Lacie Pocket Drive Locks up

My 60G Lacie Pocket Drive has started to lock up after about 15 minutes of editing in FCP4.5. It goes to a solid orange light on the drive (as opposed to a blinking light when in use). I have transferred all of my media off of the drive, but don't really know what to try next. I don't want to ruin the drive permanently. Any suggestions?

And I had 2 brand new G-raids die a year ago, one 500 gig, one terabyte. The replacement terabyte died quickly also. They apparently had a bad production run. I've had better luck with LaCie, but I've pretty much given up on firewire drives except for sneakernet. I've had a macburly 5 drive Sata enclosure for about a year and things seem much more dependable (and much cheaper once you're past the price of the enclosure).

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I need to sell my macbook pro 17" 2007 but want to save all files to an external lacie hard drive. What the best way to do this please?

Consider these options...
SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
or CCC http://www.bombich.com/
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I know this has been discussed quite a bit but I cannot seem to get things right. I have been trying all of the Terminal codes to no avail. I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. Here is where I am at. I have 3 Lacie External drives that are locked. I cannot access them at all
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Greg (Me) CUSTOM
Greg (Me) CUSTOM
(unknown) CUSTOM
everyone CUSTOM
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lO@ed /Volumes/600_Gig
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Run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions.
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My Lacie Hard Drive is no longer being recognized by my MacBook, please help.

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I have a Lacie external hard drive (LaCie Rugged XL eSATA 3Gb/s | USB 2.0) that I have been using on my MacBook (timemachine) (late 2008, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with OS X 10.9.1). One day it stopped being recognized, not showing up on the desk top, the disk utility program, etc.
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Hi Dibenkorn,
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I'm using Time Machine and a LaCie external drive to backup. I also have a 8 GB LaCie flash drive I want to use for small jobs. If I plug the LaCie flash drive in, is my Mac going to think it is the LaCie external drive and start trying to backup?

I'm using Time Machine and a LaCie external drive to backup. I also have a 8 GB LaCie flash drive I want to use for small jobs. If I plug the LaCie flash drive in, is my Mac going to think it is the LaCie external drive and start trying to backup?

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Suddenly getting message that my system doesn't support final cut. this is after hooking up an external lacie hard drive and downloading a new lacie shortcut button software. i had also safe started the computer.

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if your using the Lacie as a scratch drive for Final Cut, uninstall the backup software and blue button control utility to use the drive properly to save and read media files.
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see this from Lacie on uninstalling the preference utility:
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Cooper, it's NOT going to be all the devices that are having problems, the OP's issues are related to the USB hub/ports not working properly. Reinstalling drivers for all the USB devices including the Pocket drive that doesn't use any, would be an exercise in futility.
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can any1 help me out with my ipod touch....I had my ipod in my pocket on lock and when i pulled it out to use it,it had ipod disabled and underneath that it had connect to itunes....unfortunately i am unable to get into my ipod its like locked me out....hope some1 out there can be of help...any advice given is much appreciated

The screen is telling you to connect the iPod to your computer and restore via iTunes. You may have to also place the iPod in recovery mode in ordrer to allow a restore. For recovry mode:
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"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data could not be read or written.
(Error code -36)"
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3: Erase the drive and try to recover the deleted data. (Too risky as the data is needed)
4: Erase the drive and start over. (Unbelievable but…)
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Maximilain

desioner wrote:
Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup.
I don't know if there's any particular "life expectancy" difference for RAID 0, but I do know that for every drive you add, you're that much more likely to lose all your data.
I know if one of the drives fail all of the data is irrecoverable isn't it?
Right, because it puts little parts of the files on each drive. RAID 0 is all about speed (and living dangerously). When I was using a lot of RAID 0 drives, I only put stuff on them that I felt I could lose. And sometimes I did lose it.
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Hi,
I'm trying to back up my macbook with time machine on the Lacie external driver I usualy use for this, but today my computer doesn't find the driver. I haven't done back up in 6 month.
Today, the Lacie driver is pluged and running, but the computer just does'nt find it.
what shall I do ?

Some things to consider:
Is the drive mounted, i.e., visible via Finder and/or on the Desktop?
Is the drive still selected in System Preferences, Time Machine? If not, use the "Select Disk" button.
Is Time Machine still turned on (System Preferences, Time Machine)?
Can you see the drive (and mount it) using Disk Utility (in your Utilities folder)?
charlie

When i am logging/ Capturing my mac is telling me that i am getting dropped frames. would i need to get a LaCie Hard Drive?

When i am logging/ Capturing my mac is telling me that i am getting dropped frames. would i need to get a LaCie Hard Drive?

