Opinions about LaCie wanted

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Wed Jun 6 19:26:14 EDT 2007


"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

>   Don't they use the same hard drives everybody else does, i.e.,
> Seagate, WDC, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, etc.?  They don't make their own
> HDs, do they?  If so, the differences between La Cie and
> $OTHER_RANDOM_VENDOR would be mainly in the enclosure design and
> bridge electronics, yes?  (As far as the product itself goes.
> Support, price, etc., still apply.)

Yes, and it's the enclosure design and bridge electronics which have
been the troot cause of at least two of their units actually catching
on fire for us :)
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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