Spent LaCie's

My GTech 1tb RAID fell off my desk, made a huge crashing noise then re-started without so much as a whimper of pain and life went on. On my desk I have just noticed a row of LaCie drives all awaiting recycling.

lacie is the drive you get when you want to see what a bad drive is like.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

I've kept my useless burned out LaCie as a reminder never to buy another.

DK

Strange. I own nothing but G-Techs and have had nothing but trouble with all of them. Nevertheless I continue to buy G-Tech drives.

I wonder if this is part of a huge brainwashing operation and if I am the only one who always, out of the six that I own, has one of them going back to G-Tech about every 4 months.

Harry

Harry Bromley-Davenport.

at least its not a lacie, harry

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

Another opinion: I primarily use G-Tech Drives - they have been good to me - 1 failure out of about 60. LaCie? Third awaiting data recovery out of SIX. Also, the G-Drive guys were on it in helping me to recover data. LaCie? They don't do recovery at all ... only replacement. I would concur with the avoid LaCie idea ...

Troy

My row of LaCie's look like the mothball Soviet naval fleet in Vladivostok.

I just had my first LaCie dying on me after 5 years of good services.

I wonder if it is the drive inside or the enclosure's connection (bridge) ... power plug ?

which one is more often faulty in your experience ?

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A Day late & a Dollar-short Productions

> I wonder if it is the drive inside or the enclosure's connection (bridge) ... power plug?

I think a good number of people in here have named the enclosure as the problem. While Lacies have tended to use poor-quality drives inside (Maxtors), a lot of people have mentioned taking a dead Lacie, extract the drive, couple it with another enclosure and make it work again.


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So I will try to bring back to life one of them (enclosure or drive)

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A Day late & a Dollar-short Productions

We have had luck with changing the enclosure ...

Troy Christian

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Case for sure; one student's LaCie went dead-- simply wouldn't spin up-- because she'd stored it in her car trunk between sessions and hadn't insulated it for shock. The case was opened and the terminals reconnected-- they'd been shaken loose.

I think that qualifies as abuse. I wouldn't expect any drive to work under those conditions.

- Loren
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I knew Loren would be in here sooner or later brandishing his "User error kills LaCies...LaCies don't kill LaCies" weapon Your student must have been doing a lot of 4-wheeling in the mountains to shake it that hard, Loren

I was rummaging around the attic pulling out the Christmas decorations and came across an old dead D2 - 120 Gigger in it's box. It's loaded with work from years ago...never tried to take it apart & revive the drives. Made me laugh. The only error this user made with this unit was purchasing it. That was my last LaCie...which is why I keep it...to REMEMBER

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Reminds me of my sister's favourite joke.

Why do elephants drink?
To forget.