I've owned exactly the one you're asking about for 3 or 4 months. Dr Lovegrove is right, it does get hot, but I have left mine on 24/7 with no ill effects. For the last month it has probably been active (i.e. data transfer underway) for at least 8 hours a day which for a home PC is very heavy use. This is because during the day I have been constantly ripping CDs to it and during the night I have set a backup to DVD+R going with read-back verification afterwards, all of which hammer the LaCie. It has performed flawlessly and in my opinion is a very nice piece of kit and good value too. I'm using mine via USB right now (USB 1 can you believe!) but will be switching it to Firewire when my new computer arrives. (The last bits I need for my new computer are, according to the courier's tracking site, in the truck right now and out for delivery to me today, together with my SB2... yeah!!!!)
I also have a LaCie DVD+-RW drive that I bought at the same time and that has performed flawlessly as well, and I've had lots of bad experiences with external writers in the past. At least from my experience, LaCie seem to make good stuff. My only reservation is the heat but it doesn't seem to have hurt it. It's not too hot that you can't touch the case or anything, it's not even as hot as a radiator on full blast, but it is probably as hot as a rediator on a medium to high setting. Note also that this is during a particularly hot month in London, during cold days the temperature of the drive doesn't seem so bad. - Julian -- JulianL _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
