Claude Jones wrote: > LaCie suffers from both of the above issues. The cases are heat traps, not > sinks, and the drives inside are Maxtor - caveat emptor. I just took a LaCie > apart two weeks ago - the ribbon cable, and all the pc parts were literally > covered with a brownish/blackish veneer - the guy in support 'couldn't > understand it' and assured me that the warranty has just expired, two months > earlier. The drive was a Maxtor 200 GB. Not trying to point fingers at any one particular vendor, but of the last 50 drives I've seen go bad (I work at an .edu -- we go through a lot of drives), a good 95% of them were Maxtors. In the last few days, I've also had a Maxtor 160GB drive in a server at home go bad. It's not actually dead yet, but POST gives the S.M.A.R.T. "imminent failure" message. This drive, also, is just barely out of warranty. -j -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> "If it's not on fire, it's a software problem."
