Problem with LaCie external HD

Have been using a LaCie 500 GB external HD hooked up to my iMac (OS X 10.8.2) via USB port for the past 4 months. Use it with Time Machine.
Lately it has been disconnecting by itself ... and just a few days ago the backups started to fail too. Using disk utility to check the LaCie says it needs to be repaired ... then says it can't be repaired, needs to be reformatted.
Tried changing it to another USB port (without doing anything else ot it) and now disk utility says it is ok and backups are working again.
Is this a problem with the USB port or with the external HD? Any suggestions?

Thanks maurits ... I'll play around with it and try to figure it out.

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I bought a LaCie external hard drive about a month before leopard was released. I bought this with the intention of using it with time machine. This hard drive has USB and ethernet connections. When I updated to leopard I found out that the USB connection does not work with leopard, I contacted LaCie and they told me that I can only use ethernet with leopard. but time machine won't let me use it through ethernet.
Please respond with any way that I can use time machine with this hard drive.
If it helps it is the LaCie ethernet disk mini 500 GB model.

I have 5 Lacie's and they work with USB. 70% of the people out there will get the cheapest drives they can, and that will be a USB drive.
Here is how to format your drive.
Macintoch HD->Applications->Utilities->Disk Utilities.
Have your Lacie plugged in and running then on the left side highlight it. You may have 2 listings for THAT drive here. The top entry will give you the for example "468 GB WD3435988345903" that is the one you want to highlight. The second or third or fourth on would be the name of the drive partitions you would name. or sub hard drives inside your main Lacie hard drive.
Here is my suggestion, You still need another form of backup if TM goes bad on you. I clone my HD on another partition on the same drive as my TM. I have 70 GB partition for the clone or backup. So I will give you this scenario.
Highlight your drive then click on "partition" in the headers to your right.
In Volume scheme hit 2 partitions
Then go down and click "options"
Hit "GUID Partition"
Your partitions will be named untitled 1 and 2
Highlight the "untitled 2" by clicking in it's square
There will be a small center dot between the two partitions, put your cursor on that dot while clicking and pull down the box to 50- 60 GB or what ever you feel your max HD space will be with all your pictures and movies I chose 70GB
Them you untitled 1 will be your TM partition
Go a head and name your partitions in the line to your right by clicking on the partition squares.
I put in Time Machine for #1 and Tom's Clone 12-29-07 and I change the date every time I clone or backup on this partition by clicking on the lower most part of the name of this partitions name on your desktop. You will get a blue highlight when you can add to it. The name/date change can be done on your desktop anytime.
Before you hit the final button to do this partition scheme, double check options on more tie that you have the GUID scheme checked.
Run this free program to use to clone your main drive in your new #2 partition as an added backup to TM.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
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Hi,
I already have my iTunes library on an external hard drive (LaCie 320GB mini Hard Drive & Hub) which I absolutely NOT recommend. The drive goes in sleep mode every now and then and most of the time I have this big 4 sec blank between each song till the drive wakes up again
soooo painful.
Anyway, I am about to buy another external hard drive with an Ethernet interface (+ FTP and samba) Does anyone know a good product? Any problem running the iTunes library over the Ethernet network?
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I am having a problem when I daisy-chain a second external HD to my first external HD connected to my new iMac. This is the second external HD I've tried this with, with similar problems arising.
My setup: OS 10.5.6. First external HD: G-Tech Q 1TB; 2nd External HD: also a G-Tech Q 1TB (the first time I was daisy-chaining a LaCie 250GB drive to my first external drive).
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I initially had this problem with another external HD I tried to daisy-chain to the first. Same issue.
I was trying to partition the second external using Disk Utility. When I hit the Partition button, Disk Utility just hung with the beach ball.
When I attached a second external the first time I tried to do this all sorts of havoc ensued. A lot of apps were hanging and I couldn't Force Quit them. The whole system seemed to go wonky.
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i just updated my latest java but the update is causing problems with some external devices. So i would like to uninstall this latest java update and get back the previous one. That should solve to problems with my external device.
Is this possible and how do i do that?
Anyone who responds thanks for that!
Juko
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Java 6 you can't as Apple maintains it, and Java 7 you could if you uninstall it and Oracle provides the earlier version which they likely won't his last update fixed 37 remote exploits.
Java broken some software here and there, all you'll have to do is wait for a update from the other parties.

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I have a problem with the external sound of my iPod, when I take the headphones the music keeps playing and the ipod recognizes still have a headset connected. how do I get external sound out?

- Try insering and removing the headphone plug a dozen times or so.
- Try cleaning out the headphone jack in the iPod.
- Resett he iPod. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing
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ever since I have continuously problems with my external HDD that disconnect all the time and cause problems in other software (Lightroom, Adobe PS CS6) ... it is not a HDD problem, because it occurs with my 3TB WD HDD (Time Machine), my 1TB WD and 1TB IOMEGA
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I have a problem with a external HD on my mac pro.
After many month of regular use with out any problem today when I turned on the HD I could not see it in the finder anymore.
I use this HD for backup of an other external HD and to do the back up I use an application called SYN SYNC
The strange things are:
1) If I start Sync Sync everything works properly as if the sofware recognize with out problem that the HD is effectively there.
2) If I open DISK UTILITY I can see the HD and if I try to repair it the utility after 2 minutes says that everything is ok.
3) If I look for the mac pro (to which the external HD incriminated is connected) on a different mac in my studio over the net I can see the external HD and I can browse the folder, copy items from the esternal HD to the MAC and even copy thing on the external HD.
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Does enyone have an idea of what's going on?
best regards
Lorenzo

I can still see all the others external Hd with out any problem and I already try this but no results I can't see that HD on the desktop and neither in the sidebar.
As I said the strange thing is that the external HD shows the same behaviour when is connected to a different MAC.
Seams the problem is with the HD not with the MAC.
I even try to use a different case for the HD using also USB connection instead of FW, but nothing change!

