lacie fw800 raid

[Bob Zelin]

Lacie should have their own forum on Cow.

Bob Zelin

[Paul Lee]

WOW! Look what I started. I really thank everyone for chiming in here and putting my mind at ease as well as give good advice. I did talk to the folks at LaCie and they gave me all the right answers as well. I’m so glad that the days of expensive storage are ending in this part of the market and look forward to trying it out. (don’t worry Apple, we have a rack that needs to be filled-up with Xserve RAIDs. Ours is lonely to be in a SAN).

-paul

[Aaron Neitz]

our 500gb Bigger Disk started smoking and died… it was about a year old…. too bad we didn’t have a backup. went with the Medea G-Raid which has a fan.

[Mike Mihalik]

Charlie,

What smoked? The chassis or the external power supply?

Failure analysis I have done on some failed drives usually show a burned component on the FireWire bridge board within the chassis. This is usually caused by bad cable, or inserting cable incorrectly when moving drive between computers. I’ve actually seen drives where user forced cable into FireWire upside down, leading to a puff of smoke, and visible damage to one of the FireWire integrated circuits.

I’ve never seen any of the actual drive mechanisms “smoke”.

Mike