Product Description

The LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface delivers seriously impressive capacity while reaching never-before-seen transfer rates that are up to 50 percent faster than 1st regular generation FireWire 800 drives. With FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces, this plug & play hard drive can help you share data among the widest range of user platforms. Achieve a transparent, built-in RAID 0 array without complicated configuration with its compact 5.25" 1U design. Use it to store presentations, archive image banks or pre-press files, or exchange audio/video projects. The combination of Extreme speed and huge capacity make it ideal for audio/video professionals working on large-scale editing projects or wanting to chain FireWire or iLink DV cameras.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65083 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 300795U
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 5.51 pounds
• Memory: 8MB
• Hard Disk: 600GB

Features

• FireWire 800, FireWire 400, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces
• Built-in RAID 0 for Extreme FireWire 800 speed
• Plug & play, stack, rack-mount or stand upright
• Heat-dissipating, ultra-quiet, compact metal design
• 7200 RPM, 16 MB cache

From the manufacturer
The LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface delivers seriously impressive capacity while reaching never-before-seen transfer rates that are up to 50 percent faster than 1st regular generation FireWire 800 drives. With FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces, this plug & play hard drive can help you share data among the widest range of user platforms. Achieve a transparent, built-in RAID 0 array without complicated configuration with its compact 5.25" 1U design. Use it to store presentations, archive image banks or pre-press files, or exchange audio/video projects. The combination of Extreme speed and huge capacity make it ideal for audio/video professionals working on large-scale editing projects or wanting to chain FireWire or iLink DV cameras.

Customer Reviews

Beware RAID-0 drives
Be cautious of using large hard drives like this running in "RAID0" mode, because RAID0 sacrifices reliability for performance, which may not suit the needs of home users (who generally don't religiously back up their data). "RAID" describes standard ways of bundling hard drives. This Lacie drive uses RAID0, or striping. For any given file, half the data goes on one hard drive, and half goes on another. It maximizes storage, doubles throughput speed, but makes the array twice as likely to fail. And when it does fail, the RAID0 striping really complicates data retrieval.

Most home users would be better off with RAID1 drives, or RAID5 if their budget allows. RAID1 gives you several times reliability for only double the cost of non-RAID. RAID5 gives you both reliability and performance, for a few times the cost of non-RAID. RAID1 is supported by most new motherboards, and by Lacie's "Two Big" and "Biggest" external drives.

Just what the doctor ordered!
I love the Lacie products! I currently have the 600gb external hard drive but I could kick myself for not shopping around for the 1 TB drive.

This hard drive is IDEAL for multimedia storage and for the average person, this is all you should need it for. Just make sure that you have a high speed USB port to run this with to maximize speed of transferring your files. I transferred 150gb of data onto this drive in about 1.5 hours so yes, it transferrs great.

I bought this because I recently bought a nice camcorder and quickly realized that loading 300-400mb worth of video everyday was going to quickly consume my hard drive space and the little 40gb external drive I was using just wasn't cutting it.

I can see myself investing in 2, 3, maybe even 4 or 5 of these Lacie drives in the near future! it looks like it stacks really well!

Do yourself a favor and buy it!

I don't recommend it
Not only have I had the drive fail after a crash, losing all data, at this point a gig HD is so cheap, I can't think of why someone would buy this today.