photos, videos, music, DVD's, Business Documents and Emails on the hard drive. The hard drive has a 7200-RPM spin speed and a 2-MB cache buffer, BounceBack Express software for fast and easy back up, built-in self-monitoring technology and is also compatible with Windows and Macintosh platforms. I have found this hard drive really useful, no longer does my laptop get filled up, it also runs faster. I am able to store all large documents/music/games on the external hard drive which prevents the slow...

lilyellowfish 26.10.2007 · Read review
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