LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – USB 3.0 compatible, Drop Shock Dust Water Resistant, Mac and PC Computer Desktop Workstation Laptop, 1 Mo Adobe CC (STFS2000800)

This drive comes loaded with documents on it that are helpful. I did not know this before I formatted my drive, but I still got it all set up in the first night I got it. I was just not catching on at first to the right way to do it.I use a MAc and my wife had to show me the invisible partition, because at first it looked like my drive was not showing full capacity data limit. All that said, I got through the set up, and I love this unit! My wife wants me to go wireless wifi drive and I may do that in the future, but for now this is a great compact drive that looks classy and holds aa ton of files. It iis very rugged with the orange rubber thing around the edges. I use this with my recording studio and my graphic design projects. It works like a charm!

This drive is amazing. 4TB and can't beat that rugged quality. Some people hate the way the orange rubber looks, but I disagree. I think it looks great and makes it really easy to hold and see your drive while you are at a coffee shop, airport, even at home. Easy to setup and super fast. It is worth the extra money to get the thunderbolt connection because of how fast it transfers. Plan on buying another 4TB drive to be backup, but great work on this drive LaCie!

This Lacie Rugged Raid Pro is such an awesome tool to have, especially for pictures, videos, and finished content. The protective covering definitely helps with small drops! The fact that you have flexibility in terms of choosing your storage plan is also really cool. You either have the option to use all 4 TB of storage, or to use 2 TB of storage and have it mirrored (this is definitely something that I wish other external hard drives had too).

Very fast, portable, convenient. My only niggle is that there are two modes of connection: Thunderbolt 1+2 and Thunderbolt 3 [USB-C] but the TB1+2 cable is hard connected and the TB3 isn't... it's not a huge deal but it does mean that if you want or need TB3 speed, you have to carry the TB3 cable separately. Aside from that, it mounts fast and from my experience works perfectly. I cannot comment on "rugged", as I don't think any drive should be mishandled and I'm certainly not going to do a life test. Do note that this is a platter drive, so no matter what "rugged" might indicate to you, if this is dropped when spooled, your data is gone forever as the platter or heads or both will be damaged. if you need truly rugged, you need a true SSD, not this.For me, I need to transfer loads of video from GoPro, Drone, and Stills Rig when traveling and this thing is blazing fast with a small footprint.

They state, "Thunderbolt speeds up to 510MB/s with SSD (HDD up to 130MB/s)". This was not true for me!I own about 20 external drives, so I am quite familiar with what to expect. This drive is among the slowest I have encountered. I have a 6 year old USB 1 drive that speedier than this drive. Using a MacBook Pro 2018 with Thunderbolt 3 USB 3.1 connections, this drive transfers data at the rate of about 25 MB per second, not the 510 MB stated on the product. I am less than impressed at these speeds. For example, I am transferring 2 TB of data right now, and it will take about 24 hours to complete the process. If you do the math, it is about 25MB per second...a far cry from their advertised speeds. Even at 130MB per second, the minimum of what they state, this job would take 4 hours, not 24 hours.The other annoying thing about this drive is that it states that it is USB 3.0 compatible but it is not Thunderbolt 3. They do provide all of the cabling you will need to connect to most any computer, but there is a pre-installed cable that wraps around the drive and tucks in at the end. If you own a computer that uses this connection, then you are good as gold. But if your computer doesn't have this connection, then you are stuck with the cable wrapped around the drive that you will never use. It's annoying and it is in the way and it cannot be removed. While I agree with the idea of what Lacie is trying to do, it only serves those people who own computers that use that specific cable connection. If you don't have a computer with that connector, then it's a useless appendage and an annoyance.I would expect to see better performance and product from a company like Lacie. I own many of their older drives, so I thought to give them another shot, but sadly disappointed.And lastly, I paid a premium of about 80% more for this drive over a similar drive, just so that I could take advantage of the USB Thunderbolt speeds, only to find the speed to be about 5% or at best 10% of the stated transfer speeds.One final point of fact, I took a 335 GB group of files and simply duplicated them on the drive itself....meaning that the information was not transferred from one device to another device...they were just copied on the same drive itself. That task took more than 4 hours. If you do the math, you will find that the transfer (duplication) speed was 23.3 MB per second!

I haven’t needed to use this yet, but, so far it’s as described and very highly recommended by friends.

I bought it, reformatted it for my MacPro15. Its fast, big and seems reliable so far. I have many of these with lessor memory and have not had even the oldest ones fail.I wish the connectors could be tougher/tighter. They can get loose over time.

This LACIE 2TB drive is very fast on my MacBook Pro! It is so easy to register and set up. I was amazed to see that it can be dual formatted for Mac as well as Windows!Now I wish that I had purchased a 4TB or larger drive! I do plan on buying another LACIE USB 3.0 1TB as well for my MacBook Pro for use with Mac Time Machine as soon as I can afford to do so.Hope Santa reads this? 😳Last of all Amazon was GREAT because they stopped a previous order I made in order and QUICKLY refunded me on my Amazon Account. I’M IMPRESSED AL THE WAY with my product and AmazonJohn B