Product Description

The exclusive creation of world-renown designer Neil Poulton, this portable storage solution offers the supreme speed of FireWire 800 along with FireWire 400 and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces for true universal connectivity. Conveniently bus-powered and plug & play, it is ideal for backup, video storage and large data volume exchange on the go. Simply plug it into just about any computer anywhere for backup, video storage and large data volume exchange. Its unique scratch-protected aluminum shell and shock-resistant rubber bumper make the LaCie Rugged Hard Disk especially resistant to harsh elements for extra protection along the road of your adventures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1323 in Consumer Electronics
• Size: 320GB
• Color: Silver
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 301832
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 3.50" w x 5.70" l, .50 pounds
• Memory: 8000MB
• Hard Disk: 320GB

Features

• Convenient Plug and Play Design
• Compact, pocket-sized form factor
• Varnished, scratch-protected aluminum shell
• Ideal for audio/video and digital content creators
• Bus-powered - USB or FireWire

Customer Reviews

Stylish
The LaCie 250GB Rugged Hard Disk with FireWire is stylish, superquick, and ultraquiet. I don't even notice when it is operating as opposed to my old Iomega that flashed a blue light and whirled in operation. The FireWire option is cool and makes downloading zip, zip, zip. Highly recommended.

Definitely recommend for students or other users that need portability
I was sort of forced into buying this particular drive because I really wanted a decent sized drive with firewire 800 capability and this seemed like the only one available. So far, it's been working great, both as a time machine backup system and a scratch disk for my Adobe programs. I wiped the Lacie default software and disk image, so I can't really review its right-out-of-the-boxness, but I will say it's fast, quiet, cool compact, sturdy, and it works. The -1 star is only because the only rubber casing it comes with is a horrible orange color and extra skins are like $10 with very limited color options.

Compact, Capacious, Fast: A Great External Drive for Work on the Go
I'm using this drive as a replacement for a full-size external 500 GB drive and it's excellent! I take this drive everywhere I take my laptop, and the small size and weight and lack of bulky power brick make it MUCH MUCH easier to pack up and tote around. With FireWire and the transfer rate of the 500 GB SATA drive mechanism, I don't notice any performance difference between this and the 3.5" mechanism I was using previously -- something which was definitely not true of the 160 GB USB mobile drive that I last tried this experiment with.

Great product, LaCie! Thanks for making a small hard drive with FireWire. Can't wait to see 1 TB in this form factor.