Does it crash as fast as all other LaCie drives as well?

If you use LaCie, ALWAYS have a backup on another brand’s drive. LaCie drives make up about 35% of all failed externals, yet have about 4% of the market.

Does it crash as fast as all other LaCie drives as well?

Wow, 2 Mac users, 2 very different opinions. I myself have never had a problem with LaCie drives, been using them in Audio Production for years.

Now, iomega, they die on me. Well not the HDD’s them selves but I have had a nightmare with their power supplies and especially their Controller boards.

But who knows. Different reigns, different drives? Power quality? Lots of variables.

Wow, 2 Mac users, 2 very different opinions. I myself have never had a problem with LaCie drives, been using them in Audio Production for years.

Now, iomega, they die on me. Well not the HDD’s them selves but I have had a nightmare with their power supplies and especially their Controller boards.

But who knows. Different reigns, different drives? Power quality? Lots of variables.

Call up Flatirons Data Recovery or Drive Savers and ask them! And same as Iomega, it’s almost always the power supplies and bridge boards.

Never seen a LaCie drive fail. Not a single one out of the half-dozen the USB/FW bus-powered drives I’ve been abusing for >6 years—toting them around, shipping them back & forth between offices, letting them sit for a year or more in unprotected conditions, leaving them in a hot car for days on end loaning out to users to take on their travels… Not one has ever hiccupped, let alone failed.  Out of the dozens of LaCie drives we’ve bought for the agency over the last 16 years—not one has crashed in service.

I don’t know what official at the US Bureau of Miscellaneous Information provided MyRightEye with that 35% figure, but it clearly didn’t come from Real Experience. Come on! Think for 3 seconds about how that figure could possibly be compiled. Where and by whom would data on every single external drive failure be collected? Right—it wouldn’t be.

Good try - but my figures DO come from “Real Experience”.

Water. Bucket. “LaCie, let me get that for you”.

I don’t see a significant speed benefit for external drives.

I have never had an issue with a LaCie drive unit, although I have had the drives fail. However my oldest LaCie that I did replace a hard drive in it is 21 years old and all of 80mb.

I’ve had the power unit fail jsut out of warranty for every LaCie Drive I have ever purchased (4).

Then I gave up.

I appreciate your milage may vary but my experiance means I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole