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From: vangelde@cisunx.UUCP (Timothy J Van)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCie disks -- "Well, how are they?"
Keywords: disk drive, Macintosh, SCS
Message-ID: <16825@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 04:49:50 GMT
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Reply-To: vangelde@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Timothy J Van)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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I have a LaCie 20mb disk, just over a year old. Very reliable, SilverServer
is great, comes with a cable etc - seems like a generally good buy.

BUT

The damn thing is so noisy, at those high frequencies that really get under
your skin, that I find it virtually impossible to work with the thing on - 
so I load up a RAM disk and turn it off.  This pisses me off greatly because
it takes away a lot of the benefit of having a hard drive AND LaCie 
reassured me before I purchased that it was quieter than other drives. The
problem, by the way, is not the fan, its the drive mechanism. Also, all these
high-pitched noises drift on and off (sometimes coming on and off like
morse code) so one can only suspect that shitty construction is at fault. 

This is just one drive of course, maybe I got a bum one. But I wouldn't go
around recommending them to anyone myself. 

Tim van Gelder

(By the way, I would have returned it to see if they could do anything 
while it was still under warranty except that I was writing my doctoral
disseration and couldnt afford to be without it.)