LaCieMobile Drive Secure, 5 TB, Portable External Hard Drive 2.5 Inch Mac & PC Space Grey (STLR5000400)

This is written by a non-tech person but a very, very happy one.I had a LaCie external hard drive from several years ago. It was not as thick and certainly lighter in weight but it worked well and never faltered. Unfortunately, earlier this year my2017 MacBook Pro, which had been making threatening moves for quite a while, finally bit the dust. My tech guy came out to set up the new one and wanted to use the old LaCie to install the folders and documents. Alas, I had evidently put a password on it and despite knowing the "hint" could not figure out the password from the hint. Result: Couldn't get into it and eventually had to toss it in our tech dump.I was rather horrified at the price for this so I ended up buying one for about half the price. Mistake. So a few days ago, I got sufficiently annoyed to say "the heck with it" and bought this new LaCie.It arrived today, and at first I was astounded at the weight. But I immediately plugged it into my new MacBook Pro and it went right to work, soaking up all the documents and folders I have. I thought it would take it a couple of hours but within about 15 minutes (or less) it was completely done. I don't have photos or movies or music so that would account for some of the speed but I was thrilled to now have a solid back-up (with no password as it never leaves the house) of all my work. It works flawlessly and breathtakingly fast. I could not be happier.Is it worth the price? Absolutely, positively yes! Highly recommended. (I plan to buy a second one before the end of the year; it's that good.)

I love this one and it’s good for the money and a lot of room to save your files. The quality is great enough and the speed to transfer your files from the pc to the hard drive is easy to use.

Large capacity, reasonably priced and hopefully reliable. Have used other hard drives from this brand and they have functioned without issues. Aesthetics are nice as well.

Delighted to have so much more storage and with far superior read and write speeds. Granted, I'm not especially tech savvy and I demand relatively little of my storage devices, but this suits me perfectly. Small and very portable. Feels solid, well-built. Very little noise or heat generated. I haven't yet had to do much work from it, however, so I can't say much about how responsive it is under a bit more strain.Only thing I might wish is for a more flexible and perhaps longer connection cable, so I can better control how it sits beside my computer while in use.

This drive will work seamlessly as your 'Time Machine' on a Mac Book Pro (2019 version); the USB 3 connects perfectly.NOTE: You will have to tell the MAC that this is the drive you want to use for MAC's Time Machine backup software, (you should also encrypt your back-up data). All in all, it took all of 5 minutes to plugin and assign and the backups were, and are still, working seamlessly which is the whole point of getting one of these. I also use half of it as a long-term storage drive for older clients and out-sized files that just use too much room on my hard drive.3-month Update: My drive went down, not sure why, but I contacted SeaGate and after trouble shooting, they sent me a new drive (after I returned my drive); the new drive worked right out of the box and has been functioning well, let's hope this one will last a bit longer.

LaCie products are outstanding in almost every way. This one is no exception and it's build quality is excellent with a great HDD inside. However, it's description will make it seem that you can use Thunderbolt with this and you can not. I use a Mac and Windows so I know a lot of people mistake the C port as the same as Thunderbolt 3 or better but it is not the same. Thus your speed goes from 20 or 40Gbs down to 5Gbs. That's not to say USB-C is terrible. Test any drive on Black Magic Speed test and you'll know quickly. The overall size is also very nice. If you're using this for Time Machine Backups your download time will increase dramatically compared to Thunderbolt.

I've used or owned several LaCie external drives and never had one fail. I hope this one is no exception.I purchased it as a Time Machine backup for my Macintosh. It's been holding hourly automatic backups of my Mac via a USB C cable for over a week without the slightest hiccup. It makes no noise, doesn't heat up, and does its job while hidden away at the back of my desk. Given my experience with other LaCie drives, I have high hopes for it lasting a long time (years). If it doesn't, I'll be back to complain about it.