Re: [SLUG] LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

[Dave Kempe <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

david wrote:
> Every external firewire/usb drive i've used has ended up giving me hard
> drive failure, and in some cases heart failure. Other people whose
> opinion I respect have come to the same conclusion. I get the impression
> that the problem has to do with power supply on the external device, but
> I haven't figured that out for certain.
>
> I haven't used Lacies. Are they better?
>
>   
Lacies are better. Still fail after about 1 year though on average.
They are cheap enough to just buy more of them and rotate them. I use 
backupninja with rdiff-backup and labelmounts to handle the magic. 
Backupninja is just a tricky shell script which gives some uniformity to 
backup scripts - worth checking out.

dave