On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
But I will say this about the large models, the power supplies are
absolutely dreadful. They die more frequently than the drives.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a common problem.
I've found the lacie
external drives to be of excellent quality, especially the ones
that are built specifically for the mac minis. The only problem is I
broke one of the pins off one of the power adapters some time ago,
and I can't seem to find a replacement. Apple doesn't stock them
directly even though I bought the drive in the apple store. Lacie's
web site is not accessible enough for me to determine which power
supply is the proper one for my drive, so at the moment, I'm reduced
to running one or the other, but never both at once, which severely
cuts into my storage capabilities. <sigh>
But, otherwise, they're excellent drives, and haven't given me any
trouble at all, and I've had them running constantly for the last 2
or 3 years.
They do cost a bit more, because of their unique design. They're
designed to sit under the mac mini, which makes the mini appear
thicker, and they have firewire ports on them. I have managed to
burn out one of the firewire ports on one of them, but that was not
the fault of the drive, I think it happened when doing an inordinate
amount of swapping around a few months ago, and they got tired of all
the restarts. :)
<sigh>
But, as I said above, other than that, these drives have been the
perfect workhorses, and have worked flawlessly.
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