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Can daisy chained external hard drives all be bus powered?

Say I have two (or even more!) Firewire 800 bus powered external hard drives. Will all of them be fully powered (and not require an external power source) when I daisy chain them onto my computer? Or will only the first hard drive in the chain…
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Educate me - should I buy these prebuilt NAS (which is better) or make my own?

I'm trying to learn as much as possible, and I think I've learned quite a bit so bear with me here under my confusion. I found a coupe NAS setups. I'm not sure if one is better than the other, other than the price being higher on some, and some…
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New LaCie drive fails to mount on Mac OSX 10.8

I have a new LaCie d2 Quadra 4 TB external harddrive. When I connect it to my Macbook pro with Firewire 800 cable (provided), the drive beeps about 20 times, then I get "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." When I open Disk…
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Change lacie 2big quadra 500gb drives with 3tb ones

I have a Licie 2big Quadra with 2 500gb disks in it. The disks are currently in mirror setup. Just went to a store to buy 2 3tb western digital caviar green disks. Brought my 2big disk with me to make sure the disks would work. The guy from the…
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External HDD (3TB) corrupted - possibly partition table damaged

I've got a LaCie HDD (3TB) which I cannot mount because there seem to be issues with the partition table, according to disk utility. I'm on a mac (Sierra, up to date). Disk utility can't repair it, but it lists the hdd. When trying to repair, disk…
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LaCie 5big Network 2 drive no longer shows up on the network

I'm trying to see if I can fix my friend's NAS which apparently has some pretty important data on it that wasn't saved anywhere else. They actually had the Geeksquad look at it and they've come to the same conclusion I have so far, but I figured I…
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Disaster After Removing Two HDD From LaCie RAID 0 Case

This is the second time this has happened. I own a LaCie IDE RAID 0 Enclosure and the RAID went bad. The system gave me a warning that the data could be read from the RAID but that nothing could be written, and to remove the data ASAP. I did that…
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S.M.A.R.T. broken sectors

Recently I received my hard drive (LaCie) that I've sent away for warranty, my disk failed, and I used Palimpsest Disk utility to check if anything was wrong in the S.M.A.R.T Status. And it said that there were a few broken sectors. So the next day,…
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Can't mount LaCie d2 SAFE in OS X 10.9.5

I have a LaCie d2 SAFE 1TB I got in 2010 to 2011. It worked fine on an older version of a OS X but once I updated to 10.9.5 it stopped. Seems LaCie has not updated the drivers since 2009. Tried all the basics but a clean 10.9 just does not work with…
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Restore data from a single RAID1 disk

I have one half of a RAID 1 array (from a LaCie 2big Network NAS), from which I'm trying to recover the data. I've connected the disk to my desktop PC (Ubuntu 11.04) using a Sitecom SATA/USB adapter, but it only sees an unformatted disk of size 0…
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LACIE Rugged XL 1 TB not recognized (Win7 x64)

I have a Lacie Rugged XL 1TB. I try to connect it via USB 2.0 to my computer with Windows 7 64 bit. The Disk is running, I can hear it. The nice orange LED is on. But Windows does not even recognize it. It does not appear in the device manager and…
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Thunderbolt 3 external drive not showing up in Ubuntu 20.04

I have Ubuntu 20.04 I try to add a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) to my Ubuntu machine via a Thunderbolt 3 slot. The DAS is an "2big Dock Thunderbolt 3 from Lacie". Via USB it works. Via "Thunderbolt 3" it is recognized under Devices > Thunderbolt…
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Copying SD Cards with "LaCie d2 Network"

The LaCie d2 Network has a feature where by you can attach a USB drive and press the blue button at the from and it will copy the drive contents (no computer required). (See this review for more info). USB 2.0 and eSATA ports are also provided…
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Recovering data from Lacie 500Gb External Drive (2x 250GB IDE internally)

I have some LACIE External HDD's and G-Drives, one of the oldest drives is a 500GB external drive with 2 250GB drives inside of it. Can i remove these 2 drives and dock them with an IDE type dock and pull the data? the drives were put away when…
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Upgrade old Lacie 2big Quadra 1TB

I have a (very) old Lacie 2big Quadra with 2 500GB drives. It's USB2.0 but it does feature an esata port so I'm planning on using that for speed. Would I be able to upgrade these with 2 drives of... lets say 4TB ? Because it's so old I'm a bit…
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