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17.7.2018
This contains two hard drives in a rugged enclosure, that is certified to withstand dust, water and drops of up to 1.2 m. The certification also covers being run over by a 1000 kg car, which is fine if you drive a Fiat 500 but anything much bigger such as a Ford Fiesta now weighs well over 1100 kg…This device comes with a fluorescent orange cover that should ensure it is easy to find even when used in the most remote locations.If it is used with Thunderbolt or USB-C leads, these provide a power supply to the drive as well as a very high speed data connection. If it is used with a standard USB port, it will also need a power supply from the supplied external AC power adaptor,
29.8.2018
This 2 TB external drive is specially designed for drone users who generate gigabytes of data from 4K video that can literally be backed up in the field. However, it is equally useful for those who generate high quantities of data through stills or video using earthbound cameras!Unlike my other LaCie drives, it has a built-in chargeable battery and comes complete with an external AC adapter and choice of four international plug fittings for UK, Europe, USA and Australasia.I downloaded the Copilot BOSS software onto my iPhone X, connected it to the LaCie drive using the supplied Lightning cable and updated the device firmware to v1.0.34.1.
24.3.2012
This is my 2nd portable hard drive and seems like the best! Working absolutely fine, faster and password protected area is just wonderful. General formatting for Windows took around 7-8 minutes for entire 1TB but password protection encrypted area for 200GB formatting took around 3 hours; however it is one of best function which can be dismounted any time or can be configured to dismount if idle for whatever time you specify though normal area/unprotected area is always connected unless you disconnect it physically.When you first plug-in it will give you three option to format 1. Windows 2. Mac or 3. Lynux.
1.3.2017
*************************UPDATE*************************I've been wanting to get a rugged portable USB drive for ages, so really wanted to like this drive. Unfortunately, the transfer speed really lets it down.In the box, you get:- 1 x USB-C to USB cable- 1 x USB-C to USB-C cable- 1 x Lacie driveOn plugging the drive into your computer, you are presented with a tiny 256MB drive. In order to access the whole drive, you have to run the setup tool on that 256MB drive to partition and format the drive. You are offered the option to use FAT32 for wider compatibility, or NTFS for optimised speed. For the sake of this review, I chose to partition half the drive in FAT32, and the other half NTFS.
8.3.2017
It's not the prettiest storage device I've ever owned but I suppose rugged > pretty when it comes to storing data. I haven't ever heard of LaCie before which is surprising given that I've since read that it's the film /music/ photography industry's preferred brand when it comes to storing media. I suppose it'll cope well with my hobby photos, music and miscellaneous documents no problem then. I'm terrible at backing up my laptop but I do save my media and important things regularly to external memory but don't really trust one particular device over another though so usually have the same stuff on a few devices just to be sure. I tend to use smaller drives though at around the 16gb - 32gb range so 1TB feels epic.
4.3.2017
Aesthetics, I think this drive is rather ugly looking as a Lacie product I dont think the design is their finest moment having previously owned several well designed and functional Lacie products.Designed as a rugged drive claiming to be able to survive a drop from around 1.2m, being able to survive running over by a 1 tone weight and being rain resistant are claims I dont intend on testing anytime soon.Performance is very good being a USB 3 drive, I own Windows PCs as well as a Macs and swapping and sharing files between both platforms, backing up data are concerns I wanted to address. The generous 1TB capacity should more than sufficient for personal use and I would suggest for small scale business use.Performance and compatibility was excellent,
19.3.2017
Unlike the other reviewers present who seem to have experienced problems with the cable and the robustness of this LaCie product, in this humble abode, this mini hard drive sits quietly at the back of the I Mac beavering away merrily. Frankly. I did not need a portable hard disk to take the beach and get covered in sand. As such this works perfectly well as a static back disc. Indeed, after using it for a couple of weeks linked to Time Machine it is backing up nicely and storing all songs from I-Tunes as a database. Having previous used "My Passport for Mac" this LaCie drive has much bigger storage and was easy to install. Whether it needed to be the colour of tangerine is obviously a matter of personal taste,
13.3.2017
Only downside I can mention is that in many years of using portable drives with my Macs is that size doesn't seem to increasing??Never the less, this is a rugged device and I can vouch for it. Formatted the drive journaled on my MacBook Pro and then added a good few Gb of photos and music to it. It's so far been left in a very hot sunny greenhouse, dropped from a table a couple of times and the drive still works perfectly. The rubber edging has also not damaged if you are to throw this in a large bag the added benefit is that you're not going to damage anything else in the bag from a edge or corner of the drive due to its padding.Perhaps having the cable being able to further protect the drive by having a cable wrap around the outer would be a good design going forward,
