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Sort Results BySort By: AvailabilitySort By: Merchant RatingSort By: Price LA CIE - 301042U LACIE MINI HD & HUB 500 GB FW & USB 2.0 7200RPM 8MB Best Price:$182.56 Product Rating 3.0 out of 5 Read Product Reviews Speed: 7200 RPM FIREWIRE INTERFACE: Yes USB INTERFACE: USB2 Merchant & Rating Product Details Price* Sales Tax* Availability* Excellent Return Policy and customer service Read Reviews: 4 / 5 Lacie Mini HD & Hub 500 Gb Fw & USB 2.0 7200RPM 8MB $182.56 Buy it from Amazon WA,ND See Site Free Shipping on most orders over $25 Read Reviews: 4 / 5 LACIE MINI HD HUB 500 GB FW USB 2.0 7200RPM 8MB $203.99 Buy it from zones.com CA, IL, MO, NV, OH, TN, WA See Site Shipping Info: $9.63 CompUsa.com Read Reviews: 3 / 5 301042U LaCie mini 500GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM, External, 8MB, FireWire / USB $194.99 Buy it from CompUsa.com Most States - See Site See Site Shipping Info: $8.29 Buy.com Read Reviews: 3 / 5 LaCie mini Hard Drive and HUB - 500GB - 7200rpm - 480Mbps USB 2.0, 400Mbps FireWire 400 - USB 2.0 - USB, IEEE 1394a - FireWire - External Expand your digital life by storing much more photos, videos, music and files on the LaCie mini Hard Drive & HUB, spe $225.99 Buy it from Buy.com CA, IN, MA See Site Read Reviews: 4 / 5 LaCie 301042U 500GB mini Hard Drive and Hub Expand your Digital life by storing much more photos, videos, Music and files on the LaCie mini Hard Drive & HUB, specially designed to fit perfectly with the Apple Mac mini. Now you can connect all of your Hard $189.99 Buy it from J&R.com NY See Site Shipping Info: UPS Ground 0.00 Discount Superstore Read Reviews: 1 / 5 LaCie Mini 500 GB FireWire Hard Drive Expand your digital life by storing much more photos, videos, music and files on the LaCie mini Hard Drive & HUB, specially designed to fit perfectly with the Apple Mac mini. $219.00 Buy it from Ecost.com CA,TN See Site Free Shipping on orders over $25 Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) Review Rating Last Updated Loudest drive I have ever owned. I have no complaints about its performance, but once the fan starts going it really begins to grate on me. I usually have to unplug its power source to get some peace and quiet. I'll be avoiding LaCie in the future. 2 Today Loud fan This drive is very loud at times. The fan is always on and noticeable. Sometimes it kicks in to overdrive and becomes really loud. Kinda disconcerting. Makes me think the thing may fail any time. Other people mentioned this issue but I bought anyway. Now I wish I hadn't. I only bought it because of the form factor. 2 Today Noisy, but full of features I love lacie stuff. I replaced my lacie 250gb porsche with this 500gb to stack under my Mac Mini at work. I'm glad it's not home at my music studio, because it's way too noisy. Not horrible, but a constant hum that wasn't there before. At home I stack two 250gbs under my Mini and they are silent. I am considering returning it, but I like the usb and firewire ports, the design, and it's half a terabyte! At work I can probably put up with the noise for a while. If I knew they had a quiet replacement, I would do it in a heartbeat. Like I mentioned before, it's not horrible, but I've only had it for two days. 4 Today Seems to work fine but too loud I just received the drive and connected it to my mini mac. I love the mini mac because it does everything my family needs and it is very silent, which is nice because it is placed in our living room. The mini mac only lacks disk space and hence I bought this drive that adds a few hubs free of charge. The drive seems to work well and new stuff on leopard like time machine seems to work nicely and I copied all files I had on different drives to this one (Nice to have 500GB... no need to sort stuff out) The thing I don't like about this drive from the moment I started it up is that this thing sounds like an airplane during a through-start on Katmandu airport... So I'll have to ban it from my living room. I'll keep it as a back-up drive far away and well isolated from our living room. 2 Today Was quiet, not now I've had a LaCie Mini 500 GB unit for about 3 months and it's been great. It's quiet. Unfortunately, yesterday it suddenly became very noisy. I'm not sure if its the fan or the drive, but it's unbearable at this point - there's a very loud whirring noise, high pitched. So the mixed reviews regarding noise are probably all correct. It can be quiet and it can be very noisy. AND it can go from one state to the other. I've turned it off for the day - I hope a little rest will improve the noise! Well, after leaving the unit off all morning, I've rebooted the Mac Mini off the LaCie Mini and the noise is gone. It's whisper quiet again. When the noise occurred, I had been doing multiple backups from other Macs in the house to other attached drives on the Mac Mini. Since I boot off the LaCie Mini, there was a lot of disk activity there, probably a result of queuing data or such. At any rate, the drive activity may have heated the Mac Mini and the LaCie Mini to the point where noise started. 