250GB F.A. Porsche External Hard Driv
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- dr_strangelove
I just bought a 250 gb lacie porsche external hard drive. But my friends are telling me they fail after a year. Anybody have any experience with this?
- jpowell0
i had an 80gb. took it back and forth from work like everyday, and it held up for a year...
- Nairn0
I'm about 6 months into mine...
...I'll tell you in another 6.
- cram0
i know several folks with them... no problems.
i have seen a lot of problems with the smartdisk hard drives though.
- ********0
I'm about a year into mine...
... I'll tell you next week
*runs out to buy 50 dvd's for backing it up
- brundlefly0
my lacie has been with me since late 2002, still cooking with gas.
- mirrorball0
How weird!!
Read my thread below "EXT Hardrive Fooked"
The Hardyrive thats fooked is a Smartdisk 160gb and me new hardrive is 250gb LACIE FA PORSCHE
Hope to hell the PORSCHE dosn't fook up after two years!!!
- Pinkmaggit0
I hear the porsches are alright, though I have heard of a few failing also. i hear the 1 and 1.5TB enclosures are set up poorly and prone to fail.
- horton0
i've got an old 80 gb Lacie ext FW still serving me well.. 2002 i'm guessing.
but i think disks in general are becoming less and less reliable. doesn't matter whether they're external or not... they keep getting bigger and at the same time we're demanding more out of them. something has got give.
the original 5GB Maxtor in my old G3 box (now an itunes jukebox) is still spinning solid.. going on 6 years now.
- ********0
mine is holding up okay, been using it about a year now without problems
- mirrorball0
Here peeps
do you have your ext hardrive on all the time your working by your computer?
- horton0
no i only use for backup.. and as an emergency OSX clone / 2nd startup disk.
- Cactus0
Just about a year now and no problems so far.
*crosses fingers
- _me_0
had one for more than 2.5yrs.....
all good, infact, its just bloody lovely... even just to look at....
true story...
my wife once said, " i wish they made toasters that looked like that"....
..probably funny only to _me_