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LaCie drive takes up smoking

by Bruce Ure at 23:34 26/12/08 (Blogs::Bruce)

Yes my LaCie 500-gig external USB 'Porsche-designed' hard drive has started emitting smoke.

Right in the middle of a backup (of it, not to it).

Smoke, proper smoke, coming out. All hot, like, and smokey. Ouch!

Merry Christmas.

LaCie drive takes up smoking	Bruce Ure - 23:34 26/12/08
Re: LaCie drive takes up smoking	David Crowson - 19:34 28/12/08
:( bummer, I had one of those too, it's also in the bin. I'd stick to the alu enclosed freecom jobbies, they seem to last forever and are fairly robust.... -- bombholio
Re: LaCie drive takes up smoking	Bruce Ure - 19:46 28/12/08
I recently got two Seagate 'XTreme' 1.5 TB drives as well, eSATA, USB & Firewire 400 all in one case. Fab, I thought, I can use them at full speed on the Mac Pro, and firewire or USB from the MacBook. Then within a fortnight they'd both started making the same ominous clicking noise and farting I/O errors at the console. So that's XTreme as in "XTremely irritating", then. And back they go. --
Re: LaCie drive takes up smoking	David Crowson - 13:48 29/12/08
and after this mornings spending of this months wages (to buy enough disks for a backup), my freecom stack has now gone over 12Tb . I'm just soo glad disk is cheap these days.... -- bombholio
Re: LaCie drive takes up smoking	Bruce Ure - 13:58 29/12/08
NOBODY needs that much porn Dave. :-)
Re: LaCie drive takes up smoking	David Crowson - 14:07 29/12/08
only a mere 23Gb of that is porn ;-p -- bombholio
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