| | |  | Computer Accessories | Home » » LaCie Hard Disk FireWire 400/USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton | | | | | | | Description: | | The efficient 500GB LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton is extremely easy to use. Very compact for its colossal capacity, this lightweight storage solution moves around easily. Plug & play offering automatic formatting with LaCie Setup Assistant with customizable features. LaCie ‘1-Click’ Backup Software for PC and Mac users is also included for quickly saving files in one click. Created exclusively for LaCie by world-famous designer Neil Poulton, the LaCie Hard Disk’s one-of-a-kind, subtle all-black design blends perfectly into your setup. Adding sophisticated style to your desktop, it has a fashionable, mirror-polished finish and a distinguishing feature - a cool, blue LED strip on its underside that creates an ambient glow. With USB 2.0, eSATA and FireWire 400, the LaCie Hard Disk is designed to connect to any PC or Mac. The widely used interface USB 2.0 offers cross-platform convenience and hot-pluggable connection. For speed-demanding professional applications, eSATA offers an impressively fast transfer rate of up to 80MB/s. There are two FireWire ports so you can connect it to your computer and to another device like a second external drive, camcorder or camera. Even use it as a reliable data shuttle across platforms. Easily share and exchange your files and regularly back up your system or upgrade capacity when your hard drive is full. You can also conveniently save all of your digital photos, music files and videos in one central location for safekeeping. | | | Product Details: | | | Average Customer Rating:
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31 of 32 found the following review helpful:
 Recommended for Mac usersSep 06, 2008
By My Newt
"The Silent Comedian"
I own a MacBook Pro and bought this unit to backup my writing, photos, and music. It's easy to use--just hook it up to your Mac and the software will be automatically downloaded onto your drive. The standard back up software is simple and one of the best on the market. It emits only a slight hum as it works; it's simple but elegantly designed (better than it looks online).
I looked around for a long time before buying this unit on the recommendation of two long-time Mac users. If you're a Mac user looking to backup your drive for the first time, this will make the transition to security very easy.
35 of 39 found the following review helpful:
Superb Shiny / Black BoxMay 22, 2008
By B. Blue
"Home"
The previous reviewer obviously hates this HDD, but maybe the reviewer should hate Windows! Before purchasing I researched this HDD up and down on the internet (majority of people LOVE IT!)
I'm one who loves this external hard drive right out of the box! Thanks to Amazon's great price and cheap next day shipping I received this item and in 90 minutes I have everything formatted and almost everything transfered to the drive! I am not sure if it's Mac's simplicity, the HDD's dumb-proof design, or both working perfect together!
I am by no means a power user when it comes to external HDDs. I am using this for my PS3 and Mac, it works perfectly with both!
As it transfers my files now I cannot hear it, speeds are fine, and it looks perfect next to my black shiny ps3!
I highly recommend buying this if you're a casual computer/media junky. I can't say how well it will work in a server room in your business.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Everything that I could ask forJul 15, 2008
By Oliver Homan
"wretyz15"
I bought this LaCie drive as a large backup drive for my new intel based mac, running os x 10.5 Leopard. I edit a whole lot of video/photos/audio, which I had been backing up to DVDs. If you can imagine the typical stack of dvds that you buy (the tall stack), all used up and scattered around the typical American office, that was me before I bought this drive. Now that I have the space to backup and store everything on the 500gb drive, I can deposit the huge piles of dvds into a trash bin. The drive is quiet, and FAST, when using firewire.
If you want the best drive possible for the money, this is it.
25 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 So Far So GoodJul 12, 2008
By Zizerzazz
It works right now after a few weeks of service.
I have 7 Lacie Hard drives, ranging from 78gb to this 500gb.
2 of these, the 78, and a 160gb crapped out on me some ago. With 3rd party software, I was able to recover data from the 78gb, and reformat it to work again. I was not so fortunate with the 160gb. I was never able to recover data, or get it to work. It's a dust collector now.
2 failures out of 7 units mean my Lacie hard drives are failing 29% of the time. That's not very comforting, considering most of us use external hard drives as a safe-guard against data loss.
Years later, as it turns out, the problem with many of these hard drives is not the drive itself, but the sub-par power bricks that ship with the drive, which crap-out. These will cost you an additional expense of somewhere between $25-$35 bucks which is annoying to say the least. The 160gb drive remains a desk-top coaster, so I guess in fairness, my Lacie drives (sans power cord) are failing 14% of the time.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Nice external driveSep 30, 2008
By R. Cabell
"Mac Guy"
Got this drive as a backup drive for my iMac, so ultra-fast speed was less important than quiet, unobtrusive design. This drive is very quiet when running, only noticeable when spinning up from sleep. The bright blue LED was a bit distracting at first, but I've gotten used to it. The only downside to this drive is that it's a just a bit more expensive than the alternatives but sometimes you have to pay a little more for style.
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