No unapproved sale threads or advertisement posts.No memes or 'look at this old storage medium/ connection speed/purchase' (except on Free Post Fridays).Search the Internet, this subreddit and our wiki before posting.And we're trying really hard not to forget.ģ.3v Pin Reset Directions :D / Alt Imgur link Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Timetm). government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data - legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. Should be more productive that ranting into the night about a failed hard drive.We are digital librarians. Give their support folks a shot - they did the right thing by me. LaCie fixed my drive very quickly, and it's been running as expected ever since. And, my blog isn't a therapy group for disgruntled consumers. I think it is just aggregating unhappy customers, rather than fairly representing what LaCie products are like in the real world. Update: I'm turning comments off for this post. To add insult to injury, the SMART status on my desktop's system drive temporarily flickered into 'DRIVE FAILING' status, then returned to OK. Now, I'm sitting here without backups, hoping that Nothing Bad Happensâ„¢ before the drive is replaced and I have a chance to rebuild the backups. It chokes on the first one.Īt this point, I'm guessing it's a hardware failure, so pack up the drive to be replaced. I tell Disk Utility to verify each new partition. I make 2 new partitions - one for a backup system, and one for data. Blowing away 110GB of backups to try to fix the drive that's supposed to be saving me this grief. So, I decide to reformat the drive to start fresh. It keeps finding errors, and complaining that it's running slowly because of a disk error. I grab our copy of Disk Warrior, hoping to throw its advanced repair ninja mojo at the problem. Mwaaaaah? So I fire up Disk Utility, and it greets me with this:

I was copying over the latest MySQL dumps from our production servers, and got an interesting error - 'write error' - meaning, of course, that the file could not be copied to the BDE. Maybe it thought, as a 500GB drive, that it should have been doing more exciting things than just backing up my crap. Maybe the most depressing day of the year got to it. Either way, my shiny new 500GB backup drive decided to go on strike yesterday. Well, not sure if it's an 'extreme failure' or just a failure of a LaCie Big Disk Extreme.

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