LaCie Rugged USB-C, 4TB, Portable External Hard Drive, Drop
LaCie Rugged USB-C, 4TB, Portable External Hard Drive, Drop, Shock, Dust, Rain Resistant, for Mac & PC, incl. USB-C w/o USB-A cable, 2 year Rescue Services (STFR4000800)
| Weight: | 336 g |
| Dimensions: | 1.88 x 13.51 x 8.61 cm; 335.66 Grams |
| Brand: | LaCie |
| Model: | STFR4000800 |
| Colour: | Orange |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | LaCie |
| Dimensions: | 1.88 x 13.51 x 8.61 cm; 335.66 Grams |
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
*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.
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
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.