lacie crash
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maybe they just got a shoddy batch of oem drives. maybe a recall of a few hundred boxes would do the trick.
it happens.
i've never had good luck with maxtor or western digital drivers.
i experience massive drive failures all the time. we lost a scsi in one of our raid5 boxes the otherday.
no biggie.
drives fail...it is the nature of commodity pc hardware.
if you want to continue paying 60 bucks for hundred+ gig of space...you're gonna see more drives crap out. especially in the personal pc hardware sector. b-grade equipment is all it is; or worse.
i've heard nothing but decent things about lacie products. but, that doesn't mean there isn't a shitty release out there. maybe they made a firmware update recently that has some unkown issues.
it happens. i once went through 4 intel motherboards in about 3 weeks. same board just kept breaking. finally went with an amd for that server.
i do know this, though...for designers who move large quantities of data around (images, audio files, animations, etc) a simple external drive or dvdr isn't sufficient enough of a back up solution...you should really look at getting a raid array nas for your professional work.
in the end, the few extra bucks will save you quite a bit of heartache.
it all comes down to how valuable you think your work is. hell, write it off on your taxes as a business expense.