Lacie d2 Bigger Disk Extreme 1TB Mini Review

It's big. About the mass of 3 250 LaCies.

It's noisy. Mine sounds vaguely like a dish washer on low. Much noiser than the 250s...even several of them together.

Speed is less than spec. I get 17.61MB/sec Uncached radom read w/ 256K blocks, 16.21 MB/sec unchached random write.

44.08 mb/sec uncached sequential write. 61.68mb/sec uncached sequential read.

Sounds pretty good, but it's about the same as the cheaper non-"extreme" 250's.

Going from one firewire drive to another firewire drive is very very slow. Haven't speced it out, but s l o w.

Would I buy another one. Probably not. The noise is the real dealbreaker.