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LaCie 301269U Ethernet Disk Mini 500GB Network Attached Storage
 With the Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition, your household’s digital library becomes accessible from inside and outside your home in just a few minutes. The LaCie media portal, HomeLaCie.com, enables access from anywhere for uploading or downloading files to your Ethernet Disk mini at home. Simply drag & drop your photos, for example, and make them accessible to your relatives and friends via simple email invitations. The pre-defined folders and personal shares enable easy management of your family’s digital library. Listen to your music from your networked sound system with the embedded iTunes server. The Ethernet Disk mini – Home Edition provides peace of mind by automatically backing up all of your home computers at your convenience.
Media Server
Stream videos to your TV with the broadest range of digital media players supporting uPnP AV, Windows Connect, and DLNA certified devices, plus game stations like PS3 or Xbox 360. At the same time, you can listen to music through a networked sound system and with the internal iTunes server, it can stream to any Mac or PC. Keep digital photos safe and organized in the family library or view them on your TV or compatible digital picture frame and edit from any computer with your favorite software. It’s never been so easy to organize, edit and enjoy your photos.
Remote Access Service
Your household’s digital content is always accessible wherever you go via the HomeLaCie.com media portal. Access personal media and files from anywhere via an Internet web browser. Share with friends and family by sending email invitations. Just log on to your LaCie Media Portal to get to your customized menu. Upload photos directly to your Ethernet Disk mini while you are on vacation.
Backup Functionalities
With the Desktop software for Windows and Mac OS X, back up your home computer to your Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition automatically. Synchronize your music library between your laptop and the Home Edition. Whether your PC is at home or not, and whether it’s on or off, your music library will always be available from anywhere. For more security, archive or make an extra copy of your shares to a USB hard drive attached to your Ethernet Disk mini.
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A Closer Look
Features
- Gigabit Ethernet connection
- Media streaming and playback
- Backup software for PC & Mac
- Archiving on external USB drives
- Easy to set-up and configure
System Requirements
- Ethernet router (UPnP preferred)
- Broadband Internet connection using Ports 80 (http), 443 (https) and 22 (ssh)
unblocked – refer to your Internet Service Provider for details
- PC or Mac equipped with a network adapter & a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
- Intel Pentium III 500MHz processor or greater
- Minimum 512MB of RAM
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Anonymous
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Feb 13, 2009
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As a few others might have found out by now this network drive is not as advertised, in fact as i've discovered it is in fact far worse then some of the reviewers had thought. The drive itself is quite nice and all, but the fact that LaCie more or less blames the customer for any faults of their NAS Unit's is utterly amazing. The unit I had purchased had a simple hard drive failure on the first week. Not of any fault of mine, but the drive simple went belly up for an unknown reason. I called the tech support and after waiting for 3+ hours on hold for one of their techs to actually answer the phone was told that I must have done something wrong when i set it up, or that i had messed with it and that they would not perform any warrenty work on the unit, and that it is my fault that their drive went tits up for no reason. Honestly I'd recommend something higher up on the totem pole for NAS Unit's, this piece of crap is not worth the money. |
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GREG on
Feb 02, 2009
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Appears to be a nicely built product; wish I could use it. As in review by ''surprised'', found out installation program needed to access LaCie website in order to configure. I was never able to log in to this site from the software. I then accessed the online tech support to configure my router; but they have no solutions for Trendnet routers. After 6 hours on hold to Lacies tech support line (not toll free) I am exchanging the unit for a different one. |
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Robert on
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La Cie make great drives. However they should lose whoever wrote the software for this NAS. It's worse that useless. More often than not I can't get to the admin area - it refuses my user name and password. Also customer service leaves a lot to be desired. You should pass on this item. |
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Don't be surprised - as I was. The product offered is not a LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini 500GB but the Ethernet Disk Mini 500GB *Home Edition*. I had to look up the Item Number (301269U) on the LaCie page to understand this problem. Contrary to the non-home edition, this unit does not support File Server: SMB (Windows/Linux), AFP (Mac); FTP Server; HTTP for online browsing; Multimedia server: UPnP A/V; Apple Bonjour.
