LaCie 120GB Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive
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perhaps lacie should work out the bugs on something like this. in their haste to launch a "cool looking" apple-esque product, they forgot to make sure it worked 99% of the time.
my experience mirrored a previous reviewer who said it failed to "recognize" my mac. of course, it happened to me when i was working on a massive deadline, so needless to say it will be a cold day in a hot place before lacie gets any more of my money. it was all show, no go.
my experience mirrored a previous reviewer who said it failed to "recognize" my mac. of course, it happened to me when i was working on a massive deadline, so needless to say it will be a cold day in a hot place before lacie gets any more of my money. it was all show, no go.
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Nice design but I must have recieved a dud as it was not recognized by either of two PCs running Win XP via USB2.0 connection including when USB power sharing cable was connected.
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I hope the drive that I received was an anomaly because LaCie usually makes great products. This drive ran great except for one thing, it ran HOT. I measured a surface temperature of 122F/49C in an ambient temperature of 72F after a run time of 30 minutes. My other portable drives run below 100F. I called LaCie and they told me I didn't need to worry until the temperature reached 125F. To me a 3 degree margin is entirely unacceptable. Luckily Amazon was great about giving me a refund. On the positive side the triple interface is great and the price is reasonable. The rugged feature of this drive is also nice and I imagine it works far better than strategically wrapping rubber bands around a portable drive.
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Arrived on schedule and worked first time no hassles. I use it to back up all my Mac Powerbook content before I travel overseas - the Firewire connection makes for a very fast transfer capability and the fact it powers directly off the port instead of requiring a separate power adaptor is an added bonus.
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I tried the Maxtor Mini III because we like our bigger desktop external drive (Maxtor one touch) which works great...but the mini did not do so well...all kinds of problems...so I researched and found this LaCie Rugged to be just what I needed and it is great! Nice design...I like the rubber on the edges of it...grips a table better rather than being slippery metal and sliding off. Fast on the Firewire 800, have not tried the 400 or USB for this yet. I plugged the LaCie into MacBook Pro and it was right there on desktop ready for files to be dragged to it. No install of software, just ready! The 800 firewire cable to it is on the short side so I did accidently drop it already when I went to move my laptop a little bit. The fall was not far and it was on a rug but handled it well. No probs.
Quiet but it does vibrate...if you set it on a tv tray and put your hand on the surface of the tv tray , you can feel quite a vibration...but it must be a good thing...the drive is rotating/spinning well
Quiet but it does vibrate...if you set it on a tv tray and put your hand on the surface of the tv tray , you can feel quite a vibration...but it must be a good thing...the drive is rotating/spinning well
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I had been trying to figure out what was the best portable hard drive for my Mac. I decided on the LaCie120GB Rugged All-Terrain External Hard Drive with Triple Interface because of the reviews I had read regarding the ease and reliability with a Mac. I am very pleased with this product. My files transfer very fast and it survived a fall to the floor. It is already formated for the Mac, it doesn't need a power supply, just plug and play. It says it also works for Windows PCs.
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120GB is just the right size to backup the 100GB disk on My MacBook Pro. I used the FW400 interface (it comes with FW400, FW800, and USB2) and the data moves along at almost 1GB/min, which is fine for me.
It does suck down the battery in my laptop, but I like that there is only one wire to wory about (no external wall wart). A 50GB backup just about flattened a full laptop battery.
My drive came formatted as MacOS Extended (111.78GB capacity) and all I had to do was plug it in and start draging files over to it. Super quiet too.
It does suck down the battery in my laptop, but I like that there is only one wire to wory about (no external wall wart). A 50GB backup just about flattened a full laptop battery.
My drive came formatted as MacOS Extended (111.78GB capacity) and all I had to do was plug it in and start draging files over to it. Super quiet too.
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Ruggedness:
This thing takes a likin and keeps on tickin. I'm a college student and wanted to be able to edit pictures on-the-go instead of confined into my room, but still maintain speed, reliability, and size. I use it almost exclusively for my Aperture photo library, and I must say it its quite fast. I've dropped it a few times and throw it in my computer backpack with my MacBook Pro and its with throughout the day around my campus.
I got it because of the sturdiness and the fact that's its one of the few portable, but powered FW800 drives, allowing fast transfers with large files, as well as daisychaining other devices to it without slowdown in speed; I have confirmed this through my own informal testing with 100gb transfers. I love that there is no AC adapter but its just as fast as most external powered drives, except maybe my Lacie RAID drive at home.
With Photoshop and Aperture:
If you've ever gone into the Photoshop settings, you'll notice it recommends to have a scratch
This thing takes a likin and keeps on tickin. I'm a college student and wanted to be able to edit pictures on-the-go instead of confined into my room, but still maintain speed, reliability, and size. I use it almost exclusively for my Aperture photo library, and I must say it its quite fast. I've dropped it a few times and throw it in my computer backpack with my MacBook Pro and its with throughout the day around my campus.
I got it because of the sturdiness and the fact that's its one of the few portable, but powered FW800 drives, allowing fast transfers with large files, as well as daisychaining other devices to it without slowdown in speed; I have confirmed this through my own informal testing with 100gb transfers. I love that there is no AC adapter but its just as fast as most external powered drives, except maybe my Lacie RAID drive at home.
With Photoshop and Aperture:
If you've ever gone into the Photoshop settings, you'll notice it recommends to have a scratch
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