LaCie Rugged Mini, 1TB, 2.5″, Portable External Hard Drive
LaCie Rugged Mini, 1TB, 2.5″, Portable External Hard Drive, for PC and Mac, Shock, Drop and Pressure Resistant, 2 year Rescue Services (LAC301558)
What’s Included
LaCie Rugged Mini hard drive, quick install guide
| Weight: | 163 g |
| Dimensions: | 13.51 x 8.64 x 2.59 cm; 163.29 Grams |
| Brand: | LaCie |
| Model: | LAC301558 |
| Colour: | Orange |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | LaCie |
| Dimensions: | 13.51 x 8.64 x 2.59 cm; 163.29 Grams |
Perfect for 4K Videographers
Needed ssd’s that could handle a lot of 4K video footage and then playback effortlessly when editing … this piece of equipment does exactly that. It’s fast, very fast. I have 4 of them, all totally reliable.
Stands ou
Using this to store my main copies of all my photos. Stands out from all the other drives I have and gives me confidence that it isn’t going to get lost or broken. Good value too.
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheerfully tough-looking
I have a series of portable hard drives that have taken interesting photo-trips with me, and all have survived, but this is my first LaCie drive. Previously I’d looked at the prices and decided against, but now it is affordable as well as desirable.
It is impressively robust-looking, a rugged orange plastic case with extra-protected corners encloses the black drive case, and it looks as though it should absorb knocks and small shocks. I hope I never test its protective abilities. Bought in anticipation of a trip, so not tested!
Tech support looks promising but not used.
Not set up yet, but hopefully setting up all sorts of drives in the past will allow me to figure out this one: instructions in the box are clear.
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic drive and still just as great but Amazon sent it incorrectly formatted
I’ve never had a drive sent formatted specifically for Mac and would always be under the assumption they’d be formatted to exFAT for compatibility reasons. I can partially blame myself for not double checking before sending off to a client but can only assume that, as I bought the drive ‘Used – Like New’, someone had formatted it then returned it.
Just sorta weird and created a headache for me in getting the drive back, copying the contents off it, formatting then re-copying it back over. Lacie remains one of the safest deliverable drives though and excluding this specific hiccup, is super compatible and well known.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelle
Really nice and easy to use, I have android so you just need to connect hard drive into phone and then you just back up anything and everything so much easier then connecting to laptop. Definitely recommend
Perfect for MacBook/mac
Perfect for storing videos and photos from Mac. I use mine with iMovie to store videos for my YouTube. Works Perfectly. One little down side is if I have my Mac in sleep mode at night and this is still plugged in. It will occasionally blink a bright light every time it boots it self up.
I was glad the package included a cable, which surprised me. I have already used it to do a laptop backup and it worked well and reasonably fast. The only shock was self-made because I had not realised, until I read it on the LaCie website, that this drive goes to sleep after a period of non use. I had left it running all night to do a large backup and when I returned to it in the morning and tried to continue, my backup software said “drive does not exist”. I then looked in Windows Explorer and Windows said “there is a problem with this drive” and my heart sank. I did Windows troubleshooting and don’t know what, if anything, it found, but now the drive seems to be working well regardless. I think maybe it had gone to sleep and therefore could not be found. However, it may have had a fault, so I am just warning others of the problem. The other thing to note is that the format on the drive is exFAT so if you are using it for Windows only you might consider reformatting it to NTFS which is a little more stable. But, your choice.
Rugged and can take punishme
In my situation, unfortunately, units tend to fall down, This La Cie is no exception. It has already survived 4-5 falls. None the worse for wear. It is used as a back-up drive and runs 24/7/365. Perfectly.
Am delighted with it. NOTE that you need a special cable… do NOT forget to order it with the unit.
Recommended.
Albe
Small, easy to use
Small, secure and safe. A tad expensive, but you get what you pay for.
IT WORKS
Purchased as a replacement for external hard drive that had become tired. Works well. Easy to set up, acts as a back-up drive and saves everything. No issues so far.
Excellent produc
Ideal for use as a portable backup disk. It’s not the fastest if writing data directly to disk, but one wouldn’t expect enormous speed of this spec and price and for backup it’s more than good enough. The robust cover is great for travel – especially to counties where hard disks are not allowed in hand luggage; it has a good chance of surviving the hold.
5 stars for support, because, although I haven’t needed any on this particular disc, La Cie support has proven excellent when needed in the past.
Works as it should and good value.
Compact easy to use. I had originally intended to use as a Time Machine backup for my new iMac. I had already backed up around 500 GB of videos and photos to use on my new iMac. I then realised that this drive needed to be formatted to Time Machine and would thence eliminate all existing files. It was not a big drama as I simply copied all the files from my old portable drive to the new LaCie and am back using the old drive with the Time Machine. It was quite amazing buying this machine at 5 TB at a cheaper price than even 2 TB – weird!
Finally - Something That Does What It Is Supposed To Do!
I had one of the LaCie Rugged Mini a good few years ago and it ran smoothly as it should and it still does, although it has been full for years.
Having been using a different brand in recent times (purely due to availability), I needed two new external hard drives and due to changes that company had made, they failed to do what was actually advertised.
I returned them and replaced them with two LaCie Rugged Minis and they work like a dream!
Easy set up (in under a minute), they are now both running constant live backups on my two computers.
After two weeks of technical issues, it was a joy to finally have something work as it should giving me peace of mind for the safety of my work.
Totally recommend.
Love i
Had this a while now and I love it, Very rugged and feel’s robust. Was advised by the Apple Store to buy it when I got my new MacBook and I love it. Lots of space and great price.
I’m a student frequently travelling with my MacBook Pro, so thought I ought to start backing up using TimeMachine given that all the work I’ve done the last 5 years is on the one HardDrive. This does exactly what I want- I’ve partitioned it into two different formats- one for Mac (Mac Journaled) for my backups, and another partition in ExFAT for transferring files between Mac and PC. This has worked wonderfully. The first backup of approximately 100GB took only 30 minutes. There is a light that is only visible when illuminated, and flashes to indicate transfers, and slowly flashes to confirm when it’s been ejected successfully.
*NOTE* the USB-C option I went for is NOT the one in the picture, and is in fact the newer model! Much more compact than what I was expecting. The unit is very high quality which inspires confidence in it being my main hard drive. 1TB is enough for me for the next few years. When it fills up, I’ll definitely be rebuying this HD.
Lots of space
Quiet operation, speedy, spacious the price seems to vary lots.
Brillia
Brilliant piece of kit easy to transport easy to setup luv it cheers paul
The product appears to be well made it would be better if you had a choice of cable connection I needed to buy another needing usb 3.00
Do to my lack of knowledge I was a bit disappointed by the performance I thought an external hard drive would store all my photos and they would appear as though stored on my laptop in date order it stored around 6000 photos with no problem but they are random the icons are smaller I can see no way of having them larger, the result is no better than using a couple of CDs
Neat and compact, quite attractive (especially if you’re an Apple devotee, won’t look out of place with the rest of your gadgets), reasonable speed performance for a spinning disk. Well priced for the capacity, at least in the ‘brand with support’ space – obviously you can get a Chinese no-name device much cheaper.
Plays nicely with Mac straight out of the box, so far a really good device to use with Time Machine. The real test will be longevity, which it’s too early to comment on.
A nice sturdy HD with good capacity. Easy to use and eject. The cable is awful with the slightest of movements causing it to disconnect.
If using a Mac, be sure to format it for that.
So far so good
Hard to say about the durability, since I won’t be knocking this about, but so far so good.