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Re: PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!! LaCie External Hard drive is making odd sounds

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Re: PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!! LaCie External Hard drive is making odd sounds
by Paolo Ciccone on Mar 31, 2008 at 3:31:16 pm

In my experience LaCie drives fail with in credible frequency. I had 3 drives fail out of 4 and that is not a good sign. With multiple interfaces you can try to see if the drive is accessible via the FW 400 or USB port . Sometimes one port gets fried but the others will be fine.
My advice is to use the laCie drives for something that is not important, like render files. After the last failure, which costed me footage and photos and happened abou 6 months after the drive was purchased, I switched to the FirmTek SATA enclosure. Not only I can control the quality of the drives that I use, LaCie seems to use some of the cheapest drives in the market, but I can swap them with ease and they are much faster than FW disks.
Take a look at www.firmtek.com




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Paolo Ciccone http://www.paolociccone.com
Hellriser Digital
Santa Cruz, CA


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