LaCie - Rugged 5TB External USB-C, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Portable Hard Drive - Orange/Silver

I use this to hold photos from my SLR. Highly portable and fast enough to edit on the fly. Works flawlessly with iPad Pro as well as PC. An excellent fast and reliable file bucket. Might get a second for backup given how cheap it is. Software is actually useful for that purpose. Syncs with Adobe easily. Just point Lightroom to it and it’s a seamless experience. Pros might want something more like a NAS with RAID, but as an enthusiast this fits the bill.

I use these to store my photographs as an active library in lightroom and they work perfectly. I've never had an issue with one like I did with WD drives and a few others.

I've owned this drive for several months now and I'm not very happy with the performance. Although this is a USB-C/USB 3.1 drive, it's extremely slow due to the spinning hard drive. I knew what I was buying when I decided to purchase this model, but I did not expect the transfer speeds to be THIS slow. I get about 50-60 MB/s transfer speed benchmarked using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. Drive is connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on an iMac capable of a theoretical 40 Gb/s. This drive might as well be connected to a USB 2.0 port and you still wouldn't max out USB 2.0 transfer speeds. Bottom line, the bottleneck is the spinning hard drive, not the interface, and from the looks of it, this is one heck of a slow spinning drive. I thought I might be able to use this to expand my video editing library on iMovie, but I was very wrong. Unusable for anything other than storage. You can't run anything live from this drive and expect any kind of usable performance.

I'm a wedding photographer and these are a beast. Super fast to write to and really can tolerate anything. I went through 5tb in one year somehow and had to get another one I liked it so much. I highly recommend these hard drives if you are a professional photographer who has to back up everything constantly.

The cost of the LaCie USB-C 5TB External USB 3.1 was very a very reasonable and useful expense. I work in video, still photography, and writing constantly and this hard driver has become my necessary backup plan and front man for all the work that I produce. I trust this hard drive because is the thing purpose that carries within it orange package almost all the important work I produce in basically one place and I am very happy about that. It does not matter if I am at home or on the road. It delivers perfectly and in every place every time without a problem which is what I am in need of everyday.

High quality hard drive. Still haven't filled it up all the way, and I do video production for a living. Best way to store your footage and back ups. Sturdy and haven't had any issues yet. Will be using these drives forever.

This is my backup drive. It's not a network storage device, so using it this way is a bit inconvenient, but that's not the drive's fault. Every day, I connect it to a different one of my computers and forget it. It backs up everything in rotation.

I use this drive to store virtual instruments for music production. These instrument files are huge and I have several on this drive. It loads quickly and is very rugged.