Re: FN-FORUM: Problems with LaCie external harddrive

date posted 20th November 2005 14:32

Hi Lisa,

Interesting to see that someone else has a similar problem - I suppose
that's the beauty of having a forum available to exchange thoughts. I'm
using a Mac Mini as well as a PC - it's the PC the LaCie has trouble with -
I thought initially that it was just copying over from the Mac while working
from the PC that was the trouble; but on investigation I'm having the same
trouble with files from the local system. I'm not much of a techee myself to
be honest; I prefer it when things just work so I can concentrate on the
content! I like my technology though and get curious as to the cause when
something decides to play up.

Have to say though that I've not experienced half the trouble with Macs that
I have with PCs - Apple seems to have everything right for the creative
professional. I'm tempted to just reformat the drives (which I use for
backup) in Apples filing system and use the Mac as the backup server.
Ideally though I want a separate machine to the one I'm working on for the
maintenance operations...

Rob