<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">First, you should have it fixed under warranty if the LaCie is failing within a year.<DIV>Second, the actual internal media is relatively standard. If your warranty is already expired it would be fairly easy to replace the hard drive(s) with a new one, possibly larger than 500 MB.<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Jon Thompson</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jthompson@greatapetrust.org">jthompson@greatapetrust.org</A></DIV><DIV>515.360.1351</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Insights through collaborations with apes</DIV><DIV>Great Ape Trust of Iowa</DIV><DIV>www.greatapetrust.org</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 2006, Jun 17, at 6:49 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">I’ve got a 160GB LaCIE Porsche design one. It’s a year old and has been used for 24 hour backups, or for bringing media captured on trips around. (dry northern ontario canada, humid Iowa etc.) No problems (yet).<BR> <BR> Darcy<BR> <BR> <BR> On 6/17/06 6:22 PM, "James Corbett" <<A href="mailto:j.corbett@mchsi.com">j.corbett@mchsi.com</A>> wrote:<BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Good Evening, <BR> <BR> I have a 500 GB Lacie external hard-drive on my firewire 800 that is heading south. I had this less than a year and I am disappointed that it is failing, but what can you do. I want to see what others are using so I can get a idea what I need to look for when I get this replace which will be soon. <BR> <BR> I mainly use this device to download audio and video pod-casts and to save multimedia files/documents that I find on the net. 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