Comments on: LaCie 301439U 640GB Little Big Disk Quadra Hard Drive

By: J. Brinkworth MD

J. Brinkworth MD — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:17:19 +0000

I am using this drive as an eSATA backup for an office PC with critical files using Norton Ghost v14. Daily and system backups are speedy and painless. Wish the supplied eSATA cable was longer. Setup was a no-brainer.

By: GadgetMaven

GadgetMaven — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:51:27 +0000

This drive has now been in use for several months as backup for my system. The Little Big Disk Quadra’s small physical size, holding 500 GB disk space, is perfect for my needs, and works so well I ordered another for off-site storage.

By: Andrew Lubetkin

Andrew Lubetkin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:33:21 +0000

Far faster than a traditional firewire or usb 2.0 drives. As far as I know this is the only bus powered raid. It uses raid 0 . It does not have mirroring capabilities. Using firewire 800 it is very fast.I have the 320gb version of this unit.

By: Charles Valenzuela

Charles Valenzuela — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:06:35 +0000

I own three of these. They all take their power from the firewire 800 port (daisy-chained) on my MacBook Pro (Aluminum). Fast, silent, very compact.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:28:42 +0000

This firewire 800 Lacie external drive has two 250GB drives which provide excellent performance. It is used on our media center Apple Mac Mini and is extremely quite since it doesn’t use a fan for cooling. Very pleased with the purchase.