LaCie 250GB Ethernet Disk Mini External Hard Drive (300938U)

by LaCie

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• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007LXR5C
• Item model number: 300938
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 21, 2005

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I agree--caveat emptor, January 31, 2006

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gary bowen (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 250GB Ethernet Disk Mini External Hard Drive (300938U) (Personal Computers)

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.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Read customer reviews before you buy, March 2, 2006

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Nino (Beirut, Lebanon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LaCie 250GB Ethernet Disk Mini External Hard Drive (300938U) (Personal Computers)

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.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat of a disappointment, March 25, 2006

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Altan Ozcandarli (Wilmington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie 250GB Ethernet Disk Mini External Hard Drive (300938U) (Personal Computers)

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.