LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2.5" STFS2000800 2 TB

Fluffy is safe

LaCie Rugged puts rugged durability at the forefront, with a rugged aluminium chassis girded by a not-too-sleek orange bumper designed to protect the drive from drops, bumps and moisture. The main thing is not to forget to put a rubber plug on the ports so that water does not get there. Plus, the data on the disk itself is protected from prying eyes with the help of Seagate Secure cryptoprotection. If anyone didn't know, LaCie is Seagate's premium sub-brand, which is loved by creative people with MacBooks under their arms.

High quality HDD manufactured by Seagate

As with all LaCie products, an exclusively high-quality hard drive from Seagate is used here, which at its peak is capable of delivering copy and write speeds in the region of 130 MB / s. This is if you connect it to a Mac via Thunderbolt. With a regular laptop on Win 10, the speed during the tests dropped to 40 – 50 MB / s. It's time to thoughtfully scratch the back of your head and go to cut the truth of the uterus on the Internet. As it turned out a little later, LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt is sometimes naughty on laptops with Windows 10, and a banal re-enable solves the problem. And then we get the same 130 MB / s.

MacBook's best friend

Like most LaCie products, this drive is designed to work in conjunction with Apple technology. Here you have support for the Thunderbolt interface of the second revision, and Apple Time Machine integration for data backup, utilities for managing encryption, formatting tools and much more. With Windows, the flight is excellent, instead of USB-C, you can use a regular USB A, but goodies like Thunderbolt and Time Machine disappear in this case. However, buying it in conjunction with an Acer laptop is, to put it mildly, strange: it is really expensive, and all its features are tailored for Mac. However, if you really need a secure HDD with a USB-C connection, then the good old Transcend StoreJet is actually the only option.