LaCie Minimus 2TB USB 3.0

Looks great with performance to match
I am really pleased with this drive. It is quiet in operation, feels really well built and look fantastic, very sleek and minimalist. I have no equipment capable of USB3 speeds yet but have no complaints about the performance on USB2. Works seemlessly with my iMac.

LaCie Minimus 2TB USB 3.0

Working well
Having done a lot of comparison shopping over the Christmas period looking for the best bang for my buck when it came to a fast, portable hard drive, I eventually settled on this one. I wanted a drive to store a growing number of media files; one that was portable and fast. I ordered this late in the afternoon on the 26th December. It arrived just two days later which was shockingly fast for the time of year.

I find the drive to be very quiet in operation and very easy to operate. I tested it in a USB2 port first of all and got a transfer speed of 34.5mb/s. For my needs, I reflected that this speed would have been quick enough; so I could have just as easily got by with a USB2 drive in hindsight.

Along with this hard drive, I bought the Transcend USB3 expansion card. Having installed that and connected the LaCie up to it, I am now getting transfer speeds of 95mb/s in USB3 mode.....so whilst I found I didn't necessarily need the extra speed... it certainly is...

LaCie Minimus 2TB USB 3.0

Well Worth the Money
I purchased this external hard drive for

LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Total failure
Unfortunately, this hard drive failed in under one month. I bought it in an Apple store, so exchanged without any trouble for another one. That one failed 18 months later will all my data. It was never dropped or even carried around, sat quietly at home to back up my numerous images. Won't be buying Lacie Rugged again!

LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Should be called Not Rugged
I bought this item because I wanted to have a drive that would stand up to being carried in a bag. But this hasn't. The USB connector on the drive has fallen apart. I am about to find out how the seller responds. I am disappointed because it seems to tick all the right boxes - small, light, good price.

LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Just amazing in every way
This is my 2nd portable hard drive and seems like the best! Working absolutely fine, faster and password protected area is just wonderful. General formatting for Windows took around 7-8 minutes for entire 1TB but password protection encrypted area for 200GB formatting took around 3 hours; however it is one of best function which can be dismounted any time or can be configured to dismount if idle for whatever time you specify though normal area/unprotected area is always connected unless you disconnect it physically.

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...

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LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive

Fantastic Storage
Looks great and works well. Needed manual partition as the supplied set up assistant does not work with iMac OS 10X (something to do with no longer supporting PowerPC). This was not difficult as the LaCie web site gives a great guide. It's now happily backing up with time machine and looks much better than a cloud.

LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive

Just what was needed.
Fantastinc piece of kit. Pre loaded software was very easy to use but only allowed a very small FAT32 partition so i opted to manually configure it so i could swap files between Mac & PC. Really quick even on USB 2.0 and looks good on the desk - what more could you ask for!

LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive

A true 'Ronseal' drive - sexy too
LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive

I don't think I've ever set up a drive quicker than this one: 4 steps to the quick install guide - plug in, follow 'em, and Bob's yer uncle. About 3 minutes to format and even my worm-eaten old Dell Vista could see it. Haven't tried any of the 'optional extras' yet (my registry's cluttered enough as it is), but the encrypted partition software looks useful. I also can't vouch for the speed, since I'm using it in USB 2.0 mode, but it seems plenty fast enough for what I need, and I'm glad to have a USB 3.0 drive for the future.

All in all, a very nice buy: simple, quiet, and a lot cheaper than you'd think by the look and feel (it IS sexy).

Tip for neophytes: Just use the 'Windows' option and configure it as a single NTFS volume. Most Linux's should have no problem reading it (although you may need Samba); and it's...

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