lacie porsche design mobile 1tb for mac review

Lacie porsche design mobile 1tb for mac review install#
Lacie porsche design mobile 1tb for mac review portable#

Although it's thicker and likely slightly slower on the write speed front, doubling the capacity for a price increase of less than 50% sounds like a real bargain. We'd also opt for LaCie's 4TB model as the best of the bunch here. So it's difficult to recommend this drive if you don't need it for use cases where durability and the ability to take a knock or two is paramount.īut even then, an SSD (like the Samsung T3 USB 2TB) is likely to be a better purchase with a marked improvement in durability and speed – although it will cost you far more per GB. Equally, you could look at non-rugged rivals and save a fair amount of money going for a 2TB Toshiba Canvio drive or indeed the Seagate Expansion 2TB drive which sells for £63 (around $80, AU$105) and probably uses the same hard drive as this LaCie model. Of course, then you'd lose out in terms of ruggedness.

Lacie porsche design mobile 1tb for mac review portable#

In truth, we'd almost prefer to have the drive without the orange 'bumper' case because it looks more stylish, and it's also more portable without the sleeve. Genie Timeline Free offers Explorer-like file selection, allows you to backup open and locked files, and it offers a no-backup zone and file versioning. LaCie also provides a free version of Genie Timeline, a reasonably powerful backup application that only runs on Windows – which is slightly puzzling given that LaCie's primary customers use Macs.

Lacie porsche design mobile 1tb for mac review install#

LaCie urges you to install an application to determine whether you want to keep the drive as FAT32, an NTFS or a hybrid by moving a slider. There is precious little that separates this drive from the countless others on the market. You can also use the drive with devices equipped with a Thunderbolt 3 connector. A USB Type-C to USB Type-A cable is also provided in the box. Note that although the LaCie 2TB uses a USB Type-C connector, it's a version 1.0 affair, which means that it tops out at 5Gbps, the same as USB 3.0.

LaCie claims that the drive will reach a max speed of 135MBps (that's the boast on the outside of the box, anyway).

Other specs include 128MB of cache, a two-year warranty and a 5400RPM spinning speed.

The LaCie Mobile Drive features a USB 3.0 interface for speeds up. Speed, design, and technology are combined to create a mobile hard drive that’s built for performance. Having fewer platters means that it is lighter, consumes less energy (500mW when idle, 1.75W average for read/write) and is quieter as well. The LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive is more than just a place to store data it’s a collaboration between one of the most renowned design firms in the world and LaCie. It only has two platters, each with a 1TB capacity. LaCie has used a Seagate hard drive, the ST2000LM007, which is a mobile HDD with a 7mm profile, and that explains why the device is so small.