LaCie Hard Disk Quadra 1TB eSATA/FireWire800/FireWire400/USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 301881U

by LaCie

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.4 x 3.3 inches ; 3.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B003187T98
• Item model number: 301881U
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #851 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Capacity: 1 TB

Product Description

The efficient LaCie Hard Disk Quadra, Design by Neil Poulton is extremely easy for anyone to use. Compact, but with colossal capacity, this lightweight storage solution takes up little room and can move around easily. Setup is nearly effortless; it’s plug & play and offers automatic formatting with LaCie Setup Assistant with customizable features. Moreover, LaCie Backup Assistant software for PC and Mac users is included for saving files in one click. The LaCie Hard Disk Quadra, Design by Neil Poulton provides eSATA 3Gb/s, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0 interfaces for full connectivity with your PC or Mac, as well as an included 9-to-6-pin cable for FireWire 400 compliancy. There are two FireWire ports so you can connect it to your computer and to another device like a second external drive, camcorder, or camera. This sleek hard disk has an all-black mirror-polished finish and a unique feature—a cool, blue LED strip on its underside that creates an ambient glow. Box Content: LaCie Hard Disk Quadra, Design by Neil Poulton, USB 2.0 cable, eSATA cable, FireWire 800 cable, FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 cable, External power supply, Quick Install Guide, LaCie Utilities (preloaded on the drive): User Manual, LaCie Backup Assistant (Windows and Mac), LaCie Setup Assistant.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use and Works great, March 26, 2010

By	Rexomus "59 Fender" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: LaCie Hard Disk Quadra 1TB eSATA/FireWire800/FireWire400/USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 301881U (Electronics)

With the rash of home invasions and computer thefts lately I decided to purchase a hard drive to backup all of my Audio, Video, Document and Financial files. I wanted a drive that had a large amount of capacity, was capable of transferring data at high speeds (eSata), and could be connected and disconnected with ease to be stored away in my vault immediately after file transfers. My business depends entirely on editing large amounts of audio and video Data stored on my internal hard drives. If someone where to break in and steal my computer I'd be up the creek with out a paddle. So this was an important decision.

After reading previous positive reviews here on Amazon and a few other websites advertising this product I decided to purchase this drive. By the way, Amazon had the lowest price. I am very pleased with my purchase. The drive has 1 terabyte of capacity, can be connected and transfer files via: USB, Fire wire 400,Fire wire 800, or eSata and it is extremely portable and can be locked away in my vault easily.

Connecting to my computer was simple. I just plugged in the wall AC adapter, plugged in the eSata connection and turned it on. Because my computer was already powered on it didn't recognize drive, so I executed a restart (leaving the external drive powered on) and via la my drive showed up under "My Computer". Next I initiated the LaCie drive format, which only took about 2 minutes and afterwords I was transferring files loads of around 70 gigabytes in about 15 minutes per transfer. I transferred about 500 gigs in one evening.

I did install and run the backup software included with the drive but, I wasn't very impressed with it. The software would only back up my document files but not my raw audio, video, or mp3 files. I don't know why yet but I just copy and pasted my files onto the drive and that worked. The software does have an automatic backup feature that can be set to update and backup user specific data. However, all I need right now is a place back up and store my raw files once in a while and this drive works perfectly for that. I highly recommend this drive. It's Windows XP compatible and works great.

update: I have noticed the the hard drive functions much faster when it is powered on before the computer is powered on. In other words, turn on the hard rive first, then turn your computer on.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FW 400 to 800 wow!, May 5, 2010

By	Steven Klimasewski (Near Los Angeles CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: LaCie Hard Disk Quadra 1TB eSATA/FireWire800/FireWire400/USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 301881U (Electronics)

First I would like to say that I own both this drive and the older version that only had firewire 400. So as with all Lacie drives I have not had a single problem with it and yes I know Lacie does not make the HDDs only the enclosures. But if you need speed this is the drive for you!

Test results using XBench on Mac OS X

Read speeds 75MB/s sustained
Write speeds were also in a similar realm but I don't have exacts and don't want to pull numbers from thin air.

I ended taking my old FW 400 version daisy chaining it to this drive with a FW 400 to 800 adapter then hooking the FW 800 drive up to my computer using FW 800 cable and turning them both into a software based 1TB mirrored Raid. It works flawlessly though the speed has been greatly hindered due to being both in a software raid and the fact that the FW 800 drive is limited to the FW 400 drives speed.

All in all I am very happy with this product.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Perfect, March 10, 2010

By	Berry Gibson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: LaCie Hard Disk Quadra 1TB eSATA/FireWire800/FireWire400/USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 301881U (Electronics)

What I like about the LaCie Hard Disk is that it just works. I am not a hardware expert. I just have 3 computers at home that need to be backed up. I recently bought a Windows 7, 64-bit PC and needed a new hard drive that would be compatible. The LaCie is perfect. Just plug it in (I use the eSATA) and never think about it again. That's exactly what I wanted. Plus, it looks great as a bonus. When I called LaCie for some sales assistance upfront, they were very knowledgeable and helpful. You may pay a little more for the LaCie but it is very solid compared to the WD's I have owned in the past.

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