LaCie 1big Dock, 18TB, External Hard Drive, HDD Docking Station, for PC Mac iPad & iPhone, Data Rescue Service (STHS18000800)

I've been looking for a SSD based storage box to replace my SAN for some time but the cost was just too high so I bought this instead as a stop gap. 10TB is reasonable amount of storage but there are two things which have surprised me.Firstly it works really well with Apple Mac Mini (and therefore probably all Macs) - I don't get those annoying errors saying the device wasn't ejected properly - regardless of if I reboot the Mac or use the sleep function, the drive is available and connected when the Mac comes to life, no errors or delays.Secondly the speed ! It's much faster than any other external hard drive I've had. My Mac Mini has a Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 port being an M1 Mac Mini and although this drive doesn't support USB4 or Thunderbolt connections, it does enable it to run at full 10Gbit/s of USB 3.2 gen 2, which is the same headline speed at 10Gbit Ethernet, which is not really directly comparable, but does mean the the interface is never going to be the limiting factor, the speed limiter will be the disk and Lacie have fitted a fast disk which is giving me well over 220 MBytes/s read and write mixed file sizes. This is impressive for a spinning disk.Given the speed, the price and the build quality which is great (and I can't hear a fan) this is very good value for money.

I bought this as an upgrade from an 8TB (raided to 4TB) 2Big RAID from LaCie so I was already sold on the construction and styling. My HDD had just under 2TB of images, video and sounds and the HDD was too slow. I knew this would be faster, but was still pleasantly surprised at the leap to SSD speeds.Since I have cloud backup I'm not fussed about RAID and so just wanted speed.Good things:- speed. Really. It's fast.- connectivity - one power, couple of USB, display port... that's all of the gubbins at the back. Plug and play on a Mac.- USB, CF and SSD on the front - accessible- nice design.- small footprint - it's 1/3 the size of my HDD- gloriously SILENT! After years of HDD fans, this is really welcome.Cons- price (although I bought mine at 50% off on Amazon, so more palatable!)- can't expand storage - it is 2TB and will always be 2TB.This isn't for everyone but if you're in the market for a desk-based SSD that is fast, can work as a hub or media in/out/process centre, and which is stylish and silent, then I'd recommend it.

A good robust LaCie HD designed to last years but... be careful how you connect to a Mac Sequoia or earlier OS or any Mac for that matter. I purchased my first one December last year but a couple of weeks ago it failed to boot up with the Mac. Un-plugin and re plugin either the power cable of the port cable seemed to work but then after some time it would disappear from Disk Utility. Amazon very kindly replaced and the new one arrived overnight. Surprise surprise the new one behaved the same way! Rather than send that one back I began to jiggle around cables and ports as I have extension ports galore like most of us. Finally I hit on a combination that worked. In essence connect it directly to a port on the Mac itself. It doesn't like extension ports unlike all the other LaCie drives I have (6 in all) which seem happy to churn away on whatever port they are connected to. The power cable in the end would seem ok. Hope that helps.

Lacie Two Big Docks are commendably reliable. I have two that outlived their five-year data recovery warranty without issue and are still in use. I got a third one for a good price on an Amazon deal, so I had the data recovery protection again. Lacie were very helpful is reseting the warranty to the date of purchase, so i had the full five-years.This is a traditional two spinning disk RAID, so transfer speeds are acceptable for back-ups and longer term storage but they don't compete with SSDs on speed. Comms is via Thunderbolt 3. The only RAID option with redundancy is mirrored. The drives remain cool and are reasonably quiet during intense use. The main hardware issue I have found is that external hard drives were not being handled well by early versions of Mac OS Sequioa. This resulted in disks being dismounted or failing to sleep. This has been seemingly been sorted by version 15.5 of the MAC OS. Software wise, Lacie Toolkit software (V 2.300.4) still seems to be pretty buggy on Mac Sequoia. Hopefully there will be an update.Overall, these are a good choice if you want a reliable Thunderbolt external RAID with dock features.

Failed after one week. The hassle this causes, it had 8TB of my data onboard so I now have to try recover it - useless don't buy