Get an Uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Lacie probably arent much more unreliable than any other, everybody has a make or two that have failed on them and make them hate that brand. If Mac users have had lots of Lacie failures its probably only because they have bought lots of Lacie drives.
Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <rup...@...> wrote: > > Yeah, I'm a double back up guy. But at the moment that means two > external hard drives. In England, power was pretty steady and > reliable - hardly ever any power cuts - mostly underground power > cables. Here on Vancouver Island, we get at least one power cut a > month. Usually because someone drunk has driven into a power pole. > Eventually that'll fry one of my drives, or make it fail to boot > because it'll be in the middle of writing when it cuts out. They're > so ridiculously delicate. I worry that when that happens, I'll go to > my second backup and I'll either find that it's failed for any of the > other absurd reasons these things fail, or that the power will cut > again while I'm loading it or using it. > Plus, each time one of these things fails, I have to go and spend > $150-200 on another piece of shit backup drive that will fail in > another year or so. >
