 No problems |
| Review Date: December 23, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Robert Seder, Connecticut |
| I have 2 of the 2GB models. One for primary storage and the other for a live backup. I've had zero problems with either. They are fast and pretty quiet - plus they haven't failed. So - so far so good, for me. |
Nice drive
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| Review Date: December 19, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Drewk, La Jolla |
It is quiet and fast. Do make sure if you buy a used one to buy either the 1.0 TB Bigger Drive or the 2.0 TB Bigger Drive. The 1.6 TB is LOUD, but the 2.0 TB is very very quiet.
Recommended. |
its been a good disk for me so far - but has its quirks
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| Review Date: January 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: D. sharp, |
I bought this disk over a year ago and so far have not had any problems as far losing data though am nervous about it as i have no way to back it up and it is set at a raid 0 configuration which means 0 data redundancy and an increase in the probability of failure; however, this configuration does increase the performance and allows a maximum amount of data to be stored on the disk.
The only problem i have really had is that the drive is it will occasionally disappear from computer and i will have to reboot my computer and turn off the drive for the computer to recognize it. I am not sure why it does and it only seems to happen every two months or so.
I have run out of room on this hard drive so was looking for a new one; but think i might buy a disk of lesser capacity (so its a single disk and not a raid 0 configuration) even though I have had no problems so far with this drive. The only reason i bring this up is there are a lot of reviews on this drive failing --- and i think the reviews are probably accurate; but if you have raid 0 configuration the probability of failure goes up significantly because if any drive fails (and i believe this one has 4 drives) then all your data is lost even though the other drives have not failed.
If i had a way of backing this drive up, i would buy another one; but its capacity is so high i cant afford to. I am going to keep my data on this drive and hope for the best as it is full and should not need to write any more to the drive which i hope will decrease the probability of failure - (though i will need access the data from time to time). |
Lacie 2Tbt Storage device
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| Review Date: June 11, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Michael F. Barbiero, Old Tappan, New jersey United States |
| I have used a Lacie 1 terabyte storage device for a year now and have been totally satisfied with its performance. When I thought of buying another, I saw that they offered a 2 terabyte model and decided to try it. So far it has been perfect. Its compact design fits perfectly in my studio. |
I have about 8 of these drives.
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| Review Date: November 1, 2007 |
| Reviewer: T. Irvin, US Army- Germany |
| I have used Lacie drives for at least 4 years. I have four 500 Gigabytes sizes, 5 single terabyte sizes and 1 two terabyte size. I have never had a problem with any of them. |
mixed bag
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| Review Date: March 26, 2008 |
| Reviewer: slkx, Perth, Australia |
I have had my 2TB Lacie for a year now. I love the auto-on option - it comes on when my computer does. It's quiet. It holds a bundle.
The bad stuff: Every time, as it has neared around the 1.3-1.4TB full mark and onwards I start to have a few issues. By 1.6TB full I have each time had to wipe it, reformat and start again. Why? Well I use it with an MVIX (a multimedia player, which was originally designed for a max capacity of 500GB ext HDDs to be plugged into it) and this Lacie raid 0 configuration - with four 500GB drives striped together - gives it major gas when it has too much to think about. You may think "Well, hey, that's the MVIX's fault, not the Lacie's". True, true. But other people will be doing similar things with big capacity drives as their music/movie collections become digitised. And MVIX isn't the only one with this too-much-information heart-burn problem. So I am going to now take my own advice and never again deal with any "drive" which is really four drives tacked together. One drive only is the way to go, even if it's a smaller capacity - the trade-off is worth it IMO. |
LaCie EXTREMELY poor quality
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| Review Date: June 28, 2007 |
| Reviewer: E. Funke, |
DO NOT BUY LACIE DRIVES. (My personal opinion based on recent experience - I've had 3 different LaCie drives fail in the last 9 months for no reason).
1) One 80Gb portable (Porshe-design) - simply died.
NO WARNING. Lost a lot of data.
2) My desktop external 250 Gb LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme (w USB2, FW400, & FW800) - fortunately I had enough warning (lots of "clicks of death") I called LaCie tech support to ask if I could put a replacement drive into the casing to save some money - they were very unhelpful - told me they don't do that unless it's under warranty) OK, so I like the styling of the LaCie range so I (stupidly) stuck with them (and before the 250 Gb died), still had the time to buy myself the:
3) 2TB LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme (w USB2, FW400, & FW800).
(very expensive - paid nearly US $1000.00 when it came out)
4 months after I bought it, it started to make strange soft "whirring" noise - Phoned LaCie tech support and they told me it was the cooling fan. I told them it couldn't be (by then I knew the sound of the cooling fan). They told me to give it some time and if the noise didn't go away then to call back. After one month I called back asking for RMA number (for in-warranty swap-out). They refused. They blew me off - the tech guy argued with me on the phone saying I didn't know what a cooling fan sounded like and as far as they were concerned there was no problem. Basically they didn't honor their warranty.
At the beginning of June 07 my 6 month old drive had a hardware failure and died.
I tried everything I could and could not access my data. Basically 7 years worth of electronic filing, receipts, passwords, access codes, my portfolio, 7 years worth of my family photographs, all my iTunes music. All gone.
I have since contacted a local data recovery facility and have had to pay them US $5500.00 to recover my data. (They told me they have a division that specifically works on LaCie drives - go figure).
So buy LaCie at your own peril.
LaCie tech support has been extremely arrogant and dismissive (I went up 3 management levels), and difficult to deal with - even arrogant. I will NEVER buy another product with the LaCie brand name on it,
Erich |
WARNING: DO NOT BUY FROM LACIE
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| Review Date: June 11, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. Vaught, |
We had three of these drives and they all failed within a year!!! This is statiscally impossible without a major design flaw. LaCie refuses to replace a drive which died within three months of being replaced under warranty because they only honor the one year warranty date of the original drive! The replacement drive date does not count!
This is a bad company with a seriously flawed product! |
LaCie won't repair products out of warranty
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| Review Date: December 6, 2006 |
| Reviewer: ricku, |
| Have 1 and 1.2-TB versions of this product. One failed after 16 mos, and LaCie refuses to even look at it..recommends I buy a new one. The other drive is starting to show signs of failure. Since when are 1TB drive assemblies disposable??? |
Complete waste of money, effort and time
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| Review Date: June 23, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Dane Bowker, Blacksburg, VA |
bought this just over a year ago and it has died. After one year you cannot even pay to have Lacie look at your hard drive. I was told to "throw it in the trash" by their customer support. I have bought BuffaloTech Terastation, Infrant ReadyNAS, Western Digital and Seagate drives and RAID arrays and this is by far the worst. If you want a hard drive that will not last and give just adequate performance during its short life expectancy Lacie is the way to go. I can't think of one single positive thing to say about the hard drive or their customer service. There are other cheap alternatives (some cheaper) that offer better quality. Good luck.
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