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From: t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCie disks -- "Well, how are they?"
Keywords: disk drive, Macintosh, SCS
Message-ID: <1360@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 20:07:09 GMT
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Reply-To: t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Organization: University of Utah ME Dept
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In article <16825@cisunx.UUCP> vangelde@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Timothy J Van) writes:
>I have a LaCie 20mb disk, just over a year old. Very reliable, SilverServer
>
>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 - 

stuf

>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. 
>
>Tim van Gelder

The problem you describe is the spring which makes contact with the shaft on
the hard disk. Some models have the problem, most don't. It can be fixed. When
I called LaCie they instructed me how to do it myself. If you're a little bit
mechanically inclined you can avoid sending it back to them. What it takes is
bending the spring up so it doesn't contact the shaft as hard. The spring is
wearing and vibrating - causing a very nasty sound indeed.

The LaCie drives are very quiet and their software is the best I know of. We
have had a number of drives around here for over a year now, with very few
problems.



-- 
Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu