I'm sitting here with my 6-month old 1TB LaCie drive...whirring and knocking and...no data. Hosed. The consultant we brought in strongly recommended that we only use these drives as backups for our backups. Unfortunately, I didn't get around to backing it up and now whatever is on this drive...important stuff...is gone. Never again. Wish I had read all these reviews before buying one at the Apple store.