LACIE External Hard Drives

Tony of Dyker Beach wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
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I'm using a 500GB USB-only version. It's been working for over a year
now, a friend of mine has the exact same unit, and he's in love with it
for some reason. Probably because he likes the convenience of moving the
drive around from system to system. I tend to keep it attached to one
system mostly, so it doesn't make much difference to me.

I was a little surprised by how fast it really is, despite the fact that
it's attached through USB rather than Firewire or eSATA; it's just
barely slower than my internal drives. Also the drive as it originally
came, came formatted as FAT32, which is perfect because that's something
that my dual-boot Windows/Linux systems understand right out of the box.

Yousuf Khan

I think they are a nice looking drive.

There are also many other good products out there. They all are subject to drive failure depending on use.

Data transfer is OK for most small files (up to 10's of MB, once you get into 100's MB or GB files then the speed becomes noticable on USB and you need a faster interface (and drives).

Reliability wise they are generally good but if you Google you will get mixed reviews, this is typical of a leading brand with a large user base. The only problem I have had other than a failed drive is a failed power adapter (and several of my colleagues have had this also).

Hope this is useful information to your question.