LaCie Rugged 500GB All-Terrain Hard Disk, FW800 FW400 USB2.0
Product Description
The exclusive creation of world-renown designer Neil Poulton, this portable storage solution offers the supreme speed of FireWire 800 along with FireWire 400 and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces for true universal connectivity. Conveniently bus-powered and plug & play, its ideal for backup, video storage and large data volume exchange on the go. Simply plug it into just about any computer anywhere for backup, video storage and large data volume exchange. Its unique scratch-protected aluminum shell and shock-resistant rubber bumper make the LaCie Rugged Hard Drive especially resistant to harsh elements for extra protection along the road of your adventures. ALL-TERRAIN PROTECTION The best protection of your data requires handling with care, but you and your data dont always live in a peaceful, sterile vacuum. You live in the real world full of bumps, spills and adventures. The ultra-portable Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive is your datas best protection for the real world. ULTRA-PORTABLE DATA SHUTTLE If you care about protecting your valuable data on the road, this drive is your durable, dependable solution at an affordable price point. Take it with you on business trips, vacations or use it for transferring files from one desktop computer to another. Its perfect for users who need backup, storage and large volume exchange for office files, photos, music and even video clips. HI-SPEED USB 2.0 The LaCie Rugged Hard Drive offers the cross-platform convenience of Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface and is USB 1.1 backward compatible. Exchanging data between Macs and PCs is easysimply plug it into any computer with a USB port anywhere. This external hard drive storage solution is USB bus-powered and plug & play. It even comes with a power-sharing cable for low powered USB hubs/computers. EXCLUSIVE RUGGED DESIGN Its unique varnished scratch-protected aluminum shell and shock-resistant rubber bumper make the LaCie Rugged Hard Drive especially resist
- 500GB Portable External HDD
- Rugged shock-proof design
- Triple interface: USB2.0 / Firewire 400 / Firewire 800
- 1 years free online backup included
- Design by Neil Poulton
LaCie Rugged 500GB All-Terrain Hard Disk, FW800 FW400 USB2.0
Have bought 3 of these drives and was very happy with there performance until the most recent purchase, the drive died after less than a month taking 3 days hard work with it, complained to lacie and the response from them follows.
Thank you for contacting LaCie support. We’re sorry to hear that your Rugged has failed as soon as it has. While we do make every reasonable effort to build our drives with the idea that they do not fail prematurely unfortunately they can fail for reasons that we may not always have control of. Since then, as stated, different cables, computers, and presumably with and without the power sharing cable connection still cannot be reestablished we can, should it come to that, raise a return for warranty repairs (we will need the serial number first to determine warranty status). Do note that if we do all data on the drive will be erased and presently we do not have data recovery services. If you are ready to preceed with this let us know straight away and we’ll go from there.
Kindest regards.
I actually returned the drive to amazon for a refund which they promptly did but I think it is useful for prospective customers to see what happens when things go wrong.
Rating: 2 / 5
Having been spending the last few weeks trying to recover from an HD crash (a 4 year old IBM/Hitachi Deskstar, aka, Deathstar), I got this LaCie drive to do regular backups. The item was delivered promptly with the usual Amazon efficiency and the disk has performed well with USB2, and Firewire400 & 800 connections.
The drawbacks to this drive is that it has no heat dissipation to speak of (no vents, et c.) and gets quite hot with continual use. This does not bode well for its longevity, of which I am now acutely aware.
Also, unlike the cheap and ugly clear plastic (but vented) OWC 2.5″ drive enclosure (I use one to house an old MacBook drive), it has no power switch. So after unmounting the volume, I have to physically disconnect the drive if I want to shut it down and to cool when not in use and save energy. I prefer to reduce wear & tear on my connection ports by reducing such actions. This would seem to be a simple and dumb feature to ad to this product, so get on it, LaCie.
I look forward to the superfast and durable SSD Solid State Drives decreasing in price and increasing the storage so I can do away with all the heat and moving parts of hard disk drives with (as yet) no appreciable technical downside.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought the rugged model and thought this would be an added advantage after having it only a very short time it has broken and to have it repaired you either have to wait almost a month or send it to france at your own cost. they also have no data recovery service and i have waited a week just to get soemone to answer my email with usefull information after not being able to contact anyone by phone. the emails were in a very textbook tone bordering on rude. i have found there product and service not friendly or usefull and would never buy a product from them again.
Rating: 1 / 5
I spent some time researching external hard drives. I needed an external hard drive to use with Time Machine on my Mac after reading a few negative reviews on the Apple Time Capsule. Most drives I looked at had many negative reviews but this one seemed to be highly rated by most reviewers. So far so good. I have two Imacs and plug my LaCie drive in to each computer every few days to do a new Time Machine back up. I also use the drive for transferring data. Just plug in the drive and it very quietly does it’s job. Transfer rates seem to be quite fast and I have had no problems with it so far. I also have a WD Mybook which is my second unit. The first died on me and Western Digital were very good at replacing my drive. My WD drive is huge compared to the LaCie drive and seems a lot more delicate. I would highly recommend this product.
Rating: 5 / 5
Great HD, fast & versatile in its connections. On the large side, but that’s the price you pay for decent shock protection.
Rating: 5 / 5