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๐Ÿ“ฆ lacie rugged mini 2tb external hard drive | portable hdd - usb 3.0/2.0 compatible, drop-shock, dust, and rain resistant shuttle drive | for mac and pc | lac9000298 logo

๐Ÿ“ฆ LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External Hard Drive | Portable HDD - USB 3.0/2.0 Compatible, Drop-Shock, Dust, and Rain Resistant Shuttle Drive | For Mac and PC | LAC9000298 Review

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Details

Digital Storage Capacity2 TB
Compatible DevicesLaptop, Desktop
BrandLaCie
SeriesLaCie Rugged Mini
Specific Uses For ProductPersonal
Connectivity TechnologyUSB
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Description of ๐Ÿ“ฆ LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External Hard Drive | Portable HDD - USB 3.0/2.0 Compatible, Drop-Shock, Dust, and Rain Resistant Shuttle Drive | For Mac and PC | LAC9000298

Shock, drops up to 4 feet, dust and water resistant for all-terrain use. For Mac compatibility this Hard Drive requires reformatting. Refer to Application Guide for more details. Password protection built in. Uses USB 3.0 which is up to 4 times faster than USB 2.0 (USB 2.0 compatible). Includes 1-month complimentary membership to Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Plan. Must redeem by January 31, 2020.

Reviews

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

comfortable, nimble, lightweight

a huge plus of this hard drive is the presence of Thunderbolt, since I use a poppy and sometimes there is not enough space. Lightweight and well protected with rubber protection on all sides (a couple of times padol from the table) works like new. Very high transmission speed, good design. There is a similar one still on the 2T. There is own software that can protect all information on the disk. The only thing is that the Thunderbolt cable is soldered into the hard drive itself, it is notโ€ฆ

Pros
  • Fast, light, Thunderbolt
Cons
  • Soldered Thunderbolt cable

Revainrating 5 out of 5

comfortable, nimble, lightweight

a huge plus of this hard drive is the presence of Thunderbolt, since I use a poppy and sometimes there is not enough space. Lightweight and well protected with rubber protection on all sides (a couple of times padol from the table) works like new. Very high transmission speed, good design. There is a similar one still on the 2T. There is own software that can protect all information on the disk. The only thing is that the Thunderbolt cable is soldered into the hard drive itself, it is notโ€ฆ

Pros
  • Fast, light, Thunderbolt
Cons
  • Soldered Thunderbolt cable

Revainrating 3 out of 5

The worst customer service I've ever experienced.

I am shocked that such a famous company literally can't have customer service! The product does not work on my laptop - it is a technical error. But when I came to Lacey's site to enter information, I got chatbots and error messages. Their technical phone number on their website is unavailable - yes, it's like nobody's home! I ended up chatting with chatbots, which redirected me to Seagate Inc. Too funny, this link took me to an expired web link. Then I got a real person in the support chatโ€ฆ

Pros
  • This drive needs to be reformatted to be compatible with Mac. See the application guide for details.
Cons
  • Very expensive

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Don't buy this. in external hard drives

*UPDATE AUGUST 27* I went through their tech support process at the end of which they give you a case number and you prompt to call during business hours which I've been trying to do since 8am. I keep getting a busy message "Sorry, all channels are busy, please try again later". It is now almost 10:30 am. How can I recover my files if I can't contact the company?! - Bought on July 22nd, today is August 26th. Took a month and a few days. I'm a freelancer and I don't have enough space on myโ€ฆ

Pros
  • Shockproof, 4 foot drop, dust and water resistant for use on any terrain
Cons
  • Almost OK

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Works for Mac after reformatting

I'm on the road. I have a MacBook Pro and use it for audio. So I need a lot of memory. The rugged nature of this dive really attracted me. The size is great! 4TB gives me enough space to store large files. ONE PROBLEM: I almost returned this CD a day after receiving it. I started moving my smaller external hard drives to this new drive and it crashed. The transfer hung less than 1/4 of the data path. Mind you, I have a Mac and didn't reformat the drive, thinking I might as well use it on aโ€ฆ

Pros
  • Built-in password protection
Cons
  • Slightly torn

Revainrating 5 out of 5

and I couldn't be happier. It runs very smooth

I first bought a LaCie hard drive because my MacBook ran out of storage. I rely heavily on my computer for online school and photography/videography. Importing footage used to be a nightmare and I was constantly deleting apps to free up storage space. My biggest worry was losing all my essays, photos and short films, so I bought a 1TB LaCie Rugged Mini. I've been using it for about 4 months with no problems. SD cards and USB drives with limited space aside, this is my first real externalโ€ฆ

Pros
  • Uses USB 3.0 which is up to 4x faster than USB 2.0 (USB 2.0 compatible)
Cons
  • Expensive

Revainrating 5 out of 5

LaCie Rugged basically not bad - all pros and cons about this

A very good hard drive, a large amount of memory, which is even very welcome, but there are also disadvantages, for example: the cable moves away from the hard drive, that is, you need to keep the wire in one position so that the computer can read the disk, this is most likely due to the fact that the connector in the hard drive is not convenient. But I would also like to write in defense that the hard drive itself is stylishly designed, and in itself is very durable. I used it for about 1.5โ€ฆ

Pros
  • Interesting design, large memory capacity
Cons
  • Price and cable quality

A very good hard drive, a large amount of memory, which is even very welcome, but there are also disadvantages, for example: the cable moves away from the hard drive, that is, you need to keep the wire in one position so that the computer can read the disk, this is most likely due to the fact that the connector in the hard drive is not convenient. But I would also like to write in defense that the hard drive itself is stylishly designed, and in itself is very durable. I used it for about 1.5โ€ฆ

Pros
  • Interesting design, large memory capacity
Cons
  • Price and cable quality