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Description
World-Famous Design: 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. Hi-Speed Downloads: Available with Hi-Speed USB interface, the LaCie Hard Drive offers fast data transfer rates (up to 480Mbits/s) that are required for substantial jobs like downloading digital photos or saving MP3s. Easy to Use: 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.
Quick Glance
Internal/External: External
Interface: USB 2.0
Drive Type: Hard Drive
Capacity: 250000
Rotational Speed: 7200
Cache Size: 8
Summary
Product Title: LaCie 250 GB External Hard Drive
Manufacturer: LaCie
Lowest Price: $169.99
Power Score: 3.3 | 53 Reviews
Storage
Capacity: 250 GB
Interface
Interface Type: USB 2.0
Interface Connection: USB - Universal Serial Bus 2.0
Performance
Drive Type: Hard Drive
Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm
Cache Size: 8 MB
General
Class: Hard Drive
Category: Other
Internal/External: External
Dimensions
Weight: 1.98 lbs
Dimensions: 1.40" Height x 4.40" Width x 7.40" Depth
Warranty
Warranty Information: 1 Year Limited
More Info
URL: Manufacturer Link
Additional Specifications
Hot Swappable: Yes
Strengths: None
Weakness: All
I have owned 3 LaCie drives, and all have failed, causing me immesurable problems. This is not a manufacturer who cares about the integrity of their product. AVOID LaCie, or buy their garbage and face lots of unnecessary problems!!!
Strengths: Worked well before it burned out.
Weakness: It stopped working -- that's a big problem.
I'm not entirely certain why this product failed, but it stopped being recognized by my G5 dual processor (Mac OS X (Panther). I'm not sure if it overheated or what happened. One day it worked (for 6 months) and now my data is lost. Personally, I wouldn't buy this drive again. Once burned is too much for me.
Strengths: Firewire, speed, capacity, looks
Weakness: Reliability due to bad thermal design
As soon as I received the drive, I was concerned about the design. As a disk drive designer in the past, it was clear that this sleek packaging did not have a very good thermal design. Within one year, the drive was bad. I wouldn't buy this drive again, rather look for one that provides fan cooling.
Strengths: Easy to install, huge storage, quite cheap and cool looking.
Weakness: The software and the USB cable included.
I am very happy with it. I spent less than $200 for 250Gigabite, you cannot beat that. In addition, it is small and cool looking. It comes formatted in FAT32 and with a cd-rom with some software for partitioning or formatting. Unfortunately the software is compatible just with windows 98 or ME, so having XP, I was not able to install it: lame!!!! Not a big deal, you can use the XP disc manager to...
Strengths: Small size and weight, cost per GB
Weakness: fit and finish
I have had 8 external hard drives, including four with removable trays. This drive is very small and light (under 2 lbs), with OK transfer speeds (consistent with USB2 limits -- a little more than 1GB per 90 seconds). The price was extremely low for an external 250 ($176). Contrary to what I read in one of these reviews, it gets warm to the touch, but not HOT like my Maxtor One Touch 250. Quieter...
Strengths: Outstanding design and storage for a decent price...
Weakness: Drive get's extremely hot, almost too hot to handle.
I just purchased this drive and so far all is good. The computer instantly recognized it and I backed up my whole computer in around an hour. The drive's design is spectacular and puts my 80GB Maxtor external to shame. The drive looked a lot bigger in the pictures than when I actually saw it for real. Think about a vhs tape slightly thicker and heavier and you've got the idea. All in all, a great...
Strengths: Great price on a large drive.
I bought this drive because it gave me the cheapest gigabytes/dollar ratio. It sometimes makes a little buzzing noise, but if you just place something on top of the drive it stops. Make sure you have high speed USB and you'll get reasonable speeds. I copied some files to a friend's machine that was only USB 1.1 and it's slow like mollases.
Strengths: Small form factor. Lightweight. Nice looking.
Good small package. Works beautifully right out of the box. It is a great value for the price and it looks better than most other external HDs out there.
Strengths: Great value per gigabyte, sleek design, small profile, USB 2.0 connection
Weakness: USB 2.0 is likely slower in transfer than Firewire
Great value for memory. Wonderfully sleek design and profile -- VHS size, ~ 1 pound. Slower than expected transfer, but worked right out of the box (with Windows 2000, and I imagine with my G4 as well). Overall: The price, the size and value is right, and will be great for the near future for digital photos, movies, mp3, etc.
Please consider this before buying...
Strengths: Price
Weakness: They fail... consistently. Just read the posts.
Listen, I like a deal like everyone else here on Pricegrabber. I do the math and I compare the prices and consistently LaCie drives are the best bang for the buck. But are they really? Simply put, I've owned two of these and within, or just after a year of use, BOTH have failed. It's that simple. If the failure falls within the year warranty, and assuming you purchased it from one of their...
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