LaCie Hard Disk 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive designed by Neil Poulton 301304U
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Customer Review: fantastic product thus far...
Summary: 5 Stars
so far so good... the best external drive i've had (of 3).
as a mac user it was nice to see instructions with windows instructions as the inset alternate instructions, vs the other way round, although setup involved little more than plugging the drive in...
all in all... it looks good, works great, and does everything i expected from it.... the USB cable could be a bit longer, though I had one to replace it with...
every once in a while it's a tiny bit noisy, but not enough more than the drive in my laptop to be an annoyance....
thus far I'd say it's a quality product, as fast as USB 2.0 allows (it's actually faster than the internal drive for transfers across itself) with very unobtrusive design in a relatively small package...
I actually (accidentally) bought two and had planned to return the second, but ended up giving it as a gift to my parents to share as a backup drive instead after a couple days of use.
Customer Review: Another happy Mac user
Summary: 5 Stars
Delivery to St. Louis from NY was 4 days after order, using Standard, not Expedited, Delivery option. Nice.
Plug and play. Within 10 minutes of opening the box, Apple's Disk Utility had the hard drive partitioned, Time Machine was doing its initial backup to one partition, and I was burning my CD collection to the other partition. Didn't even look at the LaCie Setup Assistant, sorry to say, but it did pop up as soon as I turned on the box.
This is all with the hard drive connected directly to my Intel iMac via USB. I will be interested to see whether I have such effortless success after reconnecting the LaCie to the AirPort Extreme.
And, yeah, it is a cool object, like a block of obsidian casting a flickering blue rectangle onto the desktop. In a dark room, that light appears to be shining from within the desk, and the hard drive is invisible. Ooooh.
Customer Review: Fabulous looking and high capacity
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm very pleased with this purchase. I was lucky to live near a UPS depot since the order was slated for 5 to 8 day (Free Super saver). I ordered late Sunday night and got it mid day Tuesday (Thanks Amazon). Setting up the drive took about 5 mins. I immediately partitioned it and let Time Machine do a backup. The write was a little slow but that was to be expected with the first full backup. During use, I hear the HDD rev up but it does so very quietly, and it flickers the light which can get a little annoying with huge amounts of data moving, but I can live with that. I know big drives are known to crash more but I'll see how long this drive will last since I never had a drive go dead on me (It's bound to happen once). In short, this drive looks fabulous, has high capacity, and Amazon has the best deal on it. I'm very likely to purchase this same drive again soon for redundancy.Customer Review: Beautiful and Functional!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this hard drive based on the reviews I saw on Amazon and from some of the other Mac sites. I'm a Mac user and needed a large external hard drive for my iTunes store for Apple TV. This took care of my challenge nicely. The design of the drive enclosure is spectacular, I can't say it any other way. LaCie and Neil Poulton did a fantastic job at a very clean yet dramatic design while making it very functional.
Obviously since I'm using a Mac, it was just a matter of plugging it in, launching Mac's Disk Utility and setting up the drive the way I wanted it. I was up and operational in about 15 minutes from the package. Its been in service now for 3 weeks running 24/7 with no issues. The nice thing is its so nice looking, I keep it out in the open so there's good air-flow.
Customer Review: Great product, installs easilly, and looks good.....
Summary: 5 Stars
This unit was extremely easy to install, it was hooked up and running within 15 minutes of it's arrival. My computer runs on Vista 64 bit, and I was expecting a bit of difficulty. All it entails is making the connections, plugging it in, and turning it on. Vista recognized it, opened a window for the software installation wizard, and in a few moments it was ready to go. I moved some HD video to it, and test played a movie in 1080p, no problems.
I purchased this drive to store HD video captured from DishNet. There has been no problem at all, my video plays and burns as easily as if it were still in the internal hard drive.
This unit looks great as well, almost like a shiny VHS cassette box.
Everything nessary is included in the box.