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LaCie, Desktop Drive , Design by F.A Porsche, 500GB, 7200RPM, USB2, Mac and PC, Plug and Play

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  • Up to 82MB/s fast for DV, HDV & some SD video
  • Silent, sturdy, compact, mobile design
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Technical Details
BrandLaCie
Item Weight898 g
Product Dimensions18.8 x 11.3 x 3.5 cm
Item model number301103EK
Number of USB 2.0 Ports1
  
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ASINB000GIXVZW
Best Sellers Rank 78,050 in Computers (See top 100)
Shipping Weight1.6 Kg
Date First Available22 Feb. 2007
  
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LaCie Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche 500GBLaCie has teamed up with the renowned design agency Porsche Design GmbH to create this family of hard drives. Now you've got a stylish place to put all of your photos, music, videos and data. Setup is quick an

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LaCie has teamed up with the renowned design agency Porsche Design GmbH to create this family of hard drives. Now you've got a stylish place to put all of your photos, music, videos and data. Setup is quick and easy. Within seconds, the LaCie Hard Drive is ready to start sharing and storing on either PC or Mac.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
STAINLESS STEEL LOOKS -STAINLESS REPUTATION!
By R. Phillips on 1 Dec. 2007
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I use 5 external hard drive to back up data on each of my computers. I have had 3 hard drive failures in the past year. Backing up large files of irreplacable photgraphic data is not an option, its a must for me.

This 500Gb drive was the best GB per £ I could find. That is, it was the cheapest against even ebay sources. Do not confuse the word cheap with the quality of this unit. It is excellent in all respects.

It is a stainless steel look metal drive box with good cooling slots and radiates heat very well.

This is the quietest drive I have.

I did not buy it for looks but it is functional minimimalism in personification.

The psu is small and neat with a standard two prong socket.

The usb lead is a little short at just under 60cm, ok if just sitting on top of the machine you want to back up, but is identical to my pleathora of printer leads, so easily patched to other machines.

The on/off button has a deep travel and may defeat large fingers on first attempt. A ball point pen top works well here.

NOTE... The drive comes formatted as FAT32. If you want files larger than 4gb on windows, reformat as NTFS- that's what I did to prevent error messages about my large video files.

I don't think it will leave a stain on your wallet either.
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83 of 86 people found the following review helpful
Good stuff!
By Kurt on 28 Sept. 2007
I was unsure about getting this hard drive reading some of the reviews, but in the end i decided to go for it, and follow up with a full review.

i must say 5 star to amazon too, delivery was fast and was well packaged as usual with amazon.

now for the hard drive, first thing i notice is the size, it is alot smaller than it looks in the images, infact the images just do not show the beauti of the styling on this little hard drive, looks really good.

What concerned me with this hard drive before purchase when reading other people review, was things like "hard drive fell and broke, power cable is dodgy, the fan is noisy"

After i unpacked it and powered up, everything was just perfect the power cable was fine and caused no problems, still haven't noticed the noise of the fan, it's very silent, with the hard drive falling, i haven't experience that part :- ) but the hard drive has very well build rubber feet that sits just right on top of my pc tower.

i have a 500W logitech surround sound system and the subwoofer doesn't even move the hard drive, so if it falls and brake TBH, that would be your fault.

One thing i would mention, that is NOT a down side, is that the provided USB cable is just about long enough to put the hard drive on top of your PC tower and no where else. i'm sure we all have this cable at home being used for something else and we can all make a quick swap and everything is just fine.

To round everything up i would say this little bit of storage is serious bang for the buck. I've never once said "yeah it's okay for the price" like i usualy do with cheaper things, it's just perfect.

I give it 10 out of 10 for style and proformance.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Oh dear..
By Ms. Lucy Michalak on 30 Dec. 2007
I got this for christmas - not much of a surprise as I both picked it out and helped my mum pay for it.

It seemed wonderful, very easy, etc - so I put all my memories on there - all my pictures (and there were thousands), music, films, etc.

