1TB external bus-powered SSD drive with Thunderbolt?

Both morally and legally, absent an express agreement to the contrary,
there is an implied warranty of fitness for use.Ttherefore LaCie is
responsible to me, if a drive goes bad. In such event I have the right
to seek damages not only from LaCie, but the merchant I purchased it
from, and the drive manufacturer. More importantly, In any event as a
photographer, I would never buy another drive from LaCie. That is what
is important. Mine went bad about a week after the warranty expired.

<http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2>

 

My daughter has a La Cie external hard drive (one of those orange
armored ones) that has functioned perfectly for about five years.
However, the claim is not that *all* La Cie products are lemons.

It was a Christmas gift from me to her. At the time, La Cie's were
recommended as good products. I wouldn't chose La Cie today, though.

 

which for drives, is the drive manufacturer.

la cie doesn't make drives. they buy them and put them in a box and
power supply.[/QUOTE]

Good Lord. All airplanes are made with components purchased from
outside vendors. If a particular maker of airplanes is having serious
problems with component failures, your position would be that it's not
their fault? You don't think the fault is in choosing the vendor and
continuing to choose the vendor?

 

You know the probable answer. "nobody said anything about airplanes." Or
a variation thereof.

 

nobody said they aren't responsible for any failure. more of your
twisting.

it's not their fault that something they didn't manufacture fails. how
could it be?

la cie warrants the entire package, but if a part they buy fails, then
their cost to repair it is reimbursed by the maker of said part under
its oem warranty. standard stuff.

you do not have the right to seek damages from the part maker, in this
case a hard drive, because the drive does not have an end-user
warranty. it has an oem warranty to la cie, who bought it to put in an
enclosure.

if you bought the hard drive retail, then you get an end-user warranty,
which is often longer than the oem warranty to the box maker.

 

you *still* don't get it.

i never said anything about *continuing* to choose a vendor who
supplies faulty parts.

 

wrong on that too.

it applies to airplanes.

 

...and that is bus powered via USB or FW.[/QUOTE]

which means no power supply to fail.

 

and as he also knows, gravity is only in effect when looking down.

 

As predictable as the sun (appearing to) rise in the East.

 

So what is your position, then? That La Cie chose a different vendor
for each run, and each different vendor sent them faulty components?

They either continued to buy from a vendor who was supplying inferior
components, or they made a series of decisions to buy from vendors who
supplied inferior components.

Either way, it's their fault.

 

explained already, multiple times.

this isn't about continuing to use faulty parts.

you *still* don't get it.

 

No, I don't. And never will. To excuse a manufacturer from supplying
products that fail because they didn't make the failing part, and only
purchased it, is not something I'll ever get.

 

i can see that.

not what i said at all

 

How little you know about this.
I do have to congratulate you. From the time of my posting, you have
read and interpreted the entire Article 2 of the UCC.
Do stop blustering.

 

On 6/1/2014 12:20 PM, Savageduck wrote:

A well known international law firm was not the least bit suspicious
when it purchased a non-existent residential housing complex for several
million dollars. The name of the property manager was Wylie Coyote.

 

So it applies to airplanes, but not LaCie.
verry interesting.

 

that's what happens with any thread in which tony participates.

anything at all? what will apple, google and microsoft stock be in 1
year?

made to spec is what matters. that spec is not sufficient for the
product causing premature failure.

exactly, and when one fails, they get it replaced by the oem. it's not
their fault it failed.

also true.

the difference is the power supply, over which la cie *does* have
control since they spec'ed it.

seagate drives are generally very good, unless you get a batch, such as
the ones where the heads delaminated, or the firmware had issues.

 

far more than you'll ever know.

nothing in there contradicts anything i said.

i'm not the one who is blustering.

 

wrong on that too. jeezus you're a moron.

it applies to every single company, namely the ones who buy
subassemblies they did not build.