3 Today Fast but noisy Just like everybody else said, it's noisy. The fan on mine runs regardless of how hot the device becomes, and periodically (after running for several hours) starts speeding up and slowing down, creating an intermittent growling sound not unlike a constipated bear. A fine product if you can deal with the stupid fan. 3 Today Much quieter and better than past reviews would indicate With great hesitation, I ordered this 500 MB External Hard Disk. I worried its noise would be as unbearable as others had indicated. It is with great relief I can report the noise of Lacie's 500 GB drive is only slightly more than my wife's Lacie Mini 250 GB drive. I use the 500 GB drive along side my very quiet MacBook Pro laptop and with Leopard's (Mac OS X 10.5) TimeMachine backup software. Lacie's drive is periodically woken (about every hour) from it's sleep by Time Machine to create a backup snapshot of the laptop's internal drive. Waking from its completely silent sleep, the Lacie can be heard, but it is the whir of the 500 GB drive and a fairly quiet fan, which can vary depending upon the amount of data to be written, the length of time it takes, and (surprisingly) the room's temperature. While louder than the very quiet MacBook Pro laptop, the drive's noise is not objectionable to me, but it does vary. Pros: - Intelligent way drive wakes from silent sleep & returns to sleep when done - Works well with Apple's TimeMachine backup software - 2 Firewire & 3 USB 2.0 ports excellent addition to computer that needs more (Mac Mini & laptops) - Good price for 500 GB drive - Very fast drive (quicker than my laptop's Internal Hard Drive) - Built like a tank, but looks nice, even without complementary looking Mac Mini Cons: - Not absolutely quiet; fan-less drives quieter - Has a fan - Not cheapest 500 GB drive - Takes a bit more desk space than a 'vertical' drive I recommend this drive to anyone who needs extra Firewire &/or USB 2.0 ports, and it's also a perfect, complementary design for Mac Mini owners. There are quieter, cheaper, and larger drives, but none that have everything this drive has. 5 Today Fan Noise Unacceptable I am not a LaCie basher; I've owned 20-30 LaCie External drives going back to the days of SCSI. I own about a dozen right now. I have never had an HD failure with a LaCie drive. The one time I returned a drive to LaCie, they could not duplicate the problem, but still took the time to call me and discuss in detail other-equipment problems that might be causing the drive to disappear from the LAN. Be that as it may, I am spending my Sunday transferring almost 300GB of audio/video files to the replacement 500 GB drive I received from Amazon. The problem? Two words: fan noise. I own an identical LaCie 500 GB drive/hub along with LaCie 80 GB and LaCie 250 GB drives in the Mini configuration. They are virtually silent. This most recent (first use: two weeks ago) addition is so loud that you can sometimes hear it in the next room or from 20-30 feet away. In fact, it just started whining as I wrote the last sentence, so I can look forward to about four more hours of noise (the replacement is still silent, but this large data transfer should let me know quickly if it has a similar problem). This is the sort of quality-control problem that needs to be worked out between LaCie and its vendors; I'm just glad I was able to swap the drive under Amazon's 30-Day defective-replacement policy. 2/27/08 Follow-up: The replacement drive was quiet for about a week and then started whining. I changed the stack order of the drives and moved this one from the top of the stack (under the Mac Mini, which throws off a lot of heat through the bottom of the case) to the bottom of the stack. This helped a little and after a few weeks, it has stopped making so much noise. Maybe the fan blades got worn down enough to stop making contact with the fan housing. 3 Today Great storage and features let down by poor quality parts Everything works exactly as it says on the box. It's pretty speedy and the ergonomics and aesthetics are spot on for use with a Mac Mini or an Airport Extreme *BUT* the biggest problem is the fan noise and the bearings have now failed after only a few weeks use. Have to find a way to back-up all my data now and RMA to LaCie :-( 2 Today A brief comment I have not found this drive to be noisy as a couple of people have said. I bought my drive almost a year after the first review complaining about it, so perhaps this problem was fixed. Also the same goes for running hot, which it's not. The drive offers good connectivity by having three USB ports on one side, and on the back having firewire, USB 2, and another connector that I'm not familiar with. But anyway, there are a lot of ports. It's a nice design and they're stackable, and you can chain them together. The drive does take a little time to spin up, more than I would have thought since it seems the same as the new drives I was working with several years ago. One nice feature is that the drive turns on when I plug it into my laptop to back it up, and turns off when I unplug the USB cable. Sort of cool. Overall though it's a good drive and so far I have had good performance and duty from it, and the price is reasonable too. I should mention that I had the best results when I formatted it with the Mac operating system. As a PC based drive it would read files but could not write them or modify the volume using my MacBook. I was going to try to use it to back up both my PC and my MacBook, but now doing this would seem to require two partitions for best results based on my trials. So for now I am just using it for my MacBook. External backup drives have come down so far in price that one can get half terrabyte capacities for less than two hundred bucks, so I'll probably just buy another one for my PC. 4 Today View Product Prices  We thought you might be interested in other BEST DEALS that we found for you: Hard Drives WESTERN DIGITAL-WDXMS1600TN in Hard Drives 160GB 5400RPM USB2.0; 12ms seek; Passport 2.5inch 9 Listings Best Price $92.65 Save up to 45% HEWLETT PACKARD-347708-B22 in Hard Drives 146GB 15K U320 SCSI UNIVERSAL HARD DRIVE 4 Listings Best Price $509.98 Save up to 27% IBM-42D0410 in Hard Drives 4 GBPS FC 300 GB/15K E-DDM 4 Listings Best Price $2,141.99 Save up to 28% All Best Deals *Pricing and product information listed is obtained from the merchants and is subject to change without notice. Shipping costs are estimated based on UPS ground within US, unless specified otherwise. 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