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Lacie 500 d2 big disc???
I have a client who has brought in a stack of tapes he wants archived onto a USB2 ‘Lacie 500 d2 big disc’. When I try to set it up as a capture disc in Vidcap 6.0 it prompts me with ‘some disc management options may not work as expected. This feature is not configured properly.’ If you select details it says [Drive Letter:] will have poor performance. Got me this one. Have captured to heaps of USB2 drives for people and never seen this problem! Any ideas anyone? I also hear the Lacie drives can be a bit flakey, any confirmation on this anyone? TIA
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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does the person that brought you drive use a mac ?
check the type format of drive ?does this drive have 2 – 250gig drives in it ?
is it set up as a raid ?does your computer have USB 2 or USB 1 .. i just plugged in a USB 2 drive into one of my computers that is USB 1 and i get same message ..
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Hi D ~
Well yes I thought the same, is it Mac. No it wasn’t. It is a single 500gig disc with NTFS format, a Lacie d2 Big Disc HiSpeed USB2. Having nothing to loose I did a complete format on it and checked that it was plugged into a USB2 port, one that has been used heaps before with WD USB2 drives. Still the same problem. Swapped out USB the cable that came with it for a known good cable off another drive. Problem still exists. Looks like I will be asking him to come in with another drive. Sure as anything I don’t want to capture to my raid then transfer to his Lacie, fifteen hours of it, a real time killer. The strange thing is that in copying a large file to it from the raid it seems to be working as fast as most USB2 drives. I ran HDTach on it and it comes in at similar speeds to most single 7200rpm drives, around 32MB/s. Well down on the raid’s 110 average but I expected that. Got me beat!
Chris Young
Sydney
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