Comments on: MCE Television and LaCie Big Disk Problems http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-94623 Anonymous Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:12:13 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-94623 "RE Lacie Big Disk: I have two fairly new (new, and 2 months old) big disk d2 1TB drives with triple interface. The USB2 interface works fine, but I’ve been testing the FW400 and FW800 interfaces, on two computers and mutiple different FW ports, and they are consistently extremely slow, about 4x slower than the USB 2 interface, with FW400 and FW800 about same speed, whereas a new WD 1TB triple interface 1TB Mybook works fine, with FW400 and FW800 behaving as expected…(800 is 2x fast as 400, and 400 is similar to USB 2)…my conclusion is something must be generally wrong with Lacie Firewire interface, since its the same poor performance on drive bought couple months a part" I agree the firewire is slow on the Lacie “RE Lacie Big Disk:
I have two fairly new
(new, and 2 months old) big disk d2 1TB drives with triple interface. The
USB2 interface works fine, but
I’ve been testing the FW400 and FW800
interfaces, on two computers and mutiple different FW ports, and they are consistently extremely slow, about
4x slower than the USB 2 interface, with
FW400 and FW800 about same speed, whereas a new WD 1TB triple interface 1TB Mybook works fine,
with FW400 and FW800 behaving
as expected…(800 is 2x fast as
400, and 400 is similar to USB 2)…my conclusion is something
must be generally wrong with
Lacie Firewire interface, since
its the same poor performance on
drive bought couple months a part”

I agree the firewire is slow on the Lacie

]]> By: Expedito Calixto (XP) http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20793 Expedito Calixto (XP) Thu, 17 May 2007 21:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20793 ok. try this:<br />1) unplug all cables<br />2) plug the power cable<br />3) wait the blue light stop blinking<br />4) plug the cable on PC<br />5) Plug the cable on your disk. That easy!!!<br /><br />I did this because in brazil is not so easy to get money back or send it to USA to get fixed.<br />I have PC and Mac. Mac is fine with that, never had problem. PC i solved it this way. It usually hapens when you turn off the disk in a wrong way. <br /><br /><br />Hope to be helpfull!!!<br /><br />GODBLESS!!! ok. try this:
1) unplug all cables
2) plug the power cable
3) wait the blue light stop blinking
4) plug the cable on PC
5) Plug the cable on your disk. That easy!!!

I did this because in brazil is not so easy to get money back or send it to USA to get fixed.
I have PC and Mac. Mac is fine with that, never had problem. PC i solved it this way. It usually hapens when you turn off the disk in a wrong way.

Hope to be helpfull!!!

GODBLESS!!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20794 Anonymous Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20794 RE Lacie Big Disk:<br />I have two fairly new <br />(new, and 2 months old) big disk d2 1TB drives with triple interface. The<br />USB2 interface works fine, but <br />I've been testing the FW400 and FW800<br />interfaces, on two computers and mutiple different FW ports, and they are consistently extremely slow, about <br />4x slower than the USB 2 interface, with<br />FW400 and FW800 about same speed, whereas a new WD 1TB triple interface 1TB Mybook works fine, <br />with FW400 and FW800 behaving<br />as expected...(800 is 2x fast as<br />400, and 400 is similar to USB 2)...my conclusion is something<br />must be generally wrong with <br />Lacie Firewire interface, since<br />its the same poor performance on<br />drive bought couple months a part RE Lacie Big Disk:
I have two fairly new
(new, and 2 months old) big disk d2 1TB drives with triple interface. The
USB2 interface works fine, but
I’ve been testing the FW400 and FW800
interfaces, on two computers and mutiple different FW ports, and they are consistently extremely slow, about
4x slower than the USB 2 interface, with
FW400 and FW800 about same speed, whereas a new WD 1TB triple interface 1TB Mybook works fine,
with FW400 and FW800 behaving
as expected…(800 is 2x fast as
400, and 400 is similar to USB 2)…my conclusion is something
must be generally wrong with
Lacie Firewire interface, since
its the same poor performance on
drive bought couple months a part

