Lacie external drive 1616 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 10 months ago | Thread started: Jul 4, 09, 1:53 p.m.

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• jaylarson

  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.

  • not true overall, maybe in your own personal experience, but they are very reliable– Meeklo1/3

    +1– creez2/3

    I have a triple interface that has run perfectly now for 5 years, still works great!– NONEIS3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 2:29 p.m. – Permalink

• co2

  I had one die on me. Out of the blue it just stopped working. Piece of shite.

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 2:32 p.m. – Permalink

• uan

  the lacie rugged are the most reliable lacie drives in my experience so far.

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 2:50 p.m. – Permalink

• sikma

  Know lots of people who use them and have no problems. Been using one myself two years with no issues.

  my 2 cents

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 2:53 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  depends on the model and what's inside. they don't make the drives, they put other peoples drives in their own cases.

  • +1– Meeklo

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 3:12 p.m. – Permalink

• juhls

  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.

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 3:13 p.m. – Permalink

• welded

  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.

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 5:32 p.m. – Permalink

• ribit

  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)

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 5:39 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  no problems so far...

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 11:27 p.m. – Permalink

• typist

  

  • good looking– creez1/3

    "all that glitters is not gold"– jaylarson2/3

    looks like a box of chocs.– Jnr_Madison3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 4, 09, 11:29 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  stick with one with a fan if you want the stuff to last.
  ---> www.macsales.com

  

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  Dog-earJul 5, 09, 2:14 a.m. – Permalink

• RudyRudy

  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 =(

  

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  Dog-earJul 5, 09, 2:31 a.m. – Permalink

• desmo

  

  

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  Dog-earJul 5, 09, 4:12 a.m. – Permalink

• must_dash

  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!

  • I've had the same with Western Digital– ribit

  

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  Dog-earJul 5, 09, 5:16 a.m. – Permalink

• tymeframe

  I've had my 250GB LaCie for over four years, and it's still standing strong. Granted, all the important stuff that's on it is backed up an another drive.

  

  • Is this the triple interface? Mine works as soild as it did when I first got it 5 years ago.– NONEIS1/3

    It has two FW400 ports and a FW800 port. Not sure if that's the triple interface...– tymeframe2/3

    + USB = triple– NONEIS3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 5, 09, 7:17 a.m. – Permalink