Lacie external drive
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- senseg
All good for back up? Nobody had problems with them?
- digdre0
i have a small 2" one, or whatever size those portables are. very good one.
- jaylarson0
stay away. srsly. overall, they are known for shitty reliability even though a person here and there will say they haven't had a problem. stay away.
- co20
I had one die on me. Out of the blue it just stopped working. Piece of shite.
- uan0
the lacie rugged are the most reliable lacie drives in my experience so far.
- sikma0
Know lots of people who use them and have no problems. Been using one myself two years with no issues.
my 2 cents
- acescence0
depends on the model and what's inside. they don't make the drives, they put other peoples drives in their own cases.
- juhls0
If you stick with any of the major brands, you should be good. However, go with the brands that have the longest warranties. I think this includes Seagate and WD.
I have one of the rugged Lacie ones and it's fine (except the firewall wire seems to crap out every now and then, depending on the computer), but I've heard lots of stories against the brand too.
- welded0
I've had a 160gb for years and a 500gb for several months with no problems, although work lost a 500gb drive last year and all it's contents. Now we use a Drobo at the office.
- ribit0
Why do we keep answering this?
The average of all answers= 0(and it doesn't really matter if drives are reliable or not, if you have a proper backup strategy)
- utopian0
no problems so far...
- typist0
- good lookingcreez
- "all that glitters is not gold"jaylarson
- looks like a box of chocs.Jnr_Madison
- akrokdesign0
stick with one with a fan if you want the stuff to last.
---> www.macsales.com
- RudyRudy0
They are looking great idd, I had a Lacie Brick and the golden one above. Both died in less than an year =( I lost all the data =(
- must_dash0
i'd say their power adaptors are the weak point rather than the drives... if you have a lacie drive and the disk starts clicking... check it is not the adaptor before doing too much to the drive.
I had this, and the lacie site were out of stock of adaptors (weren't in stock for about 2 months)... so I bought a cheap drive on eBay, and used that adaptor, and then ordered another one from lacie once in stock.
ramble over!