Can hard disk in lacie d2 drive be easilly replace

[b mcgibney]

I have an 3 year old lacie d2 120 gig firewire 400 drive whose internal hard disk is getting ready to kik the bucket ie crying whining grinding noise coming out of the unit after about 10 minutes of operation. Fortunately most of it was backed to other drives and I mangaed to get off all that I needed.

Question, can I easily/economically replace the hardrive within the enclosure or is the whole thing one big paper weight. I tried asking this question at the repair dept of the place where I bought the drive and they did not seem to have a ready answer so I'm asking the list.

TIA

B

[Slim Shady]

If you can find a way into the case, then it should be pretty easy as it's just a regular IDE drive in there connected to a firewire bridge, I'm just not sure how one gets into those things, they're not really made for easy swapability. That's why I prefer the "Ice" Oxford 911 cases (like OWC uses) because it's very easy to get inside and change out the drive if you want.

[b mcgibney]

Geez, I assumed they would be ATA drives. It looks pretty easy to open. There seems to be a dearth of info on this. I may take a look at those OWC drives. Hell of a lot cheaper than rolls of ampex 456 grand master VVBG!