LaCie 4big Quadra compatible drives

[WebHead]

The replacement drives officially compatible with LaCie's 4big Quadra are no longer produced and/or expensive and/or defective: https://www.lacie.com/as/en/support/kb/lacie-big-products-drive-compatibility-list-007780en/

Could you whack any old drive in there, or is it not that simple?

 

[Stephen.R]

Most 3.5" SATA disks should work, but the gotcha is that the firmware it runs may not support larger disks. Are you trying to replace a failed drive, or re-use the enclosure with 4 new disks?

 

[WebHead]

Reuse the enclosure. One of the original drives failed, then I discovered that model had a notoriously high failure rate. So I plan to replace all four.

 

[entwerfen]

Reuse the enclosure. One of the original drives failed, then I discovered that model had a notoriously high failure rate. So I plan to replace all four.

Webhead,
Did your replacement drives work? I'm now in the same boat and want to replace all the drives. I hope by keeping the size drive within what was available at the time of manufacture I can keep this enclosure going. Any info from your experience would be helpful. Thanks!

 

[WebHead]

Webhead,
Did your replacement drives work? I'm now in the same boat and want to replace all the drives. I hope by keeping the size drive within what was available at the time of manufacture I can keep this enclosure going. Any info from your experience would be helpful. Thanks!

Sorry for the delay!

I've since moved on to a whole new product, but you should be able to replace the drives without problem. I was considering using 4TB units as it's apparently the 3TB ones that have problems.

The 4big enclosures can take up to 16GB or 20GB from memory.

 

[entwerfen]

No worries! Thanks for the reply!

 

[Maik_W]

Joining in, as I'm having some 4big Quadras, which "require maintenance".
;-)

LaCie's document, WebHead linked to, explicitly mentions the USB 3 modell.
In some other LaCie PDFs I found, the USB 2 modells seem to max out at 16TB in total.

Some thoughts or experiences here?

 

[barracuda156]

I got Lacie 4big Quadra 6 TB. So far drives seem to be okay.