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Summary: it's hot but it works!
Review: i have two of these drives and i am purchasing a third. they over heated my mac g4 tower when i was stupid and put them on the top. i moved them to the side and they work perfect. i took one on the road and it was a gem
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Summary: Spotty performance, useless for iTunes
Review: I purchased this hard drive to use as my music library with my Mac and iTunes. It doesn't work. As the drive heats up, iTunes will only play portions of a song, then move on to the next song. This does not happen with other hard drives, just the La Cie Porsche design hard drives and many others have had the same problem (check the iTunes forum over at Apple.com and you'll see).
Also, when hot, the drive will frequently do odd things, showing full folders as empty. Yes, these drives are cheap compared to the prices of others on the market, but in the end, you get what you pay for.
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Summary: Good Product, poor support
Review: I'm happy with the speed and reliablity of the drive, however I wanted to make it bootable. I exchanged several email's with them and they eventually told me to "go find a free one on the Internet". I can't believe that they don't know how to make there own drive bootable, or even point me to a specific place to download a tool that would. When I bought an HP USB key drive they had a small tool I could run to make the drive bootable, supplied by HP. If I can't make it bootable using format, sys.exe or any other normal means, I expect the company to provide a tool for me. I don't think that's asking too much. Poor customer service and support.
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Summary: Good Product, poor support
Review: I'm happy with the speed and reliablity of the drive, however I wanted to make it bootable. I exchanged several email's with them and they eventually told me to "go find a free one on the Internet". I can't believe that they don't know how to make there own drive bootable, or even point me to a specific place to download a tool that would. When I bought an HP USB key drive they had a small tool I could run to make the drive bootable, supplied by HP. If I can't make it bootable using format, sys.exe or any other normal means, I expect the company to provide a tool for me. I don't think that's asking too much. Poor customer service and support.
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Summary: Good product at a good price
Review: I've had this drive for 6 months now without trouble.
Another reviewer complained about the drive letter changing when another device is plugged in, but this is how Windows works and has nothing to do with this drive. Same review complained that this drive is not easily bootable, but it's not advertised as a bootable drive, either, and few customers care about that anyway.
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Summary: UNIT HAS DIED!
Review: I've had this drive for several months and was happy with it until I disconnected the unit while I was away for one week...since my return the PC (Wind. XP) does not recognize the drive...and no sound (hard drive spin) is coming from it. LaCie website indicates the unit can be shipped back to them for repair HOWEVER all data will be lost!!!!
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Summary: A study in simplicity
Review: My 2 yr. old Dell Desktop has been acting up for a while and was getting worse. It was crashing quite often and all my peripherals: printer, scanners and cd burner were being affected. I spent many a weekends trying to fix the problems to no avail. So for 2005 I resolved for clean sweep of my computer. This involved formatting C and re-install windows, Ahhh what a cleansing experience it was!
I needed to backup all my files first. Since my CD writer was malfunctioning, I had to find another way to backup all my files, about 20GB worth. I've always had this fear of opening my
computer case so I decided to buy an external device to house my files. My options were: a 20GB Apple Ipod (for temporary storage, then use it for music), an external dvd burner, an external hard drive. I decided that the simplest and most economical way was to buy an external USB hardrive. I chose the LaCie 160GB USB2.0 Desktop Hard Drive. It was the cheapest drive per GB here at Amazon.
The LaCie Hard Drive turned out to be just fantastic. It was study in simplicity. What you get is a plain grey box about the size of a VHS casette. Now I don't know what this "Porsche Design" is all about, how hard is it to create a grey box? There are 2 holes in the back, 1 for USB, one for power and a on/off switch. I plugged in the power and usb cord, flipped the switch and VOILA! Windows assigned the next drive letter and I clicked and dragged everything to the LaCie drive. And that was all there was to it. I didn't even install the software that came with the it.
I've no problems so far, I highly recommend this product giving it the highest rating.
ps. will update in 6 mos. to address reliability concerns.
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Summary: Exactly what was promised
Review: Plug it in, instant fast 160GB hard drive with very low footprint.
I have had LaCie Monitor for two years with no problems. Products are very high quality and perform above average. Would definitely buy again.
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Summary: Cheap in every way
Review: So your thinking, hey this seems like a good deal. Well paying a cheap price means getting a cheap product with problems. First off the size of the disk is aproximately 149GB. Half the time it doesn't run like it's USB 2 more like 1. The most annoying thing about the drive is that it's not programmed with windows to recognize other USB devices. If you happen to turn off the disk (Which needs to be done every so often from overheating and freezing up)and plug in another USB device (like a quick drive) while It's still off, and leave that other device plugged in, the disk, when turned back on will suddenly be under a different directory and anything you were downloading will be cut off and will not complete. The data will still be there but the download relying on let's say H: as it's write directory will not appear when the drive is suddenly changed to I: or J: and so on. This isn't permanent though and you can usually get it right back to the letter you want you just end up losing your current downloads. Three stars for the good price and the fact that I've never really lost any data yet although I've only had it for 8 months.
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Summary: Very good deal
Review: This drive is very small (compared to other drives that I saw) and very quiet. It looks very good (with "Design by Porsche" on the side).
It was very easy to set up and so far it works great.
I searched the web for a good deal and I found this drive for a bit less than $199. I would buy it again.
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