LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA
The 500GB Rugged eSATA from LaCie is a portable hard drive that allows you to take your data on the road and off-road. It features a varnished, scratch-protected aluminum shell and shock-resistant metal and rubber design with internal anti-shock bumpers to protect your data from the most rigorous of activities. The drive connects to your computer via eSATA or USB 2.0, and is bus-powered, letting you access it even in places where there's no outlets to be found. The drive also includes 1-year of Wuala online storage, giving you even greater portability and flexibility.
- Make your hard drive eSATA bus-powered with the Power eSATA interface
- eSATA lets you work faster; up to 90MB/s
- Works with more than 120 million PCs
- The rugged design makes it ideal for protecting valuable data while on the go
- Power eSATA cable included
- Design by Neil Poulton
| Capacity | 500GB |
| Interface |
eSATA 3Gbps USB 2.0 |
| Drive Speed | 7200rpm |
| Average Seek Time | < 15.5ms |
| Sustained Data Transfer Rate |
USB: up to 36MB/s eSATA: up to 90MB/s |
| System Requirements |
Computer with an eSATA or USB 2.0 port High speed Internet for online storage Latest versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS X 10.5, or 10.6 600MB Recommended Available Disk Space |
| Software |
LaCie Backup Assistant LaCie Setup Assistant |
| Mounting | Portable |
| Power Requirements | Bus-powered |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 3.5 x 1 x 5.7" (9 x 2.5 x 14.5cm) |
| Weight | 8.8 oz (239g) |
REVIEW SNAPSHOT®
by PowerReviews(based on 7 reviews)
Ratings Distribution
86%
of respondents would recommend this to a friend.
Pros
- Quiet (7)
- Attractive (6)
- Easy to use (6)
- Easy to setup (5)
- Large capacity / good size (4)
Cons
Best Uses
- Photo storage (5)
- Back-up (4)
- File transfer (4)
- Video (4)
- Additional storage (3)
- Reviewer Profile:
- Power user (6)
- Primary use:
- Personal (4), Business (3)
REVIEWS
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Pros
- Easy to use
- Portable
- Powered esata
- Quiet
Cons
- Old design
Best Uses
- File Transfer
- Image edition
- Video
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
I love my new hdd its so fast over esata, about 95 to 100MB, 3 times faster than usb.
Its design is a little old but is shock proof. Includes all needed cables, that's great.
- Primary use:
- Personal
Pros
- Attractive Design
- Compact
- Easy To Setup
- Easy to use
- High Capacity
- Quiet
Cons
Best Uses
- Additional Storage
- Backup
- File Transfer
- Photo Storage
- Video
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
It's fast and furious!
- Primary use:
- Business
Pros
- Attractive Design
- Compact
- Easy To Setup
- Easy to use
- High Capacity
- Quiet
Cons
- Slow
Best Uses
- Additional Storage
- Photo Storage
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
I buy ALLOT of Lacie's Rugged hard drives for work and find them to be very reliable and Lacie offers great customer support. This one is my first esata rugged and it seems to fall short of what I was hoping in terms of speed. Goes great with smaller files but seems to hit a major bottle neck after 20gigs and slows down on file transfer speeds not holding it's 3gbs transfer rate.
- Primary use:
- Business
Pros
- Attractive Design
- Compact
- Durable
- Easy To Setup
- Easy to use
- High Capacity
- Quiet
Cons
Best Uses
- Additional Storage
- Backup
- File Transfer
- Photo Storage
- Video
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
This hard drive is exactly what we were looking for. Being in the military stationed overseas requires us to have some very durable gear. Whether we are in the deserts of Iraq or an office building in Japan, this hard drive gets our job done!
- Primary use:
- Business
Pros
- Attractive Design
- Easy To Setup
- Easy to use
- Quiet
Cons
Best Uses
- Backup
- File Transfer
- Photo Storage
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
I tried building an eSATA drive using two brands of enclosures. My HP would not recognize them as SATA drives. The LaCie drive was recognized immediately. Write speed from my Lexar Expresscard reader was ~46MB to the internal 5400rpm drive. It was ~56MB to the LaCie 7200rpm. On negatives are the dang ugly color and the unit is not availabe in 750MB yet.
- Primary use:
- Personal
Pros
- Attractive Design
- Portable
- Quiet
Cons
- See notes
Best Uses
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
I bought this to go with my new Sager laptop with Windows 7 64 bit(core i7)which has an eSATA port, but everytime I connected through the eSATA port the drive and the system slowed to a halt-- even the mouse would sometimes freeze. When under USB2 connection only, the drive worked fine.
I took the laptop and the drive to the laptop manufacturer (conveniently not too far away) and demonstrated the issue. They plugged in a different brand of eSATA drive which worked fine, so they surmised that some 3rd party (LaCie, in this case) drives experience conflict with the intel storage controllers. Or something along those lines; there was a slight language barrier.
I stopped on the way home and bought a different brand drive and external cage, and all works like it's supposed to now.
On a an up note, the LaCie performed as expected on my desktop Dell with XP and the LaCie PCI card adapter. But since I was going to be using this drive as a back and forth Lightroom library, I had to be able to use eSATA on both computers.
- Primary use:
- Personal
Pros
- Attractive Design
- Easy To Setup
- Easy to use
- High Capacity
- Portable
- Quiet
Cons
- None
Best Uses
- Backup
- Photo Storage
- Video
Comments about LaCie 500GB Rugged eSATA:
Had it about a week or so. So far, so good. It's fast and connects fairly quickly to my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.5).
- Primary use:
- Personal
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Cables & Adapters
- Price: $5.99
Host Adapters
- Price: $29.65
What's in the Box
- USB 2.0 Cable
- USB Power Sharing Cable
- Power eSATA Cable
- Quick Start Guide
- 3-Year Limited Warranty
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