First, you buy a LaCie D2 drive. You’re excited.
My new Lacie D2 Network drive is Time Machine compatible. That means it’s really easy to setup with Time Machine – no hacks required, it just gets detected.
LaCie D2 Network – Time Machine
Then, you get blamed for running a .exe from a share on it. That exe was the MS Office installer. Why was that a problem? EXEs are not compatible with the drive’s operating system !
It was related to running the .exe file on the drive. The file is proprietary to an OS such as XP, Vista, or Mac OS X. Running the file on a non-conforming OS is going to create severe havoc and other issues. I am glad the reset resolved the issue.
Lacie Tech Support doesn’t know what a share is
And then, you ask them about firmware updates to fix some small issues here and there, and this is what they tell you, barely over a year after you bought it:
Since this type of unit is no longer made, it’s unlikely there will be any further firmware updates for
So am I surprised that my piece of junk Lacie D2 NAS does not support the latest AFP protocol required for Time Machine?
Of course I’m not. But who cares, it’s not like I trusted the thing as my main backup anyways.
Cause: The LaCie NAS OS does not support Time Machine with Mac OS X Lion.
Solution: Use Mac OS X 10.6.x or earlier when using Time Machine to back up your Mac to a LaCie network hard drive.
But I’m sorry. The solution is actually to buy hardware from a company that at least pretends to give a damn. Apple should be ashamed of allowing this junk in an Apple store. I don’t care how cool your USB sticks look or how fast your Thunderbolt drives are, LaCie, I’d rather use old Sony 1.44inch floppies. Oh, and I called my D2 “Lassie”, cause it runs like a dog.