As someone that works in the data recovery industry, LaCie sees the highest failure rate on the market by a large margin (previously Maxtor was up there although they have gotten better in the past several years). Their proprietary firmware is the major cause of these issues. They help keep Kroll, Drive Savers, and others in business.
please don't attack lacie or any other external drive company without offering a viable inexpensive alternative.
here is the bottom line you are in an industry that only sees failures.
what you don't see are winners.
I can write a 5000 word response to you and others on this site about backups and the like.
I won't but here is what I will say
" think of all externals and internals as A) cassettes or B) video tapes.
They tangle and they break" .
Multiple backups are needed.
The reality is most of us want to chisel and not pay for proper backup. If we did you would have almost no business at all.
proper backup ;
1) tm = 1 big drive and clone it = 2 big drives
2) a cloud solution = for off site think Sandy or an earthquake
3) clone your drive every night = 7 drives or at least 3 and rotate them.
that is a lot of money some would argue that the above is not good enough. Some would say use 2 cloud solutions 1 is not good enough.
so many make a choice to not spend this much.
they come up with lower cost options which is why you are in business.
