LACIE brick drive
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- traut
I have a LACIE [lego] brick drive
it seems to have died or has a loose connection i want to open it but theres no screws anywhere not even under the footpadsanyone opened one of these before ???
- locustsloth0
The LaCie porsche drives are similar (no screws) and you have to slide a flat head screwdriver in between the side of the casing on the bottom and GENTLY pry the op of the case off.
i'm gonna guess that the firewire bridge is kaput (i've had it happen a couple of times). Just buy a replacement drive case MacAlly has them, i thnk) and put the drive into it.
- MrOneHundred0
Thanks for the tip. We have one here and it gave up the ghost last week.
- If the drive sounds like it's spinning up, but doesn't mount, it's probably the bridgelocustsloth
- traut0
ya i just popped the back off using an exacto and lots of patience
- acescence0
they don't want you to know there's just a squirrel inside with a pad and pencil. he's just sleeping, shake it a bit and he will wake up.
- funkage0
I was contemplating on getting one, but I now have third thoughts.
- The porsche dries are fairly good for the price. Not many problems with them (*knock on wood)locustsloth
- Not many problems? I was hoping for none. Maybe I'm naive.funkage
- acescence0
every time lacie comes up, i must relate my experience of buying a whole bunch of them and having them all fail in less than a year. and there it is again.
- Right there with you on that one.MrOneHundred
- Okay. I'm definitely not getting one. I think.funkage
- locustsloth0
The studio i work at has about 20 of them, with active data on them and they've only one or two problems over the course of 2 or 3 years
- Not that i'm saying they're fail-proof. You can certainly a lot get better with more moneylocustsloth
- Back those suckers up RIGHT NOW. < that statement will almost guarantee a drive failure.MrOneHundred
- forcetwelve0
ive had a lacie 2big and a mini ethernet drives and they've been great.
- meok0