New arrival – 1TB Lacie Starck External Drive
New hardware.
Sounds good, and in both cases, it is good!
So, first up is the Lacie Starck Drive – I am seriously impressed with this. Easy ordering from Amazon, and my fears of using a market place supplier were unfounded. Excellent delivery via Fedex, well packaged and in pristine condition.
Set up was easy – once powered up and plugged in with the supplied USB lead, it did prompt me to run the Lacie setup program. After being asked to install Rosetta, I declined, and just partitioned the disc into one partition using disk utility. This took about a minute and bingo, it appeared on the desktop.
A few clicks later, and I told Time Machine it was a new drive, and off it went. Ok, it’s not Firewire 800, but I am sure it will work just fine.
Some highlights :
- it is VERY quiet. The old Iomega 1Tb drive made a racket, and with the clicking drive on plugin, and flashing red light, looked like it was on its way out. (It did lose these symptoms after a few minutes of replugging in, but I did not want to take the risk.
- It looks superb, and even has a Starck orange light which shines from the drive to show it is working
- Price – around £86 is not to be sneezed at!
I’ll be probably be buying another of these in the near future to act as a second Super Duper back up drive to keep offsite. If you don’t have a decent backup strategy in place, you are very, very brave and foolish.
Conclusion
High recommended (so far). Robust, beautifully designed, easy setup and very quiet. A perfect external drive? Get one now!
