Lacie used to be good. Ergo both "my laxie is 100 yrs old, no probs" and "my new lacie died" are both reasonable.
>From my iPhone On 20 Jul 2011, at 13:33, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On the other hand, I have two Lacie drives, one 1TB 2 years old which has > been dropped from a six foot height and has a cracked/dented casing and still > maintains stirling (and verified) service and an older 3 year old 500GB, > similarly reliable. > > I remember comments in one camp or the other on previous threads. I have no > loyalty to Lacie, I tend to by what I see as the most cost-effective choice > at the time I need to buy one. These two have been fine. > > Regards > > Russell > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Manor Park Medical Centre > www.manorparksurgery.com > Tel 01323482301 > East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) > www.sslmcs.co.uk/ > Tel 01372389270 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Have your say about NHS market reforms > > Visit www.lookafterournhs.org.uk > > > On 20 July 2011 13:26, Chris Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, general rule of thumb is to assume that a hard drive will fail. If > it's a LaCie drive it will definitely fail. If 500gb is what you need, buy 2 > and back one up to the other on a weekly/monthly rota. > > Personally, I've had the fewest failures with Western Digital drives. > > Chris Webb > MacService > 07770 960632 > [email protected] > > On 20 Jul 2011, at 14:06, Martin Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Having just had the second of two LaCie external hard drives die in the > > last few months, I wonder whether anyone would care to make some > > suggestions about a replacement. I need a 500 Gb external drive (but would > > consider a 1 Tb drive) and value reliability above all. Funds are tight so > > the price would need to be reasonable. > > > > Martin > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
