Bundled with the Rugged 3.0 is a one-year subscription to LaCie’s Wuala online storage facility. This subscription offers 10GB of encrypted storage for backup and file sharing. Wuala also offer the ability to buy additional storage or even “trade local storage for online storage”. I’d love to tell you what this means, but Wuala registration declined the review unit’s serial number. Sorry.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0 64-bit Results
USB 3.0 vs USB 2.0
Data rates in Megabytes per Second (MB/s)
Longer bars are better
CrystalDiskMark 3.0 64-bit Results
LaCie vs Western Digital
USB 3.0
Data rates in Megabytes per Second (MB/s)
Longer bars are better
COMMENTS
While we're on the subject of ruggedness
can we have the person who came up with the WD 'My Book' enclosure taken out and subjected to all of those Mil-Spec tests, please?
Balancing a 3.5" HDD on its narrow edge and positively encouraging people to place it near their mouse hand may well not have been the greatest design decision ever. Based on 3 (so far) that I've encountered, they tend not to survive being toppled while spinning, and the form factor means it only takes a tiny nudge...
Did you read the review?
This is a bus powered drive that has no PSU but draws power from the USB port.
I have a LaCie drive that has a PSU and it's just a standard 12V affair it can be replaced for around £5
Fungus?
Military equipment is ruggedized against mushroom attack?
More irresponsible naming than Pocahontas' parents.
Rugged and Hard Drive are two things that should never be associated. This is still in a pretty flimsy case and I have suffered some pretty nasty data loss from one of these while it was in hold luggage transit.
Rugged my ass, the little big disk with its aluminium case is far far more reliable (crappy LaCie PSU aside, but that's for another story, already covered by previous poster) and with RAID0 will actually be able to make use of eSATA bus speed.
This line of rugged LaCie's should be outlawed for irresponsible marketing. And LaCie as a HD manufacturer is greatly over estimated. IMHO.
No bloody good...
If it comes with the usual crap PSU that dies just after a year and costs about as much as the drive to replace.
Yes, I do have a LaCie drive I can't use at the moment. How did you know?
