Jensen SMP-215 32MB MP3 Player

Jensen SMP-215 32MB MP3 Player
Manufacturer: Jensen
Product Type: CE

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JENSEN SMP215 32 MB MP3 Player

Average customer rating: 4.5

Another air-cooled Porsche
Great drive in Firewire version
Sleek and reliable
Just what I needed
Not Bad

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LaCie 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche (301103U)

Manufacturer: Lacie
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000H6CBA4

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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. The result of decades of architectural expertise, these drives feature state-of-the-art design and awesome performance. The LaCie Hard Drive offers fast data transfer rates up to 480Mbits/s using Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connection that are required for substantial jobs like downloading digital photos, saving MP3s or transferring home videos from a camcorder. With room to store up to 500GB, you can back up your entire system or add extra storage space when your internal hard drive is full. Built to be lightweight and durable, these drives can be easily moved for sharing and exchanging of files. These drives offer setup that is nearly effortless, and are ready to use minutes after removing it from the box. Secured rubber feet allow drives to be stacked, so you can get the most out of limited desktop space. Seek time - Less than 11ms Simple setup, easy to use External AC power adapter LaCie Utilities CD-ROM including Silverlining and SilverKeeper software System Requirements - Intel Pentium II 350 MHz-compatible processor or greater, iMac, Power Mac G3 and greater, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows Me or Windows XP, Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS 10.2.1 and greater, minimum 32MB RAM, built-in Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Dimensions - Height 1.4 x Width 4.4 x Length 7.4 inch, 35 x 112 x 188mm Weight - 900 gram, 31.7 ounces

Customer Reviews:

Another air-cooled Porsche.......2007-06-08

An excellent disc drive - and no problems so far. Looks good and is small enough to tote round. It does get rather warm (which is why I knocked a star off), but the fan seems to keep it functioning just fine.

Great drive in Firewire version.......2007-06-01

OK, this is the USB version, but I bought the Firewire version. It was a hard choice, but the Firewire is reported to be faster in the real world (even though the technical specs put them close: check out the debate on USB 2 vs Firewire 400).

I had previously bought the smaller version LaCie Porsche Design drive (about 120 GB), and filled it in short order with simple, manual clicking and dragging. Not so the 500 GB. I used SuperDuper to image my MacBook Pro 111 GB drive to it. I only have about 80 GB on it. It took a bit to copy it completely (and do the file checking along the way) and make a bootable image. I want to say more than an hour -- less than two. I then did something radical: I plugged it in as the start-up drive on my iMac at work, and it ran smoothly and without incident. I wasn't sure if the MacBook Pro bootable would run the iMac, but there was no problem.

The drive runs very quietly; I do not hear whirring or otherwise. It's warm to the touch. My previous smaller one did not require an external supply and ran much cooler. This one does require external power. Compared to the elegance of the drive, the power supply is bulky and awkward. The Firewire version was about $170 from LaCIe, but the USB 2 version is substantially cheaper from Amazon. You decide what interface suits you. There is no mention on the LaCie website of a potential Firewire 800 which I would have preferred to purchase.

By the way, I now do SmartUpdate (in SuperDuper) from the MacBook Pro to the LaCie drive and it takes about 20-30 minutes to completely update all the files. I also checked the drive afterwards with disk utility software and found no corrupt files or bad blocks. Although it took me awhile to do this, it did give me piece of mind that the LaCie product (like its predecessor) is a quality drive.

What a deal. 500 GB.

PS: More recent weekly SmartUpdates take under 13 minutes. It must be getting smarter.

Sleek and reliable.......2007-05-11

Compact, nice-looking, robust. I bought a LaCie 250GB drive two years ago, and now my 500GB stacks neatly on top of it on the visble grooves. They're both the same size, too, and this 500GB model also has a fan.

The newer models have a push-button power switch and what I believe to be an automatic power-off function if the drive idles for a period of time. My older 250GB has a switch instead, so I have to turn it off manually when I'm not using it.

The USB cable is oddly short, but the power cables are long; I suppose LaCie meant for you to have this drive near your computer where you could reach the power button anyway, but packaging an extension cable would have been nice.

The drive is very quiet and quite speedy. I'm likely to see myself buying a LaCie 1TB drive in the next two years.

Just what I needed.......2007-05-11

This hard drive was a godsend. I had needed to upgrade both laptop and desktop for some time now, but due to budget limitations, I could not. With this hard drive and a new video card, I was able to get the performance I needed without a total system overhaul. As an added bonus, when I do fully upgrade, all I have to do is copy my documents to this drive and plug it into the new computer to have everything back.

Everyone should have a drive such as this. It makes life so much easier.

Not Bad.......2007-05-09

I have had this hard drive for a few months now and have not had any problems. The one thing I did not like was that the USB cable is kind of short.

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