LaCie external Harddrive, good value for money = poor quality? (Lacie Hard Drive USB 160 GB)

Member Name: orchid1988

Product:	Lacie Hard Drive USB 160 GB
Date:	30/08/06 (148 review reads)
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Advantages: Alluminium casing looks snazzy

Disadvantages: Heavy

I bought this external hard drive around Christmas, when I needed to transfer large amounts of data to my secondary pc and despite being slow ( which could only be expected from a usb 2.0 connection )it fulfilled this intial requirement without any problems.

I have since attempted to use it for storing music and films, but find it cannot be left running as it heats up fairly quickly and starts to make noises which make me suspect it will soon cease to work. I would recommend to users who wish to just have some extra storage space to put an internal hd in their pc and for those who wish to transfer large amounts of data - to find a more upmarket model. However if you just want to use it for transferring a few films to another PC whilst looking snazzy, although the noises which it seems to make are characteristic of a wearing out hard drive, it has yet to refuse to work completely.

NB: This hard drive can be used with USB 1.0, however it is not worth it as transfer speeds are hellishly slow: it is advisable if you have an older PC to make sure that you have a USB 2.0 card in your computer.

Further details:
The drive is 32x112x188mm and weighs 900g.
Real storage capacity = 232GB.

Summary: Decent

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