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LaCie 160GB Firewire Desktop External Hard Drive ( 300702U ) P3 design by FA Porsche | 
 enlarge | Brand: LaCie
Category: CE
List Price: $167.70
Buy Used: $98.04
You Save: $69.66 (42%)
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 17827
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.4 x 1.4
MPN: 300702U
Model: 300702U
UPC: 093053307028
EAN: 0093053307028
ASIN: B0000E1FDE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Up to 160 GB of storage | | • | Save photos, MP3s, videos | | • | Stackable to save desk space | | • | Fast FireWire connection | | • | Back up valuable information |
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Product Description
Designed by the world-famous Porsche Design Agency GmbH, the LaCie Hard Drive exhibits world-class style and elite performance. With 160GB of storage room, you can back up your entire system, or supplement your data warehousing potential when your internal hard drive is reaching capacity. Dimensions - 1.4H x 4.4W x 7.4D; weighs 31.7 ounces OS Compatibility - Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP or Mac OS 9.1, OS 10.2.1+ Note - i.LINK users must use a 4-pin to 6-pin cable; FireWire 800 users must use a 9-pin to 6-pin cable (both sold separately)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 LaCie's well-designed brick will hose your data! February 21, 2008
I bought this drive without doing my usual research and luck was NOT with me. It wouldn't boot at all into Mac OS X 10.4, despite performing well-enough with 10.3.9. Efforts to discover a solution prompted me to Google this device... and basically the firewire controllers LaCie uses on these drives are so poorly designed, they just can't handle the newer OS.
Further, they can and do fail catastrophically causing data loss.
I've taken the IDE hard drive out of the enclosure (mine's a Hitachi Deskstar) and will install it into a firewire enclosure kit or perhaps a spare bay inside a G4 for backups.
If you own one, I recommend you buy an enclosure kit from Other World Computing and swap the drive out of the LaCie. To do so, simply slide a shim, like a credit card (I used a stainless steel ruler), up into the slot between the bottom plate and the plastic outer 'box' of the drive. There are 4 metal clips along each long side that will release. As one side edges out, brace it with a flat screwdriver blade while pushing the clips on the other, then it'll just slide out.
There are 4 screws that secure the drive to the inside top of the case. Remove them, pull away the activity light, then just gently pry the hard drive out of the enclosure being mindful of the exposed electronic bits. Pop off the power cable and IDE connector and voila: new life for the disk.
It's a shame to toss out the well-designed aesthetics... the enclosure is beautiful and clever industrial design. But the technology (along with unresponsive LaCie warranty support) leave me unlikely to purchase from LaCie again.
Amazon shouldn't even be selling these things.
Stay away from this brand!!! March 29, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I decided to buy three of these drives after seeing the great sales price. It is just a few months down the line and only one of the drives works. The others? Blank! I've tried everything I know to recover my files and still nothing. What I thought was a great price was simply money thrown away. I use many many external drives with few problems. Two drives down out of three? Not great odds in my book.
not worth the stress September 9, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this drive 11 months ago and was using it frequently without any problems. I would take it to my digital darkroom plug in there and wouldn't have any problems. I would take it to a number of friends houses and no problems there either. I was extremely careful and never dropped or banged the machine around. Then a few days ago I plugged in and....nothing...I went to my digital tec friend at his work and he tried it on all the computers there and still nothing! I had my entire life on the drive and now I have to pay$$$$$$ a hefty sum to get my drive recovered. As I told people about this most seemed to know someone that this has happened to with a Lacie Drive. My advice: If you value the information that you are storing on a hard drive do not trust this Lacie!
Avoid Lacie drives... August 16, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had better luck than many of these reviewers. My 160GB Lacie P3 drive lasted a whole 60 days before it died. Fortunately, I was able to remove the hard drive from the dead enclosure and retrieve my data.
 Problems with "unformatted" disks May 19, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a longtime user of LaCie products, having been enticed firstly by the attractive D2 casing. In every case, the completion of my music collection is the signal for the drive to fail--aggrivating, certainly. I tried wonderful symantec recovery products, but I found after much research that what happens is that the firewire bridge burns out--this is largely due to the constant back and forth traffic using music programs like iTunes. A new firewire bridge costs about 149 dollars, but you can actually open the drive housing and put the physical, naked drive into a new housing--these run from 9-14 dollars brand new on most sites. I did this with mine, and was able to recognize the HFS+ volume again, just as if nothing had happened! The drives are good quality, but whoever supplies LaCie with their firewire bridges is obviously not a first-rate manufacturer. I hope this helps, because I know first hand how dumbstiking it is to lose so much data without apparent cause.
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