« Essential Laptop-Buying Tips At The Washington Post | Main | UMTS-Capable BlackBerry 8707g Preview At Mobile Mag »

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive Review

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive.jpg

CNET has reviewed the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive with triple interface 100GB. 'The LaCie Rugged All-Terrain external hard drive is housed in a very hot-looking, eye-catching, bright-orange rubber bumper that protects the device from shocks. Apart from the colorful bumper and the scratch-protected aluminum shell, the drive boasts a no-frills, straight-to-the-point design. LaCie states the maximum drop height to be 35 inches while in non-operating mode. (It recommends not dropping the drive while it's operating.) We pushed it off a desk (about 30 inches high) a couple of times: it survived the fall and worked just fine, and the rubber bumper prevented the edges from denting, too.

There are two versions of the Rugged All-Terrain drive: USB 2.0 only and triple interface, which includes USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800. All of these interfaces are bus powered, meaning you don't need a separate AC adapter for the drive. If your USB bus doesn't provide enough power, you can attach a second USB cable (provided) to the power port on the drive. You'll need two free USB ports to do this. We tested the drive with FireWire only. And the results matched the drive's physical appearance: straightforward and hot.'

Read: LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive with triple interface 100GB - ZDNet

Posted by HCG Admin on August 16, 2006 4:02 PM |

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)