Question about LaCie Design by F. A. Porsche 160 GB Hard Drive

Enclosure replacement Lacie Porche 250

My Lacie Porche 250 does no mount on my Imac any longer, red ligt comes on and i can hear drive turning. before tossing it i would like to try it in another enclosure. I need advice on how to remove the lacie enclosure and recommand another. sam

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I have a Lacie N2870 1TB drive which works on my iMac through the ethernet port, but not with a direct USB2.0 connection. The iMac can't see it at all anymore, but will mount it on the ethernet connection. Any ideas why this might be so?

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Rock 5.25" USB 2.0 & Firewire Enclosure Like the HD506, the Rock 5.25" is also the bigger "brother" of the Rock 3.5" enclosure we sell but this version has the benefit of support your CD and DVD reader/writers and its got a built in fan as well. try this model of enclosure it depends on hdd connection you could go for a diffirent model hope this has helped you

Posted on Aug 14, 2007

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