I just received a new Lacie 1TB external hard drive in the mail today. This is the first time I have purchased a Lacie product. Are these things the real deal or is it just another drive? They look amazing and very compact but i want to be sure it's not just a cool looking drive...

[url]http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11062[/url]

Any opinions are much appreciated...thanks!

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i had a couple of Lacie drives which are less than a year old that died on us at work recently .. might be just bad luck or mere coincidence but compared to HDDs that i have running at home for a long time i would say their failure rate is kinda high imo

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[QUOTE=Steve Graham;673600]tigerdirect.com

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This is what you swear by, Steve?

I found some rather negative chatter about the Lacie drive in question so I am returning it. I can't afford to lose everything on one drive...

Thanks for the recommendation!

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a video editor exec just lost her lacie 1tb.. what a piece of shit.

I used to think they were superior, but its still just a crummy hdd in a shiny metal case.

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LaCie is just a case manufacturer. The quality of the product depend 100% of the HDD that is inside. Years ago, they were using Seagate (and my firewire 60Gb is still running), but now it seems that they use Maxtor in all their products (I also have a 1TB LaCie).

So, if you just need a big disk to do your backup then disconnect it and put it back in a drawer until next backup, I would say it's ok. If you look for a secure way to save data and have access to it all the time, then look for a RAID1 or 5 device.

But in any case, if it's sensitive data, [u]never[/u] trust any harddrive. Makes backups.

edit: ho yes, and format it in something else that the old clumsy fat32 ;)

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Sorry to get basic on you Santa, but can you explain what a RAID1 or 5 is? Much appreciated!

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Raid 1 is mirroring, so you need 2 harddisk and one is a copy of the other. If one blow, you replace it and you're ready to go. You only see one of them, the copy to the other is transparent. Down side: you can only use 50% of the total amount as 1 is a copy of the other. Raid 5 is stripping your data. State of the art, it need 4 harddisks and it distribute on all of them bits of your stuff, while always put on another disk the checksum of what it has written. That mean that if you have like 4x250GB harddisks, you see them as a unique disk of 800 GB. If one of the disk blow, you just put a new one, the raid recalculate all the data (on some of them, it's even transparent, so you don't loose time to do it). Down side: You need 4 disks to be optimal, some cards don't support differents size and always use the minimum. I'm also keeping an eye on the Drobo, as it's a stand alone box and don't need a whole computer to run, as opposite to RAID cards. But cards are cheaper.

If mirroring is ok for you, and you need an external device because you use a laptop, maybe the Linksys NAS200 is for you.

It's really depending on what you want to do with that disk and the architecture of your network. ;)

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i'm using one of these babies :)

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[QUOTE=Santa;674119]Raid 1 is mirroring, so you need 2 harddisk and one is a copy of the other. If one blow, you replace it and you're ready to go. You only see one of them, the copy to the other is transparent. Down side: you can only use 50% of the total amount as 1 is a copy of the other. Raid 5 is stripping your data. State of the art, it need 4 harddisks and it distribute on all of them bits of your stuff, while always put on another disk the checksum of what it has written. That mean that if you have like 4x250GB harddisks, you see them as a unique disk of 800 GB. If one of the disk blow, you just put a new one, the raid recalculate all the data (on some of them, it's even transparent, so you don't loose time to do it). Down side: You need 4 disks to be optimal, some cards don't support differents size and always use the minimum. I'm also keeping an eye on the Drobo, as it's a stand alone box and don't need a whole computer to run, as opposite to RAID cards. But cards are cheaper.

If mirroring is ok for you, and you need an external device because you use a laptop, maybe the Linksys NAS200 is for you.

It's really depending on what you want to do with that disk and the architecture of your network. ;)[/QUOTE]

thanks for taking the time to explain this for me Santa!

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You're welcome. I needed my message counter to go up a bit... Haven't write that much in 4 years :D

And if you wonder about Corven's box, JBOD means Just a Bunch Of Disks. It's not secure but allow you to put several disks in it and see them as a single harddisk on your computer.

