Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The LaCie I love
When it comes to buying an external hard disk drive, I have learned the hard way, that LaCie is the best solution. I recently ditched my 60GB ipod and didn’t have a replacement. I needed something small, portable and reliable. I have used LaCie drives for quite some time and really liked them.
My experiences with Maxtor HDD have been horrid and I decided to stick with LaCie ever since.Recently, I bought a new addition, small mobile HDD from LaCie (160GB, 5400rpm). It’s awesome. It comes with three ports: bus-power, 6-pin FireWire and Hi-Speed USB 2.0. Cables included. It is bus-powered, so you don’t need to carry any heavy adapters. The drive recharges from the laptop/desktop it is connected to, hence its portability. I have used it on Windows and Mactinosh and it was great - plug and play without a problem (hamdilla). You do not have to install the One-Click Back-up Software included in the package, but I found it useful as it moves large folders smoothly and doesn’t deal with the Windows’ manually drag-and-dropped transfer errors!
What I liked most about it was that its very small and lightweight. I only needed it for backup when I am traveling, so 160GB was great. I have realized that the more GBs you carry, the more you want to fill’em up - with anime, videos, e-books, files, whatever… and then, you never have the time to watch/enjoy it all. So I decided to stick to 160GB.
I bought the drive from Integrated Offices in Hawalli (Kuwait). Price: 50KD. Tel. : +965 2664278
What external HDD you carry with you on the road?
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Comments
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Midoe |
Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 03.09 am
You should have got “Passport” by Western Digital.It rocks!
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Fayoora |
Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 06.31 pm
Btw Marble slab creamery ib yefta7 bil Koot soon 
Etha moo Already feta7 =D
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Shaymaa |
Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 07.36 pm
@Mai : I think I will write a new post about how to back up your computer LOL about using Tape...!
@Midoe: Passport seems cool but its USB only, no firewire port :/
@Fayoora : Thanks for dropping by and Yea! I saw it at Al-Kout and updated the marble-slab post!! Wanasa! The shop is still under construction though.
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N. |
Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 01.31 am
I Was going through wondering why you haven’t mentioned the WD external drives. Then I noticed that you use firewire. I’m not sure if you can comfortably use the usb->firewire cable converter and still get quality transfers!
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Marzouq |
Sun Dec 30, 2007 at 03.10 am
I have used the stationary Maxtor drives and they have been working great for me for the past three years.
For the portable the WD are really good, I have had the seagate for over four years now at 160 GB and its fantastic, I keep using it all the time. And your right, 160 GB is the perfect size and mine is slightly bulkier because its old, but still fantastic!
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Om BB |
Tue Jan 01, 2008 at 02.59 am
3ashaw moshaji3een “Fujitsu” ;D
yummy yummy “marbel slab”, u know what I did when I saw it there I jumped like a child lool
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Shaymaa |
Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 10.26 pm
@N. : Yea, Firewire is important for me! WD have a GREAT reputation but I never tried them.. LaCie was always my home, office and portable HDD choice!
@Marzouq : At first, I thought I was the only one having problems with Maxtor, but I’ve found a whole community out there of Maxter-haters! Glad your Maxtor is still kicking! And inshallah it will stay that way 
@Om BB : LOL, you know me, I am a huge Fujitsu fan! and I totally remembered you when I saw Marble-Slab at Al-Kout!!
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160 GB for chthy traveling?
Walla yabeeLa!
Ana wdy something to backup my data! How can I? What r the ways? Tape? :D bs qaweya lol