Title: Poor reliability
Product review: I have five different LaCie Big/Bigger Disk drives, from this the 1 TB version down to 500 GB versions, and 2/3rds of them have had some sort of failure as follows: 1) external power brick going bad, 2) FW800 ports going bad on 1 TB Bigger Disk, 3) bad drive (one of the two 250 GB drives in the Big Disk 500 GB version), 4) extremely loud noise (a Big Disk 500 GB version), 5) included firewire cable going bad.Basically, anything and everything that can go wrong has gone wrong in these drives.Naturally, all of these failures occurred after expiration of warranty. A new power brick from LaCie is $75.For a failed disk, I put in a brand new WD and reformatted and the RAID recognized the "foreign" drive.The fact of the matter is, from my experience, though aesthetically pleasing, are absolute JUNK. The failure rates for such a critical item (data storage) is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE. And it's not just one particular component.
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