A weird quirk of LaCie drives: The desktop models feel like cheap crap, from the materials to the electronics (I’m particularly thinking of Neil Poulton’s drive), but their portable drives are solid. This Porsche-designed drive feels like it just might stop bullets.
The edges are are as sharp as they look, though. It’s a USB 3.0 HDD, with a Samsung drive as its core in the mobile drive we checked out (unfortunately, we didn’t have any USB 3.0-capable computers around, so we only got to speedtest its USB 2.0 abilities, average 28.3 seconds to transfer a 1GB file). The mobile drive starts at $US104.99 for 500GB, and its desktop cousins sell for $US119.99 and $US159.99 for the 1TB and 2TB varieties, respectively. [LaCie]
Kai Howells
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 8:17 AMLaCie desktop drives are crap? They are some of the most solidly built drives I’ve ever used.
What? You mean they make other desktop drives that aren’t in their pro-quality d2 aluminium case?
luke
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM+1 LaCie d2 was a solid drive.
Absolutely didn’t feel like ‘cheap crap’
ba!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 11:52 AMI used to work at a Mac store and the only HDD’s to get returned were LaCie.
I got a Rugged and it fucked up 3 times. It’s a RUGGED and I’m scared of putting it my bag. While this might be some bad-arse HDD id wait until it’s been out for a bit and see how many times its been sent back.