I have recently the other day just purchased a LaCie external hard drive model 301315EK, the 1TB version that is designed by Neil Poulton consisting of 3 different interfaces you can use to connect to your PC, USB2.0, eSATA and Firewire 400.
What I want to talk about is the fact that I've had problems with the eSATA interface of the drive and there doesn't seem to be any kind of solution. I don't know exactly but I think that the drive I bought from Overclockers seems to be fine, it works and I can copy and access files onto it. I have partitioned the drive into 4 using Paragon Partition Manager software. Everything seems to have worked correctly and it's not like I have never partitioned a hard drive before either. At first the drive seemed to connect using the eSATA interface but then I noticed that it started to disappear in Windows XP, currently the 32 bit version I'm using, when you plug the drive in and start using it now you might be able to access the drive for a short period of time but then it will disappear and you can't access it anymore.
It is very annoying because I was hoping to buy this drive and use the eSATA feature. It seems to work very fast which is what I want really, I've also tried using the USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 interface and they work just fine. There's no problem, I've had it working the whole time on USB 2.0 and Firewire but just with eSATA it doesn't connect very well at all.
I'm using the cable I got with the drive to connect to my PC, I don't even have another type of cable needed to travel from the back of my computer's eSATA port to my LaCie drive.
I've done everything I can possibly think of to try and resolve this issue but there's no joy, I even before tried to repartition the drive again to make sure it wasn't having a problem there but it was just the same as before. So yes as I said before it works fine no problem with USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 but with eSATA it is a no no... It just seems to be very unstable using that connection and most of the time doesn't work. There's nothing wrong with my operating system either, everything is working just fine and as normal.
Can anybody suggest something here? I am done with this now, can't think of anything it could be, might as well at this point just forget the eSATA and just use Firewire instead, which I might also add seems to be a bit faster than USB 2.0 also which is probably the interface I plan to use it with at the moment.
What I want to talk about is the fact that I've had problems with the eSATA interface of the drive and there doesn't seem to be any kind of solution. I don't know exactly but I think that the drive I bought from Overclockers seems to be fine, it works and I can copy and access files onto it. I have partitioned the drive into 4 using Paragon Partition Manager software. Everything seems to have worked correctly and it's not like I have never partitioned a hard drive before either. At first the drive seemed to connect using the eSATA interface but then I noticed that it started to disappear in Windows XP, currently the 32 bit version I'm using, when you plug the drive in and start using it now you might be able to access the drive for a short period of time but then it will disappear and you can't access it anymore.
It is very annoying because I was hoping to buy this drive and use the eSATA feature. It seems to work very fast which is what I want really, I've also tried using the USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 interface and they work just fine. There's no problem, I've had it working the whole time on USB 2.0 and Firewire but just with eSATA it doesn't connect very well at all.
I'm using the cable I got with the drive to connect to my PC, I don't even have another type of cable needed to travel from the back of my computer's eSATA port to my LaCie drive.
I've done everything I can possibly think of to try and resolve this issue but there's no joy, I even before tried to repartition the drive again to make sure it wasn't having a problem there but it was just the same as before. So yes as I said before it works fine no problem with USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 but with eSATA it is a no no... It just seems to be very unstable using that connection and most of the time doesn't work. There's nothing wrong with my operating system either, everything is working just fine and as normal.
Can anybody suggest something here? I am done with this now, can't think of anything it could be, might as well at this point just forget the eSATA and just use Firewire instead, which I might also add seems to be a bit faster than USB 2.0 also which is probably the interface I plan to use it with at the moment.
