LaCie (LAC9000633) Rugged Mini 4TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – USB 3.0 USB 2.0 Compatible, Drop Shock Dust Rain Resistant Shuttle Drive, For Mac And PC Computer Desktop and Laptop, Orange

Very rugged and sturdy external hard drive. That holds over 5000 of my high memory files. Absolutely extraordinary. It runs day and night and stays cool. No degradation, and I did not have to form at it to windows. It just worked right out of the box.

I’ve loved this storage for the ease of use, storage capacity, and price. I use this as an everything storage. You can’t beat the compact size either.

I regret that my two year experience with this drive using Mac machines is not positive. I have not found it to be reliable. To recover files on the drive now...again...I must fire up an antique Chromebook, which sees my files so I can back them up elsewhere. It worries me and I'm not messing with this drive further. -- Same issues on newer UnionSine drive. Drives mount one time but not the next...Disk Utility hangs trying to find it...workaround is to mount the drive on my ancient Chromebook...which sees the drives and files fine...then retry on Mac...usually this works but it is really weird...I see now it has to do with how I formatted these drives as exFAT as advised...both my Macs randomly spit it out and say yuck...nerve wracking as these are important back up drives...honestly WTH why are we still having drive compatibility crap like this? So apologies LaCie it does not seem to be your fault...

Use this everyday

Es muy rápido para transferir 50 Gigas en 8 minutos aproximadamente y muy silencioso, además, que es muy compacto.

Exactly what I was needing!

I wanted an ext hard drive backup in case something happened. The ext hard-drive backup on our Mac took about three hours—reasonable. Then there’s the encryption that can be selected, which I selected. What it doesn’t tell you if you want it to be encrypted, is that it can take 1-3 weeks. Eight days after I started the encryption process, it was only 29% completed, and based on that it would have been another two weeks. Basically, if there’s no secret deals, just select backup as there is a password that will protect it. When I looked into LaCie encryption further, within those frustrating eight days, I found other people’s frustration palpable. I tried calling LaCie, but the only working number was in France. Other people had mentioned using the company’s online support, which was nearly non-existent. I called Apple tech support and it came to the rescue. The tech slightly giggled when I mentioned the time it was taking for the LaCie encryption, and the tech confirmed other people’s frustration with it. I basically scrubbed the ext drive and am waiting for backup now.

This nice little drive is big in storage. I use it for Time Machine backups as the drive is seamlessly Mac compatible, and I'm very happy. Couldn't be easier to set up on Mac. Data transfer over USB3 is fast for my purposes — and that's how the drive is powered! Gone are the days when you needed an external power source — one usb3 cable serves for power source and data transfer. I understand that spinning hard drives (HDD) like this drive are better for data integrity than Solid State Drives (SSD): since my mac's drive is solid state, it makes sense to back up onto a spinning HDD — and it's much more affordable than a comparable SSD. I travel a lot, and I've been burned in the past by HDD failures due to drops, bumps, etc., but LaCie boasts protection against shock, drops up of to 4 feet, and dust and water resistance. We shall see... I'll update this review if I have any trouble.

Buen producto. Es muy fiable y bien protegido. Tal vez un poco pesado.

Die Festplatte ist nun seit einem Jahr in täglicher Verwendung und kann voll und ganz überzeugen. Geliefert wurde die Festplatte mit einem USB A und einem USB C Verbindungskabel, somit schon mal ein Pluspunkt für mich gewesen. Bei dieser Größe haben wir unsere Festplatte auf NTFS formatiert und unter Mac OS mit entsprechenden Treibern unter Betrieb, immer problemlos und bei voller Geschwindigkeit. Steckt man die Festplatte das erste Mal am PC an, öffnet sich ein Einrichtungsprogramm. Dieses ermöglicht einem kinderleicht Partitionen in verschiedenen Dateisystemen und Größen zu erstellen. + Vorteile Sehr viel Speicher für unterwegs, perfekt für längere Urlaube und Fototrips um immer entsprechend rückzusichern. Kompakte Abmessungen und somit optimal in jeder Laptoptasche und jedem Rucksack unterzubringen. Durch die Hülle, geschützt vor Staub, Erschütterungen, Stößen und Spritzwasser. Außerdem liegt sie somit rutschfest auf allen Unterlagen. Geschwindigkeit: Je nach Datei, im Schreiben ca. 100MB/s und im Lesebetrieb um die 116MB/s Preis: Immer wieder in Blitzangeboten zu recht guten Preisen erhältlich. - Nachteile Langsamere Geschwindigkeit als SSDs. Fazit: In der Größe um den Preis top! Als SSD wäre sie natürlich noch praktischer, aber in dieser Größe noch kein Thema.

Super produit et beaucoup d’espace

I bought this external hard drive few months ago (3 months to be exact) and suddenly all my data is lost , it just broke/crashed itself. I have used it with all the necessary cares so there was no reason for it to break and this is clearly a technical problem with the hard drive. Now I am going to see how it works with the warranty, I hope this doesn't become a nightmare.

J'utilise ce disque dur LaCie 4 To avec mon MacBook Pro 14 pouces pour stocker et éditer des vidéos, notamment celles de mes voyages. Il est incroyablement rapide et parfaitement compatible avec macOS. Juste pour une optimisation parfaite il faut le formater à la première utilisation. Son design robuste donne confiance pour le transporter partout, même dans des environnements un peu chaotiques. Avec 4 To d'espace, j'ai suffisamment de stockage pour mes projets vidéo lourds, y compris des fichiers en 4K. Les transferts sont fluides, et le câble inclus fonctionne impeccablement. Je recommande sans hésitation ce disque dur à tous ceux qui cherchent un produit fiable et performant pour le montage vidéo ou la sauvegarde de données. Un excellent rapport qualité-prix ! Surtout que je l'ai acheter lors des promos Amazon