Customer Reviews

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain 301009 120 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Disk

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I bought this little hard drive in September for my senior design project which was expected to require portable storage for a large number of videos and photographs. I ended up using it for a lot more than just that one class and have definitely gotten my money's worth out of it over the course of this past semester.

The drive is compact and has one USB 2.0 port and an additional USB port for powering the device should you wish to connect to a computer that does not have USB 2.0 power sharing ports. The necessary cables are included with the drive. The orange rubber "bumper" is very shock absorbant and is removable with one face that is open to allow access to the ports. The user can remove the orange rubber "bumper" and put it back on such that the ports are covered up. This is very useful when transporting the drive around campus as the weather in east Tennessee is very unpredictable. Also, my backpack can get rather messy, so I appreciated the ability to better protect the ports.

The drive does run hot sometimes, but that's to be expected as it does not have a fan to keep cool. It's held up very well, and there was no indication that it suffered any damage the one time I accidentally dropped it in the computer lab, not even a scratch in the plastic casing. I've been very impressed with it so far and intend to continue using it for a very long time.

Lastly, I don't know what to make of the reviewer who mentioned it ruining his firewire port when he plugged it in because this drive only has a USB 2.0 port and the additional "power USB" port.

The hard drive is quite nice. My husband is very rough on things so we love the protective casing. Also, the hard drive came right away after I ordered it.

This seems to be a great external hard drive. It is small and quiet.

Easy. This model isn't blazingly fast, I mean, be prepared to leave the computer to its copying work when you first bulk-upload your hard-drive, but it's a plug-in, easy, and highly recommended.

It does what it says it does, and with no fuss.

I got this external hard drive soon after I ordered it and was impressed by its tiny size! It's light, durable; about as big as my hand. To backup my MacBook that has about 40 GB on it, it took ~2 hours. All you have to do is put in the CD and plug in the drive (I plugged in both USB and power adapter to the computer). The system does everything for you. Then, once you have backed it up once, all you have to do is plug in the drive and push "backup" and it does it all itself. I love this little thing!

90 seconds to install software-45Gb itunes library xferred in 102 minutes-one click-WINDOWS XP!!Not Mac!! Sorry Perfesser. Best Buy I've Found!!

Despite the installation guide's instructions to the contrary, this drive is NOT plug and play if you have Vista. You have to download a driver from the install CD. Also, you may want to convert it to NTFS as it arrives as FAT32.

I plugged the drive into my fire wire and it destroyed my fire wire port. I called LaCie and they will replace the drive but won't fix my computer. They said it was most likely a short in the drive or cable and their warranty doesn't cover my laptop. Way to stand behind your product guys! So in short I spent almost $300 dollars to have my laptop damaged by this drive and who knows how much repairs will be. I will NEVER buy a LaCie product again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!