Quick update: my LaCie doesn’t seem to have the same problem when I’m not using PT. I think it’s still a controller issue, but the drive might not be pwnd per se.
Looking around on the web reveals that more and more D2’s are starting to die en masse. I’d still steer clear.
I suspect that Lacie’s QC or design team has gone the way of the Dodo. I’ve been fighting my Protools setup constantly today.
The culprit? I believe it’s the enclosure to one of my quadra 500 gig drives. During heavy use (such as batch exporting) the drive will “disappear.” Power’s still on (the Lacie support people will always blame this first. As if the power supply is the root of everything that can go wrong with their drives.)
Now I’m backed up (See this tip) so I’m not sweating bullets, but you do lose a few hours of productivity if a drive goes down.
My chain, for anyone who runs into this in the future: Dell E1705 ->Digi002R -> 500gig Lacie Quadra -> (Via FW800) 500gig Lacie Quadra.
My $.02: Avoid Lacie like the plague. A studio I work for lost one three weeks ago and then another started limping the other day. Combined with today’s experience, do yourself a favor. Skip Lacie all together.