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From: Tony of Dyker on 25 Jun 2008 10:35
Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?

Opinions?

Thanks.
From: RonnieJP on 25 Jun 2008 14:39
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.
From: Arno Wagner on 25 Jun 2008 17:04
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
From: Tony of Dyker on 26 Jun 2008 12:28
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:39:04 -0700 (PDT), RonnieJP
<ronniejp(a)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.

From: Tony of Dyker on 26 Jun 2008 12:30
On 25 Jun 2008 21:04:59 GMT, Arno Wagner <me(a)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.

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