KOSOVAR1  At this point I am practically suicidal, although I blame LaCie for all my troubles with my three LaCie Firewire 800 drives. The next chapter in my psychodrama is that, after the LaCie version 2.0 updater destroyed my three one-year old external drives and lost 800 mb of valuable data, I went out--stupidly--and paid $200 for a new internal IDE drive and installed it into the housing of the LaCie device. I thought that only the drives were destroyed. Needless to say, after trying to format for the MacOS, I saw that the new drive didn't work either. Of course, the vendor refused to take back the drive after I removed it from the box. This brings my financial loss now to over $1,100 thanks to the faulty updater from LaCie, not to mention the many hours I have agonized over this! Additioally, I realize that the updater destroyed something rendered not only the three IDE drives inoperable, but also the circuitry that are part of the housing. These, are in effect, no more useful than empty tin cans.No words to describe how I feel about LaCie!  (Version 2.0.1)

KOSOVAR1  HELLO TO ALL OF YOU WHO LOST DATA OR HAD YOUR LA CIE DRIVES RUINED AFTER APPLYING LA CIE'S FAULTY 2.0 FIRMWARE UPDATER:

MY THREE DRIVES (JUST WEEKS OUT OF WARRANTY) WERE DESTROYED BY THE FIRMWARE UPDATER TOO. OF COURSE, I CONTACTED LA CIE AND THEY REPLIED WITH THE LIE THAT A FEW OF THEIR CUSTOMERS EXPERIENCED "MINOR PROBLEMS" BY USING THE FIRST UPDATER BUT THAT AN UPDATED FIRMWARE UPDATER WAS NOW AVAILABLE.

I'LL BET THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHOSE EXPENSIVE LA CIE DRIVES WERE DESTROYED BY THE COMPANY'S CARELESSNESS. WHAT ANGERS ME MOST IS THAT THEY ARE COVERING IT UP. IF ANY OF YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT, POST YOUR COMMENTS AND IDEAS HERE OR ON WHATEVER OTHER FORUMS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET. MACUPDATE WILL PROBABLY DELETE MY COMMENTS BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE CONTROVERSY ON THEIR WEBSITE, BUT HOPEFULLY THE WORD WILL GET OUT AND WE WILL GET COMPENSATION. I FOR ONE PLAN TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON EVERY FORUM I CAN FIND AND INVESTIGATE WHAT IT TAKES TO LAUNCH A LAWSUIT.   (Version 2.0.1)

BLAHDEBLAH  what was the version prior to 2.0? that's what i was using without hitch for ages. would it be possible/advisable to revert back to this?  (Version 2.0.1)

BLAHDEBLAH  this bast*rd thing canned my 500gig drive. i see both 250's in there in disk utility but it's not showing up as one drive as it should so i've lost about half my data uless i can get it back to a raid 0 again. also had lots of problems with power supplies, i'm done with lacie now, no more.  (Version 2.0.1)