LaCie d2 Professional - Reviews

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26.7.2018

LaCie STFY10000400 10 TB d2 Professional Thunderbolt 3 + USB-C Desktop 3.5 Inch External Hard Drive for PC and MacUPDATE: a second LaCie-10TB was purchased by me on 27 March 2019, to back up data on my first LaCie-10TB. Using the USB 3.0 ports on a Lenovo G580 laptop (i3 model), data transfer rates were around 80MB/s. As before, they are extremely quiet, and after several hours of copying data from one drive to the other, both LaCie drives felt cool to the touch. The only reason I'm giving this drive 4-stars instead of the full-5, is that it doesn't come with USB 3 connectivity, to supplement the USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 connectivity that it's supplied with.My General Impressions of the LaCie-10TB:(1)SETUP: after unpacking, you need to set it up - software for this is already installed on the drive, for both Windows and Mac. However, I use Linux (Manjaro) as my main daily driver, but fortunately I have it dual-booted with Windows 8.1. Setup using Windows, and the online registration for the 5-year guarantee, were both straightforward. Following setup, I found that Windows or Linux will show a total of 9.1 TB available for file storage out of the indicated 10TB. A single 10TB hard disk is used for this drive.(2) SPEED: my laptop (Asus G750JS) has only Thunderbolt1 and USB3.0 connectivity. The 10TB LaCie drive has Thunderbolt3 and USB3.1. In order to setup a Thunderbolt1-to-Thunderbolt3 connectivity, I'd have to spend an additional £90 approx on a specialized adaptor and a connecting cable. Instead, I used the supplied USB3.0-to-USB-C (USB3.1) connector that came with the drive. It means, that instead of the advertised data transfer rate of "up to 240 MB/s" for Thunderbolt 3, I get around 165 MB/s (10GB/min) when copying from the laptop's solid state drive to the LaCie hard-disk drive (HDD), but this drops to 100-110 MB/s, when copying from a 4TB Seagate external HDD (USB3.0) to the LaCie HDD. Fine for my needs, as I'm simply using it as a storage drive for memory-hungry videos. However, it will take a while to transfer my 4.5TB of videos, i.e. 7.5 hours.(3) NOISE LEVEL: the most obvious thing is just how quiet it is - a real whisper. This is despite its hard disk spinning continuously: it doesn't stop spinning when idling, i.e. when no data is being copied to or from it. The quiet behaviour was a major factor in me buying this drive (£445.00) over the much cheaper Seagate equivalent (£249.99): some comments for the latter indicated a noise problem, which I didn't want.(4) OTHER: this drive produces hardly any heat. Even after 3 to 4 hours of data transfer, I noticed the metallic heat-sink designed chassis was hardly warm. Concerning the large blue flashing light on the drive being distracting/irritating (mentioned by some other reviews): I found a simple remedy for this (unless you prefer to work in a completely dark room) was just to turn the drive around, so that the flashing light faces away from you - then you won't see it.I'd definitely recommend the 10TB LaCie external drive, and would consider buying a LaCie drive again.

15.9.2019

I read the other reviews before buying this. Some complained about noise and it in use but I think that over the past ten years of buying all and sundry, reputable big bane drives, this 6tdb drive id the best I have ever used.Easy to set up, free Adobe software trial (didn't need it), fast and I have never heard it running.I have 4-5 tb of images and transferring these from a Seagate to lace drive was only showed down by the Seagate drive speeds.I an going to buy another to stack as a back up - I think its that good!!

30.9.2017

Easy to set up. Very, Very quiet. Blue light is a bit distracting.One down side comes with a very short Thunderbolt cable. Had to buy a 3rd party one which is much longer.Only got it set up this morning, but have already transferred 2TB of music from my Porsche Lacie hard drive & it handles large quantities of data very impressively. Write speed is excellent.Happy customer. Would recommend

20.8.2019

Had this about 3 months. It connected very easily to my IMac. I'm using Time Machine for backups which again was straightforward.I write music, so I also use this external drive to store all my audio sounds and instruments. The software then calls these audio files in real-time which is working perfectly.

16.1.2020

Bought to provide additional backup support within home media. Drive is easy to set up and configure, speeds are as published so happy from that perspective. Would have like to see richer software from LaCie to manage data across network and drive compares but easily sourced from elsewhere!

2.4.2019

This is a great storage device and worth buying. The only downside is there is only one USB-C connection on the back which means that you can come out into another storage device or the computer but you cannot daisychain

3.2.2020

The best and most reliable drives. Everything else not worth the risk. I use these drives to store and edit video clips for a very hungry social media portfolio and I have never been let down. Top notch.