LaCie 301234U d2 Safe 1TB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with Biometric Access and AES Encryption

by LaCie

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.7 x 6.8 inches ; 3.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RLBWPO
• Item model number: 301234U
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,672 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

This high-performance d2 hard drive comes with biometric (fingerprint) access, hardware encryption, and a chain lock port for attaching to your desktop. Simply swipe your finger over the sensor to access your private data. To lock it when you leave your desk, just touch the sensor and swipe again to unlock it upon return. Perfect for group projects, this Triple Interface storage solution is compatible with PC and Mac and holds up to 5 user profiles. It provides fast sustained transfer rates of up to 64MB/s via FireWire 800. Ideal for confidential professional applications such as video projects, digital artwork and music production, the d2 SAFE guards your original creations from getting into the wrong hands.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BUT......., December 18, 2007

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JG "SAMADAMS" (NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LaCie 301114U d2 Safe 500GB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with Biometric Access and AES Encryption (Personal Computers)

this product is great the finger print reader works awesome BUT if your buying this drive to back up your info with mac using the program time machine it will not work because of the encryption the drive has built into it. other wise product is great for backing up just can't use apple's time machine which is a great program

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Problems with XP and Firewire, May 10, 2008

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C. Lee (Brooklyn, NY (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 301234U d2 Safe 1TB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with Biometric Access and AES Encryption (Personal Computers)

First, the good news. The drive seems to work well when I use the USB cable and I haven't had any problems with the fingerprint scanner.

Now the bad news. The drive doesn't seem to work with Firewire on computers running XP. I have tried to use this drive with Firewire on multiple PCs running XP, with multiple different Firewire cables. I exchanged my first drive for a new one through Amazon, and tried again, to no avail.

I contacted Lacie customer service to try to hash out the problem. I'd give them a B+ for effort, D for results.

Bottom line, if you run XP and plan to use this with Firewire, think again. But USB seems to work OK.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Most secure drive on the market but doesn't work on PS3, May 7, 2008

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Murat Gokce "sensitive customer" (Bethesda, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 301234U d2 Safe 1TB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with Biometric Access and AES Encryption (Personal Computers)

I installed Yellowdog Linux for PS3 but my PS3 did not recognize the drive. I hoped that I can get it work by virtue of Wine but I watched a video post on youtube showing that Wine does not work also on PS3.

Apart from that it's a great drive. Though for maximum security, before decrypting files, it could ask for a password after reading your fingerprint.

The decryption thing takes very small time, regardless of how many and large files you have within the drive.

It recognizes fingerprints seamlessly.

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