LaCie Rugged 500GB Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 SSD Portable Hard Drive + 1mo Adobe CC All Apps (LAC9000491)

I need a backup drive for Time Machine on my MAC. I have been watching this drive for quite a while and waiting for the price to come down. One day my Passport Drive fell off my lap and that was the end of it. I bought a $53 Toshiba 500GB to replace it which just served as an interim drive because I immediately ordered the LaCie. I'm not going to try to drop it off my lap but I am confident that if it does get dropped it will still function unlike moving head drives. It's solid, it's fast, it's portable. My only minor worry is the permanently attached thunderbolt cable which if it goes bad I would have to disassemble the drive to replace it. Probably not going to happen anyway so kudos and 5 stars for this SSD.

Very good speed, a little pricier.

I have a late 2011 17" MacBook Pro. My internal drive is (was) a 3Gbps OWC SSD (for whatever reason, although 6Gbps *should* work in my Mac, it wouldn't -- I kept on getting hard crashes of the computer.I bought this to clone my computer nightly using a program called Super Duper.Yesterday, my internal SSD just died. It wasn't seen in Disk Utility. You couldn't boot from it. I even took it out and put it in a USB3-SATA enclosure and it didn't show up there.While I'm waiting for the new one to arrive, though, this thing has worked flawlessly. I cannot discern any difference in performance between it and my internal SSD. Recovering from the crash was as simple as powering up with the option key pressed down, and selecting the Lacie as my boot drive. After that, 99.9% of everything was identical, since it was a cloned copy of the dead SSD (I had to re-authorize a few applications to open, and re-enter a few passwords -- that was it). I'm very pleased.

My Time Machine back-ups take only a few seconds now and with ZERO noise. Sitting at my desk all day listening to an external spin drive start and stop every hour was driving me mad. This is 100% silent and since its SSD it is blazing fast. I honestly do not even know its working, I have to go confirm my Time Machine did back up....this is the type of problem I like to have. Its expensive but not as much as my sanity listening to that darn spinning external drive I was using. Also my Macbook Pro is all SSD so now my work office is completely silent...ah the peace.....

Extremely disappointed with this drive. Unfortunately all of the comments about Lacie's quality and poor support seem to be true. I paid extra for this drive over its peers so that I could get the extra performance from the built in thunderbolt cable, but that fails. After serious assistance from the internet community AND NOT LACIE, I determined that the error I was getting, "wiping volume data to prevent accidental probing failed" was related to bad cabling. If you search for this on the internet you will find that the resolution (if it was not the correction of an accidental configuration mistake) was always a bad cable or SATA subsystem. I switched to the USB 3 port and everything worked like a charm.. As I use my MacBook Pro's thunderbolt ports successfully with other thunderbolt devices, the ports can be assumed to be fine. Switching to the provided USB 3 cable works, so it's not the drive or the internal SATA controller as it is connected to the USB3 port. This leaves an issue with the built in thunderbolt cable and or how it is connected to the SATA controller. Either way it's faulty. I bough this to use out of the country and I am forced to keep this drive as I fly out before it could be replaced. I am extremely upset that I did not get the extra performance out of this device that I paid for.

Happy with the system overall but ccncerned that the connection wire doesn't seem to match the quality. It wants to wobble. Hoping it lasts.

This is the future. This thing is freakin amazing. I can't speak highly enough of the quality of the design, construction, and performance. You definitely get what you pay for.

nice unit