I purchased the 500 gig to add to my collection of portable LaCie drives which I have had great luck with!  Only concern is that it runs much hotter than the other LaCie drives, and it even stays hot when the computer is asleep.  The drive is clearly spinning down as it is supposed when asleep, but it stays hot even 15 hours later, which means it is using energy (an issue when connected to a laptop) and I wonder if the drive will fail prematurely as a result.  I called LaCie and they said it is normal. 


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