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Lacie hard-drive warranty advice

• posted by: james.ingham on 2010-09-10
• tagged: backup, harddrive, end-of-life
• score: 0

Hey,

I have a couple of these lacie hard drives:

And as one is coming up to the end of it's 2 year warranty, I wondered. Is it best to only turn it on as and when I use it or is it best to leave it on the whole time (I'm sure it has a sleep mode on it as you can hear the drive booting up when you request to use it after a long time of not). I'm just slightly concerned as I don't really know how long it will last for and obviously don't want to risk losing my data!

Thanks

Answer 1802

• posted by: tnorthcutt on 2010-09-10
• score: 0

Your best strategy will be to ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP.

With proper backups in place, I suggest using those drives however you'd like to. Without a proper backup in place, stop what you're doing, and get a proper backup solution in place, asap.

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