Lacie hardrives

opie · Post by **opie** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:30 pm

After reading sooo much positive feedback on lacie hardrives, I decided that I should own one too. However, dealing with it has been a never ending source of frustation. Many tries at sending files to the hardrive for back up have met no success. I getting "error F/:blah blah symbol blah has failed to write. This might be a problem with your computer!" I havn't had problems recording to it, but have lost an important mix and an overdub session saving them to the lacie and then trying to bring them up later to find that they were only accessible as transport only? and would not play, so I have stopped recording to it. Could this be a problem with the lacie or could it be something wrong with my computer or possibly my firewire bus/card? I'm sure that it would be tough to know unless someone has dealt with this issue before, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Wayne

mertmo · Post by **mertmo** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:54 pm

Are you on windows? I have one of those "porche" lacie drives and it is
absolute junk. I've had negative experiences with 3 different "porche" drives that
my friends own and they all suck. Mine was acting similar, not allowing me
to back up to it anymore (I stopped trying to record on in long ago).

Recently I just ran the windows drive fix-it program, it took about an hour
and a half, but it did fix a bunch of problems and now the drive acts
normally (so far). I fully expect it to suck again in the near future. As soon
as I can afford a new firewire drive to back up to, this thing is getting
launched out the car window at very high speed...

PS, also, to get my drive to mount I have to go behind it and wiggle the FW cable just so. Sometimes I have spent 20 minutes doing this before the
drive would even come up...
Lacie "porche" drives =

chris ryan · Post by **chris ryan** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:14 pm

mertmo wrote:Are you on windows? I have one of those "porche" lacie drives and it is
absolute junk. I've had negative experiences with 3 different "porche" drives that
my friends own and they all suck. Mine was acting similar, not allowing me
to back up to it anymore (I stopped trying to record on in long ago).

Recently I just ran the windows drive fix-it program, it took about an hour
and a half, but it did fix a bunch of problems and now the drive acts
normally (so far). I fully expect it to suck again in the near future. As soon
as I can afford a new firewire drive to back up to, this thing is getting
launched out the car window at very high speed...

PS, also, to get my drive to mount I have to go behind it and wiggle the FW cable just so. Sometimes I have spent 20 minutes doing this before the
drive would even come up...
Lacie "porche" drives =

ditto for me as well. i will never use another lacie product.

asw.3060 · Post by **asw.3060** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:40 pm

i've had 3 lacie d2 drives die on me. i'll never use them again.

-asw-

wrenhunter · Post by **wrenhunter** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:10 pm

I have their Mac Mini drive, and it's totally solid.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:30 pm

160GB Lacie D2 used almost daily for recording audio on location and for bckups since Feb 2006 100% solid. Also, three 250GB Lacie D2 drives used every day for graphic design and backups since July of last year 100% solid. Different power supplies between all four drives and no problems.

I also have lots of friends who use Lacie drives with Macs and who have had zero problems.

But things do happen. I'm not saying I'm just saying.

Jeff

opie · Post by **opie** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:22 pm

Thanks for the replies. I actually have jiggled the cord a bit when things have shut off and sometimes that has worked mertmo. Usually after a melt down and my computer no longer recongized it. I will have to try the window drive fix it and see if that works, although I should have paid attention to some of the negative comments about lacie I read on this board before I maid my purchase.
Thanks.

these_go211 · Post by **these_go211** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:12 am

i have the 160GB lacie D2 as well, on a mac, and i've never had any difficulties. but i hear about how these drives are supposedly not reliable.

dsw · Post by **dsw** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:58 pm

When its my turn to be king, spinning hard drives will go bye bye faster than a frat boys sobriety. ALL hard drives die someday. They ALL do. They just aren't built to last forever. The hope is that you move on to a new one before they do go down.
Solid state memory is where its at and I for one can't f'n wait for real big solid state memory and a computer with nothing that spins.
*gets off soap box and bows*

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:39 pm

just had a D2 show up with a client today... DOA out of the box. Excellent.

John

joel hamilton · Post by **joel hamilton** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:58 pm

I have been using an 80 gig lacie D2 drive almost every single day since 2003.
The porche ones are useless. completely. except the small pocket drive sized ones with the 5400rpm drive mechanism, beause they dont heat up as much as the big ones, and I dont leave it mounted for more than the length of the xfer....

If you have all your shit on only one drive, ANY one drive, you are asking for the inevitable.

I backup. a lot. for certain things I will back up between songs, for other things I backup nightly. Not any single drive is worthy of projects. ANY 3 drives are worthy though.

mertmo · Post by **mertmo** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:14 pm

now the drive acts normally (so far)

...yeah RIGHT! Tonight I hooked it up for only the second time since I "fixed" it, and it had been mounted for maybe 20 seconds and the whole system crashed and gave me the blue screen of death. AAAHHH! I seriously had to restrain myself from throwing the f*cking thing right into the wall.

I have noticed that these drives do seem to work better on macs.

And Joel speaks the truth about being backed up redundantly, that is a must.

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