Product Description
The popular ToughTech is now super tiny! WiebeTech has taken the ToughTech's rugged and attractive aluminum case and resized it to fit smaller 2.5" SATA drives - the kind of drive you would find in many modern laptops. Its chipset gives you the fastest speeds for connections to your computer via FireWire 800, FireWire 400 or USB.
Product Description
250GB, 7200 rpm hard drive. Firewire connection to MAC, USB 2.0 Hub, Firewire Hub and push-button back-up.
Product Description
Box content: Ethernet Cable, HI-Speed USB 2.O cable (USB 1.1 compatible), External Power Supply, Drive stand for upright desktop use, LaCie Utilities CD-ROM with online Manual & Quick Install Guide The LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini 250GB External Hard Drive offers portability, large-capacity storage and distinct style, for your small or home office. Just plug in this extenal hard drive to your Ethernet and share documents instantly. Network Protocols - SMB(Windows), AFP(MAC), FTP, HTTP Web-based administration tools for setting levels and permissions Sturdy, secure metal design -- stackable, portable, rack mountable Dimensions(WxHxD) - 6.3 x 6.82 x 1.734 (160 x 173 x 44 mm) Weight - 88.25 oz (2500g)
Customer Reviews:
Ideal for personal use.......2007-05-15
I bought this for personal use at home, so I'm reviewing this with that in mind.
Plus points
(a) It's NAS! Which means, all you need to do is connect this to your wireless router at home and you are done. On Windows, you'll instantly have a network share to dump your files against. Can't tell you how cool that is.
(b) Absolutely simple to set up.
(c) Web based configuration is also easy and simple. If all you care for is a huge dump of your data, you don't even need to tweak it much.
(d) Compared to other NAS devices in this range, it's big plus point is that it does HTTP and FTP. This means that if you open up the right ports on your router, you can access all that data over HTTP/FTP from any browser. I use it all the time to listen to my music at work (it is authenticated, though not encrypted).
(e) You can set up multiple shares with multiple users in the latest boxes, in case you have roommates and want to restrict access.
Negatives
(a) The transfer speed is considerably lesser than an attached USB drive, which is expected (seems to reach a max of like 4 Mbps on my 802.11b network). It is more than good enough for playing back movies and audio, though, so it's only a pain if you are doing lots of multiple transfers.
(b) It's FAT32, so you can't store files larger than 4 GB by default, but for most normal users, that shouldn't be an issue.
(c) Doesn't seem to turn itself off or use low power on idle. Wonder how long the disk will last.
(d) There is some latency to transfers over wireless. So if you are clicking on a video file to play it, it'll take some time for the player to start playing. Again, not significant enough to be a PITA.
Didn't work out for me .........2007-03-29
I got one of these through Newegg a couple months ago, and it setup and worked really well, for about 2 days. After 2 days, cycling the power would sometimes result in it not booting prtoperly, and not being available as a network attached device. Soon after this behavior started, it just powered itself down, and wouldn't power up again. So I left it to "cool off" for awhile, and hey presto, it fired up again.
Problem was, all the data I had so dilligently copied to it, had gone. Infact the drive had to be reformatted. So, I started again, and that same day, again, it powered itself down, but this time started making horrible clicking noises. This time, it was well and truly dead.
Maybe I was unlucky, but I didn't do anything out of the ordinary to this piece of hardware. I'm not a novice computer user either, so I don't think it was user error.
It just seemed quite fragile to me, with intermittent problems when the drive booted. It never felt robust, and ultimately, that was proven to me.
Solid and Simple.......2007-03-16
I hesitated for a long time before buying a NAS drive. After various research I decided to try this one. The price point seemed worth the risk as in the worst case scenario I could use as another external drive.
My initial testing and use have been very pleasurable. I will use it for storing mostly digital pictures from high school sporting events or other family activities as well as music and it seems to work just fine. I have two wireless access points. The 11G works faster of course than the 11B but it too is fine. The inital setup was very easy. Plugged in and then from two different laptops running Windows Media Center 2005, I mapped the drive using file explorer. It took 5 minutes total from the plug-in near my router in the basement to copying files to it from upstairs.
I still need to figure out how to change the default passwords but assume this is on the user manual pdf. I did not have to install the software that came with it to use.
I think this is worth your consideration.
Very Disappointed.......2007-03-14
I hate to rain on anyone's parade but I just received my LaCie 250GB drive today.... I was excited to receive it but extremely disappointed when I started reading the manual and saw that you can only format this drive in FAT32 format. The main problem with FAT32 is that files are limited to 4GB in size. If you format the drive to anything else, it becomes a read-only drive. This is a huge problem for me, I wanted this drive to store video files between multiple machines on my network. My video files are routinely larger than 4GB so unfortunately I have to box it back up and ship it back. What a waste of time, I wish they stated this extremely important restriction online where people could see it. Now I know why this drive is priced so cheap.
