Introduction
The Lacie d2 Quadra offers something we’ve yet to see on an external backup drive – four different interfaces, including USB 2.0, FireWire in both 400 and 800 flavors, and eSata. Even better, Lacie provides cables for all these interfaces as well. It also offers several backup options, as well as the option to format a portion of the drive as a FAT32 volume to work with files from Mac OS and Linux. Though it’s a bit expensive considering the price of 500GB hard drives, the d2 is a very comprehensive backup solution with a lot of compelling features.

It's the only backup drive we've tested that offers four interfaces, which ensures maximum compatibility...

by Ryan Dawson on May 8, 2008:
“I have used this drive with no problems on Windows XP and Vista. Setup was easy and perform bac-ups to this drive weekly with no problems. Have heard people say that their hard drives are not recognized on Vista through USB. That is a Vista OS problem not...” More...