LaCie Hard Disk Max USB Portable Drive

The LaCie Hard Disk Max USB Portable Drive marketed by the French manufacturer, LaCie. It’s a simple, attractive design that is somewhat reminiscent of 2001, and will absolutely draw admiring glances from those that view it, not something you would normally read about about storage. Inside the LaCie Hard Disk Max USB Portable drive are two drives that can be configured as ‘Big’ (RAID 0) and ‘Safe’ (RAID 1). The RAID 0 setting doesn’t offer any speed improvements as the device has only a USB 2.0 connection: it’s more for simplicity. RADID 0 simply make one big drive of the two internal drives. RAID 1 puts identical information on both drives, giving you backup. Everything about the Hard Disk Max is designed to be as simple as possible. Plugging in the drive to your Mac or PC for the first time launches the LaCie SetUp Assistant, which formats the drive for your operating system (HFS+ for Macs and NTFS for Windows). This automatic computer selection is something I haven't seen with other drives.It also gives you the option of installing a separate FAT32 partition on the drive of up to 32GB, which appears as a separate drive in your Finder/Windows Explorer and is accessible to both Mac and Windows users – great if you want to plug the drive into multiple computers. The LaCie Hard Disk Max can be found at USB Portable Drives.com. for about $240 for the 2TB drive, a great buy that will provide you with enough space to ease your worries about running out of space for a long time.