um what? and my my prices and shlock-dock-wikki-wacki-dacki?
anyway, the lowest i'm seeing is over 500 shipped
second, if it's your line of work that you can get it for whatever price, you the way you said it, anyone could easily get it at that price
also
here are the first few reviews i saw on that "better" drive:
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Our laboratory, and several we work with, have made a big commitment to these drives. We have bought more than a dozen of them. Several times, after working fine for a while, the drive disappears; it does not come up on the desktop. Disk Manager shows it as unallocated. LaCie tech support is not acknowledging the problem. All they could offer was try a data recovery program. I did; it didn't work. We have lost lots of data on theses drives.
Believe the other reviews written by people who have lost data! We bought 3 of these drives and have lost data on all 3. Two worked poorly out of the box (read times of 30 minutes per megabyte across firewire with data access errors). The other one one worked fine for 6 weeks then unexpectedly went belly-up with no recovery possible. LaCie technical support is completely unhelpful. The best warning to everyone is that they post new FIRMWARE updates on their site almost every week. They know they are having real problems with these drives but don't acknowledge it to users. Don't buy these drives unless you want to participate in La Cie's beta testing!
I have been using three 500GB LaCie drives for three months with no problems. I will need three more within a month and, based on my results with the drives I have, I will purchase LaCie hard drives again. I, too, am interested in the terabyte drives coming out in May, but will probably settle for the Big Disk Extreme drives. I've been using multiple LaCie CD Burners for over a year with zero problems and have a number of clients who are successfully using LaCie monitors. Based on my interactions, I'd have to give their products high marks. I've used their customer service departmant only once, satisfactorily, so I can't comment on the quality of the CS.
I purchased this drive and also experienced the drive disappearance issue. It happened 7 times during the first month I had it. (Somehow or the other, it hasn't happened for the 4 months since then, but I am attributing this to luck and nothing more.) But anyway, when I was having the problem, I was able to recover the drive 6 of the 7 times that this happened. The fact that it happens at all is absolutely unforgivable, but just to help those having this problem: Use a disk utility like PartitionMagic to recover the partition. Here are the steps:
1. Go to Manager (right click My Computer, click Manager). You will probably be presented with an option to write the signature to the "newly-found" disk, i.e. the Lacie drive that has disappeared. Go ahead and write the signature. Close Manager.
2. Open PartitionMagic (I use version
and click on what appears to be the blank Lacie drive, and right click to choose Recover partition. (It seems that if you don't go through the process of re-writing the disk signature in step 1, PartitionMagic won't recover the drive.)
As I said, this failed once and I had to spend hours and use some other utilities to get parts of the partition back, so I am not very pleased.
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anyway, i wouldn't buy that drive for $200
also, it's not a standard 3.5" drive...
by krawzyazn » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:19 am 
