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Storage Drive
I’ve heard a rumor or 2 about Lacie drives crapping out in the field, and I just wanted some advice and opinions. We’re doing a couple consecutive shoots overseas. We’re using the HVX as our second camera, but it’ll still get plenty of use. We have the Panasonic P2 Store drive, which will hold 7 of the 8GB P2 cards. Problem is we’ll probably shoot a lot more than that. So we have to back the footage up on to something. We’ve ordered some rugged drives, but they won’t be here in time. I figured we’d just use a couple of 200 GB Lacies we have laying around, but then we heard that’s not the best idea. Of course, the reasons were very vague and coming from a 3rd hand source. The drives will be doing some traveling. They’ll do they’re best to pack them in securely, but I’m not even sure that’s the problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If any of you have had bad luck or no problems at all with the Lacies out in the field, I’d love to know. We obviously can’t risk losing the footage. Thanks.
-neil
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7 Replies
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Not a fan of LaCie but people will say all drive companies fail and it’s true.
Noah
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[Noah Kadner] “Not a fan of LaCie but people will say all drive companies fail and it’s true.”
How true
all hard drives fail.
Always reformat all drives with your preferred OS.
back up back up backupgary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
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LaCie drives fail like other drives – they heat up past their tolerance for too long and then they die. The Porsche and D2 drives feed into that trend with poor cooling characteristics.
Plus I bring this up again for fun – 3.5″ drives are not the most robust of the lot anyway. The current crop of 2.5″ drives can survive more jolting – 250Gs versus just over 60Gs of operating shock for 3.5″ HDD. For me, that makes them more attractive (but expensive) for travelling.
https://www.barefeats.com/hard56.html
(at the bottom of the page)Just trying to avoid the golden BB….
John McClary
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They’re quite pricey, but Kanaru is about to ship a 64GB Flash drive:
https://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html
Noah
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Hi Neil,
LaCie is working with a lot of Pro Video resellers and Pro Video users. With more than 2M units shipped last year, we are the most visible storage company in the video market and that’s why you will hear more comments about us. Hardware products can always fail but we work hard to keep the risk to a minimum.If you have a couple d2 drives, you can just reformat them (if the drives have not been used since June 2005, please update to the latest firmware https://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/ scroll down the page).
One of our latest drives, the LaCie Little Big Disk, received a AIM Award at NAB.
Thank you.
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Thanks Mat for showing up, I was feeling a little nervous with my big TeraByte Drive. I love it and it is working well, but with some of the comments I was feeling a little nervous. Thanks for chiming in.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
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I drug a couple of Terrabyte drives from Canada to Russia and then to London and back to Canada. They went with my luggage so I hate to think about what they went through. Many flights, many connections and they still work. Whew.
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