Rickboy
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I've got a 250GB LACIE drive with FW800 that houses all of my virtual machines. It died a slow death this morning.
I've been having problems with it for the last few months. I've had to stop and restart it several time to get it to be recognized by my Mac. The Mac would see the enclosure but not the drive itself. Several drive restarts would eventually get the drive to come up and run normally..
Well today it decided to give up on life. I turned it on and it made a the clicking sound of death. That's all it does now.
Fortunately I've been backing up my VM files with time machine on a USB drive.
Now I'm wondering it it is best to replace the hard drive in the enclosure or upgrade to something that has eSATA. I certainly wouldn't mind having a lot more disk speed for my VMs.
I've been having problems with it for the last few months. I've had to stop and restart it several time to get it to be recognized by my Mac. The Mac would see the enclosure but not the drive itself. Several drive restarts would eventually get the drive to come up and run normally..
Well today it decided to give up on life. I turned it on and it made a the clicking sound of death. That's all it does now.
Fortunately I've been backing up my VM files with time machine on a USB drive.
Now I'm wondering it it is best to replace the hard drive in the enclosure or upgrade to something that has eSATA. I certainly wouldn't mind having a lot more disk speed for my VMs.