Customer Reviews and Ratings

3.5 out of 5 stars

Based on 54 reviews

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Nice Little Drive

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    I needed a solid portable drive for my work. This drive seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, so I gave it a try. It's fast, and was easy to set up. It's also drop-resistant, and well built. The design matches my Macbook Pro nicely. Overall the experience with this product has been very smooth so far.

    16 of 18 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Excellent Portable Drive

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    I needed a reliable portable solution to backup my work files, and this drive fit the bill perfectly. The data is encrypted, so it's doubly secure and there's also access to the secure cloud storage. The performance has been very good so I haven't experienced any issues with this drive at all, and it's been a bit more than a month.

    17 of 20 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great product!

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    I'm studying broadcast journalism at uni, and I needed a drive to store my project files on. This is great, it stores plenty of footage, and it's rugged enough that I can carry it with me everywhere. It works well with my MacBook with iMovie.

    18 of 22 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Everything you need

    • Written by from Sewickley

    I have loved this back up since day one. All you do is plug it in and it will do the rest for you! 1TB was definitely the way to go. Plus, it is basically indestructible which is perfect for a college student like me. Definitely a great investment!

    16 of 19 people found this useful

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Old Lacie Firewire is faster!

    • Written by from KENSINGTON

    Just received the drive and had high hopes for the thunderbolt transfer speeds but am very disappointed. Copied a 14GB file and it's slower on the thunderbolt drive than my older firewire/usb drive!!! Here's the time comparisons with my older drive:

    Older Lacie firewire 800 - 2:51
    Older Lacie USB 3 - 2:53

    New Lacie Thunderbolt - 3:18
    New Lacie USB 3.0 - 3:14

    Why?!?!?

    20 of 28 people found this useful

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Pro video users AVOID (specifically SXS/XDCAM Field use)

    • Written by from Barnet

    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.

    22 of 33 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    IM IN LOVE WITH THIS DRIVE!!!!

    • Written by from Philadelphia

    I JUST PICKED THIS DRIVE UP TODAY.. AND I AM IMPRESSED WITH THE TRANSFER SPEED ON THIS THING... WITH THUNDERBOLT.. I NEVER GOT TO USE THE THUNDERBOLT PORT UNTIL NOW.. IM SOO GLAD I GOT THIS DRIVE I READ ALOT OF GOOD REVIEWS ON IT.. AND I LOVE THE RUGGED DESIGN OF IT ALSO... THE DRIVE DOES GET HOT.. BUT IT DOESNT SLOW DOWN ANY OF THE TRANSFER SPEEDS AT ALL.. :)

    10 of 10 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Fast, Portable, Rugged

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    Excellent product. Rugged, fast, easy to setup and use. Needs no external power, powered by usb connection. I use it for on the go backups with my Macbook Pro. It comes with optional software for backups and security. I would recommend this product.

    11 of 12 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Excellent Portable Drive

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    I needed a fast and large capacity drive that was also solid and portable. I go frequently on business trips and always travel with at least one backup drive. I'm very pleased with the performance and the design of this rugged drive. It's fast, very quiet, and it works perfectly with my MacBook Air.

    13 of 16 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    **** GREAT DRIVE...TESTED 30 OF THEM!!! ****

    • Written by from Thunder Bay

    I teach at a Canadian college in Northern Ontario and we purchased 30 of these for our 1st year students. The USB 3.0 port broke on 2 of them, so be careful not to force the connector in the wrong way. The Thunderbolt is very durable and has not broken on any of the devices. I have used mine since January of 2013 and I cannot believe the speed and reliability. My own test shows 6 Gigs being transfered in 55 seconds on both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0. Test repeated 20 times. Great value...buy this disk!

    9 of 9 people found this useful

  • 2.0 out of 5 stars

    Thunderbolt cable dead

    • Written by from Ottawa

    Hi,
    Like many on here, I have suffered a dead Thunderbolt cable.

    Using this drive with the provided Thunderbolt cable, I ran into issues. At first I thought the drive was too hot and I let it cool down before trying it again. Nothing. The drive didn't spin up nor did the light come on.

    Today I was able to try the USB3.0 connector and that worked fine. So I gave the Thunderbolt cable another try... nothing.

    I took another Thunderbolt cable from my single other device with Thunderbolt and that worked! Never have I ever seen a cable being the source of issues. I was certain that the drive was flakey or that the issues were related to the iMac Im using this with.

    You would think with an expensive cable such as a TB cable you would have better quality control. I'm very disappointed with this.

    Come on LaCie, WTH??

    I have to say that the speed of TB when this was working was amazing. Working with large files is so easy and unreal. I *was* loving it.

    11 of 13 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    impressive design, excellent speeds

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    This little drive definitely packs a punch. It's very solid, has got more than enough storage capacity for my needs and I'm still amazed even today at how much faster the USB 3.0 is compared to my old unit. Now I don't have to sit around and wait half an hour for my work to copy over. Nifty all around!

