LACIE External Hard Drives

Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?

Opinions?

Thanks.

On Jun 25, 7:35 am, Tony of Dyker Beach wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
>
> Opinions?
>
> Thanks.

I've had a LaCie Quadra 500GB for about a year now. It has 4
interfaces: USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and eSATA. I use the
eSATA interface and it's really fast. The internal drive is a Samsung
and I get well over 80 MB/s sustained transfer rate through eSATA.
USB 2.0 will undoubtedly be somewhat slower. One think to note: the
drive came formatted for Mac OS (HFS not even FAT32) so Windows won't
recognize it out of the box. I had to delete the partition and
recreate and format it with NTFS for Vista.

Previously Tony wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?

> Opinions?

> Thanks.

It seems you can get lucky and have good drives in there or
get unlucky and have bad ones. This is not a "quality"
product, despite its appearance. They take the cheapest drives
they can get.

Arno

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:39:04 -0700 (PDT), RonnieJP
<ronniejp@pacbell.net> wrote:

>On Jun 25, 7:35 am, Tony of Dyker Beach wrote:
>> Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>I've had a LaCie Quadra 500GB for about a year now. It has 4
>interfaces: USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and eSATA. I use the
>eSATA interface and it's really fast. The internal drive is a Samsung
>and I get well over 80 MB/s sustained transfer rate through eSATA.
>USB 2.0 will undoubtedly be somewhat slower. One think to note: the
>drive came formatted for Mac OS (HFS not even FAT32) so Windows won't
>recognize it out of the box. I had to delete the partition and
>recreate and format it with NTFS for Vista.

Thanks for the input RonnieJP!

Greatly appreciated.

On 25 Jun 2008 21:04:59 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Previously Tony wrote:
>> Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
>
>> Opinions?
>
>> Thanks.
>
>It seems you can get lucky and have good drives in there or
>get unlucky and have bad ones. This is not a "quality"
>product, despite its appearance. They take the cheapest drives
>they can get.

Guess that can be said for all of them.

Thanks.

Tony of Dyker Beach wrote in news:4vg764dvircc1u1ucf2cif7jotd9fep4hp@
4ax.com:

> Guess that can be said for all of them.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

My 1TB Comstar external uses 2 500GB Hitachi Dekstars, they are not crap.
My 500GB Acomdata external uses Western Digital WD50 00AAVS-00ZTB0. Are
those crap?

Tony of Dyker Beach wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2008 21:04:59 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Previously Tony wrote:
>>> Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> It seems you can get lucky and have good drives in there or
>> get unlucky and have bad ones. This is not a "quality"
>> product, despite its appearance. They take the cheapest drives
>> they can get.
>
> Guess that can be said for all of them.

Nope, the hard drive manufacturers use their own drives in their external enclosures.

Previously The Coward Robert Ford <no@email.invalid> wrote:
> Tony of Dyker Beach wrote in news:4vg764dvircc1u1ucf2cif7jotd9fep4hp@
> 4ax.com:

>> Guess that can be said for all of them.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>

> My 1TB Comstar external uses 2 500GB Hitachi Dekstars, they are not crap.
> My 500GB Acomdata external uses Western Digital WD50 00AAVS-00ZTB0. Are
> those crap?

The WD have interface issues, but it they work in the enclosure,
then they are reasobable. But that is not the point. The point is
whether you can depend on good drives being used or whether these are
spot-market drives, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

Arno

Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote in
news:6cimqkF3gvskrU1@mid.individual.net:

> The WD have interface issues, but it they work in the enclosure,
> then they are reasobable. But that is not the point. The point is
> whether you can depend on good drives being used or whether these are
> spot-market drives, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
>
> Arno

I've had no issues with it and it is very quiet so I'm happy with it.

Tony of Dyker Beach wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
>
> Opinions?

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