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July 22, 2010
11:04 pm
Review by R. Auger for LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300797U )
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Compared to Similar Drives:
I’ve owned the drive for about 8 months, and must say that I’ve loved it from day one. Similar Raid drives that I’ve had experience with have either burned out or have noisy fans. I also use the Lacie Rugged portable drive. With my MacBook Pro, I’ve used both intensely with great results. I’ve had experience with many other Raid and portable drives.
Cooling and Noise:
Since the hard drives are mounted next to eachother by the skinny side, and not by the fat side like most Raids, they do not generate so much heat for eachother. The drive stays very cool, even after intense hours of running during massive video encoding or batch picture processing. This is also helped since the stress is spread across drives. As mentioned, most Raid’s are like a 747 with noise and still stay very hot. This drive is calm, stable, and quite, no matter what you do to it.
Speed:
Even when daisy-chaining two other HD’s and a scanner, this thing is still blazing. With a 100gb transfer of pictures, I clocked it at around 80-100 mb/s. When copying and pasting, it makes a light noise, rather than a loud chug chug clack clack from one side of the HD to the other.
Travel and Wear:
As a transient college student, I have traveled many time with this drive with no problems. Its been subjected to cheep air conditioners and heaters, along with very humid dorm rooms. No problems, always ran without a hitch. Even though the drive is thin, it still stays very stable with its heavy metal stand.
Quality:
This thing is a beauty and looks its price. The case and vertical stand are made of solid metal, and you can feel its weight and quality. Its connections are tight and well located. The cooling system is quiet and worked fanastically.
Other Reviews:
Unfortunately with high-end HD’s, who are mostly bought by busy professionals, buyers seem to only take the time to review if they’ve had a bad experience. Would you write your congressmen to tell him you were happy? If you look at reviews of other Raid drives, such as Western Digital, you’ll see similar bad reviews, people saying they switched to Lacie. Those drives are genuinely noisy and have other concerns, however. You don’t know if people are throwing things on top of them or knocking them around all of the time, or tearrying them out while there processing data. Overall, a great product product.
July 22, 2010
11:09 pm
Review by R. Kupelian for LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300797U )
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Both of my LaCie Big Disk Extremes have been returned to manufacturer within a year of purchase due to power issues. In each case I have lost time and valuable data (they reformat the drive after repair as stardard operating procedure). Lacie makes decent drives so this surprised me. Later models may have fixed the problem, but the LaCie Big Disk Extreme has issues.
July 22, 2010
11:14 pm
Review by Richard Munroe for LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300797U )
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Then simply stopped working. After some additional research LaCie has a reputation for unreliable drives (which I knew ahead of time having bought LaCie drive years ago and then stopped). Typical failure rates of 40+% in under a year. Buy drives from anybody else. Fortunately all I kept on this disk were system backups and I can simply start using another disk.
July 23, 2010
12:04 am
Review by David Chatenay for LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300797U )
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I read many reviews giving a bad rating to this item because of drive failures. Yes, there is a chance that your external hard drive will fail. Lacie has no worse a reputation than other vendors (or no better). My advice: buy two drives, and setup a mirrored volume. Both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X support this. This is the best guarantee against a drive failure: when a drive fails, you won’t lose a byte of information. I’ve been doing this for years, and never looked back. Peace of mind comes at this price.
As for this particular drive, it works perfectly, it’s fast and quiet, and the Firewire interfaces offer outstanding speeds.
July 23, 2010
12:50 am
Review by Ken Avent for LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300797U )
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I’m presently using two of these units on my Macbook Pro in a 1TB raid and find them to be absolutely wonderful. While they do have a little fan noise they are much quieter than my Maxtors which they replaced and I’m planning on moving them to a shelf under my desk so that even that noise will be masked.
Highly recommended.