Product Description

Designed by the world-famous Porsche Design Agency GmbH, the LaCie Hard Drive exhibits world-class style and elite performance. The result of decades of architectural expertise, these drives feature state-of-the-art design and awesome performance. The LaCie Hard Drive offers fast data transfer rates up to 480Mbits/s using Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connection that are required for substantial jobs like downloading digital photos, saving MP3s or transferring home videos from a camcorder. With room to store up to 500GB, you can back up your entire system or add extra storage space when your internal hard drive is full. Built to be lightweight and durable, these drives can be easily moved for sharing and exchanging of files. These drives offer setup that is nearly effortless, and are ready to use minutes after removing it from the box. Secured rubber feet allow drives to be stacked, so you can get the most out of limited desktop space. Seek time - Less than 11ms Simple setup, easy to use External AC power adapter LaCie Utilities CD-ROM including Silverlining and SilverKeeper software System Requirements - Intel Pentium II 350 MHz-compatible processor or greater, iMac, Power Mac G3 and greater, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows Me or Windows XP, Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS 10.2.1 and greater, minimum 32MB RAM, built-in Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Dimensions - Height 1.4 x Width 4.4 x Length 7.4 inch, 35 x 112 x 188mm Weight - 900 gram, 31.7 ounces

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8485 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 301103U
• Dimensions: 1.38" h x 4.41" w x 7.40" l, 6.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

• A simple and stylish way to store and transport your files, music, video, photos and more
• Nearly effortless setup: ready to use just seconds after removing it from the box
• Fast USB 2.0 interface transfer rate: up to 480 Mbits/s
• Includes USB cable, AC adapter, and backup software
• Stackable design for more expansion with additional drives; 2-year limited warranty

From the manufacturer
LaCie has teamed up with the renowned design agency Porsche Design GmbH to create this family of hard drives. Now you’ve got a stylish place to put all of your photos, music, videos and data. Setup is quick and easy. Within seconds, the LaCie Hard Drive is ready to start sharing and storing on either PC or Mac.

User Benefits

• Save your files, photos, MP3s and videos
• Fast interface transfer rate: up to 480 Mbps
• Simple setup; easy-to-use
• Lightweight, durable and stackable

Customer Reviews

Failed after 14 months
I bought this drive to backup my iMac. It was only turned on when I was doing a backup until March 08. Since then it has been doing Time Machine backups and is on all the time. The drive still mounts, but Time Machine can no longer write to it and I get a failure message every time it tries. I'm pretty disappointed. It was obviously functioning fine before, so the unit itself isn't defective. Hope to avoid buying another LaCie.

Fast and Easy
No problems with this drive at all. I reformatted it for NTFS, very easily -- and I'm not a tech geek, so if I can do it, anyone can. I'm buying a second one today, so I'll have two back-up drives, one to store off-site. You really can't beat this for the money. I've had it a year, and keep my whole folder of My Documents backed up and safe, in case of a system failure.

6 Months - We had a good run together
Bought this through a Mac store package... I always assumed it had a fan since one always seemed to be humming (though the "fan" obviously did not work, since the HD was always very hot).

I used to keep all my multimedia files on here, and fortunately moved all my music back to my laptop a month ago. Today, just after our six-month anniversary together, I lost all my movie/video files, amongst others. Never had much notice (besides the heating/humming that I had experienced since day 1), until I heard loud clicking when I turned the drive on this afternoon.

I do not recommend this drive. The price is not right, unless you enjoy paying to for the time and effort to re-back up a couple hundred gigs of data onto an additional HD that you will eventually have to buy again.