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| LaCie 301313U Hard Disk by Neil Poulton 500GB Firewire400/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive |
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List Price: $124.99
Our Price: $118.95
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Manufacturer: Lacie
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: LaCie
Color: Black
EAN: 0093053754518
Feature: 500 GB external hard drive features a stunning design by Neil Poulton
Hard Disk Size: 500
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Lacie
Manufacturer: Lacie
Model: 301313U
Publisher: Lacie
Studio: Lacie
Warranty: 2 years warranty
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Features
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500 GB external hard drive features a stunning design by Neil Poulton
Triple interface including FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0
Plug and Play functionality for both Macs and Windows
Fanless design allows for near silent operation
Measures 4.6 x 1.8 x 7.6 inches (WxHxD)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Compact for its generous capacity, the LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton's chic, subtle black design blends perfectly into dark workstations and home entertainment setups. With USB 2.0, eSATA and FireWire 400, it offers universal connectivity with your PC, Mac or Linux-based computer. Connect via USB 2.0 to easily share files with friends and family. For speed-demanding applications, eSATA offers a fast transfer rate of up to 80MB/s. With two FireWire ports, it can connect to your computer and to another device like a camcorder or camera. Setup is nearly effortless; it?s plug and play and offers automatic formatting with LaCie Setup Assistant.
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Summary: Recommended for Mac users
Comment: I own a MacBook Pro and bought this unit to backup my writing, photos, and music. It's easy to use--just hook it up to your Mac and the software will be automatically downloaded onto your drive. The standard back up software is simple and one of the best on the market. It emits only a slight hum as it works; it's simple but elegantly designed (better than it looks online).
I looked around for a long time before buying this unit on the recommendation of two long-time Mac users. If you're a Mac user looking to backup your drive for the first time, this will make the transition to security very easy.
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Summary: First One Didn't Work, Waiting for Second One
Comment: Just received this from J&R Computer World. First time it did not mount on my Mac Book (OS X 10.4.11), second time it did but after install would never mount again. Tried FireWire 400 and USB both, neither worked. Tried different cables, nothing. Downloaded firmware update from LaCie, but it could not successfully install the update. Drive does not show up under Disk Utility, and shows only as Unknown Device under System Profiler. My FireWire and USB connections work fine with other peripherals. Called Support at LaCie, other solutions did not work, so now I will be returning this to J&R for exchange. Crossing my fingers that I just got a bad one (which unfortunately seems to be not uncommon with external hard drives). Will re-post as to whether the second one works.
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Summary: Everything that I could ask for
Comment: I bought this LaCie drive as a large backup drive for my new intel based mac, running os x 10.5 Leopard. I edit a whole lot of video/photos/audio, which I had been backing up to DVDs. If you can imagine the typical stack of dvds that you buy (the tall stack), all used up and scattered around the typical American office, that was me before I bought this drive. Now that I have the space to backup and store everything on the 500gb drive, I can deposit the huge piles of dvds into a trash bin. The drive is quiet, and FAST, when using firewire.
If you want the best drive possible for the money, this is it.
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Summary: Great Drive! Support your local midgets!
Comment: I could write a short book explaining away all the novices who trash technology and drives with nonsensical bad reviews (not applicable if one actually makes sense lol)... but here it is summed up: this is a great drive. that being said, as with any drive (internal or external) it's technology which means humans built it which means they will crash or come DOA.
Drives have also become extremely popular over the past 3-4 years (especially external) so the sheer spike in volume of the number produced and sold has exponentionally skyrocketed. More devices out there = higher chance / percentage of your failure group.
Now that is not to say there are not particular drive mfg's you would like to avoid or others you would prefer to use. There are, and that is true. That being said, this Lacie drive is fantastic. Well designed, surprisingly quiet (I say that due to it's built in fan), and with connectivity choices such as USB 2 (blah), eSATA & Fire Ware it can function fast for even the most demanding power user moving huge chunks of data.
The fact that it's a "Neil Poulton" design is... well, of no consequence really - it's irrelevant overall. However, the unit truly is very slick looking, with a shiny black piano type appearance and bright blue LED underneath, so it does look nice.
This drive comes with 500gigs, (though 750 & 1TB are also offered by Lacie), at 7200 rpm with either 8mb or 16mb cache (contingent on when the unit was built and which model of drives they had in manufacturing at the time) which is fast and runs quiet and cool. I love the drive - it has become one of my favorites (if such a thing is possible... I guess by that I mean it's the one I worry about the least whenever using, handling or moving it) anf I've had at least 9 or 10 external drives over the past 5 years.
That being said, just remember it's technology and they're built by the millions...so it's very possible you just may get a DOA or one that fails. It is what it is. Good thing is Lacie provides a 2 year warranty, and with drives...typically if they are going to fail they will do it in the first 6 months - 2 years.
Great drive, looks great, performs great & offers multiple connectivity options.
Customer Rating:
Summary: So Far So Good
Comment: It works right now after a few weeks of service.
I have 7 Lacie Hard drives, ranging from 78gb to this 500gb.
2 of these, the 78, and a 160gb crapped out on me some ago. With 3rd party software, I was able to recover data from the 78gb, and reformat it to work again. I was not so fortunate with the 160gb. I was never able to recover data, or get it to work. It's a dust collector now.
2 failures out of 7 units mean my Lacie hard drives are failing 29% of the time. That's not very comforting, considering most of us use external hard drives as a safe-guard against data loss.
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