LaCie Mobile Drive, 5 TB, External Hard Drive Portable
LaCie Mobile Drive, 5 TB, External Hard Drive Portable – Moon Silver, USB-C 3.2, for PC and Mac, post-consumer recycled, with Adobe All Apps Plan and Rescue Services (STLP5000400)
What’s Included
LaCie Mobile Drive, USB-C cable, Quick start guide, LaCie Toolkit backup, Rescue Data Recovery Services
| Weight: | 180 g |
| Dimensions: | 2.4 x 8.53 x 11.83 cm; 180 Grams |
| Brand: | LaCie |
| Model: | STLP5000400 |
| Colour: | Moon Silver |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | LaCie |
| Dimensions: | 2.4 x 8.53 x 11.83 cm; 180 Grams |
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.
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.
Quiet operation, speedy, spacious the price seems to vary lots.
Brilliant piece of kit easy to transport easy to setup luv it cheers paul
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.
If using a Mac, be sure to format it for that.
Looks great, works great! Sure sucks up those kilobytes. Just as easy to suck them back off too. A very versatile assistant!
Hard to say about the durability, since I won’t be knocking this about, but so far so good.
The orange silicone (or whatever it is) sleeve makes the drive easy to spot and protects from bumps. The metal chassis seems solid enough. Mine came with a black USB-C cable.
I used Disk Utility to erase the drive and chose format Mac OS Extended (Journalled) because an encrypted option wasn’t available for some reason.
The drive was recognised in Time Machine and I chose to encrypt and protect with a password as I do with all external hard drives, just in case it should go astray.
First backup took about an hour for 300GB without a hitch. From experience, subsequent backups should take much less.
Now I have two external hard drives recognised in Time Machine and alternate backups so I’m covered in case one fails. I’ve always preferred to spend money on getting two drives to protect against data loss.
So far, so good with this LaCie drive but will update re. durability.
You get true USB-C speeds from the USB-C Lacie drive as long it is plugged into a USB-C port, the same can not be said for some of the competing products available. The Lacie drives are also slightly smaller than competing products.
Using this for external storage of my iTunes music library. Fast transfer and loads of storage.
This product and it’s minimal instructions states it is for PC and Mac – just plug in and start. WRONG.
For Mac you need to reformat.
I am a computer user and not a computer expert. Because I did not reformat (I did not know at the time) I carried on, and eventually after a few hours the drive stopped working and nothing could be done to save it. So I returned it and got my money back. Result – one lost sale of this product.
In this instance the drive was probably perfectly fine.
Five Terra-bites! Now I can have more virtual-clutter. Where will it end?
It’s a rugged hard drive, and 2tb. If you don’t need it to be rugged, save your money and buy a standard drive. If you need a rugged drive, here you go. If you really want to bounce it round, get an SSD.
As for rating the capacity, well, quite simply put it’s a 2tb drive. If you need more than 2tb, it isn’t the drive for you.
Its now under my desk with a usb3 extension lead. I can just forget about it now. works for me!!
I was hesitant to buy this product based on the reviews, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised that all the issues others have mentioned I have no problem with!
The connection is secure, not too tight or too loose. The casing doesn’t get in the way of the cable connection.
Storage wise it does the job.
I got it to replace an antiquated hard drive that wouldn’t work with FCPX. And this works fantastically. Definitely worth the 5 stars and cheaper than getting it through Apple.
My one LaCie hard drive had failed. I had no idea why. But I got a replacement from amazon. I feel very positive for them. I thank them for help me.
I already had some of these drive in a different capacity & was pleased with them. Unfortunately when I went to try to claim the free creative cloud offer on this purchase the Lacie app just kept sending me to a URL where the page did not exist stating 404.
Customer support has been poor telling me to use the app, I explained the app don’t work and they closed the ticket.
This concerns me as if I had a fault with the HDD I know Lacie would not be a reliable source of support however as I purchased these in the UK Amazon provide the warranty under law so I am going to keep them as I know I don’t need Lacie’s help if things go wrong.
Like I mentioned the main feature for me was the fact it had a USB C connection, which this does.
As well as that, I knew I would be traveling around with the hard drive, so seeing it is drop crush and rain resistant is an added benefit. Fortunately, I am yet to have to test out these claims.
Although the orange rubber is quite useful in that it stops the hard drive getting scratched or slipping.
In terms of size, both physically and storage-wise, I would say it is pretty standard and similar to most other products.
