LaCie d2 52x32x52 External FireWire CD-RW Drive includes EasyCD Creator and Toast lite ( 300566 )

by LaCie

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007DTD7
• Item model number: 300566
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,697 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 31, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Shipped with comprehensive recording software, you'll be able to start burning immediately. The LaCie CD Utilities includes all of the necessary drivers and Toast for the Mac and Easy CD Creator for the PC, allowing you to create custom audio CDs, store files and archive your photographs.

Shipped with comprehensive recording software, you'll be able to start burning immediately. The LaCie CD Utilities includes all of the necessary drivers and Toast for the Mac and Easy CD Creator for the PC, allowing you to create custom audio CDs, store files and archive your photographs.

As a "plug and play" peripheral, the LaCie CD-RW Drive is easily configured to Macs running OS 9.x and 10.x, as well as Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP. Creating data, audio, photo and multi-media CDs has never been easier.

• With hot-pluggable FireWire technology, you can connect and disconnect your drive without shutting down your computer
• The LaCie CD-RW is also supported by both the Mac OS and Windows, which means that the LaCie CD-RW Drive can be utilized by an entire department without costly down-time

Product Description

LaCie External Firewire CD-RW Drive - With hard drives becoming increasingly full with digital pictures, video, & other personal files, the CD-RW drive has soared in popularity, as a way to quickly & easily backup this information. And few drives can do it as quickly as this drive from LaCie. This drive blazes the trail with an amazing CD write speed of 52x! CD-RW discs can be re-written at 24x, and CDs can be read at 52x. And all of this speed is contained in a durable aluminum frame that can easily be taken from computer to computer. Includes - Firewire cable, power supply, & LaCie CD Utilities CD-ROM

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Speedy & Rugged, February 4, 2003

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Robert T. Ebenreiter "timebes" (Sheboygan, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie d2 52x32x52 External FireWire CD-RW Drive includes EasyCD Creator and Toast lite ( 300566 ) (Personal Computers)

I bought and starting using this drive about 2 months ago, on the advice of a techno-wizard at an all-Mac dealer. As it's the first "burner" I've owned, I can't compare it to others, but I have owned other LaCie products and this one seems to be in the same tradition of solid construction and easy installation and use. It should be -- it's a lot pricier than the ones I see at the big box stores.

Setup was a plug-and-play breeze via my Mac's Firewire port and the user-friendly instructions that came on LaCie's CD (what else would they come on?).

Some reviews brag about the quiet operation of their drive; actually when this one really revs up, it sounds like a little tornado -- an experience I kinda like.

So far, no problems. Everything it's read or burned has been flawless and has played on other CD players.

(Fellow Beginners: I had to learn that high-powered RW drives like this work best with top-speed CD's, which are not easy to find and cost a little more. LaCie pointed that out in their User Guide, a long with many more tips. Another techno-wizard clued me into the fact that good RW CDs cost so much more than regular read-only ones that you're better off to just burn a fresh one when you've had enough "sessions" to fill one up.)

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Workhorse You Can Always Depend On, May 12, 2003

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Kevin Cook "Darlin' Boy" (McDonough, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie d2 52x32x52 External FireWire CD-RW Drive includes EasyCD Creator and Toast lite ( 300566 ) (Personal Computers)

LaCie has hit a towering home run with its line of plug and play d2 FireWire CD-RW drives. While not as sporty as some drives on the market, the d2 is a fleet and tireless workhorse with priceless cross-platform compatibility, and that's what counts. Documentation is plainly written, installation is a breeze and usage is an unqualified pleasure. The d2 comes with simple to use recording software (Easy CD Creator for PC, Toast Lite for Mac) that makes burning CDs an almost brainless operation involving dragging desired files into the program window, selecting a few options and letting the d2 do its magic. (Mac users wanting to push the envelope can upgrade to the scarily powerful Toast Titanium.) As a small business owner on Mac platform, the ability to share data with my PC colleagues via hybrid format CDs is a godsend. And as a music lover, I'm amazed and overjoyed to be able to burn audio CDs in a veritable trice.

The solid performance of the d2 is a testament to the Mac-savviness for which LaCie has long been hailed. In all likelihood, the drive will perform just as flawlessly for PC users. The d2 has increased my business productivity a hundred-fold, and I regard it as my most essential peripheral.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for PC's too!, August 25, 2003

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D.Troy Richards (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LaCie d2 52x32x52 External FireWire CD-RW Drive includes EasyCD Creator and Toast lite ( 300566 ) (Personal Computers)

I bought this as a way to archive my hundreds of digital photos stored on my hard drive - I knew I was tempting fate. My old reliable system: Pentium III at 500 MHz, Windows 98SE, previously equipped with an IEEE 1394 card with two Firewire ports (for video capture). I followed the suggested PC installation instructions and my system recognized the drive within 20 seconds an gave it a drive designation. I used it to load the Roxio EasyCD Creator software and all went perfectly. I used the preformatted CD-RW that came with the drive and burned 400 MB of digital photos in 5 minutes! The software is easy to use: drag and drop files to the CD icon that stays on your desktop and it's done! The CD I burned worked fine in my computer's main CD/DVD drive. While I have nothing to compare this drive too, I have absoultely no complaints!