To be honest, I've had 2 Lacie drives crash out of 2 bought. That's not a good track record for me.
Your best bet (I'm a computer professional, for what it's worth):
Get a hard drive case or enclosure that supports firewire 800 and put your own PC hard drive (SATA for example) 7200rpm or higher hard drive into it.
Let me explain a bit more. External hard drive manufacturers often put no-name hard drives into fancy cases to cut costs and that's how they make a profit. I've have had nothing but problems with with these types of drives. (Like Lacie) You are much better off getting some type of decent drive enclosure and getting your own GOOD hard drive. I would highly recommend Seagate, I have NEVER had a problem with a Seagate drive in 20 years of owning PCs and Macs. Western Digital is also a good brand (though I had 1 crash). These are the types of drives you would put in your Mac Pro. You want to get an SATA hard drive.
I have owned several external cases where the case electronics fried, but the hard drives were still in good shape. Take the hard drive out, put it into a new case you're good to go!
For video you want to make sure that your hard drive case supports Firewire 800! This is mandatory.
My personal favorite, (and I own 5 of these) is Vantec's NexStar hard drive enclosure. They accept any SATA 3.5" drive (I bought mine from a company called ComputerStop). I have yet to have a single problem with any of them. They are solid aluminum casing, you can literally throw them into your backback, drop them on the floor and your hard drive is fairly well protected from impact damage (at least you won't break the case with anything short of a sledgehammer). I am currently looking at getting a second one of these:
http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/173
(My bad, this is an IDE case up to 750GB)
This the one you want:
http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/354
As far as the hard drive, you can get a Seagate Baracuda drive 1TB at 7200rpm drive for about $60. The case and hard drive together, maybe a few over $100 for the whole thing. With shipping, and tax figure about $150.
Don't let the price fool you. It will rock.
Story: I got an iOmega "raid" case with two Seagate drives in it and the iOemga case fried, but the hard drives were still good. Fortunately, they were in two removable trays. I put them into two "rocketfish" hard drive cases almost 3 years ago and I am still using them every day today.
Moral of this story: It's the quality of the hard drive that matters, not what case it's in.
Is it hard to set up?
Not at all. You put the hard drive into a tray, (with Vantec case), screw it in. It only goes in 1 way. Plug in a power cable to the drive. Slide the tray into the case (carefully, don't munch the power cable!) and screw it in place. You can literally do it in 10 minutes or less. There are, of course instructions, but if you are reasonably clever, you can literally see what plugs into what just by looking at it.
Sorry for the long reply, but I have a lot of experience with external drives and I hope this helps others.
Finally, when you make it to the big time you can spend $400, get yourself a firewire RAID enclosure and you can upgrade to 4 external hard drives in 1 enclosure. Figure $800 for that set up, but you can go up to 12 TB of drive space with that, or up to 3TB if you are running redundant discs. But that's a whole other ballgame...
Peace.

Opening previous itunes on my LaCie Hard Drive

My powerbook was stolen recently. Just before that, luckily, I had gone to the Genius bar (trying to selectively move music from my itunes library on the laptop to my LaCie Hard Drive, to free up some space). I learned that moving your library is an all or nothing proposition, I wouldn't be able to selectively move music to the LaCie. So I copied the entire library to the LaCie HD. Then, we set up some alias folders on my desktop whereas I could switch the itunes library folder, that I wanted access to, into the Mac HD music folder. Then, when I opened itunes, I could open it on the LaCie HD, or open the itunes music library on my laptop. Then I could just delete all the music on the laptop I didn't want to carry with me for work travel. But then, the laptop got stolen. Now, I'm on my old G4 Quicksilver, trusty ol' guy, where I have an old music library on it. I've also bought a few cds from itunes using this library. Now, I'm about to go on another trip, want to update my ipod and transfer new music to it, the first time on this computer, but I can't get access to my itunes music library on the LaCie HD. I tried changing, (under preferences -advanced- location change to La Cie HD), but it still opens the Mac HD, not the LaCie. I even tried changing the location, (same pref-adv-change location), and restarting, didn't work. It would still open the Quicksilver itunes. I tried changing out the itunes music folder, moving the folder from the Mac HD music window onto the desktop and moving the LaCie itunes music folder into the Mac HD Music window/folder, but it tries to copy it there ("not enough room to copy").
So - how can I use the itunes on the LaCie, where the bulk of my music is? When I updated itunes, did it not allow me to have two libraries anymore? I'm willing to sacrifice the Quicksilver itunes library to switch to the one on the LaCie. I just need to keep itunes on the LaCie because it's too big for my Mac HD. And if I have to sacrifice the Quicksilver itunes music library, how can I save the music I've bought from itunes that's only in that library? Do I have to burn it to a disc and then re-import it? I must say, there are definite advantages to just going out and buying actual cd's!
Thanks for any help you can offer! Edward

Still a little problem. I did everything you said, and it seems itunes updated with the library on the external, and I saw that the album artwork was updating. I can play songs that I click on, the only thing now seems to be that all the albums/playlists, that go with the music, are missing. Only the playlists/albums from the old internal itunes are there.
The one link you sent "Moving you iTunes Music Folder" - talked about consolidating after moving. Should I do that? It was odd, however, because some of the steps mentioned in that procedure were not available to me - like "click the new folder button in the Change Music Folder Location Window." I just did as you said and navigated to the external.
From itunes now, should I consolidate library? Once I plug my ipod into this new computer, it will be synched to it and any mistakes will be reflected on it too right? I could loose music if I hook the ipod up with itunes not being in total working order?
Thanks. I really appreciate your help. Hopefully I can cancel my genius bar appt. tomorrow and not have to lug the tower and drives in, especially because I'm leaving town early Tues. AM and have a million things to do first. Thanks.

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