Another added benefit that I was pleased with was that it came with a month of Creative Cloud, giving me the opportunity to test out Photoshop and Lightroom.
Overall, I have been quite happy with the hard drive so far and had no issues. It has done what it says and stores my files well. It’s not the fastest of hard drives but it is a HDD and not an SSD, so can’t expect too much. The features I have mentioned make this a great purchase. It is a product that I would recommend.
If drives last beyond the warranty period, I’ve found they go on for a very long time.
I note some tales of woe from people who have lost files among the reviews for this product on Amazon. I feel your pain, but that all devices can fail. Expect them to fail and have a thorough backup strategy that gives you three copies of all your files. Then, if a drive fails it doesn’t matter if you can get a replacement. It’s annoying if a drive fails, but we can’t blame LaCie or anyone else for lost files.
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, which could cause inconvenience but is not the end of the world and can be replaced.
This 4tb drive died 6 months after it started “ticking”, which spells the end of the drive. The return process is complicated by the fact that you need to supply a product code which is NOT printed on the drive itself. It is not unreasonable to provide this but not printing these clearly on the product is an error (numbers and code cannot be found under the orange rubber covering as well). Of course, as the drive is dead, Lacie’s suggestion to use a software tool is rubbish – nothing shows up.
After many attempts I was able to get a product code by entering the serial number first. Why This is so complicated, I don’t know but it’s made to be complicated and difficult.
On the plus side, Lacie did ship a new drive in less than a week including delivery. Also, the drive is quite fast.
The cable is poorly fitting and of a special type.
The LaCie is simple and easy to use. Just plug in and drag and drop files onto it. Check they have copied, then dump files off your hard drive.
I’ve had LaCie drives in the past and never experienced any failures.
The unit is small and compact. It comes well packed and supplied with a USB 3.0 cable! YES CABLE INCLUDED. I emphasise this as the description doesn’t lead you to believe this: yet Amazon encourage you to buy one – or at least it suggests others buy a USB cable.
Tips for set up. If you want to register your drive as part of the set up. Then pull back the rubber bumper at the end the cable plugs in. (Not when attached to the computer) this is where the serial number is.
When you plug it in you’ll get a nice icon on your desktop (like pictured) and use the quick start icon to set it up.
Remember when you’ve finished copying and done. Then click on the LaCie drive icon and drag to your trash bin to eject. If you fail to eject the drive it can possibly cause problems.
It also appears to be a moving hard drive, I wasn’t sure if this when I bought it. Not that it bothers me massively as its sold as a rugged drive. However the next purchase will be solid state as no moving parts. Aside from this for the price you can’t go wrong. I wouldn’t buy a cheaper drive as it is your data you are backing up / storing!
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This is the second one I’ve purchased and it simply works. I create a lot of video content that I need to share between machines and an external HD is the only solution that works for me.
They are well-designed and durable and I never think twice about just dropping it into my rucksack along with my laptop and camera when out on the go. It’s fast and silent – and totally powered from the USB so you don’t need to worry about plugging it into it’s own power socket.
I’m a mac user and it works perfectly fine with both desktop and laptops. It does come with some software, but I just found it easier to format the drive when I received it and simply start fresh – which works great for my needs.
So far neither drive has failed me – but this is technology we’re talking about and never say never. So maybe one day I’ll invest in a proper multi-harddrive server for backup purposes, or build my own cloud solution. Until then I’ll stick to these great little devices.
When you first plug-in it will give you three option to format 1. Windows 2. Mac or 3. Lynux. Only limitation here is it won’t allow you to partition the Hard Drive which is not a big deal as it can be resolved by making several folders however after the formatting is successfully done then it can be password protected for the size you want. In my case I did 200GB. This protected area is 256 bit encrypted which is very good I guess one of the best industry standard ensured security. By the way no one should make the whole of this hard drive password protected because in that case you cannot use or access this drive in every computer because to access this password protected are you need to run pr-eloaded .exe file which cannot be run unless you are administrator or Power user for that computer i.e. in offices computers are restricted so you cannot access restricted area and if the whole external hard drive is password protected than no meaning of portability . The unprotected area can be access anywhere you want as like any other USB Drive. I am using USB 2.00 though it is absolutely faster i.e. selected whole of 18 GB of documents which transferred around 15 minutes in one go and very quiet, no noise at all. Do hope and pray that price of this product would come down and very soon the company would make 5 TB in the same physical size. Hope it would last long. I would highly recommend this product, without any question you can buy it.