LaCie - Porsche Design P'9220 1TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Hard Drive - Aluminum

External hard drives are something that is a must if you are in biz of the Pro DJ. I have gone through so many external hard drives I lost count. Recently I purchased this GEM of a hard drive and honestly love the performance and the design. It integrated well with my Macbook Pro 2012 and loads tracks in blazing speed. At the moment thunderbolt is still out of reach of many and I am not excluded from this group so I will continue to get gear that fits and is cost effective.. I actually paid less than advertised due to an error in the store.. I picked this one of for $109.00 at my local best buy and have to say they stand behind what they sell. Bravo to lacie for this one...

Overall, it's a very great USB 3.0 drive and you will get USB 3.0 speeds. First off for those looking for a cheap USB drive for maximum speed, volume, dollar ratio I would look elsewhere. This is mostly a drive where you are paying a premium for the design! And it certainly does a good job. The aluminum case does seem to help dissipate heat well. Drive is also fairly silent compared to my old Seagate portable drive. Everything is fairly typical of any USB 3.0 drive, nothing exceptional. One problem I seem to be having is the USB cable connection at the PC end sometimes seems to disconnect itself. And the cable has to be pushed around to regain connection. I also have a desktop Porsche Design USB 3.0 Drive and I don't have any problems what so ever with the larger one. Nonetheless if I don't move the drive around which it shouldn't be moving around in the first place, everything works just fine.

For over a year my office has felt secure knowing that every night all our files were backed up on our LaCie Porsche Design P’9220. Over the weekend our system crashed requiring us to use the backup for the first time to restore. It turns out all of the saves over the last two months were for nothing. Literally thousands of man-hours of work has been lost because of this. Then upon trying to start fresh and set up a new backup I am unable to save anything as the software wont progress past the “monitoring changes” step. Over a week has passed with multiple attempts being made to contact LaCie’s customer support with ZERO response other than an automated email saying the request was submitted. Overall I would suggest only purchasing this product if you enjoy throwing away time and money.

I often have to work while on the road. A reliable portable drive is my most important requirement for successful work. Just over two months ago I upgraded from an older external drive to Porsche Design and I am very happy with it. The capacity is greater (my old disk was 320 GB) and it's much more convenient to work with. Everything is faster, simpler, the drive is silent and almost does not heat. I particularly like the sturdy casing, which also looks great. Even though I always carry the disk with me, without any extra case, it's not scratched and looks like new.

My old external hard drive was a LaCie Porche 250GB. It lasted almost 10 years before starting to act up. So I went with another LaCie as a replacement. I have an iMac. This hard drive was very easy to set up. I partitioned it and use a 700GB section for Time Machine; the other 300GB for backing up files and folders that I need easy access to. I store thousands of large images, but not much music, videos or games, so I think this will have plenty of space for my needs. It's small, and looks nice sitting on the base of my iMac. I've been using it for just over a month with no issues.

I bought this external drive to store large photo files so I dont bog down my laptops hard drive. I teach photography and sometimes a computer is needed in the field. This drive as well as all LaCie drives sets up easy and just works. They do make the Rugged model which has a rubber cover over it for field use but its $70.00 more. I just sewed together a piece of neoprene with some velcro ($2.00) and it basically does the same thing as the cover on the rugged. Keep in mind... other brands may be less in price for the same amount of storage, but you get what you pay for. Do you really want to risk your files ?

I love this external. Sleek design with good capacity and excellent speeds via USB 3.0. A bit pricier than externals of the same capacity but you get what you pay for and I would gladly purchase again. Requires a little initial configuring to set aside space for transfers between different operating systems and a few other details but relatively straight forward. Plug and play after the initial setup. Runs absolutely silent. Does not require external power source. Definitely a solid choice if you don't mind spending a bit more.

When I bought this we were a PC only family. When setting up the drive it allows you to partition it into multiple drives, 1 of which can be compatible with a MAC. i decided to go with that option (just in case). I loaded all my pictures on the "Shared" drive. About 6 months later, my wife wound up getting a Mac Book. I was able to easily move her iTunes and the pictures over. I can use it back up files on both OS's. Very happy with it. So far (6+ months ??) very fast and reliable. I use it with both USB 2.0 and 3.0.