Let's Kill LaCie?
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- ribit0
having a drive fail really shouldn't be a big deal if you have a decent backup strategy. You have two copies of the data after all? Why did you lose data?
(And if you want to keep your versioning history, use two drives... ideally in different locations in case the house burns down).
- formed0
Aren't average drives supposed to fail in 4-5 years anyway?
You are playing with fire if you rely on things past that.
- ribit0
You are playing with fire if you rely on any drive from day one. To be safe, you've got to assume that any of your drives will fail *today* with total data loss, and plan from there.
- ejectstudio0
Add me to this list, I was a die hard LaCie fan... couldn't ever choose another brand of hardrive. I've had so many issues over the past 5 years - I would never ever touch them again. LaCie have made me lose trust in saving data, I am constantly paranoid that I'm gonna lose date. So I purchased a Freecom x2 500GB RAID (1TB) 18 months ago.. worked really well... In the last week that has gone down and wont mount on anything... obviously I had them backed up also... So have now bought a 1TB Apple Time Capsule - which seems great... but running out of space already, so now looking at the Drobo Data Storage USB2.0/FireWire 800 + 4TB.. Seems like the best entry level robot for data.
- ejectstudio0
any one got a Drobo Data Storage unit?
- Gucci0
Alright. So if LaCie sucks and WD and Seagate are cunts....
What the bloody hell do you buy? Is there any reliable storage solution out there?
With bandwidth caps out there and rumblings of pay-per-use internet on the horizon – can online storage be the answer for long?- I've heard Glyph drives are great.homeostatic
- WD are pretty good. There are ratings for drives based on lots of testing. they really aren't that badribit
- But a mix of local backup and online is best. I'm using Mozy, JungleDisk (AmazonS3), and MobileMe.ribit
- Do you really think internet costs will get THAT bad?ribit
- I say it isn't going to get any cheaper. If the Com Corps out there get their way, they'll make up for lost revenue any way they canGucci
- they canGucci
- I've got 7 Maxtor externals, 3 or so internals. Nothing wrong over 6+ years (not all that old, I retire them after about 2)formed
- homeostatic0
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
- quamb0
FUCK lacie.
Drive just crashed on me. Clicking sound n all.
DO NOT BUY.
- Point50
I've got some underdog brand "Acomdata" that I bought years ago. Never had a problem. But, I have to admit that I am getting a bit paranoid now and I'm backing everything up to Backblaze.
- MSL0
Our 4 TB of LaCie drives have just decided not to boot (they turn on ok though), LaCie Support are saying its a power supply problem... Never buy a LaCie.
- desmo0
ive had my lacie drive since 2006. works fine.
its always off and i only turn it on when i need it. i never move it.
maybe you guys should stop using your drives in your juggling act or as footballs ;)
- ********0
Yeah lets run the french man over :)
Had two rugged lacies, never dropped & hardly moved.
Both burned out after less than a month!Mechanical parts make these HDs unstable.
Can't wait for 1TB flash memory!!
- formed0
All drives are susceptible to problems.
I'll stick with Maxtor, no problems with my 10 or so ext drives (also np with my Lacie laptop and WD laptop ext drives).
Backing up with RAID 0 just makes no sense to me.
- inv0
Bought this bad boy. No fancy smancy external hds with crap inside or stupid properitary raid solution. Just lots of disk mirrored.
- d_rek0
i'm running a seagate external drive for my backup hdd
I'll swear by seagate - in all the years i've been using them i've never (knock on wood) once had a problem with seagate.
I have had western digital drives fail left and right on me - some immediately after purchasing.
- doctor0
I had a LaCie d2 drive that died after 1 year, without warning.
- raf0
Are server grade drives worth it?
Also, just curious - have any of you had Apple Time Capsule drive die on you?
- bulletfactory0
I've had a LaCie drive for 4+ years - no problems.
I am however, going to back it up to DVDs when I get home.
- johndiggity0
jesus i am so scared now. i've been backing all my stuff up on to a 60gb lacie from 2002 that still seems to be working. a few months ago it wouldn't mount and i was freaking out. removed the housing and then put it back on and it magically mounted.
right now my only machine has a faulty logic board and i am backing shit up on a 7 year old drive. i feel so fucking stupid.
- Tungsten0
My Lacie external just started acting strange. Uploading to it is normal, but when I download files from it the transfer rate is super slow. Like 20 minutes for a 4mb file. Has this happen to anyone else? Is it getting ready to die?