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The drive never worked in ethernet. Lacie is the worst NAS i have ever used. worst ever.0 STARS To recover my data, I tried USB without any luck.Dont every buy lacie. It worked for 6 motnhs. The power was done once in my home and that's it.
You have to restart your computer to reset the shares.Guest access makes shares read-only. No more than 1 users can access a share at the same time. The web app used to configure it is difficult to use and incredibly slow.Password sharing is annoying. Sometimes sharing isn't effective.
A couple months later I decided I wanted to try one more thing to try to recover my data from my first fried unit. I bought a Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini about a year ago and it worked well for about 6 months. I could never connect to it again, and every time I disconnected and reconnected the power, the big blue power light would just stay on, I could never power it down from the button. I wish I could give zero stars for this product.
I am not one to waste time on the phone with a techie that is just going to tell me to do all of the stuff I already tried-- plus these units came from Ebay so I can't send them back. There's only one button on this thing, and if you can't connect via USB or Ethernet there's really nothing you can do but take it apart or slam it to the ground. Could never power down either.I'm glad I did not rely on LaCie for any kind of storage-- this model is completely unreliable as far as I'm concerned.You may be wondering why I didn't call tech support for these issues. It powered up upon connecting the power cord, but would no longer communicate through Ethernet or USB cable.
So in hopes that I could recover my data from the internal hard drive, I bought another exact model, verified that it worked, opened it up and swapped in the hard drive from the "dead" unit. It was not. I powered it down once and powered it back up-- that's all she wrote. So I installed the good unit in order first verify that it was still good.
So I decommissioned this working unit it and put it on the shelf. So I abandoned the Ethernet cable and went to a USB cable, still it was dead. Still did not work-- the hard drive would make funny noises, it was fried.So, I reassembled my "good" unit and used it for a couple weeks, then after some debate decided that I didn't want to trust my data to a LaCie NAS device, I've heard from many people that they are pretty unreliable.
due to a power management issue. I got a new power supply, and now the drive turns on and I can actually access the drive but my previous created shares (and data) still show as "broken" and another 30 min call w/ tech support today confirms my data is lost. They'll fix the drive under warranty, but I lost all my video. I too had the issue of a broken power supply causing erratic behavior. Poor design, not recommended. VERY frustrating, as unlike a standard USB device, it uses the Linux XFS file system which isn't directly accessibly to a Windows machine.One day my drive just wouldn't stop clicking. Eventually this behavior corrupted all the data on my drive irrevocably. I called LaCie (40min on hold) and was told it was a power supply issue (indeed their site confirms this can cause "broken share" messages in the NAS config panel).
They simply do not answer emails. The product works fine, but Lacie support is terrible.
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