Stylish 1 TB external hard drive for added storage and system backup
Fast data transfer through eSATA interface or USB 2.0 connection
Automatic backup for no-hassle file protection
Styled exclusively for LaCie by renowned product designer Neil Poulton
Measures 5.1 x 1.7 x 8.5 inches; 2-year limited warranty
Description
The LaCie Rugged XL, Design by Neil Poulton combines high-capacity storage with a user-centric design. Setup is effortless; it¿s plug & play and offers customizable formatting with the LaCie Setup Assistant. LaCie Backup Assistant software is also included for PC/Mac users for easy, automatic backups. This advanced hard disk features aluminum casing, which provides superior protection on your desk. Its extremely resistant and tough design comes complete with a rubber sleeve, internal bumper, and heat dissipating features, making the LaCie Rugged XL both sturdy and effective. The LaCie Rugged XL makes a statement on your desktop, with its design, based on the original award-winning LaCie Rugged Hard Disk, and colorful presence. With versatile Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and the lightning-fast eSATA 3Gb/s interface means your Rugged XL will be as fast as it is reliable. The user-friendly LaCie Rugged XL, Design by Neil Poulton makes a great companion to your PC or Mac. System Requirements: PC or Mac with USB 2.0 interface or eSATA interface Windows® 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista¿/ Mac® OS X 10.3 or higher, Pentium II 350MHz processor or greater /G3, Mac Intel processor or greater Minimum free disk space: 600MB recommended. Box Contents: LaCie Rugged XL, USB 2.0 cable, eSATA cable, External power supply, Quick Install Guide, LaCie Utilities (preloaded on the drive): LaCie Setup Assistant, LaCie Backup Assistant, User Manual.
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66 of 75 found the following review helpful:
Drive is fine, but be careful of the size. Jul 11, 2009
By J. Scott
"iocomposer"
The drive works fine, as expected. No problems at all. However, being a big fan of the smaller 2.5" rugged drives, I bought this sight unseen without reading the description. Turns out it's a 3.5" drive in a much larger enclosure that looks exactly like the smaller ones in a picture but is actually much larger. I'm an admitted bonehead, so it's my fault but I'm taking off a star for the drive looking exactly like the smaller version that has become a bit of a standard around Hollywood.
Also, there's now no express card slots in the new MacBook Pros, so you can't use esata at all. Not a good drive if you're looking to use it with a new Macbook Pro.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Awesome External HDD Feb 19, 2010
By Marcos Agrelli
"marcosagrelliphotography"
Strong, Easy to use and fast, faster when use eSATA. I use for my photo editions in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom 2.5. I do thousands of Wedding and Engagement photos, after work I put everything on this HDD. Is perfect combine with my Mac Book Pro. I recommend. [...]
24 of 28 found the following review helpful:
DOES NOT LAST! Feb 23, 2010
By Ty I never write reviews because things usually work! I used this drive twice and it failed COMPLETELY on the 2nd job. Luckily the footage we shot was backed up on another drive or we would be dead in the water. Wish I could recommend this drive (have 4 of the 500GB rugged drives which seem to perform better) but buyer beware. They look cool but can't say the same for performance.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Beware, Backup & Backup Again: LaCie's Hard Drives Increasingly Fail May 09, 2011
By Mi-Fi
"Mi-Fi"
I purchased this drive with 1TB capacity & eSATA interface in June of 2010. I'm a DJ & digital media producer. I use both a MacBook Pro w/NTFS for Mac and a Sony Vaio notebook w/Windows Vista to access my media project library (900 GB of audio, video & photo files) stored on the LaCie Rugged XL. The eSATA connection was super fast and allowed non-latency editing of A/V projects directly to the drive. While I have kept the drive 'on' most of the time in the last 8 months, I have packed it up a few times to bring to clients'.
