r33Uj7b Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 Greetings. I'm considering buying a Lacie D2 DVD+-R drive (http://lacie.com//products/product.htm?id=10113 ) for use with Retrospect. It's not listed as a supported product. Does anyone know whether it will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r33Uj7b Posted April 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 Has anyone tried this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r33Uj7b Posted April 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 Does anyone from Dantz read this forum? Do I need to waste everyone's time with a service call? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwilk Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 I have a D2 DVD-R drive and it works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r33Uj7b Posted April 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 Thanks! I have a couple of questions, if you wouldn't mind. 1. What kind of performance are you getting? 2. Do you know what mechanism is in your drive? Use apple menu/about this mac/more info/hardware and select the drive. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r33Uj7b Posted April 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Well, on the strength of pwilk's reply I bought the Lacie drive. The one I received has a Pioneer 107D mechanism with firmware 1.05. After using Retrospect's "configure" utility with 4x DVD+RW media, I got a successful backup and verify with the following stats: Completed: 212639 files, 10.1 GB Performance: 134.4 MB/minute (121.4 copy, 150.4 compare) Duration: 02:42:23 (00:09:16 idle/loading/preparing) This is on an alBook 17" with lots of small files. Using the clock, I was able to determine that it backed up large files at about 300 MB/min, or very close to the theoretical maximum for 4x media (1.3MB/sec * 4 * 60 = 312 MB/min). This is much, much faster than with the builtin Matshita UJ-816 drive. Thank you, pwilk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwilk Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Glad to be of help! My rather late reply is that I am pretty sure my LaCie drive (300598) has a DVR-105 in it. I do not think that Dantz supports the use of CD-Rs in the Pioneer DVR drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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