LaCie's Newly Designed Mobile Hard Drives Provide Up to 5TB of Storage

[MacRumors]

Seagate brand LaCie has announced two new mobile hard drives, the LaCie Mobile Drive and LaCie Mobile Drive Secure, offering Mac and iPad users up to 5TB of portable capacity.

Encased in an all-new design by Neil Poulton, each drive is made of strong aluminum and features one-click automatic backup, as well as a 130 MB/s transfer rate through USB-C, while the Secure variant includes hardware encryption and a lock/unlock feature.

The LaCie Mobile Drives come pre-loaded with LaCie Toolkit software for on-demand and scheduled backups, and a one-month Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan is included. Both devices also include a three-year limited warranty and three-year Rescue Data Recovery.

The LaCie Mobile Drive costs $74.99 (1TB), $99.99 (2TB), and $144.99 (4TB), while the LaCie Mobile Drive Secure is priced at $99.99 (2TB), $144.99 (4TB), and $164.99 (5TB). Both drives will be available from online resellers later this month.

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[chkay]

"New design" aka a slightly different looking box that a seagate or WD drive pops into, that is in no way, shape or form any different from the thousands of others that already exist.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

They look really smart and it’ll be interesting to see if the enclosure is designed to keep it cool. A little more expensive than similar capacities, but might be ideal for Time Machine.

 

[NightFox]

"New design" aka a slightly different looking box that a seagate or WD drive pops into, that is in no way, shape or form any different from the thousands of others that already exist.

Yes, but it's designed by... (re-checks article) ...Neil Poulton!

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Here's my new design...

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

The only drive I ever bought that failed was made by LaCie. I could have been unlucky, I don't know. I wouldn't imagine LaCie are manufacturing the drive part of the drive (this was a spinning desktop drive that I had) but one day it just stopped working. The ones with the big blue light on the front—LaCie Little Big Disk.

 

[Ashbash75]

Are spinners still a thing? (not including a nas).

 

[SeaFox]

"New design" aka a slightly different looking box that a seagate or WD drive pops into, that is in no way, shape or form any different from the thousands of others that already exist.

So kinda like the unique design of an iPhone verses other smartphones (a rectangular slab with rounded corners and a charging/data port on the bottom).

 

[staypuftforums]

I’ll admit that they look great, but those prices are nuts.

If we consumers were more logical, prices for most goods would likely be at least 30% lower.

Truth is, most of us are foolish with our money, hence companies like this feel secure in pricing items like this so high.

We’ll gladly overpay for a bargain bin hard drive because it looks cool or cereal because it comes in a colourful box.

 

[Souponastick270]

Why would you pay double the price for the same amount of storage rather than just getting a Seagate unit for £79 instead of £144 ?!

What am I missing here ?

 

[tastesliketailpipe]

They’re quite slow for the price.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I’ll admit that they look great, but those prices are nuts.

If we consumers were more logical, prices for most goods would likely be at least 30% lower.

Truth is, most of us are foolish with our money, hence companies like this feel secure in pricing items like this so high.

We’ll gladly overpay for a bargain bin hard drive because it looks cool or cereal because it comes in a colourful box.

You have just described the bulk of the drivers of inflation right now. If the masses would decide that the money was worth more than new toys, prices would come down. Sellers want the revenue more than buyers should want the offerings. However, buyers seem to have forgotten the mighty power of “No” and instead just pay (more), which is directly rewarding the many moves to raise prices.

 

[seek3r]

Those look pretty slick, but not slick enough for the 40% premium over the equivalents from WD, Seagate, etc.... where did they come up with these prices?

 

[FloridaScrubJay]

The only drive I ever bought that failed was made by LaCie. I could have been unlucky, I don't know. I wouldn't imagine LaCie are manufacturing the drive part of the drive (this was a spinning desktop drive that I had) but one day it just stopped working. The ones with the big blue light on the front—LaCie Little Big Disk.

Likewise my experience. Two subsequent LaCie drives failed. Never again, especially for the added price.

 

[MrRom92]

Hard drives are great. But hard drives are a poor choice for portable applications. This is why laptops stopped using them as standard a decade ago. What exactly does this due to ruggedize the (likely) off the shelf standard HDD that’s in them? I’m guessing a whole lot of nothing.

 

[ponzicoinbro]

Are spinners still a thing? (not including a nas).

Yeah obvs if you need mega cheap space portable.

Sad really because macOS Finder has a bug when I back up my docs folder. If some files are a few kilobytes size then the Finder copying suddenly crawls to a few bytes per second transfer speed.

This bug only happens with exFat formatted spinners and not SSDs.

 

[Exponent]

I have a LaCie 5TB "ruggedized" portable drive - the one with the orange rubber on the case.
I use it exclusively for backups of my laptop - Time Machine and an emergency disk image.

So there's ONE reason these kinds of drives still exist. (No, I don't trust "the cloud", and my data is too sensitive and big, anyways.) If this doesn't have the ruggedization aspects of my existing drive (which bounces around in my backpack all day), this is useless to me.

By the way, there has been NO advancement of 2.5 inch spinning hard drives in the past 10 years or so - they're stuck at 5TB max!

 

[MajorFubar]

The prices look a bit wild considering I can (and did) buy a 4TB spinner for less than 100 off amazon, which was also from a known reputable mfr. And when you consider also that 2.5" HDD technology is stuck in 2010 or thereabouts, they should be giving these things away in cereal packets.

 

[zapmymac]

Here's my new design...

That’s in my car currently!

 

[Cybertox]

While I like the design of these hard drives. I must say that I am not too keen on the price and the specifications.

As multiple users already pointed out, its outdated tech which reached its potential.

 

[Cam Elppa]

130MB/s is a waste of time for such a large drive. Would take hours and hours to copy anything large to it.

 

[MrRom92]

130MB/s is a waste of time for such a large drive. Would take hours and hours to copy anything large to it.

How large are we talking? That is a pretty good speed for a USB HDD. A full read/write of the drive would be significant, but transferring let’s say, a 50GB ISO would be done within a few minutes if it sustained those speeds.

 

[Violet_Antelope]

"New design" aka a slightly different looking box that a seagate or WD drive pops into, that is in no way, shape or form any different from the thousands of others that already exist.

Yes, I always roll my eyes when things like this have a 'designed by' label - ok so it might look nice, but the price will be hiked dramatically without any functional difference.

 

[Mattlike]

The only drive I ever bought that failed was made by LaCie. I could have been unlucky, I don't know. I wouldn't imagine LaCie are manufacturing the drive part of the drive (this was a spinning desktop drive that I had) but one day it just stopped working. The ones with the big blue light on the front—LaCie Little Big Disk.

I also had problems with LaCie as well. Both of the HDs I purchased from them failed. They may not be pretty but the Western Digital externals I purchased to replace them are still going strong many years later.

 

[Chazak]

Not SSD. I wouldn't go near them. I have experienced too many failures of non-SSD devices. Some of which resulted n damage far more costly the cost differential for SSD technology.

I fully understand the cost differential and that SSDs are seemingly overpriced, but for me that is overruled by the underlying technology of a SSD and a minimal risk of failure.