LaCie 1 TB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300797U )

We needed to quickly extend the capacity of our image scanning workstations, and this LaCie 1 TB was plug and play as advertised. The drive is quiet and the case never seems to get hot. I do wish these things had internal rather than external power supplies.

I bought one 5 months ago, but was a little leery after reading some of the negative feedback. It has been a real pleasure to use! I like it so much and find it so reliable and fast, I am here buying another one!

I have (2) 500gigs, (1) 200 gig - all Lacie Drives. The first 500 gig crashed and I lost everything. Luckily it was still uner a 1 year warranty and I got a new one. Unforutnatly, they erased everything and couldn't recover any data. I've heard that some of their earlier versions of the 500 gig drives did this but should be fixed. Do yourself a favor, if you value your data, go with 2 drives and back them up nightly. It's a piece of mind that's worth the price. Since that drive crashed, my other drives seem to work great. I've also tried other drives...like a Maxtor 1TB drive that I spent almost $900 on about a year ago. That drive crashed and was replaced with a new one...which just crashed again. Unfortunately, It's no longer covered under warranty. Again...BACK UP YOUR BACK UP!!!! It's the only way you'll have piece of mind.

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.

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.

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.

This hard drive came out of the box and worked just as stated. It's fast, reliable and no problems of any sort.

I had a hard drive crash in november 06 and looked everywhere for back up options. After extensive research, I decided to stick with LaCie and this 1TB disk has lived up to my expectations. I've had it only for almost 2 months and has performed very well in terms of speed and reliability. Also, the vendor delivered what promised timely and accurately.

I liked this ext. hd because it has Firewire 800. This is a must for the highest speed transfers to backup your computer or large data sets.

Push the blue button to turn on and off, don't forget to unmount/eject first tho.

If the unit goes to sleep, the wake time is a bit long, but that's very minor.

Works great for my macbook pro, and with multiple ports, any computer is accommodated.

I also bought a maxtor 1tb hd and it is just as good...only shorter and more boxy. I like Lacie's thinner profile, but it was more expensive than the Maxtor unit.

i never tried the software, I only store my video and photo collections so I just drag and drop.

Overall, a near perfect product. Only improvement needed is even faster cables and faster storage media...only in the future...



i bought it 2 months ago
its simply great well protected and the only down side is that its heavy


great product

Easy to attach, great performance! I use it with a FireWire 800 card in a MediaCenter PC and I stream videos from it, haven't seen any problems.

Having had problems with a previous USB drive I bought the Lacie as a replacement having been brought under the impression that it was a superior quality (and therefore more expensive) than the previous drive.

It has lasted one week and after hours on the phone to the manufacturer's support line no one has a clue what the fault is.

This drive and it's support team are a complete waste of time and money.



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.

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.

This offers great storage for video editing and is good for backup files can be slow at times but I give it a thumbs up. Never had any trouble with this very big hard drive in avery small and rugged casing.

We needed to quickly extend the capacity of our image scanning workstations, and this LaCie 1 TB was plug and play as advertised. The drive is quiet and the case never seems to get hot. I do wish these things had internal rather than external power supplies.

I bought one 5 months ago, but was a little leery after reading some of the negative feedback. It has been a real pleasure to use! I like it so much and find it so reliable and fast, I am here buying another one!

I have (2) 500gigs, (1) 200 gig - all Lacie Drives. The first 500 gig crashed and I lost everything. Luckily it was still uner a 1 year warranty and I got a new one. Unforutnatly, they erased everything and couldn't recover any data. I've heard that some of their earlier versions of the 500 gig drives did this but should be fixed. Do yourself a favor, if you value your data, go with 2 drives and back them up nightly. It's a piece of mind that's worth the price. Since that drive crashed, my other drives seem to work great. I've also tried other drives...like a Maxtor 1TB drive that I spent almost $900 on about a year ago. That drive crashed and was replaced with a new one...which just crashed again. Unfortunately, It's no longer covered under warranty. Again...BACK UP YOUR BACK UP!!!! It's the only way you'll have piece of mind.

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.

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.

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.

This hard drive came out of the box and worked just as stated. It's fast, reliable and no problems of any sort.

I had a hard drive crash in november 06 and looked everywhere for back up options. After extensive research, I decided to stick with LaCie and this 1TB disk has lived up to my expectations. I've had it only for almost 2 months and has performed very well in terms of speed and reliability. Also, the vendor delivered what promised timely and accurately.

I liked this ext. hd because it has Firewire 800. This is a must for the highest speed transfers to backup your computer or large data sets.

Push the blue button to turn on and off, don't forget to unmount/eject first tho.

If the unit goes to sleep, the wake time is a bit long, but that's very minor.

Works great for my macbook pro, and with multiple ports, any computer is accommodated.

I also bought a maxtor 1tb hd and it is just as good...only shorter and more boxy. I like Lacie's thinner profile, but it was more expensive than the Maxtor unit.

i never tried the software, I only store my video and photo collections so I just drag and drop.

Overall, a near perfect product. Only improvement needed is even faster cables and faster storage media...only in the future...



i bought it 2 months ago
its simply great well protected and the only down side is that its heavy


great product

Easy to attach, great performance! I use it with a FireWire 800 card in a MediaCenter PC and I stream videos from it, haven't seen any problems.

Having had problems with a previous USB drive I bought the Lacie as a replacement having been brought under the impression that it was a superior quality (and therefore more expensive) than the previous drive.

It has lasted one week and after hours on the phone to the manufacturer's support line no one has a clue what the fault is.

This drive and it's support team are a complete waste of time and money.



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.

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.

This offers great storage for video editing and is good for backup files can be slow at times but I give it a thumbs up. Never had any trouble with this very big hard drive in avery small and rugged casing.