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20795 Anonymous Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20795 Not on the subject of LaCie, but MCE. I am using Vista Ultimate for my Media Center. Coming from my set top box (digital cable) I get poor quality. I found a document on Google I think from Comcast Cable saying that they recommend an amplifier installed with the MCE when using digital cable. I have setup my cable without digital to the MCE and the picture was great. I was wondering if anyone else has heard this or tried it and what were the results? Not on the subject of LaCie, but MCE. I am using Vista Ultimate for my Media Center. Coming from my set top box (digital cable) I get poor quality. I found a document on Google I think from Comcast Cable saying that they recommend an amplifier installed with the MCE when using digital cable. I have setup my cable without digital to the MCE and the picture was great. I was wondering if anyone else has heard this or tried it and what were the results?

]]> By: Martyn http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20796 Martyn Wed, 17 May 2006 10:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20796 Here in the UK I have had six big disk drives. I purchased 3, one after the other a few months apart.<br /><br />I lost the first drive which cost me £904 to have a data recovery service save the data.<br /><br />My back ups went within days.<br /><br />All three were eventually replaced under warranty.<br /><br />All the replacements have now gone down.<br /><br />I have just contacted customer support who refuse to give me another drive.<br /><br />They say they sold it to DABs over 2 years a go. Even though I purchased it less than 2 years ago.<br /><br />I will never buy from LaCie ever again. Here in the UK I have had six big disk drives. I purchased 3, one after the other a few months apart.

I lost the first drive which cost me £904 to have a data recovery service save the data.

My back ups went within days.

All three were eventually replaced under warranty.

All the replacements have now gone down.

I have just contacted customer support who refuse to give me another drive.

They say they sold it to DABs over 2 years a go. Even though I purchased it less than 2 years ago.

I will never buy from LaCie ever again.

]]> By: dan http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20797 dan Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20797 I've had a lacie big disk 500 for about 9 months. it started acting up within about 4 or 5 months, but I kept thinking it was something other than the drive. so I move the drive around to other computers and it had the same problem. fortunatly, it was under warranty. lacie sent me a replacement (after 2 weeks of emails telling me that it wasn't the drive). the new disk they sent won't even do a full format, but I can get it to do a quick format, but it has write delay problems. Lacie again gives me all kinds of useless advice indicating that it was a tested drive that they shipped to me. I use 5 other external drives (from 160-250GB) and none have problems. I've moved this drive around to 3 computers and the problems persist. this was my first and last lacie product I will ever make. I’ve had a lacie big disk 500 for about 9 months. it started acting up within about 4 or 5 months, but I kept thinking it was something other than the drive. so I move the drive around to other computers and it had the same problem. fortunatly, it was under warranty. lacie sent me a replacement (after 2 weeks of emails telling me that it wasn’t the drive). the new disk they sent won’t even do a full format, but I can get it to do a quick format, but it has write delay problems. Lacie again gives me all kinds of useless advice indicating that it was a tested drive that they shipped to me. I use 5 other external drives (from 160-250GB) and none have problems. I’ve moved this drive around to 3 computers and the problems persist. this was my first and last lacie product I will ever make.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20798 Anonymous Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20798 You might want to try using robocopy a commandline utility. It works much better than the Windows Explorer copy.<br /><br />Regarding LaCie Drives:<br /><br />I am also having problem with large copy jobs to both of my 1000GB triple interface drives. Each of them end up getting delay write errors and then eventually corrupt. Sometimes I'm able to restart the drive and have it recognized again, sometimes it takes a full reboot. Several times it has gotten so bad that I've had to use iRecovery to pull the data of the corrupt drives.<br /><br />I've tried reformatting the drives (both quick and full) without any better results. The problems seem to occur regardless if the drives are connect through their USB 2.0, Firewire 400 or 800 ports.<br /><br />I just contacted support and they promised to send me a link to a bad sector scan utility. I don’t have much confidence that this will solve the problem.<br /><br />Anyone able to get their LaCie drives to operate reliably once they have started to act up? You might want to try using robocopy a commandline utility. It works much better than the Windows Explorer copy.

Regarding LaCie Drives:

I am also having problem with large copy jobs to both of my 1000GB triple interface drives. Each of them end up getting delay write errors and then eventually corrupt. Sometimes I’m able to restart the drive and have it recognized again, sometimes it takes a full reboot. Several times it has gotten so bad that I’ve had to use iRecovery to pull the data of the corrupt drives.

