Ok i know this has been discussed in the past. I am unfortunately not realy tech savy. but I have a late 2009 imac running lion. my Lacie Mini will not show in finder any more. Looking at the back of the mini, i have a flashing green and solid orange lights. I can hear the drive running.
Anybody have any ideas?
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Scott
I'm not going to tell you something you want to hear. I got a LaCie network disk a few years ago. It suddenly stopped working when I allowed it to update its firmware. Finally, after wasting a day and a half on the thing, it came back from the dead. But my files seemed to be gone. After copying everything back over the network from a replica I had, I found out from LaCie that my files were really "moved" so now I had two copies of my stuff.
This year we had a power failure. My LaCie NAS sat there for months with a slow blinking blue light. I had already purchased a Synology NAS so the LaCie was really my backup. Not any more. I have a second Synology that is now my backup.
I've been through the ringer with NAS. I tried Western Digital, Iomega, Seagate, Buffalo and Apple. They all suck. In every case, if they fail you wind up mailing your precious data back to the manufacturer to get the thing fixed. I know my 500 GB Time Capsule came back from Apple empty. So now I put nothing on the inside and back my stuff up to a USB disk plugged in to the TC. Seagate will try to sell you a subscription for basic stuff like ftp. WD and Buffalo will not power back on after a power failure.
For NAS, consider only Synology, QNAP and Drobo. Everything else is squishy dog poop. If I had bought Synology in the first place, I would have saved hundreds of dollars.
My Synology drives are low power and I put WD "green" drives in them so they draw 12 to 18 watts
during operation and even less when asleep. If I do experience a problem, I can pop my drive out and get the thing repaired without my data leaving my home.
There is a "recovery utility" you can download from LaCie. It didn't work for me but it might work for you. Even if it does work, do you really want your data sitting on an NAS drive that could quit working at any moment?