Has anyone found a good reliable drive yet? Seeing all the poor reviews for Lacie (of which I own four) makes me nervous!
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No longer a La Cie fan. Western Digital is my goto brand these days, based on reviews and personal experience.
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Many of LaCie's Hard Drives are actually WD inside .... LaCie just makes the enclosures and internal electronics, not the internal hard drives themselves!I have found many WD hard drives as original HD's installed in many of my Lacie HD's once opened up.
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I like their design but drive went down. Looking to replace their Seagate with another manufacturer drive.
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Mine went down in just over a year. Fortunately I had a backup. I suggest you back up ASAP.
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Yes, I have used this drive from W7 up to a fully updated W8.1 and have had no issues. It's a great drive.
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I just checked www.wdc.com Typed in Serial Number from drive I received. Answer from WD: "The warranty for this product has expired. The product is not eligible for replacement. If you need technical assistance, please send us email." So either Seller is warranting this drive OR NO ONE IS!!! I, for one, would like to hear from the seller on this matter!
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That is no rule of thumb I have ever heard in my 15 years in IT. Seagate/Maxtor makes up the 'lower tier' of drive brands. Hitachi/Samsung are slightly more reliable. WD is still reliability king. Even if you get a good Seagate/Maxtor drive they are prone to fail after a few years, right after the warranty expires. The large capacity drive firmware issues they've been having this last year or so has just sullied their reputation even further and the kind of bugs they've had recently in fully released firmware is inexcusable. Seagate has recently earned their rep as the bottom rung hard drive supplier firmly and deservedly and that by a country mile.
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William...... My son and I recently purchased one of these drives for our MacMini. We have a small photography business (Armillaryinc.com) and are now using the drive as part of our normal processing and as an integral part of our backup strategy. We are very pleased with the device. Hope this helps! Best of luck.
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WD says that greens will work and nothing else. I have a feeling that has to do with the lower power consumption. I have heard horror stories about green drives and WD software has said my drives have gone bad, but the drives read and write just fine. I love the raid setup and dont know why anyone else hasn't continued this setup at this price point ( I bought mine used for a little less than $100)
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I would use nothing BUT these drives in anything I built or upgraded. They're a bit pricier, and no one ever thinks about it, but the warranty on THESE hard drives, the WD Black series, is a full 5Y. VERY few other mfrs even offer a 5y warranty. And WD drives earn that warranty reputation, I haven't had a WD drive fail, EVER. In each case -- over a dozen -- they've become useless through increasing capacity, never mechanical/electronic failure. That is, I probably have an 80gig WD drive that's still functioning. It's just not worth plugging in and taking up a SATA channel when I can get that capacity on a freaking flash drive nowadays... Yes, they're that good. You can "save money" by buying something cheaper. But you'll pay in the long run with headaches from lost data, or time spent rebuilding your windows/software/os and tweaking it back to the way you had it. The HD is the soul of your machine. Everything else fails, you can practically swap a part back in and you're up and running. But the HD fails and you've got a multiday to longer term headache to get things back to "normal". And, for general purposes, they're among the best drives in performance terms, too. Tom's Hardware may rate something else marginally faster, but not by much. And not by enough to drag you away from WD Black. As the old saw goes, once you go Black, you'll never go back. :-D
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Unfortunately, I think the warranty needs to be purchased ahead of time. So far my hard drive is doing alright (knock on wood). If you did order from Amazon.com perhaps they have a warranty??? Sorry, hope things work out!!!
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Send it back, it's defective. They shipped out a lot of defective ones... esp. around December for the holidays when they were on sale. I suspect while they were on sale & they were selling lots of them, they put inferior drives in them to increase their profit margin.
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I have found the G Drives to be more stable. Have had some LaCies fail on me.
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I have 3 westerns in my pc i havent had a seagate in awhile. I have a seagate external drive and its ran fan for like 7 years. So i would look up some reviews of both and see which one is best.
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Hi D. Petitpas,I was wondering if anyone would ever reply to my post. I didn't know that these drives were shipped pre-formated and I don't think that it is listed in it's description here on Amazon. Thank you so very much for setting me straight!
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I have not had any problems with this ssd.And I did research on it as well according to my findings it is the fastest drive for the buck.Check Tom's hardware for the publication.
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There is an article on Ars Technica you may want to read called "Putting hard drive reliability to the test shows not all disks are equal". I don't think Amazon allows URLs to posted here so you can use Google to search for the web page. There are interesting results shown for the different drive manufacturers.
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I have 2 with no problems but, recently 1 of them want down and i have no cull as to why. the good news is Oyen digital is going too help recover n send a new one .So why not i like these drives work fine with my Mac.
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Awww, this is disappointing. This is the exact question I needed answered. I can't believe in two years, no one has answered it. I'm hoping someone might answer it soon. There's a 1 TB Iomega drive for $97 and a 1 TB LaCie drive for $150. I just want to know if the extra $53 for the LaCie drive is worth it.
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Hi it's a bit confusing, and hard to figure out who you are ordering from on these drives. Did not buy mine from Oceanside. Might want to look at similar drives from Fry's. They have the full warranty.