LaCie 2TB Mobile Drive External Hard Drive USB-C USB 3.0

[jwolf6589]

I purchased this backup hard drive on the Apple website. Is it any good? I could not resist the cheap price tag. I will be needing it when I buy my new Mac which will be possibly next week. Is USB C much faster than USB 2.0?

 

[sub150]

USB-C is a connector type, not a speed. If you are comparing to USB-A (the flat rectangle one), you have to compare 2.0 to 3.0 to 3.1.

It will be fine for backing up.

 

[jwolf6589]

USB-C is a connector type, not a speed. If you are comparing to USB-A (the flat rectangle one), you have to compare 2.0 to 3.0 to 3.1.

It will be fine for backing up.

Good. I just wonder how much faster it will be over my present USB 2.0 500GB drive.

 

[Queen6]

Ultimately is limited by the spinning HDD, I've the 4TB version with USB 3.0, it's fast enough not to be annoying and should be a good bit faster than the older USB 2.0 500GB. My Lacie drive is pretty much full so no point to bench test, equally 120MB/s would be realistic.

Q-6

 

[me55]

LaCie is using Seagate drives, and since this is a 2.5" drive it'll most likely be a ST200LM007. It's quite fast for a notebook drive but under certain circumstances the write speed can be slower than expected due to the drive using Shingled Magnetic Recording. Won't cause any issues whatsoever for 99% of use cases though.

 

[jwolf6589]

LaCie is using Seagate drives, and since this is a 2.5" drive it'll most likely be a ST200LM007. It's quite fast for a notebook drive but under certain circumstances the write speed can be slower than expected due to the drive using Shingled Magnetic Recording. Won't cause any issues whatsoever for 99% of use cases though.

Good