I've had 3 Lacie power supplies fail (overheated I think) but not the actual drive mechanism itself. I just ordered replacement power supplies. Oh, these Lacie's run all the time, tons of read/writes, and they've done fairly well.
Pete David Terranova wrote: > I vaguely remember a similar discussion a few months ago... but I steer > clear of Lacie. 2 of mine failed and several friends have had the same > problem. > When speaking our hardware support company, they advised me to avoid them > completely, I think they¹ve actually stopped selling them because they got > so many customers sending them back. > They strongly recommend using G-tech which is considered a lot more > industrial than the home-use drives such as lacie. So I know own a G-Raid > which works perfectly with fcp on my macbook. >