LaCie LAC9000298 La Cie Rugged Mini USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (9000298)
$89.99
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Travel with a capacity of 2TB in an ultra compact portable hard drive—LaCie Rugged Mini. Seamlessly connect to USB 3. 0 computers, transfer content fast with speeds of up to 130MB/s, and trek confidently with all terrain durability of drop, crush, and rain resistance. This drive even includes a complimentary one month membership to the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Plan for access to awesome photo and video editing apps, as well as a two year limited for long term peace of mind.
Shock, drops up to 4 feet, dust and water resistant for all-terrain use.Specific uses: Personal
For Mac compatibility this Hard Drive requires reformatting. Refer to Application Guide for more details
Password protection built in
Uses USB 3.0 which is up to 4 times faster than USB 2.0 (USB 2.0 compatible)
Includes 1-month complimentary membership to Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Plan. Must redeem by January 31, 2020
13 reviews for LaCie LAC9000298 La Cie Rugged Mini USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (9000298)
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Scott Allen –
little workhorse
Right from the box to my Mac for Time Machine back up. Completed in less than two minutes
Chelsey –
Alot of storage
This hard drive works amazing for storing all the photos and videos from your phone or computer. It is easy to setup and store. The speed to load and transfer files is quick. Worth the money for all it can hold. It doesn’t overheat if using it for some time.
calvin holland –
Great Dane Proof
GREAT DANE PROOF! these hard drives may be the toughest hard drives around. if you have kids or dogs like me I highly recommend them. I came home one day to my Great Dane puppy throwing one of these up in the air in my back yard and and trying to catch it. he had pulled the cord out and chewed entirely around the sides of it. all while doing this in the dirt pit in the middle of my yard.( my fault I left the hard drive on a table next to my couch.) well fast forward to a year and a half later and I still am able to use this hard drive as normal. I recommend them all day. transfer speeds are good. rubber case is durable. and no issues with compatibility for my Mac.
prosilire –
Little Drive, Big Storage
This nice little drive is big in storage. I use it for Time Machine backups as the drive is seamlessly Mac compatible, and I’m very happy. Couldn’t be easier to set up on Mac. Data transfer over USB3 is fast for my purposes — and that’s how the drive is powered! Gone are the days when you needed an external power source — one usb3 cable serves for power source and data transfer. I understand that spinning hard drives (HDD) like this drive are better for data integrity than Solid State Drives (SSD): since my mac’s drive is solid state, it makes sense to back up onto a spinning HDD — and it’s much more affordable than a comparable SSD. I travel a lot, and I’ve been burned in the past by HDD failures due to drops, bumps, etc., but LaCie boasts protection against shock, drops up of to 4 feet, and dust and water resistance. We shall see… I’ll update this review if I have any trouble.
R. Altizer –
Update: Works OK after mysterious initial failure
REVISED 01/01/25: I purchased this to back up a half-full 6TB Seagate Backup Plus drive that’s acting flaky, attached to my MacMini.UPDATE: The drive came formatted EX-FAT (Mac and Windows compatible) with a USB-C to USB3-Micro B “Super Speed” (two lobes, for the drive) cable. With no spare USB-C ports on my MacMini, I used a Samsung USB3-A to USB3-Micro B cable from an older Seagate drive into a Sabrent USB3-A hub on the MacMini. It worked fine at first, then failed as described below. Retrying with the LaCie cable into a USB-C to USB3-A adapter into the hub worked. Super sensitivity in the Mac system? I have no other explanation as the drive continues to work on Windows PCs with the old Samsung cable.INITIAL REPORT: It mounted fine out of the box, and macOS Disk Utility recognized it as a 5TB volume “LaCie.” The first few copy batches of multi-GB files and folders worked OK, but then copying stopped, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 reported “Copy operation stopped, volume disappeared.” (WTF??). macOS Disk Utility no longer sees the device.It mounted as a USB volume on Windows 11, and I could see the copied files. Windows reported disk problems so I ran the Scan & Repair utility (Properties->Tools), which took a while but reported a successful repair. Trying again on macOS, and the same result: The drive starts up (vibrates) as expected but doesn’t mount and is still invisible to the Disk Utility app.
JF –
“Durable 5TB Drive Built for All Your Files Storage Needs”
The LaCie Rugged 5TB Portable HDD delivers precisely what it promises: ample storage in a rugged, travel-ready shell.