    10 of 11 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great Speed Boost

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    I do a lot of graphics editing and prefer to work on an external drive if possible so I can carry the files around easily. This is by far the best unit I've tried recently and it's keeping up with everything I throw at it. The speeds are great. The drive works great with my iMac. I don't have to worry about lag anymore and the 1TB is the perfect size for my needs.

    12 of 16 people found this useful

  • 2.0 out of 5 stars

    Thunderboly Iffy?

    • Written by from DOLLARD-DES-ORMEAUX

    So my thunderbolt cable stopped working after a full day. I'm using the USB cable now & it's working fine & is a lot cooler than when I was using thunderbolt (the drive itself).

    It makes me feel really iffy using thunderbolt which is a shame because I bought it specifically for that as every other port on my macbook is occupied.

    The option to daisy chain would've been nice too.

    15 of 22 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Works Great

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    So far so good. The drive works just as expected. It's pretty much plug and play and very fast with USB3. It's the perfect size to easily slide into the bag I'm taking with me wherever I go. 1TB holds all of my work files and backups. All in all, it's been good to me and I'd definitely recommend it.

    8 of 9 people found this useful

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Horrible! Lost all my data!

    • Written by from Rochester

    The price ($249) to pay for this Thunderbolt hard drive was perfect for me. I bought it quickly, and picked it up at an Apple Store.

    After bringing it home and connecting to my MacBook Air, I was impressed by it's durable exterior protection system. It gave me confidence knowing that I could travel freely w/ this hard drive, without fear of data loss.

    Was I wrong.

    After initially transferring some videos, documents, and other media, the hard drive stopped working completely. It just disappeared from Finder, despite reconnecting several times. It didn't even show up in Disk Utility. After several times of trying, it finally showed up after I reversed the cable connection (very peculiar).

    Even then, after 15-20 min., the drive disappeared from Finder again. After reconnecting several times, I received a message saying "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer". I couldn't even repair the disk using Disk Utility, and was extremely thankful that I didn't format my original hard drive from which I copied the data from.

    In all, I am definitely returning this product, will profusely complain directly to LaCie, and strongly recommend you stay way from this product, if you value your data.

    27 of 47 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great Rugged Design. Great Performance.

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    I have absolutely no complaints about this drive. It has suited my needs very well so far. What I love the most about it are the fast transfer speeds and the rugged design. It's nice to know that this drive is able to take the knocks that come with daily life, and I don't have to gingerly place it in my bag every time I leave my office. I've been using it for more than five months now.

    9 of 13 people found this useful

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Not "Rugged" at all

    • Written by from San Francisco

    I have a dozen Lacie drives(nine of them are older "Rugged" models). I've never had a problem, though I know colleagues who have. I bought the 1TB Thunderbolt Series and was pretty happy with it until it took a short and not-very-hard fall off my coffee table. The impact was much less than some of the drops that have occurred with my other drives. But this one died. As far as I'm concerned they advertise this model as being something it is not. The worst part, however, is dealing with Lacie's support. They couldn't care less and seem more interested in forcing you to use their overpriced data recovery service by implying that if you don't they might not honor the warranty. I think I'm done with Lacie.

    9 of 13 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    I needed a portable, large capacity drive that would work with my Macs/PCs

    • Written by from Beaverton

    For transferring files between Macs and PCs I needed a drive that would let me go from Mac to PC and back without spending a lot of money. For maximum speed, I could have gone with the SSD version of this drive, but I wanted capacity.

    For older Macs, the drive connects via USB 2.0, and I am seeing about 30MB/sec thruput. I see similar speeds with Windows PCs using USB 2.0, too.

    Some of the newer Windows PCs I encounter have USB 3.0 ports, but I see speeds ranging from 30MB/sec up to 100MB/sec with this drive. I guess performance depends on the implementation of the USB 3.0 interface in some of those PCs.

    On the Mac side, there are some Macs that provide USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt ports, I like the flexibility that the faster Thunderbolt port provides, as I consistantly experience 100+MB/sec performance; definiitely faster than what USB 2.0 provides. On the newer Macs that have both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt, I am seeing the same performance on both ports.

    I like the drive since I only need a cable and the drive. No need to lug around a power supply. It is a great general purpose drive that addresses my need to copy files to all the Windows and OS X computers I encounter. Just need to make sure the drive is formatted as FAT32 for this kind of application, since that is the only format that both operating systems will reliably read/write files without special driver software.

    There is a great app from Mediafour, MacDrive which permits read/write access to Mac formatted drives, but that is software one would need to purchase.

    When I need the speed, I am happy with the SSD version of this drive. No complaints with its nearly 400MB/sec performance. I'm only limited space - 120GB or 256GB.

    6 of 7 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Sturdy, fast, reliable

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    This drive does its job well. It was easy to setup. No software installation needed. It has a nice solid design, and it matches well with my iMac. It needs only one cable to charge. The speeds are excellent. I use it mainly with the Thunderbolt interface, and it hasn't given me any trouble in more than four months now.

    4 of 5 people found this useful