Joined on 05/17/09
Best 3TB drive for the money
Pros: Large capacity, fast, quite, runs fairly cool, price
Cons: none
Overall Review: I bought 2 of these drives to store multimedia but I will use them to work with video since they are fast. I use an SSD for my O/S but I also might try to run an O/S from the drive since they are fast enough. Both drives arrived quickly and had no issues. Best to test any new drive before adding data though.
USB Thumb drive killer
Pros: None, nada, zero, zilch. Okay to be fair, their bootable recovery disk works good.
Cons: Once installed, I lost the ability to access my USB Thumb drives. This is a known issue (check with their forums). Windows informed me my USB drive needed to be formatted. Lucky I did not do that since I would have lost all my data on the drives.
Overall Review: I have been using their software since 2009 and ATIH used to be a good product. These days not so much.
Great for OS Mavericks/Ipad
Pros: This unit is simple to operate and very quite. Works great with my Macbook Pro using OS Mavericks and my Ipad mini.
Cons: I wish there was a power on button. The IOS app isn't very useful so you must manage the device from a web browser.
Overall Review: I know it's lame but I purchased this though a brick and mortar sinces I wasn't sure it would work with OS Mavericks and my iPad mini and so I would return it if it didn't. I am going to buy another one here. The unit streams video to my iPad mini which was my primary reason for buying this.
Best external hard disk with warning
Pros: The drive is fast. 230MBs xfer rates from external USB3 SSD drive to this drive connected to a Thunderbolt port. Runs very quite and cool. The big blue light doesn't bother me since I turned the drive away so I can't see it. 8TB should hold me for awhile.
Cons: I almost give this device 4 stars instead of 5 because of the way it was shipped. The external box looked like it been though the wars and when I opened the box, the internal box looked like it had been open a resealed and the box that contained the power cords and CD was torn. Given a choice, I would not order a product though a 3rd party provider like Spry again. I am glad I purchased the extended warranty,
Perfect for you MCBOOK PRO
Pros: This drive is very fast and stays very cool. Great form factor. You can run your OSX from this drive if you want. Works great on OS Mavericks. Comes with Thunderbolt cable.
Cons: None
Overall Review: While not much faster than USB3 in my use, it does not have the USB issues that OSX Mavericks seems to have for me. The ability to chain Thunderbolt devices beats USB3 as well. It would be great if LaCie would have a bring your own drive option.
Great drive but
Pros: Fast, lots of storage, works in BlacX external drive case
Cons: Felt warm after tarnsfering a alrge number of files to the SSD in a BlacX 5G case
Poor shipping condition, very disappointed.
The external box looked like it been though the wars and when I opened the box, the internal box looked like it had been open a resealed and the box that contained the power cords and CD was torn. Given a choice, I would not order a product though a 3rd party provider like Spry again. I am glad I purchased the extended warranty,.