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sunday
Would you guys use a Lacie as a now and again backup drive - so not constant
use
thinking of heat etc
use
thinking of heat etc
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Odie Ferrous
sunday said:
NO. Their units tend to have no active cooling, their drives are
stuffed tightly into a compact space, and they use inferior drives such
as Maxtor or Western Digital.
You're asking for trouble with LaCie. They are the commonest external
drives I receive for recovery. *ALL* related to heat problems.
Get yourself a generic (unbranded) case (with fan cooling) and buy the
drives (Seagate) separately.
You'll retain the 5-year warranty on the drives, and chances are you'll
have an infinitely better setup.
Odie
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sunday
ok - i'll take that as a hint then
thanks for the feedback
pity they didnt get porsche to design the insides as well
thanks for the feedback
pity they didnt get porsche to design the insides as well
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Arno Wagner
Previously Odie Ferrous said:
Why am I not surprised? Image everything. Quality is nothing.
Buy, sheep, buy!
Putting a Maxtor disk in a badly cooled case virtually ensures trouble.
I second that. I do this with samsung drives and passively cooled
enclosures from Agrosy, but I don't put high load on the drives and
check temperature regularly. No unattended operation either. For
best reliability definitely go with a fab coolde one.
Arno
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Arno Wagner
Previously sunday said:
Typical. One other company where I had this effect is Sony. I had a
nice (or so I thought) SR11k VAIO notebook. Very good keyboard. very
good display. Sleek looks. Only it self-destructed after 2 years of
light use by overheating its chipset. (It went in stages. At the
end I could get it to work opened and fanned manually. Had to.)
Before that the PCMCIA slot became unusable since it was not propperly
mounted. And putting in an other disk required removal of some
mounting from the touch-pad.
Either gross incompetence in the designers or intent. For a $3000
machine that is entirely unaccepteble. They will not get my
business again, ever.
Arno
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Aidan Karley
One of my colleagues has had to cross this bridge himself. Lacie
are a no-no for him too. Same as "DisGo" for me when it comes to USB
memory sticks.
F
Fabien LE LEZ
I wouldn't buy any Lacie products, but for reasons that are kinda
off-topic here:
In December 2004, I wanted to buy a good 19" CRT monitor. So I bought
a Lacie.
First disappointment when I received it: it was exactly the same as a
Mitsubishi, only two or three times more expensive.
Second disappointment: it didn't work properly: the sides were
brighter than the center. Of course, I tested it on two different PCs
(one with a ATI and one with a nVidia), and tried every fine-tuning I
could think of. So I know for sure the monitor was defective.
[BTW, the Mitsubishi I bought at the same time for the office, had the
same tube, but without the defect.]
I shipped it back to Lacie, and they sent me another monitor. Which
had the same problem.
I shipped it back to Lacie, and they sent me a third monitor. Which
had the same problem.
According to what a Lacie technician told me, it seems that they have
no way of testing the monitors before shipping them!
After four months or so, I managed to get a refund.
Meanwhile, I bought a 200-EUR LG Flatron, which seems to be the
cheapest and the best 19" CRT monitor at that time.
Back to the subject, I know for sure I don't want to have anything to
do with Lacie any more.
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Aidan Karley
Which says that they're box-shifters. Doesn't surprise me.Fabien LE LEZ said:
I'll tell Robin that his campaign to drive them into bankruptcy
has another member, or fellow-traveller.
J
jtur
Arno said:
<cut earlier messages, for brevity>
Hello, Arno:
I've never been a Sony fan, either. Highly overrated, in my opinion!
Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>
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Arno Wagner
Indeed. And look at the mess they have created now for Dell and
Apple with their exploding batteries. Another company the world
would be better off without.
Arno