11.4.2017
First of all this drive feels sturdy and well-made. It comes with two leads, one for miniUSB-to-miniUSB, the other is USB3-to-miniUSB.The orange rubbery rim can actually be removed if you prefer to make it more compact, but obviously you lose the protective – and highly visible - element if you do.I didn’t try kicking it around the room or anything but one would hope it’s been thoroughly tested of the sturdiness it claims to have.In terms of use, it won’t let you use or ‘see’ the drive on your computer unless you run the Lacie software, although I was able to uncheck various boxes and skip registration so it wasn’t too painful.Via USB3 it copied over 2.56GB of data from a Windows PC in 78 seconds.I haven’t used it very much yet,
21.4.2019
I purchased this disk as I needed to move 1.4Tb of data from a 2011 iMac to my new iMac for 2019. After trying to use Migration Assistant (even with a Thunderbolt cable) it failed to move all the data and was frustratingly slow. I was able to move my photo and music collection in hours rather than days. I am not keen on the design, the orange bumper is to garish for me, however, the claim is that it does protect the disk and also that it provides a degree of weather proofing. I was impressed with the cables - built in Thunderbolt 1 & 2, with a connection for Thunderbolt 3/USBc and a spare leat for USB 3 as well as the thunderbolt 3 cable.I marked it down for portability as it is quite bulky and heavy.
31.12.2012
I bought this drive as a replacement for a previous one that failed. After a simple set up to allocate space for different formats (Mac and Windows) the drive formatted itself and was ready to use within 5 minutes. It works perfectly with Time Machine on Mac - note that if you do use this, it is best to have a partition formatted for Mac use only for it to back up to and a separate partition for other files. Another thing to take note of is that when the drive is plugged into the computer for the first time, it says it has 931.5GB of space - when it is formatted, it will clean itself up and give you the full 1TB of space to use. This drive will work with USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 (about 10 times faster transfer speed tan USB 2.0).
19.3.2016
I purchased this hard drive for a few simple reasons. I wanted a hard drive that could travel without its own case, didn't require me to find the relevant seperate cables all the time and was fast and reliable for video editing.It does that and ticks all the boxes. Read and write times are faster than a standard HD due to the thunderbolt cable that it well designed into the uni. It's rugged quality and ease of storage make this such a pleasure to use.The protective surround means I can just throw this into my bag and without a protective case with a zip that wastes my time. I also know that if I have the drive I have the cable because it's attached.Makes traveling and video editing just a pleasure.
24.8.2018
I got this to replace a WD MyPassport wireless pro which never worked properly from day one, and was hopelessly unreliable.I used this for storing video from my action cameras on a recent motorcycle tour. Just pop the sd cards into the slot, click the button, and all the video is copied to the drive. You can then reformat the card for the next couple of hours in the saddle. A major plus is being able to hook the CoPilot up to an iPad to view the videos or photos on it - no more carting a laptop on trips.With storage devices becoming so easy to lose now e.g. micro sd cards, it is really reassuring to know everything is backed up on this device.As an added bonus you can even use it a a power
17.12.2016
I've used LaCie drives for about 10 years now in both studio and location recording settings. I bought this to record on location so the heavy duty protection was quite important. I haven't dropped it yet - I don't really intend to - but it is a nice safety blanket.I have only used the thunderbolt connection, I'm still not sure of the speed of USB3 for recording and can't really afford dropouts. Runs at 7400 rpm, I had no disk read speed errors or connectivity problems. It works really well from the bus power on the laptop, but obviously running this and an audio interface rapidly depletes battery power. Obviously though, right, no fault of LaCie there!I've never had any problems with LaCie before,
10.6.2019
This product is brilliant, I would recommend using the app/software in addition so that it transfers all data from the computer to the storage device without having to do it manually. The design of it means I don’t need to be too fearful of damaging it, which is important for myself as a student who needs to ensure all my work is safely backed up. It is much better value for money to buy the one with more storage but due to money availability I didn’t. However, I am still nowhere near to using all the storage space so for me the larger storage capacity is not necessary.I would note that it is important not to lose the cables which connect it to the laptop/computer,