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HardDisk Trouble
Grumblll. Like many others I happened to had a failing Hard Drive. I am lucky: I managed to get it working again, and at the time speaking, everything is being backupped onto another drive, after which the drive can die slow at the repair center.
Nothing's lost.
It was our main media disk (movies, music, series) connected to the Mac Mini: a beautiful Lacie Mini Hub.
I suspect the failure is due to the heat underneath the Mac Mini.
The thing is still under warranty, so except for the fact I'll need to run back and forth, I probably get a free repair.
Nevertheless, again I got worried about the 'back upping going down'. I musn't think of what would happen with me when my disks with pictures would die.
At this very moment, my MacBook Pro is 'TimeMachined' onto a Lacie 320gb drive.
All my pictures are stored on 2 500GB My Books, and all our movies and media were on the Lacie Mini Hub.
We bought an extra MyBook Mac for Media on the Mac Mini (as it seems we collect rather lots of series ;) )
A while ago I started looking for the perfect backup. Back then I gave up.
Today, while prices are more 'friendly' when talking about RAID, I glanced at the Lacie 2big Triple.
Plain ugly, but RAID and TimeMachine enabled.
Anyone has any experience with this or other affordable RAID systems? Please let me know in the comments.
Posted on April 30, 2008
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Since the beginning of this week my Lacie Brick 250 GB decided to give up after 10 months. The disk seems to be running fine, but Windows can’t find it. I’ve already replaced all cables and the power supply and tried to connect to other laptops but without any results. I hope it has something to do with the USB connector on the disk itself. I’m forced to screw open the drive and break the casing (nowadays the plastic casings use click methods instead of crews) to bypass the USB interface and connect straight to the 8 pin connector. Because when I send the drive back to Lacie they’re gonna format anyway before they start reparing. So I’ve got no choice, fix it myself and save my data and loosing guarantee or losing all my data and keeping guarantee. Anyways, this story doesn’t help you but I just want to point out that external hard drives are unreliable. A RAID drive would be a solution, but what I really want is backing up online. With the current limited upload speed of Telenet this is not possible so I might switch over to EDPnet. But still I’ll pay a lot for backing up 250GB… so I’ll likely buy two external disks (from two different brands) and mirror them. A RAID system is too expensive (and it’s heavy). I hope two disks will do the job too. Actually RAID systems are a combination of multiple disks… but you always have to carry them together with you. Not that I carried around the Lacie Brick that broke. It never left my house in 10 months! But still it’s broken. Shame on you Lacie!
Posted by Bart | April 30, 2008 4:44 PMStorage
> Fusion D500P E-SERIES : http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond500p-eseries.html
Backup soft
Posted by Geert | April 30, 2008 4:47 PM> Tri-BACKUP : http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
@Bart: indeed, Lacie always format your HD. I suspect them to format and check if everything runs, if not, they probably just replace the disk with a new one, as it is probably cheaper than finding the problem..
Posted by ine Dehandschutter | April 30, 2008 4:54 PMI know I am lucky I don't need to break the warranty. Or pay for data recovery.
(http://www.lacie.com/be/support/faq/faq.htm?faqid=10026 )
Anyhow, I don't think RAID is too expensive, as they offer a 1TB for 339 euro now (which is indeed the double I paid for 2 500gb MyBooks) For that you receive 500GB actual storage, but I always want my information on 2 disks, so That's about the same, without the need to be busy with duplicating everything myself...
When working on a desktop, backing up is something that happens automatically. But on a notebook, backing up is just a hassle. Thank God for Time Machine. Really.
I'd love to hear first hand about one of these once http://www.thedigitalstory.com/blog/2008/04/drobo_hard_drive_bac.html
Posted by kristof | April 30, 2008 6:10 PMI could successfully recover my data:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartclaeys/2462751424/
I don't think I'll buy Lacie disks any longer...
Posted by Bart | May 4, 2008 12:01 AM