Keith Hopper –
not reliable for me on Mac machines; REVISING MY REVIEW
I regret that my two year experience with this drive using Mac machines is not positive. I have not found it to be reliable. To recover files on the drive now…again…I must fire up an antique Chromebook, which sees my files so I can back them up elsewhere. It worries me and I’m not messing with this drive further.–Same issues on newer UnionSine drive. Drives mount one time but not the next…Disk Utility hangs trying to find it…workaround is to mount the drive on my ancient Chromebook…which sees the drives and files fine…then retry on Mac…usually this works but it is really weird…I see now it has to do with how I formatted these drives as exFAT as advised…both my Macs randomly spit it out and say yuck…nerve wracking as these are important back up drives…honestly WTH why are we still having drive compatibility crap like this? So apologies LaCie it does not seem to be your fault…
Alexis –
Work perfectly for me!
This 4 TB hard drive works perfectly well for me. I’ve got 4 Lacie Rugged drives now. Two 1tb, one 2 tb and this one and they all work perfectly. I’ve had the other three for several years.
Emerson Saraiva –
Ótimo produto
Amazon Kunde –
Die Festplatte ist nun seit einem Jahr in täglicher Verwendung und kann voll und ganz überzeugen.Geliefert wurde die Festplatte mit einem USB A und einem USB C Verbindungskabel, somit schon mal ein Pluspunkt für mich gewesen.Bei dieser Größe haben wir unsere Festplatte auf NTFS formatiert und unter Mac OS mit entsprechenden Treibern unter Betrieb, immer problemlos und bei voller Geschwindigkeit. Steckt man die Festplatte das erste Mal am PC an, öffnet sich ein Einrichtungsprogramm. Dieses ermöglicht einem kinderleicht Partitionen in verschiedenen Dateisystemen und Größen zu erstellen.+ VorteileSehr viel Speicher für unterwegs, perfekt für längere Urlaube und Fototrips um immer entsprechend rückzusichern.Kompakte Abmessungen und somit optimal in jeder Laptoptasche und jedem Rucksack unterzubringen.Durch die Hülle, geschützt vor Staub, Erschütterungen, Stößen und Spritzwasser.Außerdem liegt sie somit rutschfest auf allen Unterlagen.Geschwindigkeit: Je nach Datei, im Schreiben ca. 100MB/s und im Lesebetrieb um die 116MB/sPreis: Immer wieder in Blitzangeboten zu recht guten Preisen erhältlich.- NachteileLangsamere Geschwindigkeit als SSDs.Fazit: In der Größe um den Preis top! Als SSD wäre sie natürlich noch praktischer, aber in dieser Größe noch kein Thema.
diana higareda –
Easy to use and very good quality 🫡👌🏻
Canadian Jane –
I got this in desperation, after my iMac decided it did not like WD for backing up. It still did not work with this LaCie. Frustrated, because this was a new drive and expensive, I narrowed down the issue to my RAM upgrade.As soon as I removed the faulty memory and replaced it with the original Mac memory, bam it did my backup in 20 minutes.It was an expensive purchase $160 for only 2TB, but this will be my trusty reliable backup drive for my iMac to come.I don’t want to go through what I did again. Starting from scratch 3x. Without a backup because the Mac corrupted my other two WD drives with the backups.If you are on the fence, trust me when I say that in the end, it’s not worth losing data and time to start over.The build is amazing. It’s solid, small and has a led indicator light. Comes with two cables and Adobe Creative suite free trial. It’s supposed to be rain proof, drop proof and can handle 1 ton runover by a truck.SHIPPING:Arrived sooner than expected with Prime in a bubble envelope no signature. No padded packaging by Amazon. Lucky I was home and saw it stuffed in my mailbox. If someone stole it, it would have been a nightmare. If it was not the Rugged LaCie, I would have returned it and asked for padded secure shipping.CON: the USB plug into the drive wobbles and does not fully insert. This is a problem if you travel or use this drive on the go. At home you can carefully leave it undisturbed, but why make something so solid to make a delicate USB connection? And this is the latest new drive from LaCie. They might have done this to make room for silicone, but it is better to have a secure connection.I tried removing the silicone protection and inserting the USB that way but it still does not fully click in and insert. There is a gap.Just be very careful about this. The quality otherwise feels amazing with it’s thick aluminium casing. I still recommend it for MAC.
Nelly Rodriguez Cervantes –
I bought this external hard drive few months ago (3 months to be exact) and suddenly all my data is lost , it just broke/crashed itself. I have used it with all the necessary cares so there was no reason for it to break and this is clearly a technical problem with the hard drive.Now I am going to see how it works with the warranty, I hope this doesn’t become a nightmare.