NAS Device Keeps Failing

[NickM]

I have a Lacie Ethernet BigDisk connected via USB to my laptop (Vista SP1).

It has a problem where by at random intervals (normally when its being written to, downloading torrents to it or extracting a rar file, but sometimes just when playing media off it or totally at random) it disconnects its self so it no longer accessibly requiring a restart of the device or my computer in order to access it again.

How can I stop it doing this as its extremely annoying..

 

[IAmATeaf]

Have you had a look in your event viewer to see what the OS reports?

EDIT: Obvious things to try are another USB port and another USB cable?

 

[NickM]

Tried another port.. no luck. Tried my printer cable but its quite long (as is my current one and I dont know if that would make a difference?) and didn't seem to help.
Next time it does it I'll look in event viewer.

edit: cant see anything that looks relevant in event viewer.

It sorta works for about a minute then when I'm trying to copy a file from one directory to another comes up with the copying file dialogue box with 3mins remaining on it (which is weird cos it should/used to be instant to cut and paste files) then near the end (about the last 20mb or so) disconnects and says the network device is no longer available.

edit2: nevermind, I've switched back to using it with a network hub instead of USB and it works ok.