Product Brief: LaCie Starck 500GB USB Mobile Hard Drive

Friday March 05, 2010

Written by Mike Jennings

$179

Price at time of review.

If you're looking for extra storage for your music and photos, the LaCie Stark looks stylish, though it's not the best value

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Designed by Philippe Starck, LaCie's latest 500GB hard drive has a gun-metal grey aluminium chassis with elegant curves and a textured finish, plus chrome-effect panels to either end. It's well built, with a colour-coordinated USB cable that stows neatly in one end.

It lags behind the competition, though. Our small-file test saw a read speed of 18.9MB/sec, and 12.9MB/sec when writing. It wrote large files at 27.5MB/sec. It's more disappointing when you consider the price: $179 is expensive for 500GB. It looks great, but it isn't a convincing all-rounder.

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Slatts Mar 6, 2010 9:29 PM	$180 for a 500 Gig external hard drive without Esata? I don't think so. Comment made about the PC Authority article: Product Brief: LaCie Starck 500GB USB Mobile Hard Drive? If you're looking for extra storage for your music and photos, the LaCie Stark looks stylish, though it's not the best value What do you think? Join the discussion.
petergaskin Mar 7, 2010 3:31 PM	Bought my 1tb hard drive for less than $120. I guess the featured hard drive has somethiung extra to justify its high price.
Slatts Mar 7, 2010 6:14 PM	It'd want to come in a gold box. :-k