lacie drives

[Chris]

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I was thinking about purchasing a lacie firewire drive so I can transfer dv
directly to drive. I will be using the windows xp os. I liked the idea of
being able to take the drive to any workstation in different locations. Any
bad things to look for with this drive?

 

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"Chris" <beakor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I was thinking about purchasing a lacie firewire drive so I can transfer dv
> directly to drive. I will be using the windows xp os. I liked the idea of
> being able to take the drive to any workstation in different locations. Any
> bad things to look for with this drive?
>
>

I bought a lacie 160gb usb2 drive, and I'm quite sorry I did. I can copy to it
for about a half hour, during which time, it gets so hot I can barely touch it.
After that half hour or so, the writes start failing. If I power it down and
let it cool, it's OK again [or seems to be anyway], though even when not writing
to it, it gets hotter than I feel good about if left powered. I have never had
this much of a heat-up problem with maxtor external drives nor even with brand-x
enclosures that I have filled with raw maxtor drives. Bottom line, while it is
a nice 'looking' design, I sure don't see any accommodation for thermal
dissipation -- nor is there any apparent accommodation for positioning it
'vertically' [there are no feet or ridges except on the bottom -- again, unlike
most other external drives].

 

[Dave]

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"SamSez" <samtheman@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Chris" <beakor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:RC_Xc.54298$yh.11597@fed1read05...
>> I was thinking about purchasing a lacie firewire drive so I can transfer
>> dv
>> directly to drive. I will be using the windows xp os. I liked the idea
>> of
>> being able to take the drive to any workstation in different locations.
>> Any
>> bad things to look for with this drive?
>>
>>
>
> I bought a lacie 160gb usb2 drive, and I'm quite sorry I did. I can copy
> to it
> for about a half hour, during which time, it gets so hot I can barely
> touch it.
> After that half hour or so, the writes start failing. If I power it down
> and
> let it cool, it's OK again [or seems to be anyway], though even when not
> writing
> to it, it gets hotter than I feel good about if left powered. I have
> never had
> this much of a heat-up problem with maxtor external drives nor even with
> brand-x
> enclosures that I have filled with raw maxtor drives. Bottom line, while
> it is
> a nice 'looking' design, I sure don't see any accommodation for thermal
> dissipation -- nor is there any apparent accommodation for positioning it
> 'vertically' [there are no feet or ridges except on the bottom -- again,
> unlike
> most other external drives].

Sam,
You didn't say if you bought a d2-model drive or not. I have two of them
(both Firewire) and I don't have the same heat problems that you had. Also,
there IS a provision for vertical mounting with the d2's as they have a
heavy metal "foot" that slides into the slot on the side of the drive
thereby allowing you to stand it on its end. I have my DVD burner and a 160
gig d2 mounted in an equipment rack using Lacie's rackmounting kit. I'm
planning to buy more of them, btw.

dave

>
>

 

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"Dave" <davemor@knology.net> wrote in message
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> Sam,
> You didn't say if you bought a d2-model drive or not. I have two of them
> (both Firewire) and I don't have the same heat problems that you had. Also,
> there IS a provision for vertical mounting with the d2's as they have a
> heavy metal "foot" that slides into the slot on the side of the drive
> thereby allowing you to stand it on its end. I have my DVD burner and a 160
> gig d2 mounted in an equipment rack using Lacie's rackmounting kit. I'm
> planning to buy more of them, btw.
>
> dave
>

I'm not familiar with what a 'd2' model is. There is not much text on the
original packing box '... design by fa porsche ... 160GB USB 2.0 hard drive ...
1.4 x 4.4 x 7.4 in ... etc', but nothing that looks like a model number. The
upc number is 093053307004. It is a very small silver box and has no aux foot
[nor is there a slot on the side of the drive]. The box looks like metal, but
feels like plastic. And it gets REAL hot. I'm planning not to buy more of
them -- for sure...

 

[jaco]

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Chris a écrit :

> I was thinking about purchasing a lacie firewire drive so I can transfer dv
> directly to drive. I will be using the windows xp os. I liked the idea of
> being able to take the drive to any workstation in different locations. Any
> bad things to look for with this drive?
>
>
I have an external Firewire Lacie 160 Gb drive, work well but very noisy.
I have another external Firewire Maxtor 250 Gb drive work well silently.

 

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"Chris" <beakor@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message news:
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> I was thinking about purchasing a lacie firewire drive so I can transfer
dv
> directly to drive. I will be using the windows xp os. I liked the idea
of
> being able to take the drive to any workstation in different locations.
Any
> bad things to look for with this drive?
>
>

Two years ago I bought a Lacie d2 160Gb with firewire. After 6 months it had
a switch failure; took 1 month to repair it; 2 months later same problem: an
other month without external HDD; when it came back the power-pack was
missing: an other month. BTW they did not charge for the repairs nor for the
power-pack.

Since couple of months the disk makes a funny noise ! but still working.



Problem with this d2 unit is the automatic/manual on-off switch: if this
unit is connected to the PC alone no problem; but if you try to kook-up
other stuff like a second HDD and/or DVD burner then you have to start every
thing before starting the PC otherwise the start of the second unit will
turn down the Lacie and you get a nasty message from the system; if you
turn-off the burner the Lacie goes off too !



In an other word I do not recommend the Lacie d2