Lacie Big Disk Triple Interface 320 GB Hard Drive (300685)

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Summary: don't buy LaCie drives; they die before their time
Review: I bought a 60 GB LaCie Pocket Drive USB2/Firewire drive in August 2003, for $349.95 from Microwarehouse. Died December 2004, 3 months after manufacturers warranty ended.

Customer service was unhelpful, told me that there are only 4 manufacturers out there, and all have the same warranty. So I'm out $350.00.

My company also bought a LaCie d2 FireWire , 80 GB (300656) Hard Drive, which died after 3 months.


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Summary: Beware of discontinued models on Amazon
Review: I'm a big fan of LaCie d2 drives. My problem with this item #300685 is the fact that this is apparantly a discontinued mechanism, replaced by Lacie #300719, list price only $10 more ($399). One star rating awarded to Amazon, not LaCie. Current model product (which I was hoping to buy, but cannot find on Amazon) includes additional FireWire 800 Mbit/s interface, twice as fast as Firewire and USB 2.0 included with this drive. Amazon website is great for books, but fails to give technical specs on most computer items.

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Summary: Probably a great Drive
Review: So, why did I give it one star? Because all hard drives fail eventually -- why put all your eggs in one basket? You can stack and daisy chain firewire enabled drives to get the same capacity. It's usually cheaper to get the same capacity by combining two or more moderate size drives than one jumbo. If you have lots of important data to protect, you can use multi-drive storage strategies (ask your local geek.)