My nightmares with LaCie products ended when I ceased purchasing them. I had to have the power supply replaced several times on one Big Disk, and then the logic board failed completely, taking all my data with it.
All drives eventually fail for one reason or another. Internal drives die, external drives die, external cases die and external power supplies die. I'm sure each of us has our own horror stories and anecdotal evidence that one company or another is worse than the rest. I remember when my company got a bad batch of WD external drives. We lost 4 of them in a month, but others won't use anything but WD.
What I can't set aside about the LaCie power supply issue is that it went on for so long, ages, with new drives still shipping with bad PS's, long after it was clearly established many people were getting stuck with them. Maybe still for all I know, though I assume not. I stopped paying any attention to them after my two bad power supplies.
I've have drives die on me, sure. Gotten DOAs. But faulty power supplies are a no brainer to remedy at the source. Don't need to question a thousand things about what could have caused a mechanism to crash, including the user. It's a power supply. It doesn't work. If your supplier sends you bad ones get a new supplier. Don't keep packaging the bad ones with your drives.
When it says the Fuel dive will create its own wifi does that mean a local connect that works independent of any modem/ router setup... Say in a car? If so, buying this with a 16gb model device offers 16 times the storage for the same price as a 64gb model... With the only draw back being a second object to keep in your bag or briefcase.
I've had plenty of Lacie hard drives, and still do. However, a few years ago, I started buying Seagate drives, as they were cheaper where I was. Well after 3 Seagate's dying, and their usb3 base locking up my Mac constantly, I threw my Seagate's away and went back to Lacie.
I have personally had 2 Lacie power supplies fail on me in 2 drives, and I did have to replace them with $30 replacements from Lacie. That was several years ago, and I decided not to purchase from them again, usually getting drives from OWC (and by the way, OWC has a nice power supply that replaces burned out LaCie supplies here at slightly less cost: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ELITE4SAUS/). Last week I was reading through some posts at Ric Ford's Macintouch site, and someone there also recently complained about LaCie power supplies failing on them. I think this is not a high frequency event, but it isn't unheard of, and in my case, 2 of the 3 drives I purchased from Lacie failed, high enough for me to say "enough". ymmv….
I'll vouch for experience with failing Lacie power supplies. We lost 4 or 5 of them in a year out of about 7 LaCie.
However, that was a few years back -- so I don't know if they've cleaned up their power supply issue or not.
I've had plenty of Lacie hard drives, and still do. However, a few years ago, I started buying Seagate drives, as they were cheaper where I was. Well after 3 Seagate's dying, and their usb3 base locking up my Mac constantly, I threw my Seagate's away and went back to Lacie.
What will you do in a couple of months when LaCie becomes Seagate
I have neither a Lacie nor a Time Capsule but am leaning towards purchasing a Time Capsule. Christopher126 or anyone who has experience with the Time Capsule, could you please highlight some Pros and Cons for the Time Capsule? Plus, I'd really like to know if we saved data is password protected in the Time Capsule? Also, can data be saved as different users or everything is jumbled together?
Comments
I've have drives die on me, sure. Gotten DOAs. But faulty power supplies are a no brainer to remedy at the source. Don't need to question a thousand things about what could have caused a mechanism to crash, including the user. It's a power supply. It doesn't work. If your supplier sends you bad ones get a new supplier. Don't keep packaging the bad ones with your drives.
I have personally had 2 Lacie power supplies fail on me in 2 drives, and I did have to replace them with $30 replacements from Lacie. That was several years ago, and I decided not to purchase from them again, usually getting drives from OWC (and by the way, OWC has a nice power supply that replaces burned out LaCie supplies here at slightly less cost: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ELITE4SAUS/). Last week I was reading through some posts at Ric Ford's Macintouch site, and someone there also recently complained about LaCie power supplies failing on them. I think this is not a high frequency event, but it isn't unheard of, and in my case, 2 of the 3 drives I purchased from Lacie failed, high enough for me to say "enough". ymmv….
I'll vouch for experience with failing Lacie power supplies. We lost 4 or 5 of them in a year out of about 7 LaCie.
However, that was a few years back -- so I don't know if they've cleaned up their power supply issue or not.
I've had plenty of Lacie hard drives, and still do. However, a few years ago, I started buying Seagate drives, as they were cheaper where I was. Well after 3 Seagate's dying, and their usb3 base locking up my Mac constantly, I threw my Seagate's away and went back to Lacie.
What will you do in a couple of months when LaCie becomes Seagate
What will you do in a couple of months when LaCie becomes Seagate
Never buy from them again. Thanks for the heads-up; Seagate is Samsung in my book.
I have neither a Lacie nor a Time Capsule but am leaning towards purchasing a Time Capsule. Christopher126 or anyone who has experience with the Time Capsule, could you please highlight some Pros and Cons for the Time Capsule? Plus, I'd really like to know if we saved data is password protected in the Time Capsule? Also, can data be saved as different users or everything is jumbled together?
Thanks.