LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt STEV2000400 USB 3.0 2TB External Hard Disk (Orange)

I have a mid-2011 iMacAll USBs are 2.0, so the fastest streaming I could get was 30 MB/s (which was a big bottleneck)With this, I'm getting Read Write speeds around 130 MB/s through Thunderbolt connectionBuy only if you don't have USB 3.0 ports. If you have USB 3.0, you can get similar speeds with other USB 3.0 only drives at much cheaper price.It was delivered 6 days before the expected date, so that is great.I would have been much happier if:1. It had another Thunderbolt Port for Daisy Chaining.2. I didn't have to pay almost 50% more as customs

Its top end hard drive for people in the film industry or for people who need a lot of data to be regularly moved from one digital point to another.

This appears to be a good product and works well on my MacBook Air to facilitate the freeing up of my internal drive data storage

Very Good

Very reliable hard disk

Excellent product very much satisfied

Nice Product working great..

Very good

I should have read the directions- maybe. It may have addressed the formatting. But right now I have visual issues and can't read the print. Anyway, it was plug and play and I have used earlier model versions over the past 12 years so was comfortable with it. Earlier models gave me a choice of Mac OS or Windows and this box description said this model did both. HOWEVER, some caveats.I connected via Thunderbolt, went to the SETUP file and it gave me the choice of Window-Mac share or just Mac. It also gave me the choice of single or partition. I selected the partition and set up 2/3rds for Win-Mac Sharing (FAT32) and a third for Mac only. After formatting (easy, easy, only seconds) a screen popped up offering to backup to Time Machine. I said yes and it started backup to the Mac only partition. (I should have known that is what it would do!)At that point I realized that between my 3 Mac computers, I may need more than 500GB for backups and I likely would not need the 1400GB for the Shared files (my husband is Windows and I am the one managing all our house records). Files don't take up as much space as backups. But I could not stop the back up and going back into the SETUP file only said "DONE"- it gave me no option to re-partition it differently.So while I type this, I am letting it finish the back up to Time Machine and will then try using Disk Utility later today. I should be able to erase/restore and then repartition it with more space dedicated to my Mac computer back ups. I also use iDrive (online) so its not that big a deal- I am not too worried about losing files, just the speed/convenience of accessing them locally.I plan to have the FAT32 partition available as a file share option over our LAN. I would leave it connected to my Mac Mini which would act as a server and the files that I work with on other computers would actually accessible from the LaCie while it is connected to the MM. Or I could disconnect and use it as a safeguard option by not keeping it online- I would just connect it periodically to sync files and have the MM be the accessible drive for the other home computers. Haven't quite decided yet. There is something reassuring to know that potential hackers could not hold our files hostage.I probably should give this a 5 star as my other 2 LaCie Rugged Drives are still going strong- one at 12 years and one at 7 years. Its just that I turned the 750 GB one over to hubby for his Windows and the other older model has even less GB and I needed TB storage. Hoping this product lasts a long time like my others.I did have another LaCie product, a real external dedicated hard drive but our frequent brownouts/blackouts knocked out the drive despite it being on a surge protector. LaCie wanted $1400 to recover the disk (I declined). They said it was likely due to the stress of the drive spinning on/off so much when the power was turning on/off repeatedly. Gee, was I glad I had multiple backups!

Purchased this drive to back up an older (3 years) LaCie Rugged HD that seemed to be going south. Tried to connect with both Thunderbolt cable & USB & got "not supported by this operating system" back from both tries, could not get to re-format to Apple spec ......Ended up taking an Orico M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure & a WD 1 TB SSD, formatted & is connecting fine.

Leider bestellt unsere IT immer mehr Laptops mit immer kleiner wurden Festplatten. Deshalb musste eine externe Festplatte angeschafft werden. Die Bedingungen die diese zu erfüllen hatte waren zum einen eine kompakte Bauweise mit einer großen Speicherkapazität, zum anderen eine möglichst hohe Resistenz gegen jegliche Beschädigungen. Die Wahl auf diesen Festplattentyp ist recht schnell gefallen und aufgrund unserer Anschlüssen an den Laptops wurde dieses spezielle Modell gewählt. Da wir hauptsächlich auf Baustellen an Bahnstrecken unterwegs sind hat sich der Schutz Gummi um die Festplatte schon mehrfach bewährt. Auch im Ausland bei hohen Temperaturen Regen und vielem anderen lief die Festplatte bis jetzt ohne Probleme.Größtes Manko dieser Festplatte ist der Anschaffungspreis der leider einige Argumentation finden erfordert habt bis wir die Bewilligung für diese Platten bekommen haben. Ich finde natürlich kommt dieser Preis durch das Design und den damit verbundenen Schutz jedoch während alle anderen Speichertypen immer billiger werden verändert sich der Preis dieser Festplatten kaufen. Das ist schade.

Als ich die zum Teil sehr schlechten Bewertungen gelesen habe war ich Anfangs skeptisch ob ich die Festplatte kaufen soll. Da es leider nicht viel Alternativen gibt, hab ich mich dann aber doch dazu entschlossen. Zum Glück!Ich nutzte die Festplatte um Filme zu schneiden. Meine Final Cut Mediathek und alle Ressourcen sind auf der Festplatte und es klappt wirklich wunderbar, kein Vergleich zu meiner Festplatte mit USB 3.0Einziges Manko ist der Thunderbolt Stecker, der doch manchmal sehr locker im Macbook sitzt. Am Anfang kam es leider ein paar mal dazu, dass ich durch ruckeln die Verbindung zum Macbook unterbrochen habe. Deswegen war ich kurz davor den Artikel zurückzusenden. Nach ein paar Tagen arbeiten muss ich allerdings sagen, dass ich garkein Problem mehr habe. Die Verbindung löst sich nicht mehr. Ob ich einfach intuitiv vorsichtiger geworden bin oder sich das Problem in Luft aufgelöst hat kann ich nicht beurteilen. Auf jeden fall klappt es!! :)Die Performance ist Wahnsinn und das Produktdesign an sich auch. Also absolute Kaufempfehlung!

I had a problem with USB version 3.0 cables falling out of the receptacle on the drive side and finally got tired of it. I got this drive with a Thunderbolt connector and not a single problem since. I like the fact that the other side of the short Thunderbolt cable is attached somewhere under the bumper case for all practical purposes permanently and the cable folds neatly into the groove around the side of the case. The connector fits well into the compartment in the bumper case and the cover goes over it. It's all soft rubber but all works well. The cover not too flimsy to be irritating while placing it over the connector compartment and stays in place. You get a spare cover as well in case you lose it because I don't see how you could wear it out.I didn't conduct and speed tests but I didn't notice much difference for what I'm using it for between internal drive and this drive.2-3x the price of a USB 3.0 but for me eliminating the frustration and wasted time fiddling with velcro tapes to make the USB 3.0 connector connect it was worth it.