Why I buy this one ?
- Stack & Play with other LaCie Brick Hard Drives
- Professional storage is now easy and fun
- Add colors to your computing life
- Store & back up music, photos, videos and office files
- Playful design adds colors to your computing life

What our customer's say!

"Performance fine, but not sturdy!", The hard drive worked fine, and I appreciated its funky aesthetic. However, it's not the smallest or lightest box in the world so it does take up space for those that will be taking their external hard drive/s with them often. Also, I found its occasional humming during use noticeable, if not particularly loud. My one major gripe is that it's not nearly the sturdiest of machines. I took it with me when I moved countries and it didn't seem to make the journey, though I took it in carry-on and don't believe it was treated particularly abrasively. It has a spinning drive piece that has broken, rendering the hard drive useless and the information saved on it inaccessible. Now, I have to try and figure out how to extract the data from the drive. I've been told that such parts are common in externals, but I would recommend purchasing a "rugged" design model if you will take yours traveling.

"One Year and Still Going Strong", I bought a LaCie 250 GB USB 2.0 red brick drive in November 2006 to back up a large amount of digital photo work, and as a general backup disk. So far, the drive has worked flawlessly, though it's worth noting I don't run it constantly. I only power on the drive and connect it to a system when I need to back up or retrieve data.

Pro:

- The drive is quiet when idling -- much quieter than my T43 laptop's fan.
- It's worked flawlessly: no data loss, and shows up as a plug-and-play device with no problems.
- USB 2.0 is reasonably fast and flexible for moving between various PCs.
- The case design is unique, fun and eye-catching.
- It's a reasonably-priced drive, even though there are less expensive drives out there.

Con:

- As other reviewers have noted, the power switch is a bit difficult to find by feel alone and is cumbersome to depress if you have larger fingers.
- The female-DIN power-supply connector on the back of the drive also seems fragile, so I've always been extremely careful when attaching the power supply to the drive.
- The included USB cable is pretty short.
- The included backup software did not install on Windows XP Pro/SP1 (and I haven't bothered with it since.)

Even with so many items in my "Con" list, I still give this drive four stars, mostly because of price/performance/reliability, and because none of the negatives listed above affect my work.

"so far, so good", It works quite well. It's silent and has not given any problems. I hope it stays that way. Looks really cool on my desk!.

"I've owned this drive for 30 minutes now...", It has been the most hassle-free piece of hardware I've ever used. I simply opened up the box and plugged in the cables. The drive was FAT32 formatted and my Airport Extreme base station recognized it immediately after I hooked it up. It now runs as a network drive.

Looks and feel: cool design from packaging & box, to the actual drive.

I'm very pleased with it thus far.

"Works great for me", I bought it strickly for backup. It works great.
It's a great investment. Being USB portable it's one of the few things you can take with you to a new computer. My only regret was that I didn't buy a 500GB.

The only thing that sucked was their packaged backup software. I did some research on line & downloaded "backup4all". It saves the backed up files as zip's. There's a bunch of backup softwares out there & I don't have a clue which is the best but I can attest that this one works great with the LaCie & is easy to use.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Simple & effective", I'm running XP, I connected power, I connected the drive to my PC using a very old USB cable and new USB 2.0 hub, powered on, disk was visible, within 2 minutes of unpacking I was backing up my (significantly noisier) WD internal hard drive. Of course I realised immediately from the slow copy speed that I needed to reformat to NTFS, which I did. Performance after doing that exceeded expectations of a USB HDD device. Case heating is negligible. Noise is unnoticeable. $ per GB is competitive. 5 stars.

Update October 2007: drive has remained powered on permanently. It is as cool and quiet as when I first wrote the review, and I have experienced no errors to date. However, only 320 GB and 500 GB look to be available now, and some 500 GB reviewers report that they find the 500 GB brick to be considerably more noisy than the 250 GB.

"great external storage medium", I got this product because i needed extra storage to put my itunes on. my laptop hard drive is only 80G and it was almost full. i have a vast amount of cd's collected over the years which i have been transfering onto itunes.

I found the product very easy to use. Simple plug and play. My laptop picked it up straight away. No problem.

I now have all my photos, music and psp movie files on the external storage with loads of space to spare. my pc performance has improved and i am thinking about buying another one and using it on a home network i am setting up.

10 out of 10. Well done LaCie. Love the design. Makes stacking easy.

"Quiet good little hard drive", Picked this drive up to have something to back-up my machine to. I'm using a G5 iMac and find that the LaCie drive is quieter than the mac (which says a lot). I've been using it for about a week now and have the following pros and cons:

Pros:
1. Quiet
2. Small
3. Fun colors and simple design
4. Power button and power down when not in use

Cons:
1. Shine on plastic casing shows scratches and dust easily
2. Power brick

Not sure if it's a con, but it took about 50 minutes to transfer about 60Gb of video to the drive.

"Attractive and Quiet", Attractive and quiet it adds fun to my desktop. Although one reviewer said that this drive stays on all the time, it doesn't have to since it has a power button on the back of the unit. I can't review the backup software because I'm using another brand currently. I love it.

"Great product", I'm using a Mac on OS X and this drive was 'plug and play' for me and I've had no problems at all so far (4 months later). It's quite fast and quiet, has a nice colorful design and is competitively priced so it has suited all of my needs.