I’ve owned, tested and reviewed many LaCie hard drives over the years, and I’ve come to appreciate them for their design, long-term reliability and above-average features. One of the newest little benefits is a cool partitioning tool resident on recent drives like the ‘LaCie Ethernet Disk mini – Home Edition‘ and the ‘LaCie Hard Disk, black‘. It allows users to optionally & instantly create a dual partition scenario (NTFS & FAT32) for varying purposes. It’s certainly not the most robust partition manager in the world (far from it), but it’s great that it’s a built-in, freebie utility.

Here’s a quick clip of the setup: