Reviews for LaCie 1TB Rugged USB 3.0 Thunderbolt Series Hard Drive

I've had this hard drive for about 4 months now and the USB 3.0 Jack on the hard drive shell became very loose. I have used this hard drive at work in a very controlled environment the fact that it broke so quickly is very disappointing. It seems this hard drive was not put through any type of rugged testing before actually mass producing and selling for an overpriced case. Please consider another RUGGED product before this one.

No stars at all!

This product is not rugged at all. In less than 6 months, the USB 3.0 slot broke and I hardly used it as I utilised the Thunderbolt more.

Also I heard that the La Cie Customer Service is horrible. I am now thinking if I should bother with the supposed 2 Year Warranty for a replacement.

I am now hoping that the Thunderbolt does not break down as well!

I purchased from Apple retail store. The box clearly says 1TB,. Yet no matter how I format it, I only find only 700MB on this disk. In comparison, all my other external drives (none LaCie) are accurate on the same machine. I returned this item and bought another brand.

I purchased this drive last week from Apple for the sole intention of using on an upcoming job.
Thunderbolt speeds were the deciding factor in buying this drive. I use a Promise Pegasus RAID already and I love it.
I had to edit (FCPX) a fast turnaround video of the days events so far by midday on day 1. It seemed to hold up okay to this task. Import of the short XDCAM clips worked fine. Although I was not blown away by how fast it was.
I noticed the like other users, that the connectors were getting very hot.

Most of day 2 was spent filming long seminars. About 40 mins each.
End of the day arrives and the plan is to dump all the the footage from the SXS cards onto this drive and then copy onto another hard drive that my client has provided so he can take it back to the US with him.
I set up my MBP, started the transfer and walked away for 10 mins. When I returned, my MBP was in sleep mode. Strange... I tried to wake it but to no avail.

Panic sets in. My MBP is DEAD! We had a MacPro with us on the stand. So I whip out the card reader and my Lacie Rugged 1TB (with thunderbolt) and kick the sales guys off the MacPro.
I start the transfer process again. 10 minutes in, I receive a warning message telling me there 'might not be enough free space left on the drive'. Okay... There is no way I have used 1TB this is XDCAM HD. Not 4K.
There was 800+ GB available. At this point, the penny dropped. ITS THE DRIVE not the MBP (I had been using my Apple TB cable too).

Im pretty sure its not the cable like other users have reported. I can't pinpoint the problem. It might be to do with the speed of the drive inside. But seriously, what is the point of putting a slow drive in a Thunderbolt enclosure?
I'll shut up now. Its not a great experience that I have had with this drive and I will think twice about buying Lacie again. From the outside, it seems like a cracking product. On the inside it is massively flawed.

My MBP lives to fight another day by the way.

I bought this disk to back up my Mac Book Pro. Unfortunately, it fall down from my coffee table to the floor (16 inches) and got un useful.
You cannot trust in their "rugged" name.

I bought this drive hoping to speed up TimeMachine backups. I started a new backup to the drive, and left to run errands for several hours. TimeMachine was merrily moving lots of data when I left, said the backup needed about 3 hours more. When I returned, it appeared no data was moving, and the backup said it'd need 3 DAYS to complete.

Attempting to cancel the backup didn't work. Attempts to unmount failed, and ultimately even shutting down the Mac didn't go cleanly. Removing the Thunderbolt cable and power cycling the Mac eventually got the laptop stable.

I tried connecting the drive again via USB, which seemed to work somewhat, and I used that to erase the drive, but it didn't stay running long. The Thunderbolt interface did not work when I tried to connect that way.

Don't waste your money. It's pretty slow and gets really hot. Ran bench mark and the thunderbolt and USB 3.0 were basically the same. Better off with a RAID thunderbolt. (This drive only spins at 5400)