Justin Conover justin.conover@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/26/05, Rudi Chiarito nutello@sweetness.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:00:18PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
Well, I think your right, I plugged it into my wifes windows box and ntfs failed to format it too, guess I'll be calling LaCie. I thought these were supposed to be good drives.....
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Did you notice when Windows actually complained about the drive? I seem to remember that, when I tried to help him, formatting proceeded fine up to 50%, after which it slowed down and then failed. This made me think that there were two 250GB drives inside (the case is larger than the smaller drives, too), that the second drive was faulty and that the USB2/FW firmware wasn't handling the error in the best way. Now, based on his reports as well as yours, I am starting to believe that it might not be a drive failure, but something more fundamental...
Can you try creating a partition that takes up the first 49% of the disk?
My guess is it would be 2@250 in a raid 0, I would pop it open, but I want to send it back :) If my raid 0 guess is correct, it wouldn't matter doing a % since it will pull from both.
I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head assembly and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar make and performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just larger platters (thus larger casing).
About the trouble they are giving, I'd suspect some limit on disk size somewhere (not exactly unheard of...). Missing "special Windows driver" or something?
On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head assembly and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar make and performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just larger platters (thus larger casing).
I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-) They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD... To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an internal controller and several smaller harddisks.
Peter.
After all I heard, this has to be an hardware error, maybe the internal controller isn´t working correctly. I formated a 600GB raid5 array (software raid) on my fc4 box yesterday without any problems.
kind regards Dominik Schastok
On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
assembly
and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar
make and
performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just
larger
platters (thus larger casing).
I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-) They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD... To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an
internal
controller and several smaller harddisks.
Peter.
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On 6/27/05, dominik.schastok@t-online.de dominik.schastok@t-online.de wrote:
After all I heard, this has to be an hardware error, maybe the internal controller isn´t working correctly. I formated a 600GB raid5 array (software raid) on my fc4 box yesterday without any problems.
kind regards Dominik Schastok
On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
assembly
and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar
make and
performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just
larger
platters (thus larger casing).
I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-) They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD... To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an
internal
controller and several smaller harddisks.
Peter.
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I am returning it and getting my $$ back and this is what i'm thinking of doing now, just get a case and a 4-5 hotswap sata bay and use sata-to-sata for backup, I think i would get much better performance and I can do it for the same price. I wont fill all the drives up just yet, just get them as I need them and expand the lv.
Justin Conover wrote:
On 6/27/05, dominik.schastok@t-online.de dominik.schastok@t-online.de wrote:
After all I heard, this has to be an hardware error, maybe the internal controller isn´t working correctly. I formated a 600GB raid5 array (software raid) on my fc4 box yesterday without any problems.
kind regards Dominik Schastok
On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
assembly
and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar
make and
performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just
larger
platters (thus larger casing).
I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-) They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD... To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an
internal
controller and several smaller harddisks.
Peter.
--
I am returning it and getting my $$ back and this is what i'm thinking of doing now, just get a case and a 4-5 hotswap sata bay and use sata-to-sata for backup, I think i would get much better performance and I can do it for the same price. I wont fill all the drives up just yet, just get them as I need them and expand the lv.
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