LaCie d2 Professional 10TB External Hard Drive Desktop HDD – USB-C USB 3.0 7200 RPM Enterprise Class Drives, 5 Year Warranty and Recovery Service (STHA10000800)

This is my 2nd LaCie 8TB drive. If you don't need SSD speeds, these are great drives. I would recommend. They are considerably faster than my 5400rpm drives. The difference is there! PROS: Read and Write speeds are as advertised. About 230-240MB/s on my 24" iMac. LaCie 5yr warranty is useful. I already had to call once and was surprised that an actual person answered and helped me. Just be sure to register it. Sleek design. CONS: The blue light on the front is bright enough to second as a lighthouse light. The drives are not quiet. You will hear them in the room, so beware if you record audio in the same room. Sleep mode is odd. I feel like they spin up randomly at night, which is annoying.

The fan on my LaCie 1big Dock Thunderbolt 3 4TB HDD and Desktop Hub was not turning on and the top of the case seemed to be getting quite hot after one hour. I decided to return it for a replacement so I did a secure erase. The drive was left on for several hours during this process and after time, the fan eventually turned on. I missed it in the manual (page 22) but the fan is temperature controlled so It will not turn on when you first apply power. The unit needs to be on for a L_O_N_G_ time to generate heat before you will notice any fan activity. I cancelled my return and am quite happy with it. This is a very heavy and well built external HDD and has been working well with TimeMachine for Mac.

Hands down one of the slowest, most disappointing storage devices of any kind! I am writing a fairly long review (which I never take the time to do), and I know it may appear to some as a mad rant...my goal is to share that this is not user error or due to a specific issue with a file type or specific software application. The poor performance is consistent regardless. I am a commercial director and editor. I've worked with all kinds of storage systems, from RAID to NAS to small portable hard drives. I was looking for something easy to stay on my desktop that I could quickly dump footage to following shoots, so that I could clear my portable SSDs. I would say to call this "professional" or "fast" is comical, but after having this for 10 months, I lean more towards an outright lie. When I purchased this, I was editing on a fully loaded 2019 i9 MacBook Pro. I've now been using it with my fully spec'd out M4 MacBook Pro. Whenever I unlock my computer, the drive rumbles and takes several minutes before it shows in Finder and is accessible. It doesn't matter if I have just plugged in my computer or if my computer was on the lock screen with the Lacie already connected and powered. Every time there is a massive lag. You may think, Oh, that's inconvenient but after it connects, it probably is fine. NOPE. Even after it has been connected, every time I click to access the root folder, it lags; clicking subfolders easily takes 10-30 seconds (sometimes over a minute) for the folder to expand and display files. It doesn't matter if I am editing photos, graphic files, HD video, or 4k videos, RAW, mp4, proxies...it is consistently slow across the board, no matter what. My original workflow plan was: onsite dump cards to my SSDs, come home, and immediately back up all files to the Lacie to clear SSDs, edit off the Lacie so there is a consistent folder structure and organization (instead of editing off of SSDs then dumping once the project is complete). The read/write is so slow and inconsistent that you cannot edit using files stored on the Lacie. It doesn't matter if I am in Premiere Pro, After Effects, doing photos in Lightroom - using Affinity Designer, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Logic, or doing something browser-based like uploading photos for a website edit. There is no correlation between a specific software application or file type - the inconsistency is the same across the board. Even after importing files into Premiere or Lightroom, the speed is so slow and inconsistent that files regularly buffer or take forever to display. I am not just a creative professional; my background is in custom software development, and I have extensive experience with networking hardware. I have tried everything I can to troubleshoot, isolate any potential issues, and optimize this in hopes that it would perform as described. I've owned so many Lacie drives over the years, and it just feels like the reliability and their focus on quality products continue to not be a priority for the company. I know I am being critical, but this was a $634 investment, not a cheap, no-name brand solution. I have conceded to keeping it unplugged and only using it for final backup storage once I am completely done with a project. I hope this helps some other small business professionals or creatives considering spending their hard-earned money on a product that is not "professional" nor "fast." Avoid this product and find another solution that actually does what it says it's supposed to.

I purchased 5 of these hard drives - three 8TB size and two 10TB size. These hard drives are considerably faster than my other external hard drives that run usb 3.0. I am very happy with my purchase and recommend these LaCie drives. Upon testing each drive works perfectly as expected. My upload and download speeds are within 5 MB/s of each other which is awesome. I ran my tests using usb-c to usb-c on my MacBook Pro M1. See my screen capture showing the upload/download speeds. All five of my hard drives were sold with as "Style: d2 Professional USB-C 3.1" . Every one I received includes a usb-c to usb-c cable and usb-c to usb 3.1 cable. The rear of the hard drive has a usb-c input. Some reviews mentioned the loud sound from the hard drives. I noticed that all 5 are quieter than my WD and Seagate drives. This is likely because the LaCie enclosure is a very heavy metal versus the vented plastic in my older hard drives. The thicker metal blocks some sound. I can say that my two 10TB LaCie drives are slightly quieter than my 8TB LaCie drives - but both sizes I consider quiet for platter hard drives. SSD drives will be silent because they have no moving parts - so comparing these platter drives to SSD drives is unfair. I bought these on Amazon Prime Day 2022 for a considerable discount. If I can get the discount again, I would purchase these. At full price, I would purchase these if I needed the fast transfer speeds. But if the transfer speed wasn't important I would just buy the cheapest price-per-TB hard drive at the time from WD, Seagate or LaCie. LaCie drives do have a premium price tag and have a higher quality enclosure but use a Seagate hard drive inside.

I purchased this Lacie D2 to provide external backup to a QNAP NAS. The read/write speeds are excellent for a single external HD no doubt large due to the fact that this unit has a 20 TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro HD. The Lacie d2 works perfectly, is quiet, and was an excellent choice for high capacity and high speed backup protection.

Encontré este excelente disco duro externo a un 40% de descuento. No podía dejarlo pasar. Cumple bien mis expectativas y necesidades de capacidad y velocidad de transferencia.

専用ソフトを使うとミラーリング設定がとても簡単です。 特にDTM用途なんかでMacでライブラリとワーク用にパーテーション切って尚且つ安全のためにミラーリング、しかも大容量が必要となるとこれ一択ですね。相変わらずの転送速度の安定感のおかげでDAWとは相性が良いです。 ただ流石に持ち運べるサイズと重さではないのでノートPCユーザーにはお勧めしません。

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I am using this to replace multiple lower capacity (2-4TB) WD MyBooks. This thing is smaller than I expected, and so fast with the USB C. It came with both USB-C to USB-C as well as USB-C to USB A SuperSpeed. Love the light that shows power and activity, once you eject, it flashes a bunch of times and then powers down when safe to unplug. I am using this to backup lots of data, so will not be using it plugged in all the time, but if I was I might put a piece of translucent/frosted vinyl to reduce the LED brightness in a dark room.

É caro como qualquer capacidade de armazenamento que você tentar comprar. Mas vale quanto pesa. É rápido e funciona bem em Macs, não tem nem que formatar. Eu tinha um WD de 4TB antes, mas além de ter de formatar, depois de algum tempo começou a ficar ejetando aleatóriamente, pensei que era um problema do Mac OS, mas não era. De tanto ejetar, ficou danificado e tive que formatar e perdi todos os dados armazenados. Mesmo assim, não funcionou. Aí, depois de pesquisar muito, decidi comprar esse HD da LaCie e até aqui tem funcionado muito bem, muito rápido e estável. Se você trabalha com Macintosh, compre dessa marca. É plug&play, não precisa fazer nenhuma configuração e funciona muito bem.