Reliable Firewire drives

[Bill Cheeseman]

on 2008-01-09 7:13 PM, Tom M.Blenko at blenko at martingalesystems.com wrote:

> I bought three LaCie drives in the past two years (2x500GB, 1x2TB). 2TB
> had to go back after about three months, turned out to be a power
> supply failure

After bad experiences with other manufacturers, I have used LaCie external
Firewire drives exclusively for several years. I'm very happy with them.

Two of my d2 drives appeared to have failed after a couple of years. I
happened to think to try switching the power cord/power brick from a good
drive to the "bad" drive, and it came right back to life. I ordered a new
power cord from LaCie for less than $20, and the drives have been fine ever
since.

My conclusion: LaCie drives are very good and very reliable, but they could
do a little better job with the power bricks.

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Bill Cheeseman - bill at cheeseman.name
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
www.quecheesoftware.com

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