Let's Kill LaCie?
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I understand the concept of "backup". The thing is three of my Lacie drives failed within a matter of 4 months, post nuclear winter economic recession. And since I don't have a bunch of money to throw around, I was risking it with some files left on that last drive.
I have heard the issue with these LaCie RAID drives is an inadequate power supply for the dual drive configuration (same one used as for the single). The ones from 2006 supposedly have something ridiculous like 40% failure rates within 2 years (read this on a tech forum so not sure how reliable a statistic).
I am just going off the anecdotal evidence that I had three of their drives that failed all about at once. Call me naive, but I just expect a little more reliability from hardware than that. This is horseshit and their attitude at LaCie of not having any available replacement housings w/ chip sets is just ridiculous, especially if they know their products are faulty.
If these were automobiles, there would be a class action lawsuit—I am just saying...
I am going to hope that another power supply might cure my drives' ills. I am assuming just the AC adapter and cord is the PS?
I will definitely be backing up offsite from now on.
- you had three drives fail on one day? or?ribit
- 3 in four months. There's a recession. I am producing a film that's over budget. No funds bro.homeostatic
- Power surge?imadesigner