With a capacity of 1TB, the Rugged USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C External Hard Drive from LaCie marries a USB 3.0 Type-C interface and data transfer speeds of up to 130 MB/s with rugged durability that provides a drop resistance of up to 4′, crush resistance of up to 1 ton, and rain resistance, making this drive suitable for all-terrain storage, whether you’re in the field or in your home. It can be used to store large Lightroom libraries, as a shuttle drive to transport footage from a set to a post-production house, or just for general tasks.
LaCie’s 1TB Rugged USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C External Hard Drive is compatible with Windows 7 and later and macOS 10.12 and later, but should also work on earlier versions of macOS, such as 10.9 and 10.11. It is powered using the USB bus, meaning that no external power adapters are required for use. Included is a USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C cable, a USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C to Type-A cable, and two years of Seagate Rescue Data Recovery Services. General protection is provided by a limited 2-year warranty.
Note: In order to take advantage of the 1-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud, customers will need to register this drive on Seagate.com once it has been received. Upon registration, they will then receive an email with code redemption instructions for one complimentary month of all Adobe Creative Cloud apps, including Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Adobe XD CC, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, 100GB of cloud storage, and more. This offer is stackable with existing Adobe Creative Cloud memberships and expires July 21, 2020. It is not available in all countries, so please check eligibility.
For any LaCie product purchased on or after April 1, 2018 that does not contain the Adobe activation code flyer in the box, please contact Customer Support at https://support2.lacie.com/ with a valid proof of purchase for your code.
Beth Satterfield (verified owner) –
Seems to be all I have come to expect from LaCie reliable, affordable and easy to use
Robin Halvorson (verified owner) –
I love LaCie drives and the drive itself is great. Fast and easy to use. My only issue is the USB cord. As with some prior drives, the connection is not as tight as I would like. I’m not getting that flicker connection effect as I’ve had in the past, but it’s bothering me.
Elroy McGlynn (verified owner) –
So for the folks who remember this company from 2000 and their advertisements for products geared towards the Mac market, it should be noted that as of 2014 that LaCie is a Seagate company. In as much as I have seen my fair share of 1TB + Seagate hard drives die since 2009, this was slightly disappointing to find out as I was coming close to filling up my 4TB WD My Passport Ultra and needed more capacity in a single drive. Also note: these are two physical drives in one. With that the folks who are used to throwing out the initial files contained on the drive out of the box need to refrain. The initial software is needed to put those two drives in a RAID 0, another drawback, is on the drive. There is an option to make a 2.5TB RAID 1. It’s on a 400 MB FAT32 partition initially. After setup the files are on the drive still but the 400MB partition is gone. And the setup application has to be run from the drive itself. If you backed up the files and deleted the partition trying to partition it manually, you can make another 400 MB FAT32 partition, labeled anything, and put the files back on the drive. Having to use this on the go a bunch I do like the big orange rubber surround on it. It is a few ounces heavier than my WD My Passport Ultra 4TB was: ~12.4 ounces to WDs ~9.4 or so. You don’t feel the drives rotating when you disconnect, so it seems you have some protection from minor shocks and impacts. As for performance, it seems right on par with the WD My Passport Ultra 4TB. All in All, it’s a good buy. Cool to have something from them. Just hope I don’t have to use that 2 Years of data recovery protection on the count of this being a RAID 0 implementation in practice. There just wasn’t a WD option beyond 4TB in a mobile drive out there :).
Columbus Jaskolski (verified owner) –
I’m so happy I purchased it. I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro as well as my iMac . It was very essential that I upgraded my external hard drive to be compatible with the USB-C type connections. The difference in upload and download speeds are unmatched. It makes the transferring of files a breeze. Definitely recommend this brand. The durable built and feel of the hard drive puts me at ease knowing that all my data will be safe and secure. 10/10!
Cielo Ondricka (verified owner) –
Use it fir backup of a Mac it is very quiet and good. However for fast transfer by an ssd.
Monica Bogan (verified owner) –
Good price for a rugged, high capacity portable hard drive.
Noelia White (verified owner) –
The hard drive is basically bullet proof, and noticeably sturdier than anything else. I have like four of them for various projects, and now I can’t go back to anything flimsier. I feel like I can crush other hard drives if I look at it wrong. It’s a bit expensive, but if you’re already paying for Adobe CC every month as are most photographers, and can therefore include the savings from the free month voucher, then this hard drive effectively costs about as much as those cheaper, flimsier models I mentioned earlier. So it’s basically a no brained to get this.
Cassandre Becker (verified owner) –
great external drive. Plug it in to my mac and it is ready to go. Very rugged and will take a beating. I’ve been using the 4TB for a few years and needed more space.
Savannah Hessel (verified owner) –
I already own one of these and just bought a second. One of the most cost effective options, and the bumper makes me less nervous to drop it than I am my other drives.
Cindy Harber (verified owner) –
Extremely easy to set up, plug and play. using it to store raw files and culled images as well as photoshop files. Build quality seems superb. Very good that its USB c also. Does as advertised, no complaints.
Ahmed Treutel (verified owner) –
Working good
Nico Hermiston (verified owner) –
Been using Lacie hard drives for a while and they are reliable/get the job done.
Martine Hessel (verified owner) –
thinking this was the most reliable of external drive for backup I bought three of them – two for my husband for his photos and time machine and one time machine for me. mine failed as I tried to run time machine for the first time on a new laptop for the first time (it had served as time machine on another laptop previously and seemed fine), it ejected improperly when no one was around. seagate support tried, but it is dead. they are replacing, and luckily I still have the old laptop to put one more TM on the previous EHD, but this makes me very nervous. about to add redundancy with a different brand.
Edmund Stroman (verified owner) –
Nice and portable serves purpose well.
Eduardo Hansen (verified owner) –
These seem to be right in the sweet spot between speed and affordable. They’re convenient (you don’t have to plug them in), fast enough (there are much better SSDs that’ll allow you to edit 4K without a glitch), and affordable (faster SSDs are twice/3x the price) I still have not had any issues with them and continue to use them as my main backups for my fast SSDs. At the end of the day, we dump the SSD into these so that we can keep a redundancy. I don’t recommend them if you’ll be using them to edit huge footage directly on them, but do get them if you’re backed up and want to keep a dedicated drive for a project.
Laura Kohler (verified owner) –
It doesn’t work with my computer, I’ve had a horrible time formatting it and no one from LaCie will return my inquiries. Shipping speed was amazing. I love b and h
Corene Ullrich (verified owner) –
Users manual should be clear and easy to find.
Nikko Berge (verified owner) –
Works like an orange charm and hard to lose. The easy way to protect your data.
Maxwell Hammes (verified owner) –
I do travel photography, this 1TB LaCie external hard drive is my life source. I’m always super super busy so need something that can make my life a little easier and it does just that. Ide give it 10 stars if I could. Very portable, very easy to use and it can take a lot of abuse.
Marcus Wolff (verified owner) –
Great product.