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Centrally store your shared digital entertainment on the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini ¿ Home Edition. Easily find your photos, music, and video thanks to the predefined shares. Drag and drop your photos for easily uploading them so they are accessible to your relatives and friends no matter where they are. Setup is complete in minutes, providing home and remote access. Use the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini as a simple, cost-effective personal media server via Gigabit Ethernet. 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.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. 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.
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 Awesome device |
| Review Date: March 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: S. Pietri, TX |
Had this great toy since 3 months now and I can access my files wherever I go. It is simple to set up and to use. Easy to back-up and has a USB plug for printers and other USB drive.
I have not tested the security of data, but I would not trust any of these networked device for sensitive information.
Disadvantages: sharing between users could be improved. |
Great Drive
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| Review Date: January 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Bruce G. Kremer, Rockford, MN USA |
| Being an Information Technology Tech and my wife a programer we use this drive as our mini home network and it works great. We connected it to our wireless router and can access it from any where in the house. We use it to store all our pics and music. |
Overall good product
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| Review Date: October 6, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Matt Bullen, Albuquerque, NM USA |
| This is a good product I thought it was something else but it is going to work for what I am looking for. It is really easy to access it from any internet connection. I would recomend it. |
very happy
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| Review Date: February 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Sean Walden, |
| i have been very happy with this product. it was very easy to set up. i also like the way you can easily mount shared directories on this drive as you would any shared directory on a windows computer as well as get to the files stored on the drive via the web interface provided by the web based server running on the drive. unfortunately the transfer speed is not great i was seeing maybe 5MB/s. however it works great as a backup drive and file server for pictures and music. |
Works Well
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| Review Date: February 27, 2008 |
| Reviewer: W. Lee, |
First, be aware that the "Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition" and "Etherenet Disk Mini" are different products with different features. This information is related to the Home Edition. It works very well for me, although a little slow when accessed through the web interface.
After opening the necessary ports in my DSL router, I had to reboot the whole setup (edminihome, dsl, router) a few times before things worked. Not sure if that is needed, or if it just took some time for things to propagate through.
When you ask it to share a folder through the internet, it emails the receipient an URL pointing to the shared folder. The URL contains a long random string (I guess it's some kind of a cookie), but no password is required to sign in. So anybody who gets a copy of that URL (eg. if the email is forwarded to someone else) will have access to the shared folder, and I don't see a way to log who are actually accessing the files.
You can plug in multiple USB drives into the edminihome using a usb hub, and they are all visible to the edminihome. However you can select only one of them at any time to serve as MySafe. The remaining USB drives will be dormant. When selected as MySafe, the USB drive can be accessed through the web interface, but cannot be mounted as a network drive (FamilyLibrary, MyLibrary, and MyBackup can each be mounted as a network drive).
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LaCie Drive is Good, but Could be Better
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| Review Date: March 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Richard S. Stroud, Kokomo, IN USA |
I wanted a drive to 1) provide backup between several Macintosh computers and 2) provide file retrieval when I was far away. The LaCie 500GB Home edition does these tasks very well.
The drive's HipServ software allows you to put an icon on the desktop. Clicking on this gives you almost instant access to the drive. But if you put the computer to sleep, then wake up later, the icon no longer works. You must re-find the disc. On 802.11b this is too slow.
If the router has not been restarted, the DNS address most likely does not change. The icon should still work regardless of computer status. This would make this drive a nearly perfect product. |
I'm Impressed
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| Review Date: July 11, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jason Daniels, Austin, TX USA |
| yes, it was a pain to setup - but I'm very impressed with what its letting me do right now... Access my entire iTunes library wirelessly over my Airport Express (over multiple machines at once!) For just over $100?! Wow. |
Extremely good device for the price
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| Review Date: December 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Christopher Gioconda, Maryland |
Overall, the LaCie 301269U Ethernet Mini Home Edition is a great NAS media server, with some quirks and speed issues. Considering I got it for $100, the pros far outweigh the cons. The web services can be slow to access at times, though the newest edition of the software (firmware) does speed it up somewhat. I ditched the included software on the CD, preferring to access the folders on the device as shared drives from my WinXP PC and laptop running Vista. My PS3 immediately identified the server, and has only had a few issues streaming videos (PS3 is wireless, in another room, and I've always had issues with speed on it, so its more likely my router and not the NAS).
If you're someone who likes to fiddle with networks, and would be normally comfortable setting up another box on your network for file sharing, then this is the product for you. If you're a newbie who wants immediate setup and usage, then this product might be a little too complex for you. |
Good network server especially for $99
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| Review Date: August 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: J. Davis, Stanford, CA |
I have owned this drive for 7 months now and it works very well. All of my files were moved from my three computers onto it so each can now access anything. I got the rest of my family to create folders on the drive so they are using it too. Even my iTunes library is completely on here. I made sure to create a backup of this drive too, which I update regularly.
It does spin up quite frequently, but it is not a problem for me. I like that I can access all my files from anywhere in the world. Since I travel a lot, it makes it easy to get to music, photos and personal data. |
Solid product. Requires some technical knowledge.
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| Review Date: September 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: M. Stone, lost in cyberspace |
Just received my NAS. Plugged it in, turned on the unit, and ran through the software. No success through the discovery utility. Powered everything off, replaced the network cable, and viola! I am on the LAN and running. Did the update to 1.6.2. Very simple.
I went to the axentra website and the lacie site since this is an evolving product and I wanted the latest documentation/help. No real surprises. It is managed through a web GUI which makes it pretty easy to setup, but I would suggest a wizard to walk the average home user through sharing scenarios. I would think something like an activity based walk through like you can do with logitech/harmony remotes. I was up and running with my folders shared and my users configured in about 90 minutes. Took a while to copy over the data. I prefer to map a drive from my pc's directly to the NAS. Seems to me that is less overhead. I don't have any interest in media connect functionality. My device is mostly a way to share pictures over the Internet & backup data locally to a separate host device. For that it works well. The web GUI is a little sluggish, but what do you expect from a java app running on a $99 server? If I needed the latest and greatest, I'd spring $500 for a windows home server.
Used desktop mirror for my 'My Documents' folder. Works fine. Synchronizes regularly and so far no failures.
PROS:
*Like the slideshow function for my pictures. It pops up a window that users can utilize to browse all the pictures in a folder.
*Low power and quiet in comparison to a windows home server.
*Web GUI does the basics well, but you have to know what you're doing when sending invites/setting up distribution groups, etc.
*$99 for 500 GB NAS???? Wow.
CONS:
*A little slow when viewing directories with a lot of files thru the web GUI. (Still, it's a $99 box)
*Should have a wizard walkthrough as it can get complicated for the average user.
*Wish the USB port would act as a print server. |
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