Buy LaCie Minimus 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 301967LaCie Minimus 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 301967 Product Description:
- Ultra compact
- Ultra-fast USB 3.0 performance
- Easily transfer HD movies, photos, and sound files with USB 3.0
- Resistant Aluminum
Product Description
With the LaCie Minimus, you've got the power and performance of USB 3.0 combined with an ultra-compact size. Compared to other desktop drives, it's the smallest on the market, which makes it the perfect choice for users that enjoy their terabytes as much as their desk space. It's also easy to transfer HD movies, photos, and sound files with USB 3.0-the fastest interface on the market. Since the LaCie Minimus is backward compatible with USB 2.0, it works on any PC or Mac.
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53 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent external drive
By J. Moomaw
This drive has been a pleasant surprise across the board. Based on my testing I'm planning to use several for disaster recovery and for local disk expansion (esp for Adobe Lightroom which won't use catalogs on network resources). I can't really find any faults.It's fast:The challenge with large drives is having adequate bandwidth to move large data volumes to what they're attached to. USB2 is a real bottleneck for drives over 1TB. It takes hours to move big loads. For this 2TB drive it would take a day and a half to fill at typical USB2 port speeds.* When connected to USB3 it tested over twice as fast when communicating to a high-speed NAS server over gigabit Ethernet vs. when connected to USB2. In this case I installed a USB3 ExpressCard in my Lenovo T61 laptop for testing to a ReadyNAS U6+. I was seeing >25MB/sec sustained for a 25GB mixed-file-size test.* Back and forth to the Lenovo internal drive the speed was significantly lower and USB V3/V2 difference was slightly less than 2x. Surprisingly this external drive on USB3 is faster than the internal laptop drive (no slouch, a WD 250GB 7200rpm), so when used as a local drive there will probably be little to no compromise in speed.It's enclosed and connectors/buttons are robust:Unlike previous WD Books I've used, it doesn't have air vents. The case is mostly aluminum, and it feels solid. It only gets slightly warm when running flat out. However it isn't rated as rugged so it shouldn't be bounced around or exposed to moisture. Having read about issues with connectors on competing products I wanted to avoid those problems, and everything about this is well designed. It does have an odd USB data cable you'll want to keep track of... it's not like the 20 others you already have. One end (at the drive) is a new "USB 3.0 Micro-B" format while the other end is the old boxy Type-A format you know. It will connect to either V2 or V3 USB computer portsIt's small:For a 2TB external drive the case is reasonably compact, and they stack nicely. It has soft rubber runners on the bottom. OK, it also looks nice if that matters.It comes with a power supply:Having been burned in the past trying to source enough power from USB ports to power external drives I always use separate supplies when I can. They come in the box. The problem is that the USB V2 spec calls for a max load of 500mA per port, but too often the vendors are providing devices that need much more than that. The symptoms of inadequate power on drives are usually write failures and file corruption, the last thing you want. The vendor work-around has been the Y-connectors, which work if you have them along with spare USB ports. In fact LaCie includes an extra USB-port power cable if you don't want to use the power supply; I recommend you use it in that case to avoid trouble.It's silent:It virtually makes no noise. The blue light on top blinks when it's doing something, but that's about the only way to know. It doesn't have usage bars or LCD readouts.It's easy to set up:It runs a quick simple little application to configure it, and then it's ready to go with 1.8TB usable space in Windows.Internals:Mine have a Seagate ST2000DL001 9VT156 (2TB 5900rpm) drive, a member of their green Barracuda series. Spec sheets on the ST2000DL003 are probably close. Operating temp 0-60C.Update 14mar2012:* I have four drives I use almost daily with automatic scripts. No problems, no fails.* Case where I'm backing up NAS (on 1Gb network) with LaCie (attached to Intel_i7 USB3): Copy speeds run between 40-50MB/sec sustained between the LaCie and the NAS server, twice what I was seeing with the older laptop (no big surprise).* Case where I'm backing up Intel_i7 desktop SSD with LaCie: Copy speeds from the SSD to this USB3 drive run 92MB/sec for a mix of 40 large files. This might be as fast as you can expect these drives to run.
36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.At last, a quiet external hard drive
By David Nelson
My first two external hard drives, a LaCie and an Iomega, had internal fans and thus were very noisy. So, for my next external hard drive, I looked for a fanless one, and bought one of those LaCie "Design by Neil Poulton" drives. Beautiful black monolith design, no fan -- and it sounded like a popcorn popper when it would read and write. Arggh! It drove me crazy. I had to put it in a foam-lined box under my desk to keep the noise down (which put the beautiful design to waste).But this! This is a quiet external hard drive. Just the slightest whirring of the spinning disk, and a wee little bit of sound from the read and write heads (which I don't even notice anymore).I wish I'd bought two. I may yet.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Solid Drive
By mg in kc
Only had it since August, but it appears to be a solid drive. A tad slow (I believe its a 5,400), but it is quiet. I've had no problems with it. I got tired of short-lived Seagates and WDs (WD should be ashamed for continuing to sell their "book" drives--I had three fail after two years).I'm hoping Lacie will prove to be a solid performer. I don't mind paying a bit more for a good drive.
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