I’ve tried reformatting the drives (both quick and full) without any better results. The problems seem to occur regardless if the drives are connect through their USB 2.0, Firewire 400 or 800 ports.

I just contacted support and they promised to send me a link to a bad sector scan utility. I don’t have much confidence that this will solve the problem.

Anyone able to get their LaCie drives to operate reliably once they have started to act up?

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20799 Anonymous Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20799 My experience with LaCie drives is that they are totally unreliable. I have had four, and all four have failed. Why, you ask, do I have four? Three were purchased within a year after the first one, an old 10G, failed. Then the 80, the 250, and the 500 all failed terribly. They failed particularly in relation to my working on, or transferring, large video files. They go down unexpectedly and even seem to fail in "stages" with the first clue being that you can get them recognized with DiskWarrior or OSX Utilities & recover some data. But it's a losing game. I will never buy another LaCie product. I am a university professor and a longtime Mac user (20+ years) and am just disgusted with LaCie's advice that I should accept hard drive failure as a fact of life and get over it. My experience with LaCie drives is that they are totally unreliable. I have had four, and all four have failed. Why, you ask, do I have four? Three were purchased within a year after the first one, an old 10G, failed. Then the 80, the 250, and the 500 all failed terribly. They failed particularly in relation to my working on, or transferring, large video files. They go down unexpectedly and even seem to fail in “stages” with the first clue being that you can get them recognized with DiskWarrior or OSX Utilities & recover some data. But it’s a losing game. I will never buy another LaCie product. I am a university professor and a longtime Mac user (20+ years) and am just disgusted with LaCie’s advice that I should accept hard drive failure as a fact of life and get over it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20800 Anonymous Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20800 I have to agree and I have to say few words about LaCie<br /><br />STAY AWAY from any FireWire drives from LaCie<br />AS FAR AS YOU COULD. I don’t know a person<br />In our field who didn’t have the WORST experience<br />with those junks drives.<br /><br />My example:<br />I have three 500 gigs (Big Disk) and five 250 gigs drives<br />and over a period of two years four of them died in the first year. <br /><br />The fifth one – still under warranty,<br /> yet what is it to me if the data (400 gigs) were lost?<br />It was my LaCie backup drive of another LaCie drive.<br /><br />How many backups drive we should have?<br />One BUT NOT FROM LaCie – stay away from it! I have to agree and I have to say few words about LaCie

STAY AWAY from any FireWire drives from LaCie
AS FAR AS YOU COULD. I don’t know a person
In our field who didn’t have the WORST experience
with those junks drives.

My example:
I have three 500 gigs (Big Disk) and five 250 gigs drives
and over a period of two years four of them died in the first year.

The fifth one – still under warranty,
yet what is it to me if the data (400 gigs) were lost?
It was my LaCie backup drive of another LaCie drive.

How many backups drive we should have?
One BUT NOT FROM LaCie – stay away from it!

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/mce-television-and-lacie-big-disk.html/comment-page-1#comment-20801 Anonymous Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4424#comment-20801 The d2 drives suck,<br /> <br />I have the LaCie 500gb D2 Extreme 7200rpm HD and it continued to drop the firewire connection until it crashed, I restored all the data, formated the drive and only to have it drop the firewire connections again.<br /><br />This went on for weeks going back and fourth with Lacie tech support untill it just stop working, the blue LED and drive just stopped mid day, mid project.<br /><br />it didn't just stop mounting on the disktop, I couldn't even get the drive to power up!!!! DEAD<br /><br />I would not put anything on value on LaCie drives The d2 drives suck,

I have the LaCie 500gb D2 Extreme 7200rpm HD and it continued to drop the firewire connection until it crashed, I restored all the data, formated the drive and only to have it drop the firewire connections again.

This went on for weeks going back and fourth with Lacie tech support untill it just stop working, the blue LED and drive just stopped mid day, mid project.

it didn’t just stop mounting on the disktop, I couldn’t even get the drive to power up!!!! DEAD

I would not put anything on value on LaCie drives

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