LaCie 300510 External FireWire 7200 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive (d2 Case)

by LaCie

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006L3BD
• Item model number: 300510
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 8, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

LaCie hard drives are ideal for professionals and home users, and for various applications such as databases, desktop publishing, digital content creation, and digital audio and video. Other applications include pre-press, archiving, local backup, data exchange, and additional storage.

The new d2 design features a sturdy aluminum case designed to enhance portability, durability, and appearance. Arrange the drives vertically on the desktop, horizontally stacked in a desk rack, or mounted in standard 19-inch racks with other devices.

LaCie hard drives are hot-pluggable, allowing for connecting and disconnecting while the computer is running. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows, these drives enable simple crossplatform data sharing and exchange among workstations.

Transfer rates of up to 400 Mbps provide throughput necessary for demanding applications like audio, video, and digital imaging.

This drive is compatible with Windows 98 SE, 2000, Me, and XP, as well as Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.1.x, and later. A FireWire port is required to use this drive.

From the Manufacturer

La Cie's new d2 model external hard drive offers versatile storage and an innovative design. The d2 FireWire drive features a sturdy aluminum case designed to enhance portability, durability, and appearance. Arrange multiple drives vertically on the desktop, horizontally stacked in a desk rack, or mounted in standard 19-inch racks.

La Cie hard drives are hot-pluggable, allowing for connecting and disconnecting while the computer is running. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows, these drives enable simple cross-platform data sharing and exchange among workstations.

Features:

• Spacious storage capacity: 80 GB of additional storage
• Increase data transfer rates: transfer rates of up to 400 Mbps
• Average seek time (write): 10 ms
• Enjoy greater mobility: slim design with sleek aluminum case
• Versatile configuration: stackable desktop or rackmount design
• Plug and play: automatic configuration for Mac and PC
• Video-ready with compatibility to most digital audio and video devices
• Automatic configuration, with no need for device IDs or terminators
• Hot pluggable, so that drives can be connected and disconnected without shutting down the computer
• Cross-platform support
• Comes complete with La Cie Storage Utilities for Mac and PC including Silverlining Pro, Silverlining 98, and SilverKeeper software for full drive management, formatting, partitioning and maintenance
• Supports DV movie capture without dropped frames
• Daisy chain multiple devices on a single FireWire bus

System requirements:

• Mac or PC with built-in Fire Wire, iLink, or IEEE 1394 interface
• Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.1.x, and greater, or
• Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP
• Intel Pentium 350 MHz-compatible processor and greater, or Power PC G3 and greater
• Minimum 64 MB RAM

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple and Sweet, January 6, 2003

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"sappleq" (Stockholm Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LaCie 300510 External FireWire 7200 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive (d2 Case) (Personal Computers)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best External Firewire Drive Yet!, December 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: LaCie 300510 External FireWire 7200 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive (d2 Case) (Personal Computers)

I have owned three external drives over the years, each had it's pro's &
con's.
With this new line of d2 external FW drives, I believe LaCie has done
everything right.
There are no cooling fans, so they are quiet. You do not have to plug it in and unplug it, when you are not using it, the blue power indicator is also an on/ off switch.
I chose the 80 gig because it is ample for my needs.
You do, however have many size options from which to choose.
I can't think of anything I would change on this drive and I bought it based on the high quality of the terrific LaCie d2 CD-RW.
In my view these are two great products.

j.nomograms

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Drive is great, perfect for my laptop computer., November 18, 2002

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C. YARBROUGH (Tupelo, MS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 300510 External FireWire 7200 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive (d2 Case) (Personal Computers)

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.