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.
Ernestine Eichmann (verified owner) –
Works great, industry standard
Ubaldo Torphy (verified owner) –
Fast and quiet. USB A and C compatible.
Ansley Gleason (verified owner) –
Been using these for years! I can rely on it!
Michele Pfannerstill (verified owner) –
Our organization needed a drive to transfer video, and send them across the continent. This drive is reasonably priced, sturdy, does the job. Highly recommended for anyone needing to store material at home, work or on the fly, and especially for anyone who needs to ship the files.
Christiana Schuster (verified owner) –
Happy to buy this product , fully strong and fast.
Etha Hamill (verified owner) –
I’d prefer this to have been a Thunderbolt drive for my Mac – but this works as storage fine.
Kacey Rippin (verified owner) –
I’ve had a LaCie rugged in the past that worked wonderfully but I needed more space. This drive seemed to work OK at first even with a touchy cord, but after a few months, it’s making a clicking noise constantly and keeps unmounting. I even bought a new cord. I’m pretty disappointed. Not sure what to do since I can’t return it now.
Antone Davis (verified owner) –
Use for audio files in Logic, drive runs fast and reliably
Bailee Stamm (verified owner) –
everything was exactly as expected. Very easy to use.
Carrie Williamson (verified owner) –
This is an excellent HD – compact and fact.
Scotty Kertzmann (verified owner) –
Ubiquitous orange drives still deliver, but slowly. Appreciate it includes USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables, but the transfer speeds are sluggish compared to everything else (as expected from a spinning disk). Great for incremental transfers, less ideal for large file transfers.
Augustine Kris (verified owner) –
Perfect product
June Bins (verified owner) –
I’m very pleased with the quality of this product and very quick delivery. Excellent service from B&H as always.
Violette McKenzie (verified owner) –
This is my go to hard drive. Only issue I’ve had is that the cable doesn’t fit securely to my laptop and sometimes ejects if the cable moves too much. This isn’t a problem if I’m working at a desk but if I’m working from my laptop on the go, the cable disconnecting could potentially cause problems. It may be an issue with my laptop though.
Genevieve Jaskolski (verified owner) –
I got a new Surface Laptop Studio together with this drive. The problem I’m having with it that when I attempt to save directly to this drive, it crashes my software (Adobe Illustrator), it crashes Windows Explorer (Windows 11), and sometimes crashed the PC. It took me a minute to get an opinion on why this is happening. I believe it is simply because when the drive is idle for a while, it shuts off. And when I try to save directly to it, its not there. It wakes up quickly, but not quick enough for the system to crash. Also, when it’s asleep, I can navigate to the drive inside Windows Explorer and get a message that the drive is not there, momentarily, then suddenly, the drive is there. So it looks to me like the problem is that the drive shuts off. This may be because the drive is powered by the USB-C port on the laptop. Lastly, I sort of noticed that there was an optional driver update in Windows Updates for a Western Digital drive. I kind of hoping/wondering that Windows has noticed the problem and that this is a fix, but that’s probably wishful thinking. I haven’t had a chance to test whether this problem is fixed or not. But the drive is not going to serve me in the way I intended if I can’t save directly to it at any time. Other considerations that I have not explored is whether the laptop was on battery or plugged in when this was happening. I remember plugging it in after quickly running out of battery life but I can’t remember when the crashes were occurring. But I lost a couple hours of work. I had to start saving to the desktop then moving to this drive.
Raymundo Spencer (verified owner) –
Simple plug and play hard drive that’s speedy! I like the added rugged protector, which can be removed by the way. The bright orange color means it’ll be difficult to lose sight of. Only time will tell the reliability of the drive, but in the meantime, it’s been working great!
Jameson Thiel (verified owner) –
Sturdy, reliable and work horses
Clinton Fritsch (verified owner) –
I find these drives to be reliable and very portable. Been using them for years. This one worked out of the box and I anticipate no problems…of course, with an HD, time will tell!
Nikki Rice (verified owner) –
I only use LaCie HD , never have problems.
Lilly Okuneva (verified owner) –
Less than a week in and it’s already a brick