Now, it refuses to work. It hasn't been dropped, exposed to anything untoward etc.. just literally beeps at me, makes some loud fan noises and refuses to connect with my computer.
And it's not me being bad with computers - I know what I'm doing, and I've had several other people to try to fix it, but to no avail.

So, all my photos and music are stuck on the hard drive and I think I've lost them forever.

This is a huge disappointment and I just wish I could get everything back off of it. And it's upset me.

But hey, it looks good, so maybe it could be of some use as a paperweight?
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
LaCie, Desktop Drive , Design by F.A Porsche, 500GB
By D. H. Jones on 9 Oct. 2007
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Bought this a couple of months ago following purchase of Windows Vista computer with larger hard drive so wanted it primarily for back up. Had previously used LaCie 80GB external hard drive which had been easy to use and reliable.

This 500GB was easy to install - just plugged in and it recognised the external drive straight away. Have used for weekly backups. No problems so far and very cheap for the storage compared with others.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Samsung inside! With great industrial design!
By MOTC on 13 Aug. 2007
Well so far so good...this is my forth Lacie external drive and my second Porsche the other being an 80G portable and the other two Neil Poulton's of 200 and 500G size. This one is so sweet, much smaller than the Neil Poulton of the same capacity, OK things move on and the mechanics are way smaller now but this is smaller than the 200G drive and guess what? It's really quiet!
I'd agree that there is a potential issue with the power socket, the initial mating is very shallow and I pushed a little further and got the plug in OK all be it with what sounded like a crucial klik. Time will tell on this one.
Other points...it runs quite hot! And not being an IT person I initially ran it up in "plug and play" FAT32 mode just like my portable and I pod are and as the IT peeps said was OK. This was a mistake...the other two big external drives were both formatted NTFS...so I'd had no issues with them...but when I tried to make my first AVI backups to the new drive all I got was messages saying "insufficient disc space". Eventually penny did drop, actually looked at the Lacie book and noticed the reference to Windows users being able to handle files larger than 4G! How do Mac users get around this? Dose OSX "manage" this? Who knows! 4G is so small for video..18 minutes of DV.
All in all this is a really nice product...a reasonable amount of storage in a lovely package...a pleasure to have out on the desk and at this price...£67 delivered, a bargain. Recommended!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Five Stars

Still works.. 6 years later.

Published 29 days ago by JJUK
which makes me happy. I am unloading the hard drive on my ...

The first archive that I bought, a massive 500GB. That was about 15yrs ago, it is still working but the newer ones get used first because of their capacity and speed. Read more

Published 1 month ago by sirmartinfrobisher
Five Stars

SIMPLE EASY TO USE GREAT PRODUCT

Published 7 months ago by barry pole
Not good

I may have been unlucky but this failed after only two years. Would not recommend even if designed by Porch!

Published 18 months ago by Alggomas
LACIE DESK TOP DRIVE

THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST USED OF ALL MY COMPUTER PERIPHERALS, I HAVE HAD IT SOME TIME IT IS VERY RUGGED AND I HAVE HAD NO TROUBLE WITH IT AT ALL.

Published on 29 May 2013 by A. R. Burnham
dead

Went dead after a year and a half, lost all my data.
will not buy anything off LaCie again not worth the money.

Published on 25 April 2013 by D E Webb
Excellent item

I would recommend this as an important article of computing attachements. I have stored on mine 1,000s of photos, albums, books, files, amongst other things, and have only used up... Read more

Published on 3 Jan. 2013 by R. J. Thomas
NOT AS ADVERTISED. BEWARE.

Recently bought Lacie Porsche 500GB Mobile Drive, but nothing but trouble. After communicating every day for a fortnight, I was eventually told that if I wanted to use encryption... Read more

Published on 5 Nov. 2011 by Anon
Porsche designed Lacie hard drive

It looks nice but I don't really care!
It is, however, a sturdy high quality external hard drive that is easy to operate and has never let me down. Read more

Published on 23 May 2011 by csf1s
Perfect for Time Machine

I have one plugged into my Mac, and I used it for Time Machine. It came formatted for Windows, but it was easy to reformat and set up Time Machine on it. Read more

Published on 4 Mar. 2010 by mauvedeity

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