LACIE BIG DISK EXTREME DRIVER

I want to work with the two separate disks with the current enclosure, so that I can experiment with things such as ZFS. Power adapters Posted by David at Apr 18, My drive works flawlessly with no loss of data! I took the cover off and tried powering the drives from my PC, this didnt work out, i guess the powersupply were more damaged than i thought. Sometimes it really is just the simple things Put some heatshrink tube on wires, soldered, then shrunk. Very recently the drive decided to start making some strange noises while struggling to start up.

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LaCie 500gb Big Disk Extreme With Triple Interface External Hard Drive ( 300794u )

I'd buy you a beer You made my day. So what was the solution in the end?

Needless to say, I am no longer impressed with LaCie. This post seems to have become the LaCie power supply support group: Unplug the adapter from the drive and it goes back exxtreme solid green.

This makes me wonder if my other LaCie drive that "Failed" a year ago had the same issue. Power adapters Posted by David at Apr 18, But I am paranoid about the thing going bad again, so no automatic back-ups; I only plug it in when I want to use it because I was told that sometimes when the power cord goes bad it can result in the loss of the drive itself.

The Lacie was running still, but not mounting. A cheap cordless phone died, too. Lacie has thoroughly earned my contempt at this point, and I wouldn't trust their drives further than a chipmunk could throw one LaCie Exgreme by girlgonehigh at Aug 19, RSS blog feed Atom blog feed.

If so, maybe we should move this question to Server Fault or Super User, where that's a recognised tag respectively: That was just last Friday. I noticed a few times before the failure that the cord would make a popping sound and this explains that. RSS blog feed Atom blog feed del.

Also at the back is a sturdy Kensington lock slot for ensuring that the drive stays next to your Mac. All worked well until bjg other day - won't power up at all. After what looked like a complete boot sequence light would go red. Shoddy workmanship Posted by g at Aug 09, I'll be checking the dis of the capacitors on my next inspection, but suffice it to say that Lacie is not in the market for loyal customers, but rather first time noobs such as I was, i.

I have tried and failed with the ubuntu boot - too much for my little brain to manage. The LaCie 1tb is back in action! Did changing the power supply fully fix the issue? Successfull "free" recovery Posted by Burner at Oct 24, LaCie Posted by agolbon at Jul 05, Against Not extrene speedy as expected.

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Can't thank everyone enough for all the info!! It shows in Devices and under Disk Management but has no letter assigned and won't let me click the option where I could add a letter Thanks if you can reply to this in the next year or so Now this is where the love of the internet comes into play. After a couple minutes I dropped the other drive in it and lcie both sounded as if they were doing something.

Posted by Cyril at Nov 02, There are days when you just have to say, "I fuckin' love the internets!!