Product Specifications
General
BrandLaCie
Item Height
19.3 centimetres
Item Width11.7 centimetres
Hard Drive
Hard Drive InterfaceUSB 2.0
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Centralize all of your files and share them among networked PC/Mac computers or UPnP AV certified players. Transfer and back up files from your computers easily, and connect a hard disk or digital camera through the extra USB port for directly storing your data or pictures. No setup is required; just connect the LaCie Network Space to your network and enjoy using it immediately.The included LaCie Ethernet Agent software enables direct access to shares: one public that anyone can access locally and another password-protected private share. The LaCie Network Space is also accessible remotely via FTP for when you're away or when you want to share content with friends. The elegant, compact design blends beautifully into your environment and it's fanless for near-silent operation.
Product Description
Centralize all of your files and share them among networked PC/Mac computers or UPnPTM AV certified players. Transfer and back up files from your computers easily, and connect a hard disk or digital camera through the extra USB port for directly storing yo
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
41 of 47 people found the following review helpful
This is a pretty good product for home use except that it's power hungry. They don't quote power use in the specs or manuals (naughty), and there is no reference to any kind of power-saving mode, so I wrote and asked. They replied "20-25W" and "there isn't any sleep mode".
It seems poor that a drive designed (I believe) for the domestic market, where it is unlikely to be in use much of the time, has no 'sleep' mode. Do the sums - if it runs 24x7 and uses 25w, it will cost close on £30 in electricity every year. Just for a single hard drive. Not clever.
It seems poor that a drive designed (I believe) for the domestic market, where it is unlikely to be in use much of the time, has no 'sleep' mode. Do the sums - if it runs 24x7 and uses 25w, it will cost close on £30 in electricity every year. Just for a single hard drive. Not clever.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
This is a really handy item indeed. Lacie doesn't specify the spin speed, which normally means 5400RPM. It didn't take long to find out that in this lovely black box the hard drive is indeed 5400. I had to take it apart for data recovery and was quite surprised, or not, that the hard drive is not the higher speed one.
Not Lacie's fault I believe, because they didn't say it was, but beware of the money-grabbing retailers.
There's a reason for not needing high performance hard drive and that is the interface's speed. Lacie's website says: "Typical transfer rate : up to 8 MB/s, depending on file sizes and formats, LAN configuration and other factors"
That is up to 64MBit/sec, which is slower that USB1.1 and after I tested it I can clarify it is not a single bit faster.
Not Lacie's fault I believe, because they didn't say it was, but beware of the money-grabbing retailers.
There's a reason for not needing high performance hard drive and that is the interface's speed. Lacie's website says: "Typical transfer rate : up to 8 MB/s, depending on file sizes and formats, LAN configuration and other factors"
That is up to 64MBit/sec, which is slower that USB1.1 and after I tested it I can clarify it is not a single bit faster.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I've had this drive for a few months now and it is very easy to use - I'm on vista.
Plug it into your router and install the software and away you go - 1TB of storage on your network.
It's not actually *that* slow - when I connect the laptop to the router with a cable I get 6MB/s (48Mb/s) write speed but that's the same as I get with a usb hard drive. Try to do the same thing over a wireless connection however and you will have to wait four times as long for the transfer. Any significant file transfer is going to take several hours.
Browsing the drive in windows explorer can be horrendously slow - to open a folder with a few hundred or thousand files can take several minutes.
Trying to stream movies from it is a bit of a nightmare - the video is guaranteed to get choppy for at least a few minutes. I can only assume that when it's getting choppy the network drive is busy running another task as well as streaming video but there is no way to control or even to see what the drive is doing as there is only a very basic web interface to the drive.
The network storage is useful but it's so frustrating - it could have been so much better. But the response time with vista means it feels like the drive is on the other side of the world.
update:
You can connect another usb hard drive directly to the network drive and backup to/from this drive. It didn't work when I tried to backup to an ntfs usb drive - it just seemed to stop part of the way through with no errors or indication. Fat32 wasnt' an option because of >4GB files. Backup to ext3 drive did work. I got 20Mb/s meaning that a full backup of the 1TB drive took 5 days. There is no option to do a incremental backup after that - so it will take 5 days to backup the drive every time. Hardly realistic.
Plug it into your router and install the software and away you go - 1TB of storage on your network.
It's not actually *that* slow - when I connect the laptop to the router with a cable I get 6MB/s (48Mb/s) write speed but that's the same as I get with a usb hard drive. Try to do the same thing over a wireless connection however and you will have to wait four times as long for the transfer. Any significant file transfer is going to take several hours.
Browsing the drive in windows explorer can be horrendously slow - to open a folder with a few hundred or thousand files can take several minutes.
Trying to stream movies from it is a bit of a nightmare - the video is guaranteed to get choppy for at least a few minutes. I can only assume that when it's getting choppy the network drive is busy running another task as well as streaming video but there is no way to control or even to see what the drive is doing as there is only a very basic web interface to the drive.
The network storage is useful but it's so frustrating - it could have been so much better. But the response time with vista means it feels like the drive is on the other side of the world.
update:
You can connect another usb hard drive directly to the network drive and backup to/from this drive. It didn't work when I tried to backup to an ntfs usb drive - it just seemed to stop part of the way through with no errors or indication. Fat32 wasnt' an option because of >4GB files. Backup to ext3 drive did work. I got 20Mb/s meaning that a full backup of the 1TB drive took 5 days. There is no option to do a incremental backup after that - so it will take 5 days to backup the drive every time. Hardly realistic.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Network Attached Storage? More like Network Occasionally Attached...
If I could give this product no stars I would.
I bought the Lacie Network Space a couple of years ago to provide a good level of storage capacity that any PC on my home... Read more
I bought the Lacie Network Space a couple of years ago to provide a good level of storage capacity that any PC on my home... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Peter Gallon
Performance problems
This drive is so slow its almost unusable. You really have to plan for a lot of time when you wanna copy data from or to this network drive. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Philipp W, Dubai
If you value your sanity, don't buy this product
If you're looking for a home NAS, I suggest you discount the Lacie Network Space (v1). It is by far the most unreliable, buggy, slow and noisy NAS I have ever had the displeasure... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Funky-D
noisy, stupid blue led, but above all, slow
I have owned one of these drives for around 10 months. It connects through a 100 Mb/s router and the transfer speeds are awful. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2010 by anonymous coward
Very poor network performance
Don't be fooled by the promise of Gigabit ethernet. This device is VERY slow on any network. Forget about Gigabit speeds - this thing feels like a 10MB device. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by Gabriel de Kadt
i love it
it works really fast on my desktop pc connected to it through a gigabit router and through my lapotop wirelessly, i dunno what you guys want from a product that does everything... Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2009 by Samuel Newman
Great Product Used With Mac but now a Warranty Issue
bought this before i purchased a airport extreme. in all the product appears well made and the software that came with the product is well thought out. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2009 by G. EDWARDS
Unbelievably Slow
Technically, it supports Gigabit Ethernet but performance is way below what you would expect from a Gigabit capable device. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2009 by dunx
It just works!
Probably the easiest thing you'll configure this year. Treat this as a network resource and it'll do exactly what it says on the tin. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2008 by Grimster
works, but not with vista
The set up is simple, connect it, plug it in and enter the IP address of the drive in your browser. On XP, I was able to connect without any problems, as was my Xbox360 and Freecom... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2008 by Kristof Goossens
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