Problem with Logic/external HardDisk - NEED HELP!

Hi Everybody
I've got a big problem with my Logic Projects. I am recording Songs with my band and it's all 24bit, 96 KHz. With more than about 20 Tracks playing simultaneously, Logic shows an error that the disk is too slow.
For all the Audio stuff, I am using an external LaCie HardDisk, 250GB, FW800. Buffers are on the highest setting in Logic, and the "Larger Disk Buffer" Option is turned on.
In the Terminal, I watched the Disk usage by typing "top -d", and with 20 Tracks playing, it shows a Disk read of about 6000KB/s. This is well within the FW800 Standard! When I copy a file from that HardDisk to another one, Terminal shows a disk read of about 25'000KB/s, so nothing seems to be wrong with the disk itself. I guess it must be a Logic problem.
Can anybody help me or does anyone have the same problem? Any help is greatly appreciated... Thanks!
(I am using Logic Pro 7.1.1)
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Hello,
This is something I have experience with. If you want to you can go here to see my full set-up.
www.KenosisStudios.com
I am in a pro scenerio where I often need and use 50-60 tracks simult. at 24/96khz. I used to use a Glyph rack with 7200rpm drives and when I started out I spent unreal time on the phone with Emagic, Apple, Sweetwater, and Glyph tech support to try every option of getting ProTools HD results out of my track count. I am no tech guru, so don't live by my words alone, but my personal experience states the following;
I tried raiding the drives, splitting tracks to seperate drives for playback, you name it. The bottom line is this, your problem is not, as you know, with the bandwidth of your bus. It is the speed of your drives. Were you to have 10krpm or 15krpm drives you would immediately see a difference. Yes bandwidth and all sorts of techy stuff comes into play, but by and large this is what you need to address.
What I ended up doing was this- I started using the outboard drive for back-ups and other outboard drives for my sample libraries. I installed in the G5 second drive slot a 7200rpm Seagate Sata drive and strictly track just to it.
Doing this alone got my track count to the 50-60track, 24/96khz scenerio I use today.
My advise, depending on how big you need the drive to be, do the research on what 10krpm and 15krpm internal Sata drives are dependable and go with that. Of course the faster the rpm the smaller the drive, so just look at a good balance for your situation. If you must go external, again, the faster the better, and going Sata will do you better than FW, etc.
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Portege R100: Problems with Lacie USB2.0 CD/DVD Burner

Hello all, this is my first post here.
I will most likely be a regular here as i have just purchased an R100.
I'm having some trouble with an external drive i purchased specifically for the R100,
its a Lacie CD / DVD burner, model number: 300819EK.
This unit can be powered by AC or by using two usb ports.
I'm using two usb ports.
The R100 recognises the Lacie, and in the device manager list, the drive is then
listed, but it is listed as a Toshiba drive.
I'm assuming this Toshiba drive is the external drive you could purchase to use
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It often gets to around 20% of an install then hangs.
Is there an alternative driver i can download that i can overwrite the toshiba
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Being so close to having the Lacie 100% functional means there is obviously a
way of overcoming the problems.
Hope you guys/gals can shed some light on this for me.
Thank you.

Hello Larry
You will be very lucky if anyone will be able to give you some precise explanation about that. I can just tell you the follow: the fact is that this model is created and tested to work with compatible Toshiba external devices. Because of that Toshiba built in all necessary drivers into preinstalled operating system. It should help fast and quick drive recognition and also installation.
It does not mean you MUST use Toshiba drives. Of course you can use what you want but only problem can be when you try to install OS. Toshiba recovery image contains drivers for Toshiba drives and recovery procedure will work without any problem because the external ODDs will be recognized immediately.
I recommend you to visit Lacie support page and check if you can find some driver there. Toshiba has nothing to do with it if you use some third part product.
It often gets to around 20% of an install then hangs sorry but I didnt understood what you want to say with it and what you mean with 20%. Second part of your posting is very confusing and I really dont know what you want to say.
Bye

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Exactly the same here. Installed Mavericks and La Cie no longer shows in Finder and Time Machine reminds me that no back up has taken place. As an iMac newbie where do I go from here. In my Win PC days I always backed up to an external HD on a scheduled basis without this sort of problem.

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I have an iMac with 32GB memory and, due to space requirements, an external LaCie 2Big2 disk array, with 2 x 6GB disks in a RAID-1 (mirroring) configuration and attached via USB3.
This has in the past worked extremely quickly. The iMac has a 1TB Fusion drive.
In recent weeks something has changed. It now takes about a minute for Aperture to start up and open a library of photographs. It used to take 3-4 seconds. In the meantime I get a spinning beachball, but can happily use other applications. The manager software for the array says it's working fine. I am more than a little puzzled and frustrated.
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Thank you very much for your reply. Here are the answers:
What exactly has changed?
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Did this start after a software update?
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Or after you moved the library to the Lacie Array?
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Did you import new photos?
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Did you enable Photo Stream?
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Does Aperture launch more quickly, if you hold down the Shift key while Aperture is launching? This will defer the generation of previews.
If Aperture is launching more quickly this way, you may have imported a corrupted video or image file, that you need to find and to remove.
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Other possible reasons:
Check the file system on your array. If the filesystem is not MacOS Extended (Journaled), you may have problems with ambigious filenames.
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