On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Remember last year I informed the group that my LaCie external hard drive > had failed? > With this discussion involving saving to discs and external Hard Drives, I > figured you would be interested in “The Rest Of The Story.” I was under the > impression that paying hundreds of dollars for a “storage unit” hard drive > was a smart move. When my LaCie failed and I e-mailed this international > group of paper modelers; much was said about external hard drives piled up > as door stops; the following days I was more than surprised to read about > all the external drive failures experienced by our members. The MAC store > people never mentioned such failures. > > The MAC Service Department charged $60.00 bucks and did not even open the > case. All they did was plug it in and tell me the data was unrecoverable. > > At one of the IPMS meetings, Master Modeler Jim Nunn offered to take a look > at my useless LaCie. > > December 18th 2008 Jim E-mailed the following: > > ”Without spending an amount equal to the cost of a complete new drive I > could not find a case that would work with your drives interface (PATA) and > have a firewire capability. So I went with a high speed USB interface. The > USB interface is some what slower then firewire but you could still use it > in a RAID configuration for backup and it will work quite well for a typical > backup drive. I know it is working but I want to check it out on a MAC and > I should be able to do that tomorrow.” > > He did and it worked. All the data is recoverable. > > Jim purchased parts at our local Fry’s Electronics store, total cost $32.46 > > Gosh I love this group. > > Bob Penikas
Bob, So it turned out to be a problem with the LaCie case/interface/cable/whatever rather than the drive? -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html For science! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
