LaCie Hard Disk design by Neil Poulton 1TB USB 2.0 – 7200RPM
Posted by Notcot on Mar 27, 2010 in PCs & Laptops |
Product Description
The user-friendly LaCie Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton adds sophisticated style to your desktop yet its presence is quiet and unobtrusive. It has a unique distinguishing feature – a cool, blue LED strip on its underside that creates an ambient glow. I
- Item Number : 301304EK
- 1000 GB
- Interface : Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- Weight : 33.5 oz. / 950 g
- System Requirements : Computer with USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 compatible); Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows VistaTM / Mac OS X 10.3 or higher; Pentium II 350MHz processor or greater / G3, G4, G5 Mac Intel processor or greater; 32MB RAM minimum
LaCie Hard Disk design by Neil Poulton 1TB USB 2.0 – 7200RPM
After looking around for a budget hard drive I saw this one and, being Lacie, decided to it was a bargain for the cost.
I cannot comment – yet – on the reliability as I have only used it for one evening but would be surprised if it were to fail. I sold Apple kit for 10 years and Lacie were one of the most reliable makes going. Given that I tend to hammer such devices the first time out of the box to make sure any initial problems show up and that I spent around 5 hours almost constantly writing and erasing it on my iMac, it appears to as reliable as the 500gb Maxtor and 250gb Verbatim currently in use.
Performance wise it’s streets faster than the Maxtor drive and a little faster than the Verbatim (so much for small drives being faster!) is quieter, runs cooler and is a much nicer box to look at. Cannot fault it in any way and highly delighted. It even has it’s own power switch with many other drives don’t.
There is one small, minor and mildly niggling problem however. I have just upgraded to Snow Leopard and the utilities installer fails every time. Not a big deal as Apple’s Disk Utility partitioned and formatted it without a glitch and it’s possbile to use Carbon Copy Cloner to do backups but given the lead time to Snow Leopard it would have been nice to see Lacie acknowledge this on the box or provide new software with the drive. I have not had time to check Lacie’s web site but they may already have new software or be working on it.
Even with the lack of Snow Leopard software compatability I must give it a top rating. If I am proven wrong on the reliability I will re-review and apologise but I don’t anticipate having to do so.
Rating: 5 / 5
Great drive, looks good. Not as quiet as my Mac but not too noisy either. Ignore it’s own set up program and let disk utility (OSX) do the formatting etc. Up and running in under 10 minutes out of the box.
Rating: 4 / 5
Setup was no problem. Looks neat and is pretty quiet. Bundled Genie-Soft backup programme works fine although link from product was not to the latest version. My only grumble is that I bought this to replace a smaller Maxtor, which would automatically power itself off when the computer shut down at the end of a scheduled backup, but this doesn’t, and on checking with the LaCie Help Desk, it can’t.
Rating: 3 / 5
Great value, does what it says, but the silent operation is a misnomer, there is disk start-up noise and a lot of ticking and clicking in operation. As it’s rigged up as the time machine back-up, it starts up every hour. (so noisy I thought it was about to die). ony 3 weeks old so time will tell. If you after something silent; this is not it.
Rating: 4 / 5
Well designed as you would expect, plug & play straight out of the box & excellent for Mac – Time Machine
Rating: 5 / 5