Home > Consumer Reviews > LaCie 301138U Ethernet Disk Mini 500 GB Ethernet/USB 2.0 Network Attached Storage Hard Drive
LaCie 301138U Ethernet Disk Mini 500 GB Ethernet/USB 2.0 Network Attached Storage Hard Drive
See it at Amazon.com for $213.60Average Customer Rating
(3.0 out of 5)
Amazon Customer Reviews
Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Me Like
(4 out of 5) by Adrian Layne on Jul 22, 2007I like this product. It as another reviewer stated it is very slow over wireless when using the windows share protocol. It is ok when using FTP. The case is solid and heavy, it gives my the feeling that the drive won't cry if I drop it. I have tested the USB connection in both Windows and Linux and it works without problems.
The administration interface is nice. I think think I might use its media server capabilities. I pretty much spent the whole weekend copying all of my data to this drive. It feels good to have everything in one place.
The administration interface is nice. I think think I might use its media server capabilities. I pretty much spent the whole weekend copying all of my data to this drive. It feels good to have everything in one place.
Garbage!
(1 out of 5) by Rick Prochaska on Oct 26, 2009I purchased this unit and it worked for awhile. It then began working intermittently after
I'd transferred some very important data to it and now eventhough I can see it on my network,
NOBODY at Lacie can seem to help me actually get into the hard drive. They recommend
re-installing and re-formatting... sure, so what about my data???
do yourself a favor, don't buy this!!
I'd transferred some very important data to it and now eventhough I can see it on my network,
NOBODY at Lacie can seem to help me actually get into the hard drive. They recommend
re-installing and re-formatting... sure, so what about my data???
do yourself a favor, don't buy this!!
Works fine after reformat
(4 out of 5) by J. Butt on Aug 17, 2009 (Cheltenham, PA United States)I've had this unit for a almost 2 months and it took me a long time to figure out how to get it to work. It wasn't handling data transfers over Ethernet or USB very quickly (I'm talking days and days to run -- incompletely -- and slowing down my computer throughout) and I couldn't back up multiple computers (one a PC and one a Mac) at the same time. I hunted around long and eventually decided to follow the one piece of advice to reformat the drive. Fearing that I'd only make my life more miserable, I had been quite hesitant to do this.
In the end, however, reformatting was the right move. Once done, the unit responded as advertised, although the Geni Backup Assistant software that came with it has never worked (doesn't recognize the share -- a trial version of Genie Home worked, FYI). I'm able to use the normal Vista Backup and the Intego Backup (free Mac version of Geni software) without problems, although the Intego wants to create "hardlinks" (which I don't understand) and kicks a nonfatal warning when it can't. Intego does work, though.
So far, so good, and I'd recommend that if you have any problems with transfer rates to try reformatting and see if it helps. Make sure you're not losing any data, which should be the case for a new drive. If this doesn't work, call LaCie. Good luck.
In the end, however, reformatting was the right move. Once done, the unit responded as advertised, although the Geni Backup Assistant software that came with it has never worked (doesn't recognize the share -- a trial version of Genie Home worked, FYI). I'm able to use the normal Vista Backup and the Intego Backup (free Mac version of Geni software) without problems, although the Intego wants to create "hardlinks" (which I don't understand) and kicks a nonfatal warning when it can't. Intego does work, though.
So far, so good, and I'd recommend that if you have any problems with transfer rates to try reformatting and see if it helps. Make sure you're not losing any data, which should be the case for a new drive. If this doesn't work, call LaCie. Good luck.
Slow when alive, now dead
(1 out of 5) by fishmonger on Aug 8, 2009 (Boston)The drive worked fine over my Mac and PC network for a little over a year with no *big* problems, except that it was horribly slow at data transfers over the network. This week, it suddenly died. The drive is no longer recognized by either computer, and it's making some unusual noises. Disappointing.
Very tempermental
(2 out of 5) by fezyfeet on Jul 7, 2009 (Chicago)It works with Vista well without any problems, but we needed to connected it to a Mac and XP machines, which proved quite difficult. The connection to the Mac was especially inconsistent, many times we could get no connection and once we had it, it would get lost soon after. The connections we did get across all the platforms was a very slow, and it took a great deal of time to transfer data. We returned the LaCie after two days and are still searching for a better solution to shared storage across platforms.