Looking for replacement bare drive to fit LaCie d2 Extreme enclosure
I don't know if this is the correct place to post this question. If it is not, would some kind soul PLEASE direct me to the right forum?
I've had my LaCie d2 320GB drive for at least 3 years. A couple weeks ago, I noticed the drive was making the justly infamous "Click-O-Death." I ran both ProSoft's Drive Genius 3, v3.1.1 and Micromat's TechTool Pro 5 v5.0.7, both programs at latest spec. Both programs found a significant number of bad blocks, and both programs recommended getting a new drive (of course). Both utilities claim to have bad block reallocation capabilities, so I tried that with both TechTool and Drive Genius -- which took about an hour each time -- then did the disk scans again. Still had bad blocks (same number, too), so I backed up My LaCie drive with Time Machine (which I have since ditched for CCCloner), booted off the #1 Snow Leopard install disk (I'm obsessive), opened up Disk Utility from the install disk, and erased the LaCie drive, choosing the single-pass "write zeroes to disk" security option, which Apple says WILL reallocate all bad blocks. Ran TechTool and Drive Genius again… same result: lots of bad blocks, go get a new drive.
I didn’t expect the LaCie to last forever, especially as I used it as a “mule” to carry data around for other computers, and these days 320GB ain’t much -- my iMac has a 1TB internal SATA, and 2 external USB drives (not counting the LaCie) that total another 3TB -- so I was wondering: The LaCie is such a nice, sturdy drive enclosure for standard 3.5” drives, it has a 57W power supply, AND its interface card can accommodate FW400, FW800, and USB2 – can anyone recommend a 1TB to 2TB 3.5" drive I could drop in the LaCie enclosure?
Besides a drive recommendation, I'm sorry to say I haven't been able to open up the LaCie to get the drive out. I got the rear plate off, but there's a steel chassis like a Sherman tank inside the aluminum enclosure, and I haven't figured out how to get the chassis and its works, including the drive, out of there (it won't PULL out, lemme tellya!) , so I have no idea how the drive connects to the interface card that translates FireWire and USB into whatever the drive's connector, and therefore I don't know what kind of drive I need (SATA, ATA, whatever). I googled until I was Googly-eyed, but I could not find any useful info on the dead 350GB drive that inhabits the LaCie enclosure -- perhaps I was using the wrong search terms, but I could find nothing identifying the make and configuration of this drive. The LaCie site was of no help, either; here's the piddling amount of info I could glean from LaCie:
FEATURES
• FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & USB 2.0 interfaces • Driver-free for Mac OS XMINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
• FireWire 800 equipped computer (9-pin): Mac OS 10.2 or greater
• FireWire 400 equipped computer (6-pin) or iLink (4-pin): Mac OS 9.x, 10.x
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 equipped computer: Mac OS 10.2.x or greater
• USB 1.1 equipped computer: Mac OS 9.x, 10.x
• minimum 64MB RAM
301146 320GB
2 x FireWire 800 (9-pin) ports;
1 x FireWire 400 (6-pin) port (compatible
with iLink, DV); 1 x Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (compatible with USB 1.1)
FW 800: up to 800Mbits/s (100MB/s);
FW 400: up to 400Mbits/s (50MB/s); USB 2.0: up to 480Mbits/s (60MB/s)
FW 800: up to 64MB/s;
FW 400: up to 42MB/s;
USB 2.0: up to 34MB/s 7200rpm <10ms 8MB minimum driver-free for Mac OS X
Once I figure out how to get the thing out of there I may know, but I'm hardly a wizard concerning drive interfaces (or much else!).
And this is my System's configuration:
Apple 27" iMac (late Fall '09) 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, 12 GB RAM
Thanks for your time.
Bart Brown