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^^ it depends on the number of bays on the enclosure and because its JBOD and raid on the same enclosure its easily customizable .. you could raid the 2 bays into 1 drive and a backup or u could use it as 2 separate drives and its easy swappable with a pin so if one of the drives is full in a JBOD configuration you could easily just take it out and swap with a new HDD

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I'd prefer to see both discs separately instead of seeing them as a "big" one... Btw, RAID1 or RAID5 is the only way to go if you want to protect your data...

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iirc, in RAID1, if you lose 1 drive, both drives will fail because of how RAID1 mirrors the data.

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oof! Expecting this delivered today.

Good news...mad low price ($159 shipped - 25% Cashback from MSLive/Ebay)

Bad news...these drives tend to have a good sized firmware problem (SD17). Apparently disabling write cache or partitioning <1TB prevents this (drive will "freeze" because of the write cache, then come back OK...rendering it useless for streaming media basically).

I'll cross my fingers...many problems came from what I've read because of RAID setups, controllers, etc. Mine's just a lowly single for the main system. Quite frankly, I've only had like 2-3 HD's fail on me over the past 12 years...and I've used all the brands practically.

I'll just copy data and let it all run together for a while, before cleaning the other drives off....got a cooler for this thing too waiting, as they also generate a nice bit of heat.

Total amount of storage space now: 3.6 TB :shock:

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dang Matt.... 3.6 T, I'm upto 1.3 TB right now and about to dive into another 1 TB Western Digital (replacing a shitty 200 gb Drive), total storage will become 2.1 TB

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i have 3.3TB right now and probably am getting another 2TB soon

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dang you guys.....

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I'm interested in getting larger drives to condense all of mine but damn them all for still running strong. My storage box has 6 x 250GB and this box has 2 x 750GB, 1 x 74GB and 1 x 500GB while I have a stack of about 16 drives ranging from 80GB to 250GB sitting next to my desk. Weee!

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a buddy of mine asked me for some music for his house, he bought a 1TB Lacie for me to copy onto, I've never heard an external drive make so much noise, what a nuisance.

** I'm a Seagate Free Agent HD user all the way, I recommend them to everyone, I have 3 (1 TB externals) and a 500GB SATA internal drive as well, never an issue with any of them.

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I have always been a seagate and buffalo fan myself.

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[QUOTE=fabric8;682638]** I'm a Seagate Free Agent HD user all the way, I recommend them to everyone, I have 3 (1 TB externals) and a 500GB SATA internal drive as well, never an issue with any of them.[/QUOTE]

I just bought a 1 TB external Seagate for $169. A Seagate First for me.

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[quote=Fez Up;682762]I just bought a 1 TB external Seagate for $169. A Seagate First for me.[/quote]

nice choice Fezmeister, you'll be real happy, a couple of nice gizmos you picked up recently, enjoy the toys brother

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yea I just had my 5th year anniversary and the mrs. loaded me up with some good gifts :)

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[QUOTE=Kamal;677523]iirc, in RAID1, if you lose 1 drive, both drives will fail because of how RAID1 mirrors the data.[/QUOTE]

Kamal is this really true? I am ready to purchase 2 external Seagate drives, but I re-read this thread again and found the quote above...

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I saw some 1.5TB drives going for $129 now. Jesus!

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Quoting from wikipedia's raid article ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks):[/url]

* RAID 1 (mirrored settings/disks) could be described as a real-time backup solution. Two (or more) disks each store exactly the same data, at the same time, and at all times. Data is not lost as long as one disk survives. Total capacity of the array is simply the capacity of one disk. At any given instant, each disk in the array is simply identical to every other disk in the array.

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well I finally broke down and bought two of these puppies:

Seagate FreeAgent XTreme ST310005FPA2E3-RK 1TB 7200 RPM Black External Hard Drive - Retail Item #: N82E16822148352

Hopefully they do the job for me...fingers crossed.