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Lacie Bigger Disc - NOISY!!!

devman said:
Yep. same thing. I also returned the drive and got another. Exact same problem. There was a thread about this a while ago and someone else had the same problem.

I gave up on it. The drive was unusable in my office (I have an office in a separate building out the back of my house). I'd planned to attach it to my powermac. Instead I put a 300GB Maxtor drive in bay 2 of the PM, and I attached the LaCie to my Mini and relocated both of them into a kitchen cupboard in the house (yes, really!).
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Wow. I can picture the Mini under the pot of coffee, and the cereal box by the side - you won't even see it !

- "Honey, where did you put the Mini?"
- "In the back of the cupboard, behind the crackers"
- "Oh, thanks!"

Can we get a picture ? :p
 
Arnaud said:
Wow. I can picture the Mini under the pot of coffee, and the cereal box by the side - you won't even see it !

- "Honey, where did you put the Mini?"
- "In the back of the cupboard, behind the crackers"
- "Oh, thanks!"

Can we get a picture ? :p
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The pots and pans had to find another home... :)
 

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Bought a 160gig Lacie mini HD last week(stacks right under the mini...but I bought it for portability reasons)....that is THE noiseless HD I have EVER owned...I first thought it wasnt working :D
 
bigger disks have multiple physical hard drives and therefore generate more noise. it also depends greatly on the noise factor of the drive models used - i have two standard lacie d2's, one of which uses noisy hitachi drive and another that has a very silent maxtor inside. needless to say, the noise one is a storage drive and the silent one is for continuous work ;)

noise bugs me whether it's little noise or a lot of noise. i can surely feel your pain. however, those extremely large storages that you complain about are designed for large storage in mind and other factors are compromised if needed. noise is generally not an issue for people that need terabytes of hard drive storage, so if you need the storage space and the noise really bugs you, then, the only reasonable solution is to place the drive in a closet or use some other means to isolate as much noise as possible. you know, a great portion of noise is blocked when you cannot see the sound source...
 
It's under the desk now, and when it is perfectly quiet in my office, I can still hear it, but I generally have a fan going (thanks to the Thermonuclear Reactor™ on my desk) or music playing so it's no big deal.

Disappointed with the product, though. :rolleyes:
 
If you shop around hard enough you can build a 1TB x86 pc with gigabit ethernet and just have it sit in another area of the house and network it, it is what i did. No noise near the powerbook then :)
 
I origionally ranted and raved on about the pathetic noise of my 400 Gig LaCie d2 Extreme. How the hell the reviews managed to say it was a quiet low noise HD is beyond me. That noise is sooooo annoying, so much so that I've reverted back to my slow mac mini internal to boot from. So be it if the beachball pops up and I sit here growing a beard while apps load up, least I can do it in peace!
 
LaCie TB drives

devman said:
Yep. same thing. I also returned the drive and got another. Exact same problem. There was a thread about this a while ago and someone else had the same problem.

I gave up on it. The drive was unusable in my office (I have an office in a separate building out the back of my house). I'd planned to attach it to my powermac. Instead I put a 300GB Maxtor drive in bay 2 of the PM, and I attached the LaCie to my Mini and relocated both of them into a kitchen cupboard in the house (yes, really!).
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Wish I'd have seen this forum before buying one. When I called LaCie to complain, they said if I wanted 1 TB to be quiet, I should buy 4 250 GB drives (these have no fans). The noise comes from the fans, and they also said on the phone that to save costs, they had to use inexpensive fans!
 
wmitz said:
Wish I'd have seen this forum before buying one. When I called LaCie to complain, they said if I wanted 1 TB to be quiet, I should buy 4 250 GB drives (these have no fans). The noise comes from the fans, and they also said on the phone that to save costs, they had to use inexpensive fans!
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Sorry you found out the hard way mate! I'm in the process of taking my music off the LaCie and selling the S***. I hate it. Go Samsung for the silent ones!
 
rossoUK said:
Sorry you found out the hard way mate! I'm in the process of taking my music off the LaCie and selling the S***. I hate it. Go Samsung for the silent ones!
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One of the people I work for bought another 1TB Lacie and asked me "is it supposed to be this noisy?"

Problem is, no one really makes a package with so much storage.
 
Heh... I'm like the oppisite. Noises dont bother me. lol.

You think your G5s noisy, come and sit next to my AMD box. ;)

7 Non Computer controlled 80mm cheap fans going at full blast. :D
 
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