Product Description

Expand your digital life by storing much more photos, videos, music and files on the LaCie mini Hard Drive & HUB, specially designed to fit perfectly with the Apple Mac mini. Now you can connect all of your hardware peripherals at once - like your Isight, mouse, keyboard, web cam, camera, video recorder, speakers and other USB hard drives. Easily back up your computer or upgrade storage capacity, whether on a Mac mini, or another desktop or laptop computer. This multiple-connection companion is plug & play, cross-platform and ultra-quiet. Its sturdy metal casing provides advanced heat dissipation and its unique four-corner crown is designed to provide cooling airflow between stacked drives to protect against overheating.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47978 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 301039U
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00 pounds
• Memory: 8MB
• Hard Disk: 160GB

Features

• Stacks perfectly with Mac mini and other LaCie mini drives
• Increase storage capacity and connect multiple devices
• USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces
• Unique four-corner crown provides cooling airflow protection
• Multiple hub ports let you connect all of your hardware peripherals at once

From the manufacturer
Expand your digital life by storing much more photos, videos, music and files on the LaCie mini Hard Drive and HUB, specially designed to fit perfectly with the Apple Mac mini. Now you can connect all of your hardware peripherals at once - like your iSight, mouse, keyboard, web cam, camera, video recorder, speakers and other USB hard drives. Easily back up your computer or upgrade storage capacity, whether on a Mac mini, or another desktop or laptop computer. This multiple-connection companion is plug & play, cross-platform and ultra-quiet. Its sturdy metal casing provides advanced heat dissipation and its unique four-corner crown is designed to provide cooling airflow between stacked drives to protect against overheating.

Customer Reviews

Nice package, good design - runs a little warm
This LaCie drive for use with the Mac Mini is a perfect match. The excellent (white) cables of different lengths work very well for various installations. The Mac Mini sits on top of this drve and is designed to allow a clearance between the two for ventilation. I'm glad they are thinking of ventilation because the LaCie unit does run fairly warm. There is a compromise between fan noise and how much cooling you expect to get. This unit is very quiet running and although warm, does not appear to overheat. The hard drive is fast and functions flawlessly although I am not using LaCie's backup software which was included. The additional hub inputs for USB and Firewire are convenient. I would buy this unit again.

Quiet
I like this disk. It sits under my mini-mac and it is very quite.
I would like to have more space on the disk, but the reviews of the 500GB
say its very loud.

Inconsistent Performance
It seems like I can't get both the hard drive and the built in USB hub to function consistently at the same time. I have it plugged into an Apple Airport Extreme so that I can have access to the drive on my network and have a couple of printers and another external drive also available. At times, all of this functions very well. At other times, only the main drive is accessible while the peripherals are not. Other times, I can print wirelessly but can't access the drive. I've tested each peripheral by itself directly plugged into the Airport, and they all function consistently. I think the LaCie drive/USB hub just isn't perfectly designed.