Opening a LaCie Porsche HD closure
Thursday, May 11th, 2006 - 
Six easy steps to open your external HD closure by LaCie - Porsche.
Sorry if it’s not too clear. I hope the new pictures easy things a bit.
- Turn the enclosure upside down. Unfasten the six latches found along the sides of the bottom cover with butter knives for instance, and use the ventilation holes to pull the cover using another knive as a lever.
- Unplug the hard drive’s IDE and power cables. Mines didn’t come out easily and I had to use a screwdriver to push.
- Unplug the front led cables too (green and red cables) from the board, then pull out the led. It might be glued, but if you don’t take it out now, you’ll break it when taking the drive out. It should come out easily, though.
- Unscrew the four big screws which hold the drive. Unscrew another four little ones which hold the usb interface and cables. This may not be necessary but the drive came out easier having done this.
- Using two knives on the sides of the drive, unlock the four latches and pull the hard drive up and then towards the front of the drive to make it come out. The metal foil surrounding the drive and the controller will seem to bend a bit as you pull but it’s ok.
- The hard drive in my LaCie was a Western Digital WD2000 Caviar SE. All black and nice, but broken.
October 18th, 200611:27 pm at
I just uploaded those pictures I promised to long ago. I hope they are still useful.
December 4th, 20061:02 am at
Sup man thankyou I know this is a late response but this helped perfectly to remove the casing and drive
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I was gonna attempt this on my own but gave it a shot to check online first.
Thanx a lot
. The pix where definatly the best part of the 6 step tut.
cheers,
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February 17th, 20076:01 pm at
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. Just fried my disk. Sparks and smoke was emitted when connecting it to my new pc. I think some of the firewire pins on the motherboard had been switched. Seems like the disk still works, but the firewire connection does not. So i hope to be able to plug it into my computer like a normal hdd.
Knut
February 17th, 20076:07 pm at
And as a surprise, the disk in mine was a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB ATA/133 HDD
Knut
February 17th, 20077:05 pm at
And to my relife, the disk worked like normal when i plugged it in to my computer like a normal HDD. The FireWire controller was visibly toasted and smelled awful.