LaCie 0.5 TB “Lego Brick” USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
In swapping around PCs and laptops recently I needed a backup solution. I ended up with a LaCie 500GB Brick drive and like it so much I’ll write about it (and pimp it for Amazon). LaCie has a whole series of these brick drives designed by French designer Ora-Ïto. They are not only cute but also practical.
As well as backups I needed a way to move hundreds of gigabytes around, for things like syncing a large iTunes library between PCs at different locations. Far too much data and updated too much to want to use DVD+RW/-RW drives. An external USB drive was clearly the way to go.
So I went looking at drives at local retailers. While there was quite a selection available I managed to find fault with many of the drives, including -
- Suspect looking construction quality
- Vertical standing drives that I was worried would fall over
- Light weight drives and/or poor feet that could easily slide off the desk
