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Summary: Simple and Sweet
Review: LaCie 80GB external FireWire hard drive.Comes with hard drive, 1x 6pin firewire cable, small power brick, seperate wire to attach power brick to outlet, 2 software disks, and other papers. Also comes with a cable lock slot on the back (discourages theft) which isn't mentioned in the descriptions. Pretty simple realy. Just plug in the power brick, attach to the hard drive (simple, looks Great !!), plug in firewire to back of drive then into your computer. My Apple iBook (Currently OS9.2.2) has a 6pin outlet so it went right in. Power up the hard drive by pressing the blue button and because the drive is pre-prepared it is ready to go. When i did this the 74GB little HD icon appeared on my desktop and I was able to save to it directly. No problems. The hard drive allready had a folder with the information from the two CDs on it which took up space as well as the initial partationing i'm sure. Plug in size was about 74GB. I'll clean it up later. The firewire transfer rates are very fast. I was able to dump my 8GB or so of MP3s to it in about 9 minutes and i can pretty much stream all the music and data from it to the programs which are on my origional HD. No plans to use video at the moment. I don't regret spending about 240 for it and i'm sure it will be used for all of my "junk" as well as a convient source for backing up files.
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Summary: The Drive is great, perfect for my laptop computer.
Review: THIS DRIVE HAS A 6 PIN FIREWIRE CONNECTION, AND THE ONLY CABLE IT COMES WITH HAS THE 6 PIN CONNECTOR ON BOTH SIDES, AMAZON.COM DOESN'T GIVE THIS INFORMATION. THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE MOST FIREWIRE PORTS I HAVE SEEN ARE THE SMALLER 4 PIN, YOU NEED A SPECIAL CABLE TO GO FROM 4 PIN TO 6 PIN.
Other than that the drive is great, it has 2 firewire ports so you can daisy chain mutiple drives or firewire devices, the drives say they are stackable but that doesn't mean you can stack two and they become one, it just means they can sit ontop of each other. I don't anticipate ever needing more than 80Gb + the 20Gb I have now. I would choose some word other than stackable, a Cisco 1300 series switch is stackable this hard drive isn't.
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Summary: works under Linux
Review: This drive works fine under Linux with the sbp2 module, kernel version 2.4.20. It is identified as a SCSI drive. The drive comes in a stylish and relatively small grey solid steel case (the photo is somewhat misleading), giving the impression of being a safe place to store your precious data.
As other have pointed out, a 6-pin to 6-pin cable is included,
if you have a 4-pin socket, you need to buy a cable separately. The drive is not silent, but emits a faint audible clciking sound that is barely audible: no whoosh of a fan.
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