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Simon is a hands-on software architect who works within Detica's Global Financial Markets group. Simon has been involved in projects ranging from desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures (SOA). His specialist technology is Java and, as a hands-on technical authority, he's called upon to advise and shape solutions; defining, delivering and assuring that the chosen architecture is fit for purpose and meets the non-functional requirements. Simon has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at several conferences (e.g. QCon and JavaOne) and founded Coding the Architecture that’s running on his open source Java EE blogging tool called Pebble.

E-mail : simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

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LaCie d2

My poor little PowerBook is running out of disk space, mainly due to my iTunes and iPhotos libraries. I was briefly tempted to buy a dual-G5, but then I regained my senses and decided to buy an external drive instead - a LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface 250GB. Despite a few problems finding these in stock at competitive prices, it worked like a dream right out of the box using the FireWire 400 interface and it's even pre-formatted for Apple. My iPhoto library now resides on the external disk and performance doesn't seem to have suffered at all. I wish all hardware was like this.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 20 June 2005 11:30:31 BST #

Re: LaCie d2

Comment from Michael on 03 July 2005 01:29:19 BST #

I picked up the 200MB one...pretty happy with it. The only thing is that (being picky) I noticed some minor scratches on the external housing, how's yours?

Re: LaCie d2

Comment from Simon Brown on 04 July 2005 22:03:11 BST #

It's fine. I think the only negative thing to say about these drives is that they are much noisier than I expected, particularly when starting up and shutting down!

Re: LaCie d2

Comment from Rick Thrasher on 23 May 2006 02:28:19 BST #

I picked up a 500Gb drive and have had nothing but trouble with it and the service at LaCie is "no see".

Re: LaCie d2

Comment from jg on 30 July 2005 12:37:58 BST #

I just picked up the exact drive and after a week it just stopped being recognized by my powerbook. I've tried all tricks suggested in forums and Lacie tech support and still no drive recognition. I sent an inquiry to Lacie and am waiting to hear back from them. Hope this can be sorted out... There is a firmware update program on the Lacie website you might want to try.

Re: LaCie d2

Comment from Anonymous on 04 August 2005 15:08:05 BST #

Don't these things have Maxtors in them?

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