lacie crash
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- rabattski0
yeah i know, i'm one of those who normally would say lacie. in my network i never heard anything bad about lacie but now it's like boom every other lacie crashes, i mean, that's what they say. i'm not sure. it's good to hear that some people have no issues at all. mine is almost half a year old. no issues. knock on wood. jeez, you guys make me freakin' paranoid here. i'm seriously thinking about getting a dvd burner for backing up my backup drive.
- iamjonas0
in response to rabattski, i will not buy another lacie product and i would buy such a domain if i had nothing better to do. i´ve read about numerous incidents and I know personally two people who have had problems with their disk. but hopefully people with hear about this and switch brands. or even better, that lacie will better their products.
but of course, could be that they´re selling hundreds of millions of these products and a few s´thousand bad really isn´t bad
- r_gaberz0
I just tried a programm called
testdisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdi…and it can see the partiton and I can even browse the files, but no clue how to get them back.
About the "LaCie SuX" issue.
All I can say is that I never had a HD fully crash on me. And I heart a few stories about LaCie drives crashing before buying it. They don't seem to be that good after all. That's at least what I think
- rabattski0
arghshitfuckdammit! roll out the cash for a dvd burner. shitshitshit.
anyways, can we have like a short survey about lacie d2 drives here with more info? as in, if it crashed, what connection did one use and what platform was it working on? maybe that way we could sort of pinpoint the problem?
the people i know, including me, who have a lacie drive and have no issues (yet) are all on mac (OS9/OSX) and use fw400.
- sparker0
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.
- sparker0
bah. i meant 'drives'
i keep typing drivers for some fucking reason.
- rabattski0
so you say it could be a bad batch? interesting. could explain the peak of d2 crashes.
- derek20050
like 2hrs of labour.. so like 100+ dollars..
boo
- weathabee0
Enter response:I had a 500 gb lacie for 3 months and had about 200 gb of material on it. One day I connected it to another machine to transfer some material and the fucker said it needed to be formatted and I couldn't access my files. I scoured the internet for help and found some data recovery software.
The software I used is called VirtualLab and it's made by a company called BinaryBiz (http://www.binarybiz.com). You may want to give it a shot - the only thing bad about it is their pricing. You have to purchase a quota through an internet connection everytime you want to use the program and it can be quite expensive ($100 for the first gig, $10 for additional gigs, and at some point it goes down to $5/gig). I had some invaluable work I had to save so I went ahead and paid for it (recovered 110 gigs!) You can go ahead and scan the hard drive and even recover a small file in the preview mode before you pay for a full quota.
There is a more affordable program I came across but I never had to use it so I don't know if it's any good. It's called GetDataBack and it runs like $70 or so and you don't have to pay for quotas. It also allows you to scan the drive before you buy - but like I said I can't vouch for it because I didn't use it.
Good luck, I know the feeling and I never want it again. DVD-R's are now my best friends.
- weathabee0
and sorry for the horrible formatting and bad post etiquette. i just signed up to respond to your post.
- tymeframe0
d2 OSX - FW800
i take it to my friends and work sometimes - OSX - FW400my philosophy, don't trust hard drives as a permanent backup. With disks, once they're burned, the original data can't be fuct with. unless you're despirate for a frisbee.
- vburo0
i have heard this way too many times.. i will never buy a LaCie HD.
boy, they suck bigtime.
- jekylhyde0
Try hooking up the drive to a diff OS than the one you are currently are using. Maybe you'll be able to see your data.
- sparker0
although dvd/cd media are easily broken (including scratched), lost or stolen...it is true that once the media is burned...you've got a secure backup.
granted none of the above happen.
but, burning discs isn't pratical or efficient on a daily basis.
nothing can beat a fast, raid nas (network attached storage) box for backups. especially if it is located offsite. that way, if the building burns down tonight you still have your data tomorrow.
with osx/unix and linux you can just use rsync to back up everything across the network or wan.
you could build your own nas for a few hundred bucks...or buy a stock box from someone.
a lot better than wasting 100+ bucks on a burner and buying media every other week.
- snuggles0
I'm on hold with these fawkers as we speak, been on hold for the past 10 minutes!!!
- versa0
quick ?
is it better for drive lifespan, to keep an external backup drive always running, or copy and then power down
- rabattski0
no no no. forget the idea that burned media can't be fuct with. that's a downright lie. seriously. i've been working with computers for a really long time so i'm burning for a really long time and my older discs are getting more dropouts over time. i keep them safe, on some i have used a marker, on some don't. it's not 100% safe.
- r_gaberz0
okay I spent the last few hours trying to fix my drive and
GetDataBack from runtime.org seems to work.
recommened. If I can find a programm that can fix the partition
I'll tell you guys.Now comes the hard part... I have 200 Gigs of data but can only save 80 gigs :/
- toe_knee0
did you try taking the hard drive out of its case and put the drive directly into the computer then boot it as a slave? My lacie had the same problem and that worked