A Bag of Lemons

I recently purchased a 500GB LaCie drive from Amazon.co.uk for use with Time Machine. the drive was £125 (US$250) and came with a quadruple interface. In other words Firewire 400, 800, ESATA and USB. The main reasons I chose this drive was that they design was very sleek and did not get in the way and the fact that they have a FW800 which would save me yet another USB port.

When I first set the drive up I was immediately greeted with a churning sound within the drive. I’m guessing that this sound is the spindle, and its loose (just so you understand this is a guess, I don’t know to much about hard drives). I do know however that this sound is not meant to be there as my friend Rupert just purchased one through my Amazon link (bellow!) and it is not making the same sound. So far nothing really bad has happened to the drive and I haven’t had any data loss, but I am going to LaCie a ring for a couple of reasons one. The product has obviously got something wrong with it and I guess could fail at any time and the sound is driving me insane.

So I’m going to phone up LaCie this weekend, the drive is at home, and ask them what’s up.

In short, I got a lemon.

As you all know I bought a MacBook Pro a few months ago and have been loving it but lately have been having some really frustrating keyboard issues. Basically I will be typing away and then it stops, nothing works. When I press the caps lock key the light does not turn on and nothing else works. After a short period of time it comes back to life and goes on normally, but I can’t afford for it to fail me, as it already has, in lessons. Unfortunately it is going to be hard to show it to the guys in the store as it is so intermittent.

In short, I think my MacBook Pro is a bit of a lemon (not a whole one!) :)

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Continue reading » · Written on: 11-08-07 · 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “A Bag of Lemons”

  1. Chris Leigh wrote:

    Time machine won’t do you much good if the backup drive is u.s! Any idea what is causing your keyboard problems?

     November 8th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
  2. 5 Great Additions To Your Mac Setup | Jonathan Davies wrote:

    [...] being thoroughly disappointed with my LaCie hard drive I am on the hunt for a new one. Though I see myself getting a Time Capsule I still want [...]

     February 11th, 2008 at 9:32 am
  3. Abe Olandres wrote:

    That Lacie drive is a bit expensive. Bought myself a 500GB Western Digital MyBook while visiting Singapore for only about $190 the same month you got yours.

     May 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

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