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LaCie External 250GB Hard Drive Design by F.A. Porsche

External 250GB Hard Drive Design by F.A. Porsche

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LaCie External 250GB Hard Drive Design by F.A. Porsche

  • Reviewed by: themartin

    01-09-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Cheap, looks nice, and stacks with other similar lacie drives.

    Weaknesses:Ugly and hot power brick, very short USB cable. Run very hot if left on for long periods of time.

    Overall Evaluation: I\\\\\\\'ve bought 2 of these 250Gb drives over the past few years. Mainly because they look nice and are real cheap. Both are still running just fine. Reading a lot of these reviews I get the impression that people leave them on 24 hours a day, whether they use them or not. Thats why so many people complain that they die. With my 2 drives I keep the power switch off whenever I dont use them. This 1) Saves power and 2) saves the drive. I only turn them on when I need to backup everything on my system, or to copy files on and off. So they usually get about 1-2 hours of use per week. Doing that, I have not had any problems. Overall a good drive for the price, but if you want one that you will leave on and use all the time, this isnt the drive for you.

  • Reviewed by:

    01-03-08

    Duration of ownership: 1 Years

    Strengths: None

    Weaknesses:Porsches are all defective desgins. Harddrive will faill in a matter of months.

    Overall Evaluation: LaCie knows this drive is defective and continues to sell it..I have had 3 of these drives FAIL and all of them replaced. Each time, the replacement has FAILED. Lacie then only honors the warranty based on when the first drive was purchased.LaCie is a very arrogant and negligent company that doesn't care about the integrity of their products. They knew this drive was defective and they continued to replace it with this same defective drive even after I told them I wanted a different model.The bottom line is their drives will FAIL on you in a matter of months, not years.

  • Reviewed by: Ergolad

    10-14-07

    Duration of ownership: 3 Years

    Strengths: Price

    Weaknesses:They fail... consistently. Just read the posts.

    Overall Evaluation: Listen, I like a deal like everyone else here on Pricegrabber. I do the math and I compare the prices and consistently LaCie drives are the best bang for the buck. But are they really?Simply put, I've owned two of these and within, or just after a year of use, BOTH have failed. It's that simple. If the failure falls within the year warranty, and assuming you purchased it from one of their "authorized" resellers (and can prove it), they'll replace it fairly hassle free. Over a year, and you are SOL, as they say.I used mine for daily back up and media storage. Once the first failed and was replaced under warranty, (thinking it was a fluke), I bought another and started mirroring the two drives for redundancy. I'm glad I did.Life expectancy of drives varies. I'd say it's safe to expect 3-5 years. With that said, I've owned and built my own computers since 95 and have only had one drive failure and that was on a 5 year old machine. As for those who say that external drives are not intended to be run 24/7, I don't buy that. In my opinion, a well designed external drive should be able to run just as well as an internal drive.There's really not much more I can say about these drives. Ascetically they're nice enough to look at & they're fairly quiet. But again, what does any of that matter if they FAIL. They FAIL.

  • Reviewed by:

    09-12-07

    Duration of ownership: 2 Years

    Strengths: Low cost per gbPerfect performance

    Weaknesses:None

    Overall Evaluation: I've had this drive for almost two years for back up purposes. This drive, at least in my experience, has been bullet proof. Quick transfer speeds, is used as part of a series of back up routines that run almost every night of the week. I would highly recommend this unit!

  • Reviewed by: nifita

    07-30-07

    Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks

    Strengths: Easy to set up and use; plenty of space for what I need.

    Weaknesses:The backup software was not was I was hoping, as I wanted something that would sync; not create multiple backups of the same files. Found a free one online, though, that works great with this product

    Overall Evaluation: My review is really just the strengths and weaknesses that I already wrote: Easy to set up and use; plenty of space for what I need.However, the backup software that came with the drive was not was I was hoping, as I wanted something that would sync, not create multiple backups of the same files. Found a free sync program online, though, that does what I need and works great with this hard drive.

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