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OT, but of possible interest: Seagate is buying LaCie
updated 10 years, 10 months ago
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Just an FYI to pin to the back of your neurons.
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I’ve never quite worked out what LaCie actually make. Is it fancy boxes?
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Fancy boxes with Seagate drives?
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Maybe Seagate will make sure those fancy boxes don’t cause drive failures since it will be their drives specifically.
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Having looked at their site now, I see you can buy a Porsche drive box. Probably the equivalent of go faster stripes on ’80s cars.
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[Craig Seeman] “Maybe Seagate will make sure those fancy boxes don’t cause drive failures since it will be their drives specifically.”
So, does LaCie have a quality issue? The TB LittleBig drive I bought seems to be working well, as does the TB eSATA adapter. But most of my media drives are G-RAIDS, Glyphs, and OWCs, so, other than a couple of consumer LaCies, I don’t have much experience with them.
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[Chris Harlan] “So, does LaCie have a quality issue?”
Google “LaCie drive failure” and check out the results. After I had three out of three LaCie D2 Disks fail, I vowed never to buy from them again. The problem was always the same – cheap power supplies that would always burn out at the most inopportune time. Never lost any data, thankfully. That’s not to say that you’ll have the same experience – YMMV. Maybe their quality is better these days. But it’s all G-Tech and docked bare drives for me.
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[David Lawrence] “YMMV. Maybe their quality is better these days. But it’s all G-Tech and docked bare drives for me.
“This LaCie TBolt drive is my first LaCie RAID, and the first I’ve used for active media. I’ve got mostly G-RAIDs and have personally been quite happy with them, though that they did go through their own rough patch sometime around the Hitachi buy-out. I never experienced it (touch wood) but I watched other people who were using new 2 TB drives curse a lot at the time. It was back in 2010-ish. I think it was a bump in the road, though. My first G-RAID–500 Gigs–is still in service after eight years (touch wood.) I’m also very happy with the 4TB Glyphs I have. They seem very well engineered, and–at the time I bought them–came with very nice cases, though I guess that now you have to pay extra for the case. The earlier foam G-RAID boxes were great cases, too.
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LaCie had a very bad rough patch 3-5 years ago w/drives dropping like flies but all of the LaCie drives I’ve purchased in the last 18mo or so have been great (6-8 drives probably). They are mostly the ‘rugged’ drives used for sneaker-netting and light, on-location editing.
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