soules@ecs.umass.edu (01/03/90)
Hello MacPlanet, I'm considering buying the LaCie 42MB hard drive (27ms) for $599. I'd appreciate any comments about the drive. It got good reviews, but I haven't heard any 1st person accounts. Any comments on whether I should spend $100 more to get the 15ms version? What guts does LaCie use? Connor? Quantum? Thanks, Timothy Soules, UMass-Amherst Electrical & Computer Engineering ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman) (01/05/90)
In article <8818.25a1c70c@ecs.umass.edu> soules@ecs.umass.edu writes: >Hello MacPlanet, > >I'm considering buying the LaCie 42MB hard drive (27ms) >for $599. > >I'd appreciate any comments about the drive. >It got good reviews, but I haven't heard any >1st person accounts. > >Any comments on whether I should spend $100 more >to get the 15ms version? > >What guts does LaCie use? Connor? Quantum? The 15 ms version I know is a Quantum Since I have one. I really do like it and I like the drive software and utilities that come with it (for the externals you alsow get a padded carry case). One other thing to consider is that the drives that Lacie sells that have the quantums in them now come with (I beleive) a 5 year waranty. Compare that to Apples 90 day warranty for the almost exact same drive (I day almost because the quantums that Apple uses have had the firmware in them altered slightly so that they use apples driver. Stock Quantums won't work with Apple's drivers). I really like it and if I had the money, I would buy an 80M from them. I also like their support (800 number). hope this helps -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM
kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf) (01/06/90)
soules@ecs.umass.edu writes: >I'm considering buying the LaCie 42MB hard drive (27ms) >for $599. >I'd appreciate any comments about the drive. >It got good reviews, but I haven't heard any >1st person accounts. >Any comments on whether I should spend $100 more >to get the 15ms version? Well, I don't know about their smaller drives. I have one of their larger ones... no problems so far with the drive (it's a CDC Wren). Their formatting software is rather better than apple's. It can handle multiple mac partitions as well as AUX. Additionally, they provide a localtalk disk sharing system, somewhat similar to tops. They promise that some day they will have printer sharing software out (free to drive purchasers). Still waiting for it. My only complaint was that they changed to a different brand of drive just after I purchased mine -- now they offer a 5 year warrenty (I have only a 2 year warrenty). +C -- Cory Kempf Technology Concepts phone: (508) 443-7311 x341 uucp: {anywhere}!uunet!tci!kempf, kempf@tci.bell-atl.com DISCLAIMER: TCI is not responsible for my opinions, nor I for theirs