[email protected] wrote:
> 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.
We had a LOT of trouble and failures with LaCie devices as have many
other shops and strongly recommend they be avoided at all costs.
Also we avoid the Apple racketeers because they are not only hideously
overpriced and even more locked down than MS ever was and their
"service" a joke. Also their "recommendations" were clueless as their
people are obviously salesmen rather than real techs and make their
recommendations based more on the price than the item's serviceability
and they lie like rugs. Just last Saturday I got rid of the last of the
near useless MACs and now run Intel based systems running mostly
Unix/Linux with some MS based since there are some high end softwares
which require MS.
I have to admit that Apple sure makes nice looking stuff but they are
definitely not made with the customer in mind (what legitimate maker
makes a cell phone which does not have a changeable battery? How about a
music player which plays with a dangerously high playback level?)
cat
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