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

I do a lot of travelling so this drive was the logical choice for me. After 3 trips, I am yet to have any problems due to how sturdy the exterior casing is. I can quickly and easily access not only any files that I have backed up to it, but it's also a good way to backup my photos from my camera.

Take care when inserting the USB 3.0 cable into this drive., there is very little internal support for the USB 3 connection. Stick to the Thunderbolt port. Now have to see if they have a thunderbolt/usb adapter so don't have to replace the drive. Design should have been better.

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!

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.. :)

This hard drive worked just fine, for the year and a half that it sat on my desk, or was transported in my work bag. But, it recently fell *two feet* off of the hotel bed, where i was working, onto the floor. Now it's making horrible grinding sounds and i cant get any of the data that's on it off. Not rugged at all. I'd say if you just plan on moving this around in a safe and cushy computer bag, then it's fine.... but dont expect it to survive a very small fall.

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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.

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 got one of these for my video projects, and it works as advertised. It's very quiet, doesn't require a separate power supply, and transfers files really fast. I'm using it with my MacBook Pro and Time Machine, and I haven't had a single issue in the four months I've owned it. I liked this drive very much, and would recommend to others without hesitation.

I have been using LaCie's Rugged drives for offloading fat video files in the field for a few years now. I have several 1TB Firewire 800 drives and while they have worked well, they are pretty slow for large amounts of data. We typically shoot Sony XDCam on SxS cards, none of which is bigger than 32 gig. I have pined for a drive that could take hold of that awesome Thunderbolt, (I have two Promise Pegasus R6 12TB drive enclosures set to RAID5) and really scream. When I have looked at this drive in the store and online, I couldn't understand why LaCie limited the rpm to just 5400. "Oh well, they must know what they are doing," I thought. So I bought one. MISTAKE. It says on the box speeds of up to 10 G/bs. RIGHT....NOOOOOO. The Blackmagic Speed Disk Test maxed out at just 110 MB/s. REALLY? This thing is going back.