I have a friend who loves his MacIntoshen. He has a pretty old 1TB external raid made by LaCie. It died, but he got his data off before it died so when he asked me to look at it, I thought "A hard drive must have died."
It has PATA interface so I bought four cheap 500 GB drives to put in it. I put them in and the thing just sits there scanning the hard disks and making clicking sounds. I thought perhaps its formatting but after the LaCie ran for sixteen hours and still wouldn't let me access the drive. And after successfully formatting the old hard drives in a PC I think its the electronics that are fried, not the drives.
Now I'm thinking about buying an external enclosure for the four drives I bought. I've found a few that support PATA (most are SATA now) but I don't know how good the quality is.
Here's one a Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817332008And another at another site:
http://www.xpcgear.com/e350b4u.htmlWhat I'd like to do is find out what's wrong with the LaCie but I haven't found any utilities to help me diagnose it.
Do you guys have any experience with external raid enclosures? What brands are good? He prefers firewire, but said USB would work for him as necessary.
He uses it as a media storage device. He makes his own movies and records and mixes music.
Any advice appreciated.
