External LaCie Hard Drive Failure and Data Recovery:

The LaCie Big Disks are infact one or more standard IDE or SATA hard disk drives with a USB and / or FireWire interface surrounded by a metal or plastic casing. LaCie drives have become extremely popular due to the large capacity available in their range and its tough exterior.

Recent drive failure figures have shown that there has been an increase in the failure rate of the larger capacity LaCie products. Datlabs have extensive knowledge of the typical problems faced by LaCie hard disk drives and would provide you with the best chance of retrieving your data.

LaCie Models:

• LaCie Big Disk.
• LaCie Rugged Hard Disk.
• LaCie Little Disk.
• LaCie Mobile Disk.
• LaCie Desktop Hard Disk.
• LaCie Cloudbox.
• LaCie Rikiki.
• LaCie big NAS.

Failure Symptoms:

• Specific files and / or directories become inaccessible and disappear.
• In more severe cases, the entire drive becomes inaccessible and disappears.

Component faults:

• The internal fan is susceptible to damage, and can break down due to wear and tear, the drive(s) are then prone to overheat within the casing, causing the device to fail.
• LaCie external disks are still prone to all the other problems hard disks suffer from ie. mechanical failure, logical failure, bad sectors etc..
• Older LaCie devices frequently use Maxtor or Western Digital hard drives
• LaCie has recently been acquired by Seagate and Newer models contain Segates range of primary storage products .

Datlabs have a high success rate of recovery from LaCie External Hard Disk Drives, please call for more information.