LaCie 600GB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300795U )

by LaCie

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AY7A5Y
• Item model number: 300795U
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 27, 2006

Product Description

From the manufacturer

The LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface delivers seriously impressive capacity while reaching never-before-seen transfer rates that are up to 50 percent faster than 1st regular generation FireWire 800 drives. With FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces, this plug & play hard drive can help you share data among the widest range of user platforms. Achieve a transparent, built-in RAID 0 array without complicated configuration with its compact 5.25" 1U design. Use it to store presentations, archive image banks or pre-press files, or exchange audio/video projects. The combination of Extreme speed and huge capacity make it ideal for audio/video professionals working on large-scale editing projects or wanting to chain FireWire or iLink DV cameras.

Product Description

Box Content: LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface 600GB, LaCie Storage Utilities CD-ROM with Silverlining Utilities and SilverKeeper software, FireWire 800 cable, FireWire 400 cable, iLink/DV cable, USB 2.0 cable (USB 1.1 compatible), drive stand for upright desktop use, external power supply.The LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface delivers seriously impressive capacity while reaching transfer rates that are up to 50 percent faster than 1st regular generation FireWire 800 drives. With FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces, this plug & play hard drive can help you share data among the widest range of user platforms. Achieve a transparent, built-in RAID 0 array without complicated configuration with its compact 5.25 1U design. Use it to store presentations, archive image banks or pre-press files, or exchange audio/video projects. Share among multiple users and environments with its convenient plug & play. With up to 800Mbits/s per bus and up to 64MB/s per drive burst, it's ideal for a variety of professional applications, including digital audio and video, graphic design and system backups. Its size can also be conveniently stack, stood upright or rack-mounted. It is specially designed to be ultra-quiet with its fanless heat dissipation. Operating System - Mac OS 10.2x or greater, Windows 2000 or higher Weight - 5.51 pounds, 2500 grams Dimensions - 1.7 x 10.6 x 6.8 inches, 44x270x173mm Buffer - 8MB minimum Software Configuration - Driver-free for Windows XP/2000 or Mac OS X; Silverlining for Mac OS 9; Silverkeeper for backup with Mac OS 9 & Max OS X System Requirements - FireWire 800 equipped computer - Mac OS 10.2 or greater or Windows 2000/XP FireWire 400 or iLink equipped computer - Mac OS 9.x/10.x or Windows 2000/XP Hi-Speed USB 2.0 equipped computer - Mac OS 10.2.x or greater or Windows 2000/XP USB 1.1 equipped computer - Mac OS 9.x/10.x

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beware RAID-0 drives, July 9, 2006

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Satyen Shah (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 600GB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300795U ) (Personal Computers)

Be cautious of using large hard drives like this running in "RAID0" mode, because RAID0 sacrifices reliability for performance, which may not suit the needs of home users (who generally don't religiously back up their data). "RAID" describes standard ways of bundling hard drives. This Lacie drive uses RAID0, or striping. For any given file, half the data goes on one hard drive, and half goes on another. It maximizes storage, doubles throughput speed, but makes the array twice as likely to fail. And when it does fail, the RAID0 striping really complicates data retrieval.

Most home users would be better off with RAID1 drives, or RAID5 if their budget allows. RAID1 gives you several times reliability for only double the cost of non-RAID. RAID5 gives you both reliability and performance, for a few times the cost of non-RAID. RAID1 is supported by most new motherboards, and by Lacie's "Two Big" and "Biggest" external drives.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what the doctor ordered!, August 10, 2006

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Zachary D. Fields - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 600GB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300795U ) (Personal Computers)

I love the Lacie products! I currently have the 600gb external hard drive but I could kick myself for not shopping around for the 1 TB drive.

This hard drive is IDEAL for multimedia storage and for the average person, this is all you should need it for. Just make sure that you have a high speed USB port to run this with to maximize speed of transferring your files. I transferred 150gb of data onto this drive in about 1.5 hours so yes, it transferrs great.

I bought this because I recently bought a nice camcorder and quickly realized that loading 300-400mb worth of video everyday was going to quickly consume my hard drive space and the little 40gb external drive I was using just wasn't cutting it.

I can see myself investing in 2, 3, maybe even 4 or 5 of these Lacie drives in the near future! it looks like it stacks really well!

Do yourself a favor and buy it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I don't recommend it, November 15, 2008

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Harry Tick (LA, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: LaCie 600GB Big Disk Extreme External Hard Drive with Triple Interface ( 300795U ) (Personal Computers)

Not only have I had the drive fail after a crash, losing all data, at this point a gig HD is so cheap, I can't think of why someone would buy this today.