I am about to but 2 2Terra drives.
For the first time I am not looking at LaCie but at the Iomega Blue series with Firewire 800.
Any thoughts on Iomega vs LaCie?
This change was brought on by the way LaCie treats CDN shoppers.
I wanted to buy a drive for my daughter to take to school.
LaCie USA
500 Gig portable $45.00 usd
LaCie CAD
500 Gig portable $119.99 cdn
So if Iomega cuts the mustard....they get the order for the 2 terra units and all my future drives.
I stopped buying LaCie devices a couple of years ago because I saw the quality and value plummeting. I purchased a NAS drive and it would only stay up for a couple of hours before shutting itself down. Their tch support was no help and after sending it in for repair and having the same issue on return, bought a competitors product and it is still running. After that I had a couple more of their devices with major issues that were never resolved. So I stopped buying their products.
LaCie and Iomega are pretty much low end consumer devices imnsho, far cry from
their heyday ( Zip and Jaz drives anyone ? ).
If 24/7 reliability is what you're after without rolling your own drive
then Wiebetech is a good solution,
I have friends that swear by them but they're going to be $$.
My self I have 5 of the Mini Stack drives from OWC, that I rolled my own,
one purchased with the drive pre installed, of the 6 one completely died,
but it was the case electronics rather than the drive( I think it was the refurbed case)
another the fan was going so it became too noisy to leave on 24/7.
So 2 out of 6 is a good ratio for me.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack/
G Drives here both at home and work. Had some nasty issues with an Iomega at work and won't use them again. I have a Lacie Rugged drive and it's the least rugged thing I own! Actually just a soft aluminum/plastic housing with a rubber bumper. I haven't had any performance issues but the build quality doesn't justify the price tag.
The G Drives on the other hand are built like a tank and in the US carry a 3 year warranty I believe.
Just switched to Glyph drives. The quality is second to none. After three Lacie failures in the last four years I'd had enough. I dare you to find a poor review of a Glyph drive.
Anyone using Drobo?
Had a DUH moment, I didn't see the prices in US vs Canadian.
could the Canada VAT make it a 50% price difference ?
I think it is more the wide spread thought that since get taxed up the Wazoo and say or do nothing, why not charge us with the same philosophy?Originally Posted by Jim C.
Or better yet, both!!
We don't call it VAT, we call it GST (Goods and Service Tax) or HST.
HST is Harmonized, where the feds and the province work together at sticking it to you so it lowers their cost to throttle you.
Which, here in Quebec is going up 1 percent Jan 1.
So 5 percent Federally and 8.5 percent Provincially.
When are you guys coming north to give Boston Tea Party workshops?
Thanks for the suggestions,
my first Gen LaCie (all of 80 gig and that was a Fat Cat at the time) still work today without issue, but the newer ones have such cheap power supply I can't help but wonder.
This was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The WD consumer level FW800 drives seem to be a good value for simply buying a decent out of the box drive from B&H or Smalldog or online.
I would love to buy those nice G-Tech drives that Chase Jarvis plugs, or the video-rated stacks of RAID drives or a DROBO or something. But for $200 I can get a 2TB FW800 external and load it up, then drop it off on the other side of town for safe off-site storage. That's why I have three and rotate them.
I can only buy 1.5 high-end drives for that same price.
And I agree, LaCie sucks as a company and their housings seem to promote heat and drive failure. Why should I want Phillipe Starke design my drive housing? He made it worse!
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