The LaCie is Dead. Long “Bugger Off” The LaCie.
Recently, the 1TB LaCie Network Space drive, as ridiculed previously, vanished off the network. The router wasn`t showing the port connected, and nmap-ping the LAN shows the device had vanished. I did the usual routine of swapping Ethernet cables, trying another port in the router, etc. but no go. Even after connecting the drive to the laptop over Ethernet, the beast had vanished.
I ripped the pathetic piece of pain out of its NAS enclosure and chucked it in a USB to see what Linux made of the situation. The drive, and every one of the ext3/xfs partitions is healthy, yet the device is plopped. Looks like the Ethernet port just gave up. No offence, but that realllly shouldn`t happen with a silly little drive that just sits beside the router all day long. Turns out the drive itself was a little Samsung 4200rpm model. Which might explain why it was always shit slow. I`d always assumed it was 7200rpm. Hey ho.
LaCie – that`s the first and last time I`ll buy any of your products. Awful. 2/10. You lost another point thanks to Neil Poulton, whoever he is and your philosophy of design over reliability. Perhaps his name is an anagram of “overpriced, underperforming, zero reliability”.
Back to the rsync scripts again – I`ve nuked the drive as NTFS and mounted it as the same drive letter on Windows, so the rsync scripts just work. Probably the first time ever on Windows anything has ever “just worked”.