In addition to this being a good deal on a portable hard drive, LaCie also includes a free one year subscription to Carbonite, one of the best online backup services around. It's worth almost $99.00 on its own. You can upload and store as much as you want, giving you a safe offsite storage for photos, music, videos, documents, etc. Carbonite is recommended by all the tech experts.
Good deal, but once you get hooked on your online backups you'll be paying it for years to come. This may or may not be a good thing!
Yeah that's what i thought at first. But that other thread has no mention of the free Carbonite backup subscription, so i guess this counts as a new deal.
Although he could have just mentioned the free Carbonite in a post on the other thread. Nevermind.
Can you get a few year's subscription by buying a few drives?
NO !!!!!
The LG XD1 320GB USB + eSATA Portable HDD at Computer Alliance (Brisbane) is back up to $99 now, but still a good buy for BrisVegians.
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I noticed that this is also available at Harris Technology as well at the same price
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this unit appears to have a DC power socket. Can anyone confirm if this requires a power adaptor, because if so, it defeats the portability of a 2.5" external drive. I ask because I'm looking to upgrade from a WD 2.5" drive which requires 2 usb plugs (1-pwr, 1-data), and just want a drive that requires one cable only.
We bought this and it uses the usb to power the drive. It also contains another usb connector in case the usb on the laptop is a 1.0 and needs more power, but if the laptop usb connnectors are 2.0 it won't need the extra cord.
Hey thanks for the reply. My current drive is the same, only uses the second connector for USB hubs that cannot supply enough power on one port. I didn't think this would be an issue when I bought it, but I haven't had a PC yet that can power the thing off one connector. Also, my current one is Seagate, not WD.
First time I've heard the term "worth almost $99.00". Usually people say $100.00 haha