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1. USB only? what is that good for?????

2. When a new MacPro comes out, the new desing will be something like this??? All these manufacturers always make their devices match with all that Apple makes (which is good). So, can lacie be thinking in advance and designing the drives based on a new concept by apple???]]>Mar 10th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
Firewire and eSATA are faster but for backup and media storage who the hell cares, you don't need faster, so you are a fool if you buying Firewire or eSATA for that... it's a waste of money... you are not going to be use this drive for video editing or anything but if you have a sh!t load of ripped DVDs this is great.. as long as it's damn cheap.. i'm talk'n less that $230 'cause you can get a couple small 500Giggers for that or even less if you really look.. it good as long as it's damn cheap.]]>Mar 11th 2008 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/M]]>Mar 10th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 11th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
As for this one I just bought a Lacie drive and it requires a power brick...damn. This one might have problems with some laptops though if they don't output enough juice over USB.]]>Mar 10th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
I personally opt for either Seagate or Fantom Drives. Lately I've gone to Fantom for externals because of the awkwardness of the Seagate Freeagents. I have five 500GB Fantom externals that I use daisy chained via firewire and they all work perfectly.]]>Mar 10th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/M]]>Mar 10th 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
Have you ever opened up a LaCie case? The cheapest, flimsiest components they can legally get by with. ]]>Mar 10th 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/But it's a quick drive, over the thumb I would say I transfered a gig a minute.]]>Mar 10th 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
I've owned 2 of the aluminium 3.5" HDDs for 18 months or more, nearly always on; no failures of any kind.]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
The disk reports to be a Samsung Spinpoint HM320JI. Bought the drive for $190 from a big river, so quite impressed with the value.]]>Mar 10th 2008 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
http://images.tigerdirect.com/skuimages/large/M261-1040-main.jpg]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 10th 2008 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Lacie should just make the cases, and the user should be able to choose the HDD of their liking- the warranty situation would be far simpler.]]>Mar 10th 2008 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 11th 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 11th 2008 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 11th 2008 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
Iomega didn't showed the product on their website, the serial number wasn't recognized from the support pages, etc...

Quite enough to me to ban forever Iomega.]]>Mar 11th 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/I need your help engadget maniacs!
I want to load all my music in lossless into something like this and plug it to my PS3.
I've looked at the audiophile solutions, but those are big $$$$
The ease of accessing my 700 cd's from my sofa sounds appealing to me.
Thanks for any help ....I don't know where else to go ]]>Mar 11th 2008 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/
Out of all of them, very few have failed over the years. My first failure was a 30MB Micropolis - yes, 30MB! I lost all the data on it. I have had a failure with every single manufacturer - sometimes due to my own doing; sometimes out of the blue.

Why so many drives? Redundancy is the only guarantee of data preservation.

If you want your drive to last longer: never move the drive when it is spinning; be careful when you connect and disconnect the drive; when using a Mac or PC,be sure to unmount before disconnecting; never bump or drop the drive. If you baby all your drives, then you will have better luck with them.

Some of the alternatives mentioned seem obscure - perhaps you never hear about failures because there are so few of them out there. As for G-tech, their forums over at creativecow.net seem to show that even G-tech users are now unhappy about failures. Using Google, I see that LaCie, Seagate, WD, Fantom, OWC, and many, many others have users complaining about failures. There also seem to be reports about happy users too. Perhaps most people only post when they have problems...

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What the hell is so revolutionary about this?

Where is the ethernet port?]]>Mar 11th 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/lacie-silently-launches-mobile-disk-desktop-hard-disk/Mar 26th 2008 8:56PM