lblfg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

No! Seagates pre-made externals are terrible. They have a plastic enclosure and have heat problems. Seagate hardrives are good, but pretty much all manufactured externals are horrible. Make your own. Newegg sells enclosures.

zackck (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

thanks, very helpfull!

draculapw (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

try seagates own made externals. there fantastic.

draculapw (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

maybe a bit of chip creap?

draculapw (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

you got a seagate in a lacie? hmmmm

TheCrudMan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Except for the fact that they make mainly USB 2.0 drives, which suck, and that they ship fat 32 formatted and people don't know how to reformat and end up losing tons of data when they cram 240 gigs onto a drive that uses a filesystem that becomes highly unstable after 3 gigs and is inherently unstable on partitions greater than 30 gigs.

TheCrudMan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I had a friend whose Lacie D2 HD stopped working, so, I took it apart, along with another one that was working, swapped the drives to get the data off the one with the bad enclosure (thats what I figured it out to be) and then suddenly both drives were working fine, not wanting to risk it, I just closed both of them up in the swapped enclosures, and relabeled the outside of the drives.

NightwareX (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

lol

philwelch (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I think the problem on these is usually in the enclosure. I'm watching this because I'm looking to reinstall the drive from my D2 case into another enclosure.

jdjesse (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that also looks like a normal harddrive to me