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BrandLaCie
Item Height
18.5 centimetres
Item Width21 centimetres
Hard Drive
Hard Drive Size1000 GB
Hard Drive InterfaceUSB 2.0
Technical Details
- Compact and efficient USB 2.0 storage
- Surprising blue LED for ambient underside glow
- Smart fanless cooling system for quiet operation
- Store your files, music, photos & videos in 1 place
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Product Description
The user-friendly LaCie Hard Drive, Design by Neil Poulton adds sophisticated style to your desktop yet its presence is quiet and unobtrusive. It has a unique distinguishing feature - a cool, blue LED strip on its underside that creates an ambient glow. Its subtle, all-black design blends perfectly into dark home entertainment setups and workstations. Very small for its vast capacity, this lightweight, compact drive has a fashionable, mirror-polished finish. The smartly engineered design allows for heat dissipation and near-silent, fanless operation. With Hi-Speed USB 2.0, this efficient hard drive makes a great companion to your PC or Mac. Setup is nearly effortless; it’s plug & play and offers customizable formatting. LaCie ‘1-Click’ Backup Software for PC and Mac is included for quickly saving files in one click.
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by Neil Poulton
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
43 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Setup was no problem. Looks neat and is pretty quiet. Bundled Genie-Soft backup programme works fine although link from product was not to the latest version. My only grumble is that I bought this to replace a smaller Maxtor, which would automatically power itself off when the computer shut down at the end of a scheduled backup, but this doesn't, and on checking with the LaCie Help Desk, it can't.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This Lacie was truly the worst piece of hardware I have had the misfortune to buy in 15 years. It crashed within two days taking my data with it which required the Hard Drive sending to a specialist data retrieval company and paying for the privilege of recovering 40GB of information. I was advised that such a crash and burn was standard for a portable hard drive which can last hours, days, months or years before giving up the ghost. The fact that Lacie have set up a dedicated website to deal with resolving crashes and provides software at a cost to retrieve data clearly demonstrates that this product is nearly completely worthless as a data storage device. Amazon cannot be faulted for their spotless service in discussing the problem by phone and sending a replacement hard drive to copy across data before I returned the dead and lifeless Lacie. My final point is that I have used Lacie Drives (a 250GB and a 500GB) for over 5 years for data back up without problem and this Lacie 1TB (along with all the others that have crashed) should not be purchased until Lacie can demonstrate that the product is reliable.
39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
After looking around for a budget hard drive I saw this one and, being Lacie, decided to it was a bargain for the cost.
I cannot comment - yet - on the reliability as I have only used it for one evening but would be surprised if it were to fail. I sold Apple kit for 10 years and Lacie were one of the most reliable makes going. Given that I tend to hammer such devices the first time out of the box to make sure any initial problems show up and that I spent around 5 hours almost constantly writing and erasing it on my iMac, it appears to as reliable as the 500gb Maxtor and 250gb Verbatim currently in use.
Performance wise it's streets faster than the Maxtor drive and a little faster than the Verbatim (so much for small drives being faster!) is quieter, runs cooler and is a much nicer box to look at. Cannot fault it in any way and highly delighted. It even has it's own power switch with many other drives don't.
There is one small, minor and mildly niggling problem however. I have just upgraded to Snow Leopard and the utilities installer fails every time. Not a big deal as Apple's Disk Utility partitioned and formatted it without a glitch and it's possbile to use Carbon Copy Cloner to do backups but given the lead time to Snow Leopard it would have been nice to see Lacie acknowledge this on the box or provide new software with the drive. I have not had time to check Lacie's web site but they may already have new software or be working on it.
Even with the lack of Snow Leopard software compatability I must give it a top rating. If I am proven wrong on the reliability I will re-review and apologise but I don't anticipate having to do so.
I cannot comment - yet - on the reliability as I have only used it for one evening but would be surprised if it were to fail. I sold Apple kit for 10 years and Lacie were one of the most reliable makes going. Given that I tend to hammer such devices the first time out of the box to make sure any initial problems show up and that I spent around 5 hours almost constantly writing and erasing it on my iMac, it appears to as reliable as the 500gb Maxtor and 250gb Verbatim currently in use.
Performance wise it's streets faster than the Maxtor drive and a little faster than the Verbatim (so much for small drives being faster!) is quieter, runs cooler and is a much nicer box to look at. Cannot fault it in any way and highly delighted. It even has it's own power switch with many other drives don't.
There is one small, minor and mildly niggling problem however. I have just upgraded to Snow Leopard and the utilities installer fails every time. Not a big deal as Apple's Disk Utility partitioned and formatted it without a glitch and it's possbile to use Carbon Copy Cloner to do backups but given the lead time to Snow Leopard it would have been nice to see Lacie acknowledge this on the box or provide new software with the drive. I have not had time to check Lacie's web site but they may already have new software or be working on it.
Even with the lack of Snow Leopard software compatability I must give it a top rating. If I am proven wrong on the reliability I will re-review and apologise but I don't anticipate having to do so.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
LeCool LaCie
Have bought over 6 of these from Amazon and the price keeps coming down, nice.
Easy peasy to set up and use and always arrives quickly and well packaged.
Easy peasy to set up and use and always arrives quickly and well packaged.
Published 2 months ago by Satusai
Lacie HDD
I've used this drive on and off for about a year now. I've had a few niggles with it to start with but nothing serious. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. M. Allsop
Frustrating installation problems
This product arrived with two pin shaver style plug. It took two weeks to obtain a three pin UK compatible adapter from the supplier. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. brock
Buy It!!!
Very, very pleased with this. I have had it for about 2 years now and no problem with it.
Points i would like to make:
Looks incredible! Read more
Points i would like to make:
Looks incredible! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. M. C. B. Webb
Sexy black block of memory goodness
It does look lovely, I use it with time machine and it does a good job of it, sitting there all sexy and black with its pulsating blue glow....... mmmmmmmmmm! Read more
Published 6 months ago by sheikyabooty
Easy and Neat 1TGB Hard Disk
I am not at all IT minded and did worry about how I was going to get this external hard drive set up with my Mac. Read more
Published 8 months ago by TKS
Cool Blue
Bought this as an external dump for my Humax Freesat box, it's sleek, gloss black and has a cool blue LED to match the Humax, which pleases others no end. Read more
Published 10 months ago by P. Hall
Died. Less than a year old...
Sigh, this one has died at less than 12 months. Was used as my mac 'Time Machine'. Looked pretty. Now a door stop.
Published 11 months ago by CM
A good choice,
I have an old LaCie hard disk which has been purring away for years with no problems. That prompted me to buy another LaCie when the old one was full. Read more
Published 11 months ago by shaza
Not very good
Bought this just over a year ago.
I have learned the hard way basically you get what you pay for,
Firstly it was always noisy. Really loud! Read more
I have learned the hard way basically you get what you pay for,
Firstly it was always noisy. Really loud! Read more
Published 11 months ago by andyfives
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