Basically, you need to install a program to upload download data, and, believe it or not, you need to access the configuration of the server on a LaCie website.
I am not sure what benefits user are supposed to have from providing LaCie with access credentials (i.e. login and password) for their personal server. Don't but this product if you are expecting a fully functional server with SMB/Bonjour or FTP accessibility. This is a diet NAS which phones home. I will give it back.
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For the price, this is an awesome NAS unit. It is as fast as transferring data from one PC to another on my 100Gb/sec home network. It's very nice to have one centralized place to store all your data and files. The remote web intrfce works well, but is only as fast as the internet minus some command overhead. It's awesome to be able to setup as many user accounts as you want - each having its' own set of Private Libraries as well as having the ability to grant them access to the Family Libraries - or not. The external USB connection can only be used to backup data from the HipServ - not able to be setup to add shareable capacity to the HipServ. The Desktop Mirror application works very well -but only on the home network. It will not backup PCs outside of the home network over the internet through LaCie. Drive is a little loud, but it usually sits in an out of the way place anyway. I have had the unit 2 wks - upgraded FW/SW, used all apps alot - no reboots yet of the LaCie. A+ 4 me |
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What You Should Know
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What is RAID?
RAID is an acronym first defined back in 1987 to describe a redundant array of
inexpensive disks, a technology that allowed computer users to achieve high
levels of storage reliability from low-cost PC hard disk drives, via the
technique of arranging the devices into an array for fail-safe redundancy.
"RAID" is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that
can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. The different
schemes/architectures are named by the word RAID followed by a number, as in
RAID 0, RAID 1, etc. RAID's various designs involve two key elements: increased
data reliability or increased input/output performance. When multiple physical
disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array.
This array distributes data across multiple disks, but the array is seen by the
computer user and operating system as one single disk. RAID can be set up to
serve several different purposes.
Organizing disks into a redundant array decreases the total usable storage
capacity. For instance, a 2-disk RAID 1 array loses half of the total capacity
that would have otherwise been available using both disks independently, and a
RAID 5 array with several disks loses the capacity of one whole disk. Other
types of RAID arrays are arranged so that they are faster to write to and read
from than a single disk.
There are various combinations of these
configurations giving different trade-offs and benefits of protection against
data loss, capacity, and speed. RAID levels 0, 1, and 5 are the most commonly
found, and cover most of the typical requirements.
- RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data
across several disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If
one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is
neither parity nor mirroring.
- RAID 1 mirrors the contents of the
disks, making a 1:1 (1 to 1) ratio real-time backup. The contents of each disk
in the array are identical to that of every other disk in the array.
- RAID 3 uses a striped set with
dedicated parity or bit interleaved parity or byte level parity. This
mechanism provides fault tolerance similar to RAID 5. However, because the strip
across the disks is a lot smaller than a file system block, reads and writes to
the array perform like a single drive with a high linear write performance. If
one drive fails, the performance doesn't change.
- RAID 5 (striped disks with parity)
combines three or more disks in a way that protects against data loss of any one
disk. The storage capacity of the array is reduced by the capacity of the one
disk (all disks are of equal size).
- RAID 6 (striped disks with dual parity)
can recover from the loss of two disks.
- RAID 10 (or 1+0) uses both striping and
mirroring. ("01" or "0+1" is sometimes distinguished from "10" or "1+0": a
striped set of mirrored subsets and a mirrored set of striped subsets are both
valid, but distinct, configurations.)
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- LaCie Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition
- Ethernet cable
- External power supply
- Drive stand for upright use
- CD-ROM with Easy Install
- Quick Install Guide
Contents of package may vary from those pictured and stated here,
due to changes in manufacturer's specifications or merchandising.
Please check the product information carefully, items not included
may no longer be required.
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Manufactured by:
LaCie
Warranty provided by:
LaCie
Limited Warranty:
36 months parts;
36 months labor
Mfg Part No:
301269U
UPC No:
093053729486
Box Size:
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Shipping Weight:
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