hardware, LaCie FW Hard Drive 160GB

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hardware >> LaCie FW Hard Drive 160GB

by The Big Giant Head » Thu, 05 Feb 2004 04:22:23 GMT

Anyone used or bought one of these ?
(The new, "designed by porsche) model ?
Any comments or reviews on it for use with OSX ?

Best wishes
Tony

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hardware >> LaCie FW Hard Drive 160GB

by Charlie » Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:46:49 GMT


In article <2004020420222327590%tony@biggiantheadcom>,



I've got the 80 Gig of this model. It's small, quiet, and OSX recognizes
it without any fuss. The disk shows on your desktop as soon as you
connect it in and turn it on, then you can use OSX's Disk Utility to
partition/format it (you don't need the disk that comes with the drive
for that), that's all.

I've used it for a couple of months now with no problems (although I'm
told firewire devices don't have the longevity of SCSI).

The only issue I have with it, it came with a 1-foot long firewire
cable. I don't get the rational for that (it's way too short for my
setup).


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hardware >> LaCie FW Hard Drive 160GB

by Jnmhorn » Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:15:08 GMT

On 2004-02-15 11:46:49 -0800, Charlie < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > said:



I have a 160gb version of this on the d2 edition same thing different
design. Best harddrive out there on the market.


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