LaCie 250 GB Mini External Hard Drive with FireWire Interface (300998U)

Average customer rating: 3.5

PURE, UNADULTERATED GARBAGE!!
great look, good speed
Great Hard Drive
Overall pretty good
Great So Far (knock on wood)

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LaCie 250 GB Mini External Hard Drive with FireWire Interface (300998U)

Manufacturer: Lacie
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000AAZRIU

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Product Description

Backing up your computer or upgrading storage capacity has never been easier with this tylish, compact and user-friendly drive. Expand your digital life by storing more photos, videos, music and files with the Lacie Mini Drive, an ideal companion for the Mac Mini. Its unique 4-conrer corwn fits almost perfectly seamless into the underside of the Mac Mini to create a stable harmony. The LaCie Mini Drive was brilliantly engineered to allow for a cooling airflow that's natural moving between these two drives for better heat dissipation. Several Lacie mini drives can be stacked for additional capacity or use it with PCs with FireWire connections. FireWire connection with easy plug & play Daisy-chainable with other FireWire devices Capacity - 250 GB Interface - 2 x FireWire ports (6-pin) Transfer rate - Up to 400Mbits/s Max Data Transfer Rate - FireWire Up to 40MB/s Rotational Speed (rpm) - 7200 Cache - 8MB or greater Seek Time - Less than 11ms Dimensions (WxHxD) - 6.5 x 6.5 x 1.77 in / 165 x 165 x 45 mm Weight - Less than 3 lbs. / 1350 g System Requirements - Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP, Mac OS 9, or Mac OS X (Driver free for Mac OS X and Windows XP & 2000) Computer equipped with USB 1.1, USB 2.0, iLink (4-pin), or FireWire (IEEE 1394, 6-pin) ports

Customer Reviews:

PURE, UNADULTERATED GARBAGE!!.......2007-06-12

This drive was D.O.A. on arrival. All beauty no brains. Forced me to face the fact that in recent years, LaCie has shipped my company a lot of corpses or their drives have failed prematurely. The driver CD caused my mini's dvd-rom to whig out. The drive does not do that with ANY other CD or DVD. LaLosers is a better name for this company. Let the buyer beware!

great look, good speed.......2007-05-08

This's a great product to decorate your home, I have a laptop dell and there's no problem to install and use.
The speed is fine, remember you are using a Firewire 400, but this is Firewire 800 compatible (tha's said the manual...) sooo... I'm going to test it with a F800 interface.
The F400 cable from PC or laptop (not mac) to Lacie, isn't include, so, you have to buy.

Great Hard Drive.......2007-04-14

This is a very good product, the files transfer is quite fast via the firewire cable. The only con that I have is the very unaccessible power button, I understand they try to keep the apple style however this one is very bad positioned It gets in the way of all the cables that you have in the mini.

Overall pretty good.......2007-02-01

The drive looks good, performs well. The extra ports are a very welcome addition and it comes with extra cables.

My only (very minor) complains are that:

1) it's a little bit noisy... noisier than the Mac mini for sure.
2) The big LaCie logo in the front clashes with the mini's smooth front look.
3) The firewire port in the back and the power button don't line up with the mini's. Maybe it used to line up with the PPC version. Whatever.
4) The power light is brighter than the mini's.

I recommend this product.

Great So Far (knock on wood).......2007-01-11

Easy Installation. Takes a couple of seconds to get rolling when you haven't grabed anything off it for awhile (it's sleeping).

I moved all my music and pictures onto it. When you get the drive book some time for some serious HD Feng Shui (plan on a few hours). Its easy to end up with a mess of files, duplicates, disorganization etc.

Also, I bought this to free up room on my Mac Mini's HD (for better performance) this means that technically I need a backup of my back-up drive because all my music and photos are still only in one place. Investigating Stuffit (compressed files) on CD's to address this.

If you like buying shiny, nerdy gadets this one fits the bill.

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