Invisible file proble.......2007-03-09
This disk is OK except for one big thing, and I'm not the only user who has had this happen: if I drag a file from my Mac to the disk it appears OK in the disk's finder window. However, if I save a file from within it's application, the file does not appear in the disk's finder window. The file is there, and can be opened by it's host application using the 'open' dialogue box, but it cannot be seen in the finder, now overwritten by dragging an identically named file from my Mac to the disk. Big problem.
Product Description
G-DRIVE mini hard drives from G-Tech are the ideal storage solutions for people on the go. Weighing in at less than 9 oz., G-DRIVE mini is the ultra-portable and stylish way to travel with up to 250 GB of storage space for your important documents, MP3s, digital video and digital photo files.G-DRIVE mini is bus powered, eliminating the need to carry an external AC power supply. Portability was never so easy! USB does not supply enough power to reliably operate the new, larger drive capacites over 120GB. Some systems may work with the 120GB models, for others an optional power supply is available.G-DRIVE mini sports the latest hot-pluggable FireWire and USB interfaces to provide industry leading performance and universal connectivity.
Product Description
Designed for small office and home office users, this external hard drive offers the distinct style of d2 with the benefit of Ethernet networking at a price that matches your budget. Plug in the user-friendly Ethernet Disk mini and instantly share documents, important data or photos from any networked computer. Connect the Ethernet Disk mini through USB for use as a personal storage device. A web-based administration tool allows for simple settings of share levels and permissions to control user access to files. The original, sturdy metal design can be stackable or rack mountable and is easily portable for shuttling data between home and office.
Customer Reviews:
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE........2006-06-10
Please do not make the same mistake I did. Drive crashed after just six months and we LOST ALL OF THE DATA IN IT. Go with well-established brands like Seagate, Maxtor, or WD.
Somewhat of a disappointment.......2006-03-26
I have 3 LaCie drives, no problems with any. However the limitations pointed out in the comments apply, and I did not know beforehand that formatting was fixed to FAT32.
My main disappointment however is, in the ethernet mode I am using it in (i.e. not locally connected), it is much slower than I expected. It has its own little computer inside running Linux, and it is not as fast (file-sharing) as it should be.
Read customer reviews before you buy.......2006-03-03
If you think you're gonna hook this guy to your network, map it and you're done... oooh boy what a dissapointment!
This is merely a glorified USB hard disk (it looks good though). It's FAT32 preformatted, so any files larger than 4GB (such as my AVI and MPEG files) mean trouble. Add to that file naming and file sharing and much more...
At such a price, do yourself and your wallet a favor and don't bother.
need Windows XP Professional for this drive.......2006-03-02
Great drive, but you need to have XP Pro in order to use it. You need to turn off Windows Simple File Sharing which can ONLY be done with XP Pro.
Note that I called LaCie tech support and they were amazing and tried to help me the best they could. They even found out a work around to solve this issue but no satifacti=ory for most people.
I agree--caveat emptor.......2006-02-01
The NAS concept is nice but tricky. You cannot pop this bad boy on ethernet and expect it to work like all your other hard drives, which is more or less how they sell it. It comes preformatted FAT32, which limits your file size to 4GB and has no security features, which works as long as you don't use backup software & hope to use it over your network. In this situation, as mine, where your backups are dumped into a single conglomerated file reaching several GB, your only option is a drive connected directly to a machine running an OS, like a server or peer-peer network connection. Sure, you can connect this drive via USB, but why spend the extra $ on an ethernet connection, processor, & web interface? A $69 plain vanilla external hard drive will be all you need and can use unless you're willing to put up with the signficant restrictions of NAS. I didn't know that before I plunked down my $200; hopefully you will.
Product Description
LaCie MINI HD & HUB 250GB FW & USB 2.0 7200RPM 8MB
Product Description
Ethernet Disk mini 250GB Designed for small office and home office users, this external hard drive offers the distinct style of d2 with the benefit of Ethernet networking at a price that matches your budget.
Product Description
Back up your computer, upgrade storage capacity or easily transfer files with this stylish, compact and user-friendly drive. Expand your digital life by storing more photo's, videos, music and files with the lacie mini drive-ideal companion hard drive for MAC MINI. Designed to allow for a natural cooling airflow to move between these two drives for greater heat dissipation.
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