LaCie Ltd. External Hard Drives

The Bottom Line: LaCie clearly spent a lot of time designing the look and feel of the Starck Mobile Hard Drive, but it trips up on the basic essentials like weight, ease of use, cost per gigabyte, and transfer speed. Hard-core design geeks will get a kick out of its funky case, but everyone else should check out the Fujitsu HandyDrive, which offers more storage space for less.

Specs: 500 GB, External

The Bottom Line: LaCie clearly spent a lot of time designing the look and feel of the Starck Mobile Hard Drive, but it trips up on the basic essentials like weight, ease of use, cost per gigabyte, and transfer speed. Hard-core design geeks will get a kick out of its funky case, but everyone else should check out the Fujitsu HandyDrive, which offers more storage space for less.

Specs: 320 GB, External

The Bottom Line: The LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini - Home Edition is a solid mediacentric network-attached storage drive with an easy-to-use Web interface, but don't expect glitch-free access outside your home network.

Specs: LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini - Home Edition - NAS server, 500 GB, PC, Mac, 4 pin USB Type A, RJ-45, Standard, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

The Bottom Line: If you need the fast throughput of a locally connected RAID array, the LaCie Biggest FW800 is a good choice, but if you don't mind the slower transfer speeds of Ethernet, a NAS RAID array can be less expensive and offer more features.

The Bottom Line: If you need the fast throughput of a locally connected RAID array, the LaCie Biggest FW800 is a good choice, but if you don't mind the slower transfer speeds of Ethernet, a NAS RAID array can be less expensive and offer more features.

The Bottom Line: The LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini is a decent NAS drive for a good price. If you need more features or faster performance, look elsewhere.

Specs: LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini - NAS server, 500 GB, PC, Mac, 4 pin USB Type A, RJ-45, 4 pin USB Type B, Standard, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

The Bottom Line: The LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini is a decent NAS drive for a good price. If you need more features or faster performance, look elsewhere.

Specs: LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini - NAS server, 320 GB, PC, Mac, 4 pin USB Type A, RJ-45, 4 pin USB Type B, Standard, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

The Bottom Line: The LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini is a decent NAS drive for a good price. If you need more features or faster performance, look elsewhere.

Specs: LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini - NAS server, 250 GB, PC, Mac, 4 pin USB Type A, RJ-45, 4 pin USB Type B, Standard, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

The Bottom Line: The LaCie d2 Quadra is a capacious and speedy drive, with lots of connection options.

Specs: 500 GB, IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA, External, 16 MB, 10 ms, 7200 rpm

The Bottom Line: The LaCie Skwarim combines fashionable design and compact portability into a palm-size hard drive you'll want to flaunt.

Specs: 30 GB, Hi-Speed USB, 2 MB, 4200 rpm