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My 1 year warranty was up in April. It's August 1st, and the drive is giving me cyclic redundancy check errors which I've read everywhere online to mean the drive is dead. This is the 2nd Lacie drive to do this (unfortunately I bought the 2nd drive before the 1st one broke), I won't be buying this brand again. They should spend less money on stupid "designed by" nonsense and more money on reliability, or at very least a more generous warranty.
I purchased this drive to replace another Lacie drive that imploded after 1.5 years of average use. I purhcased this Lacie drive in July of 07 and it has stopped working - now Jan 09. Sadly, I hadnt backed up my data in approximately 4 months and am now facing an "invasive recovery procedure" to get the data back. I'm not a heavy user of these drives. I use it for backup storage only. Total price for recovery if we decide to go ahead is $2000. Bottom line, after having two different Lacie drives perform well day to day - only to completely implode after about a year and a half - I would opt for another brand.
I took away one star because it doesn't have a power switch. It works fine, I think there is not much that can be said about a the external drives in this category.
This is a good external thus far. I bought it a year ago and its been on every day/night. No complaints.
My problem what I'm supposed to do with the 400+G of data I have remaining on this drive that I would like to keep in tact. At first I wasn't sure how this was happening or when it even occurred until I went to open the files affected, because the file appeared to still be there. About 2 months or so after purchasing this product I noticed that many files that I had been storing in it were getting zeroed out and leaving only the file icon with no data. They don't seem to have any suggestions for that that don't require spending at least another $100 or more. I finally realized when this was happening after one time when I restarted my compute and noticed I had 12G available on the drive due to it being such a significant change. I have had several other 5-10G losses since and am weary of turning my computer off anymore.When I inquired to LaCie about this issue they told me that I would need to reformat my drive and it should fix the problem. If I was trying to spend that much on a hard drive I would have done so in the first place. Now I'm going to take that $100+ and get a drive from a different manufacturer I guess and toss out this unreliable peice of junk.
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