LaCie external USB-C drive I use as my secondary backup has just died. Poor quality crap.

So. I use a 4Tb Thunderbolt drive with Time Capsule (always connected when I’m using my laptop), and create a weekly drive image to this second drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. So it’s had minimal use since I bought the laptop in 2024. Say 100 uses.

Except this is a replacement for the original which failed inside six months. So two drives from LaCie fail, both under 2 years old, both minimal usage.

No more LaCie for me then.

#LaCie #DriveFailure

Wow, two failing HDDs in one calendar year, I wonder if the batch is bad.

I bought all four of the original drives at one time and I think they all had the same lot code.

I wish ASUSTOR was a bit more active about sending me SMART failure notifications, this one I found because I was looking for something else in the ADM interface.

#CosplayAsSysadmin
#NAS
#DriveFailure
#CheckYourBackups

Catharsis, in pictures.

#backups
#DriveFailure
#TechnicalJiggeryPokery