Product Description

Designed by the world-famous Porsche Design Agency GmbH, the LaCie Hard Drive exhibits world-class style and elite performance. With 250GB of storage room, you can back up your entire system, or supplement your data warehousing potential when your internal hard drive is reaching capacity. Dimensions - 1.4H x 4.4W x 7.4D; weighs 31.7 ounces OS Compatibility - Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP or Mac OS 9.1, OS 10.2.1+ Note - i.LINK users must use a 4-pin to 6-pin cable; FireWire 800 users must use a 9-pin to 6-pin cable (both sold separately)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20213 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 300703U
• Dimensions: 1.38" h x 4.41" w x 7.40" l, 11.02 pounds
• Hard Disk: 250GB

Features

• Save photos, MP3s, videos
• Stackable to save desk space
• Fast FireWire 400 connection
• Comes with LaCie 1-Click backup software
• PC and Mac compatible

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

User Benefits

• Save your files, photos, MP3s and videos
• Simple setup; easy-to-use
• Lightweight, durable and stackable
• Comes with LaCie '1-Click' Backup Software

Customer Reviews

Top quality drive at unbeatable price!
LaCie top notch quality shines again in this new Porsche designed desktop drive. It's notably smaller and lighter than LaCie's "d2" line of drives. Where d2 uses a metal enclosure, the Porsche drives use metallic plastic with a chromed front. As with most external drives, this is also uses a power brick, so there is no internal power core which generates heat.

The Porsche drives also lack an internal fan, which makes them extremely quiet. The lack of a fan should not be a concern. Today's hard drives are incredibly reliable and able to tolerate heat better. I have recorded hours of continuous DV video using Final Cut Pro without a single dropped frame. The 7200RPM mechanism is more than enough for DV video.

Let's face it, an external 250GB drive for less than US$200 is a whopping good deal! You can buy two to create a 1/2 terabyte RAID for less than $400! Or create a 1 TB RAID for less than $800!

No Problems After More Than a Year !
I bought this hard drive on August 30, 2003. I haven't had a problem since, and I've been using it practically everyday.

I use an Apple iBook, using Firewire, to transfer my information to and from the drive. In my opinion, much of the issues that have been written here are in regards to users who chose the USB 2.0 version, rather than the Firewire version. The data transfer rate for Firewire is much more reliable than USB 2.0.

I have found the LaCie drive to be simple, well-designed, sleek and reliable. The drive makes minimal noise compared to other brands I have used. The only times that I found it hot, were normally because I had placed something that has disruppted the fan from circulating enough air.

Overall, I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking to store large amounts of data in a minimal amount of space.

Great drive for the price
I was looking for an external hard drive to use it for backup and to use it to move files between my Mac and Windows computer. This drive does the job. It comes with a trial of MacDrive 6 for windows, an excellent software to "see Mac partitions" on windows machines. I paid $150 for it and I have no complaints yet.
Pros:
+ Good Price/Storage Capacity
+ Small & Portable & Quiet
+ 110/220 Volts
+ Firewire drives are faster than USB2 drives
+ Additional (2 ports) firewire for multiple Firewire connections
Cons:
- Software MacDrive 6 is trial only, not full version.
- Power brick is not small
- Power on switch is on the back and is a little switch, not a button.
- Firewire cable is included (+good+) but it's short