Product Description

The Best of Everything The LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive is the perfect all-in-1 storage solution. Fully loaded with all the best interfaces ? eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ? it offers complete universal connectivity for PC and Mac users. Easily store and share all of your files, videos, songs and photos one this one reliable drive with up to 500GB capacity. Technologically-Advanced Design The sturdy, metal d2 design is highly reliable, compact and versatile. The d2 Quadra can stand upright, be stacked horizontally with other drives or rackmounted to save space in your work environment. The ultra-quiet 500GB drive comes with the LaCie ?smart fan?, which regulates its speed depending on the internal drive heat. High-Performance Features With fast burst transfer rates of up to 80-90MB/s** via eSATA, this industry-leading drive delivers excellent performance. Setup and use of this plug & play drive is quick and easy because it?s driver-free for Windows 2000/ XP and Mac OS X. Featuring the LaCie Shortcut Button, it allows you to easily launch any application with one push (via FireWire or USB)***, such as EMC Retrospect Express professional backup software. The Professional Choice Perfect for digital content creation, audio/video editing, DVD authoring, web animation, etc., the d2 Quadra can handle the most demanding professional tasks. It can be daisy-chained via FireWire or chained with your DV camera and is even bootable****. Use it to back up small servers in workstation environments. Advanced users can enjoy features such as 3-level power management (on, off, auto) via FireWire or USB***, RAID 0/RAID 1 array in multiple drive configurations. In the Box ? LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive ? eSATA-to-eSATA cable ? FireWire 800 (9-pin) cable ? FireWire 400 (6-pin) cable ? USB 2.0 cable (USB 1.1 compatible) ? Drive stand for upright use ? External power supply ? LaCie Utilities CD-ROM

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23155 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 301110EK
• Released on: 2007-02-22
• Dimensions: 6.30" h x 1.73" w x 6.81" l, 3.31 pounds

Features

• • LaCie d2 Quadra hard drive with 500GB capacity• Easily stores ans shares all your files• Features 7200rpm, eSATA, USB2 FW400 and FW800 connectivity, rack mountable, 3 level power management and quadruple interface."

Manufacturer's Description
Fully loaded with all the best interfaces eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 the d2 Quadra brings you complete universal connectivity. Boasting superior features such as a 16MB cache, advanced 3-level power management, bootability**** and professional backup software, it's designed for professional performance. Easily back up, archive or exchange all of your files, videos, MP3s and JPEGs or upgrade your PC or Mac with additional capacity. Its space-saving d2 design by Neil Poulton is so versatile, it can stand upright, stack or be rack-mounted safeguarded by the best in heat-dissipating technology. Our LaCie Shortcut Button allows you to easily launch any application with one push, such as the included software EMC® Retrospect® Express for PC or Mac.

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Customer Reviews

Buy at your peril
I own 2 of Lacie D2 Quadra and 4 other D2 drives. After 6 months 3 drives have failed. No help from Lacie support. The working units get very hot, and have now started making clanking noises now and then, and I expect them to fail soon as well. I think there is a fundamental flaw in the design. Unlikely to buy any more Lacie D2 drives. When I bought these drives, I was expecting them to last at least 3 to 4 years. Nice looking though, shame about the performance (sorry Porsche - you shouldn't team up with such a dodgy company).

good, but not perfect
The drive is quite good, but on occasions mine doesn't switch on first time. I tend to have to switch it off again and then back on before the power kicks in. Once its up and running its fine.

Not recommended - poor cooling - power supply fails after 8 months!
Purchased this drive as I already have an older 115GB Lacie firewire drive which still works okay.

Re: 500GB Lacie D2 - Very disappointing - poor cooling - power supply in the box fails after 8 months! There appears to be too much extra crammed into basically the same metal box used for my much earlier drive. This product gets hotter than any other external drive I own or have known (I currently have three from different manufacturers).

Power supply circuitry fails after 8 months intermitent use. Overheated? If you want to recover the data on the hardrive you're on your own! Don't expect any help from Lacie or your money back.

Carefully remove the hardrive from the Lacie box and place it in an external hardrive casing for a SATA drive. These cost around £50.00 extra from Maplin etc. This worked for me... the Seagate drive supplied in the Lacie box is now working again!

Hardrive is made by Seagate - so why not simply buy a Seagate branded 500GB external drive? I did and guess what - it runs and looks cool as a cucumber.

Would I buy an another Lacie packaged hardrive product? No!