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From: stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens)
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Subject: Re: LaCie hard disk
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Date: 26 Mar 89 15:57:45 GMT
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In article <2607@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu> garth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Garth Snyder) writes:
>    In article <2061@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Daniel Chan) writes:
>    
>                                            However, these people also
>    said that their disks gave out high pitch noises after running for a
>    while.
>    
>It DID develop the high-pitched whining problem related to the static
>brush, but I did not have any problems fixing that in the way that the
>LaCie techs described to me.  Took about 15 minutes and a screwdriver
>- AND I got to look inside the drive.  The electronics looked very
>high-quality.  Everything was SMD.

I don't know if this has been mentioned on the net before, but the static
brush problem that causes the high pitched squeal is not a problem that
is confined to LaCie hard drives. I have fixed this problem for at least
two different drives from other resellers. The point is... DON'T think
that you will avoid the problem by avoiding LaCie. It is not their
exclusive problem, but one of the drive manufacturer (I know CDC Wren
III drives exhibit this problem for instance). I suppose that LaCie and
others could just bend the brush out of the way before shipping but that
is a lot of work to prevent a problem that probably occurs in only a small
fraction of the drives they sell.

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