Little Big Disk Quadra

I'm eying on this beautiful portable mobile harddrive now it's really a good deal for mac users who does have firewire ports..

The deal breaker for me really is the need for power adapter when connected to eSata, and USB, i think lacie should have this eSata and USB powered too.

It would really break my heart if they release a USB/eSTA bus powered version of this little thing after i bought it...

I'm on a mac but my Macbook Air doesn't have firewire.. do you guys know an alternative to this one?, Thanks..

"My personal concern is that if one of the two RAID drives goes out, you'd lose all of the data in the array."

This of course true but not particularly relevant. Losing 1 drive of 2 or losing 1 drive of 1 still results in a loss of all data.

I had the LaCie 1TB Big Disk with triple interface.

NEVER again will I buy a LaCie. I bought one before I knew much about raid and stuff like that. One of the drives died and I lost all of the data on the drive.

I was going to remove the other working drive and put it in my mac pro however that was not possible due to the drive being IDE.

Just buy a Drobo and 3 or 4 SATA drives.

I picked up a WD My Passport 320GB and opened it up. Inside was a WD 320GB 2.5" SATA hard drive. That hard drive is now inside my MacBook, and my MacBook's 250GB hard drive (I already upgraded once) is now in the My Passport enclosure, which works great as a USB-powered solution.

The best part? The My Passport 320GB cost LESS than a stand-alone version of the 320GB Western Digital drive ($135 for the MyPassport, while Best Buy was asking $179 for the internal drive alone). For less money (and no shipping wait/cost) I got a quality external enclosure, and a 320GB drive for my MacBook.

After shipping, I would have been able to get the drive for about the same price online-- No enclosure included-- if I were willing to wait. Instead, I grabbed this on my lunch break, and had OS X transferred to the new drive, and had the new drive inside my MacBook before my work day was done (Super Duper! did it's thing while I worked).

When the blasted 500GB Samsung 2.5" drive comes down in price (currently $310 minimum) I'll grab one, but for now 320GB for just over $100 is a nice upgrade for a MacBook.

Too bad. After reading this story the gremlins knew and my 4 mo. old 500GB D2Quadra wasn't recognized (used for TM). Fiddled, opened & removed drive and ran from test harness. Drive (Seagate) was recognized & works fine. Reassembled, no workie. Guessing it's the LaCie chipset. Ordered new OWC SATA case. (No problems with other OWC's)

Last month bought two Lacie Quadra 750gb.
One for data, the other to be the Time Machine HD.

Returned one of them Amazon after 1 day trying to make it work.

Most of Lacies HD, are rated +/- 3 stars by consumers on Apple.com/store.
But looking carefully, you realize it's the average btw 1 star and 5 stars. That is: there's a huge fail rate.
Love it (if you're lucky) or hate it...

I hated it ...

I've lost so much data to LaCie drives over the past 8 years or so, I'll never trust them again.

these enclosures are not even made for handling the heat at regular size, let alone this size, this is a huge disaster... big waste of money if you get Lacie... i dont know a single person who would recommend them.. awful stuff

Forget it.

LaCie concentrates on shelf presence and gimmickry to the detriment of reliability (Lego drives, Porsche design, etc., etc.). If it isn't the crap mechanisms, it's the crap enclosures that fail.

Just. Forget. It.