Fingers crossed, so far if it could go wrong it has - shiped with a guaranteed delivery date of the 20th, anyone want to guess when it will arrive - my bet any day other than the 20th
Parcel tracks
Date Time Location Tracking Event
16-11-2009 16:27 Gatwick Depot On route to hub
16-11-2009 14:46 Gatwick Depot Collected from customer
16-11-2009 13:46 Patcham Collected from Post Office Branch
16-11-2009 12:23 WDM Online
June 14th 2009 - Ken asks if anyone has the full 6 men set they are willing to share.
June 24th 2009 - I notice Ken's post and say that I hope to have the complete 6 men set by the end of August
August 28th 2009 - Downloaded ready to verify - I think the only date that is hit
August 28-30th 2009 - Krill and others offer advice on verification, problems with both mdsum and Wilhelm on my 64-bit Vista install
August 30th 2009 - fsum does the trick verification sucessfull!
August 31st 2009 - Ken mails LaCie Drive to me
September 22nd 2009 - After various customs delays arrived
September 23rd 2009 - Power supply dies
September 24th 2009 - Support call raised with LaCie
September 28th 2009 - LaCie agree to replace power supply- LaCie UK Honors US warranty!
October 7th 2009 - Power supply returned to LaCie
October 21st 2009 - Replacment power supply arrives turns out that when the power supply died so did the HD or the otherway round
October 22nd-November - more support tickets with LaCie
November 2nd/3rd - HD returned to LaCie for fix/replacement
November 13th 2009 - Replacment HD received from LaCie
November 12-15th - Data copied to LaCie and verified
November 16th - Posted to US!!!
17-11-2009 08:30 International Hub Despatched from hub*
17-11-2009 01:08 International Hub Left origin country
16-11-2009 23:26 International Hub Arrived at outward Office of Exchange
16-11-2009 16:27 Gatwick Depot On route to hub
16-11-2009 14:46 Gatwick Depot Collected from customer
16-11-2009 13:46 Patcham Collected from Post Office Branch
16-11-2009 12:23 WDM Online
* does this mean it has cleared customs this would normally be the greatest risk of delay???
17-11-2009 21:52 Delivery Agent - NEW YORK -PTT Arrived in destination country
17-11-2009 08:30 International Hub Despatched from hub
17-11-2009 01:08 International Hub Left origin country
16-11-2009 23:26 International Hub Arrived at outward Office of Exchange
16-11-2009 16:27 Gatwick Depot On route to hub
16-11-2009 14:46 Gatwick Depot Collected from customer
16-11-2009 13:46 Patcham Collected from Post Office Branch
16-11-2009 12:23 WDM Online
TBs to the states, I finally worked out my costs and after a few paypal woes everything is fine.
I actually asked for some of the costs in USD as I wanted to buy something in USD and it seemed more sensibe to avoid the conversion charges...
But it is not easy to pay from a UK paypal account in USD, A long story cut short:
Make USD primary (and I though this would be enough )
Remove all other balances
Remove all other funding sources from your paypal account - i.e. credit cards and bank funding
-Then it works (finally noticing you have the US dollars)...
Shaun
Last edited by Shaun on Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:40 pm, edited 2 times in total.
kb2ct wrote:Progress made. It fights me every step of the way.
I wish Shaun had not included the bad power supply. That caused an anxious moment.
Back up done and I am now formatting a drive to be mailed to a player in the current CC world championship.
Not much work, but very time consumming.
Ken,
That was not a bad power supply, it was the replacement one. Not sure if it works with the new external HD LaCie provided once it was discoverd the drive had failed too?
I supose it is possible that testing the new power supply with the broken external HD broke the replacement power supply?
I have at least 6 LaCie power supplies. None fit the new drive.
I arbitralily chose the smaller of the two power supplies in the box I got from you.
It works. Copying in progress. It takes several days by USB.
The smaller one is the correct one
It took I think 12-14 hours to copy here, again via USB, (could not be bothered to crawl about to get to the eSata socket) - your USB interface does not seem optimal - is it running USB1?
