Philips DVD963SA DVD / SACD Player

Philips DVD963SA DVD / SACD Player
Manufacturer: Philips
Product Type: CE

Average customer rating: 4.5

I love legos!
Excellent product!
It's not loud at all
Quick and Quiet
La Cie makes quality stuff with quality support

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Manufacturer: Lacie
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000CMGIRA

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Product Description

Crafted by the world-famous designer Ora-Ito, the new LaCie Brick expresses a user-friendly high-performance hard drive. The Brick makes professional storage with an unique, modern design. The Brick is ready to use seconds right out of the box. Simply attach the USB 2.0 cable to your computer for quick access anytime. Stacked drives can just as easily be connected as well. It's driverfree for Windows 2000, Windows XP & Mac OS X. Helpful software is included for 1-Click backup and Drive Management Utilities. Stack & Play multiple LaCie Brick Hard Drives to add vibrant colors to your computing life while expanding capacity. With Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, the Brick can achieve interface transfer rates of up to 480Mbits per second. It provides the fast data transfer rates required for substantial jobs like downloading digital photos, saving MP3s or transferring home videos from a camcorder. Use them to back up your entire system, add extra storage space when your internal hard drive is full, or share and exchange files among workstations. Bundled with user-friendly software LaCie 1-Click Backup Software (Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP or greater, Mac OS 10.2 or greater) SilverKeeper Backup Utilities (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X) Driver-free for Windows 2000, Windows XP & Mac OS X Silverlining 98 Drive Management Utilities (Windows 98SE) Silverlining Pro Drive Management Utilities (Mac OS 9.x) Interface transfer rate - Up to 480Mbits per second Data transfer rate - Up to 34MB per second Interface - Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port Rotational speed - 7200RPM Seek time - Less than 11ms Cache - 8MB or greater System Requirements - PC or Mac with built-in Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS 10.2.1 or greater, Intel Pentium II 350MHz-compatible processor or greater, iMac, Power Mac G3 or greater, minimum 32MB RAM Dimensions - 4.4 x 7.4 x 1.7 inch, 112

Customer Reviews:

I love legos!.......2007-03-14

This is a good product. It's not too loud it runs smooth. It is just an awesome piece of toy art.

Excellent product!.......2007-02-22

High quality hard drive. Looks cooler than it really is in the pictures. I love my giant lego block! No problems with it, and I've had it for awhile. Highly recommended!

It's not loud at all.......2007-02-19

Lacie is one of the best hard drives and its design is amusing as well. Its great if you don't carry it around.

Quick and Quiet.......2007-01-26

A power surge wiped out 5 volumes on two internal hard drives on my computer. Quick, quiet and efficient. I hook "the Blue Brick" to the USB port on my monitor and back up while my wife does her Sunday vacuuming.

I would like more features in the LaCie backup software. I am sure that I am missing something.The drive is a great value considering the capacity. The recovery effort for the 5 volumes cost $250. I wish I would have spent the money on the drive sooner.

La Cie makes quality stuff with quality support.......2006-09-20

Since I previously bought a tiny La Cie 50gb "Porsche Design" drive directly from La Cie, I opted to be on their mailing list. I'm glad I did. A few weeks ago they sent out a mass mail saying they had this 300gb Brick drive (in blue only, although they also make an identical drive in red casework and white casework..) .. on sale for a week in early Sept., 2006, for $40.00 off ($129.99 net plus $10.00 shipping).. and since I've stated digitizing video, my little 50gb was filling up fast. So for only $30.00 more than I paid for that one six months ago, I bought the blue Brick drive and now have six times the storage, albeit in a bigger footprint.

La Cie ships this baby WITH an AC power supply (wall cable goes to small black box with a green LED on it, another cable goes from that to the rear end of the drive..) .. The 50gb drive required me to buy its power supply for an extra $15.00. Do the math. 50gb drive + power supply + shipping = $125.00. 300gb drive (on special sale) plus shipping = $140.00 for a much faster drive with six times the capacity!

Anyway, I hooked the blue "Lego" up, Windoze XP home SP1 recognized it within seconds, and I reformatted it from Fat32 to NTSF on La Cie's advice. This drive is a screamer. FAR faster than the little drive was. I like La Cie because not only do they sell quality products, but they treat their customers well. I called Tech Support and asked one of their reps many questions BEFORE buying the Brick. And unlike so many other companies, La Cie's tech support and sales operates totally from their main office in Oregon, not out-sourced to somewhere in Asia or India. The rep with whom I spoke was courteous, knew the product inside out, backwards and forwards, and took all the time I needed to answer every question I asked. He then switched me to sales who took my order. Despite their telling me that due to their $40.00 off sale, the blue Brick was selling by the boatload and backordered and probably wouldn't ship for a week or two, it shipped the day after I ordered it and UPS handed it to me two days later.

While I can understand how some Mac folks who have drunk Steve Jobs' Kool-aid, so to speak, and think any computer hardware that makes any kind of noise louder than a feather hitting a pile of marshmallows is "noisy", I'm not a Mac guy. To me, this drive is very quiet. Certainly, any ambient sounds in my living room / home office (my a/c, the teevee, whatever..) .. easily drowns out any faint noise the Brick makes while its head is accessing its platters.

I didn't buy the drive for its style (which I'll admit, is very cute).. I bought it for its high capacity and got, what I think was a steal of a price. I copied over the entire contents of my 50gb drive, removed that one from my laptop and packed it away in its original box to save as a spare, should I ever need it.

(Rule #12 - NEVER sell a used hard drive, even if you use fancy schmancy software to zero out its contents. There is recovery software out there that can restore the contents of a totally wiped hard drive. The only safe and secure way to dispose of a hard drive you no longer want is to literally smash it to bits..) ..

The one quirky thing about the two La Cie external drives I've owned is that the ONLY indicators of any kind on them are a single tiny LED on the front that changes colors from orange (idle) to green (writing) to yellow (reading). That's it.

Unlike the 50gb Porsche Design drive, the blue 300gb Brick drive has a "smart fan" inside and vents on one side, (I simply can't hear the fan at all, and I have "20/20 hearing"..) and a power button. The drive inside is a 7200 rpm Maxtor.

Complaints? Just one. The USB cable is a tad on the short side. about 18" long. I swapped the one that came with the Brick drive for the one that came with the little drive since that one was about two feet long. For most people, the 18" cable won't be a problem, but my laptop sits on my coffee table which is covered with other stuff and so the short cable presented a slight placement problem.

I would highly recommend this drive to anyone looking to upgrade their storage capacity, even at Amazon's price, which is forty bucks more than I paid during La Cie's sale. They are one computer peripheral company who really has their act together and I would not hesitate to buy from them or buy their products again.

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