{"id":679,"date":"2009-08-04T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=679"},"modified":"2009-08-04T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T10:08:20","slug":"la-cie-power-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/technology\/la-cie-power-supplies","title":{"rendered":"LaCie Power Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 and 2007 I bought five LaCie external disc drives, mostly the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacie.com\/uk\/products\/product.htm?pid=11156\">d2 or d2 Quandra models<\/a> with a capacity of 500GB. I also bought two LaCie Mini 500GB drives, the kind that match a mac mini and sit neatly underneath it.\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-679 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/lacie1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/lacie1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-680\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-680'>\n\t\t\t\tLaCie Mini Hard Drive\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/lacied2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/lacied2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/lacied2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/lacied2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-682'>\n\t\t\t\tLaCie d2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nIn 2008 the power supplies started failing. The light would flash but the drive wouldn&#8217;t mount. With more than one drive I was quickly able to swap power bricks and confirm the problem. LaCie, to their credit, replaced each power supply without complaint, although on one occasion it took a while as they were out of stock. This happened four times with the d2 drives.<\/p>\n\n<p>Last week it happened again. This time I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Drobo-Bay-FW800-Storage-Array\/dp\/B001CSZMRK\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=electronics&#038;qid=1249379780&#038;sr=8-2\">drobo<\/a>, ripped out the drives from the LaCie d2s and installed them in the drobo. As soon as I got that up and running one of the LaCie mac mini power supplies drives failed! Luckily I&#8217;ve now got a large stock of power supplies so I&#8217;ve just swapped it over.<\/p>\n\n<p>Six power supply failures out of seven drives. Not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 and 2007 I bought five LaCie external disc drives, mostly the d2 or d2 Quandra models with a capacity of 500GB. I also bought two LaCie Mini 500GB drives, the kind that match a mac mini and sit neatly underneath it. In 2008 the power supplies started failing. The light would flash but &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/technology\/la-cie-power-supplies\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LaCie Power Supplies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[12,310],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}