Lacie 1TB External Hard Drive - keep it?

[FM]

Re: Lacie 1TB External Hard Drive - keep it?

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB Hard Drive
Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and expertise in volume manufacturing, the SeagateŽ Barracuda 7200.11 drive
Only $149.99

oof! Expecting this delivered today.

Good news...mad low price ($159 shipped - 25% Cashback from MSLive/Ebay)

Bad news...these drives tend to have a good sized firmware problem (SD17). Apparently disabling write cache or partitioning <1TB prevents this (drive will "freeze" because of the write cache, then come back OK...rendering it useless for streaming media basically).

I'll cross my fingers...many problems came from what I've read because of RAID setups, controllers, etc. Mine's just a lowly single for the main system. Quite frankly, I've only had like 2-3 HD's fail on me over the past 12 years...and I've used all the brands practically.

I'll just copy data and let it all run together for a while, before cleaning the other drives off....got a cooler for this thing too waiting, as they also generate a nice bit of heat.

Total amount of storage space now: 3.6 TB

[Kamal]

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dang Matt.... 3.6 T, I'm upto 1.3 TB right now and about to dive into another 1 TB Western Digital (replacing a shitty 200 gb Drive), total storage will become 2.1 TB

[Corven]

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i have 3.3TB right now and probably am getting another 2TB soon

[Kamal]

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dang you guys.....

[beanzncheez]

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I'm interested in getting larger drives to condense all of mine but damn them all for still running strong. My storage box has 6 x 250GB and this box has 2 x 750GB, 1 x 74GB and 1 x 500GB while I have a stack of about 16 drives ranging from 80GB to 250GB sitting next to my desk. Weee!

[fabric8]

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a buddy of mine asked me for some music for his house, he bought a 1TB Lacie for me to copy onto, I've never heard an external drive make so much noise, what a nuisance.


** I'm a Seagate Free Agent HD user all the way, I recommend them to everyone, I have 3 (1 TB externals) and a 500GB SATA internal drive as well, never an issue with any of them.

[poults]

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I have always been a seagate and buffalo fan myself.

[Kamal]

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** I'm a Seagate Free Agent HD user all the way, I recommend them to everyone, I have 3 (1 TB externals) and a 500GB SATA internal drive as well, never an issue with any of them.

I just bought a 1 TB external Seagate for $169. A Seagate First for me.

[fabric8]

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I just bought a 1 TB external Seagate for $169. A Seagate First for me.

nice choice Fezmeister, you'll be real happy, a couple of nice gizmos you picked up recently, enjoy the toys brother

[Kamal]

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yea I just had my 5th year anniversary and the mrs. loaded me up with some good gifts

[Weizy]

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iirc, in RAID1, if you lose 1 drive, both drives will fail because of how RAID1 mirrors the data.

Kamal is this really true? I am ready to purchase 2 external Seagate drives, but I re-read this thread again and found the quote above...

[beanzncheez]

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I saw some 1.5TB drives going for $129 now. Jesus!

[slim shady]

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Quoting from wikipedia's raid article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redunda...endent_disks):

* RAID 1 (mirrored settings/disks) could be described as a real-time backup solution. Two (or more) disks each store exactly the same data, at the same time, and at all times. Data is not lost as long as one disk survives. Total capacity of the array is simply the capacity of one disk. At any given instant, each disk in the array is simply identical to every other disk in the array.

[Weizy]

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well I finally broke down and bought two of these puppies:

Seagate FreeAgent XTreme ST310005FPA2E3-RK 1TB 7200 RPM Black External Hard Drive - Retail
Item #: N82E16822148352

Hopefully they do the job for me...fingers crossed.