I also have two other LaCie external hard drives: [500GB LaCie Big Disk Extreme w/Triple Interface] & [1TB LaCie Hard Disk by Neil Poulton w/eSATA, Firewire & USB] Both drives had a 2 year warranty. Both served me well during the first year. Soon after at 13 months, the power supply of the Big Disk Extreme failed but LaCie kindly sent me a replacement along w/a RMA & FedEx return label for returning the defective part. Then, after 15 months of sedentary backup storage use, the 1TB Hard Disk failed. LaCie instructed me to ship the defective drive to them at my own cost for repair or refurbished replacement which seemed cheap on their part but I complied. 10 days later I received a refurbished replacement drive. This one similarly failed 10 months later and because the original failed hard drive was purchased 25 months ago, LaCie refused to honor the 2-year warranty on the refurbished which didn't seem right.
8 weeks ago while running a backup of the LaCie Rugged XL (one hour before departing on a 6-week trip abroad), the drive started making a high-pierced grinding and repetitive clicking noise then the icon vanished from my Desktop. Unable to access it from my laptop, knowing the sound was most likely indicative of an imminent failure and with no time to troubleshoot the issue, I pushed the power button to 'off' and disconnected the eSATA & power cables. 6 weeks later once I returned from my trip, I hooked up my MacBook Pro laptop to the LaCie Rugged XL, connected the power supply, connected the eSATA cable and pushed the power switch to 'on'. Immediately, the drive let out the same grinding & clicking shriek as before. My laptop wasn't able to access it either so I powered it 'off' and immediately sent LaCie a detailed support request via their website's registered product support as it was still under the 2 year warranty period. After 3 days and no response, I sent a 2nd request. After 5 days, I finally received a response informing me that I would have to ship it back to them at my expense and they would either repair it or send me a refurbished one. It was a dreaded deja vu. Its been one week now since I mailed the defective drive back to LaCie. Meanwhile, I've read many negative accounts/reviews (mostly on Amazon.com) about LaCie's less than favorable customer service practices and their increasingly common hard drive failures. Call me old fashioned but when you consider that a hard drive's purpose is to store data (usually of personal or professional value and often confidential and proprietary) I believe the device should have a longer life cycle than the warranty length otherwise the manufacturer should stick an "expiration date" label on it. One the bright side, I have a backup copy of 75% of the data. On the down side, the drive failed while I was running a back up and I lost about 200GB worth of work related files. Like many others have painfully discovered, nowadays the quality and beauty of LaCie hard drives tend to run skin deep.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Don't even think about it! Nov 11, 2011
By R. Causey I purchase items from Amazon weekly and have never bothered to write a review on anything, but this product and company are so horrible, I felt it was important to share my experience. I purchased this Lacie so-called "rugged" hard drive in May 2011, right before my honeymoon to use as my back up hard drive. It seemed to work fine until one day in October 2011-- not 6 months later, I took the hard drive out of my computer bag to find that the place where the USB cord connected to the hard drive had come out of the drive and was now attached to the plug. I have in no way abused this hard drive either-- it has spent most of it's time just sitting on my desk. I was baffled as to how this "rugged" hard drive would just suddenly fall apart, but it all started to make since once I contacted Lacie (non) customer service. The wait time each time I called was OVER 4 HOURS. On the two occasions where I even bothered to wait to speak to a representative, they told me yes, my product was under warranty, and that I could mail it in and they would repair it free of charge, but that the drive would be wiped clean of all its data and that if I wanted my data recovered (in this case, my honeymoon pictures), it would cost OVER $500 dollars! I was in shock the first time I got off the phone, which is why my husband tried calling again, to see if there was some kind of miscommunication, but no. They actually told him that this sort of thing happens A LOT and that they ALWAYS charge for data recovery regardless of the fact that they produced and sold me a crummy, flimsy, not to mention expensive product no more than 6 months ago. To add insult to injury, this is the second Lacie product that has failed me, so I will NEVER purchase anything from this company again. Their customer service is awful-- and clearly their products create a lot of problems for their customers, or they wouldn't have 4 hours wait times to speak to a customer no-service representative. I strongly advise against doing business with Lacie. I was lucky in that I purchased the hard drive from a good, local electronics and photography store (not amazon), and they are doing their best to recover my data for me free of charge, because they agree that Lacie's handling of the situation was unacceptable. I am going to do my best to make sure that as many people as possible learn what a horrible company Lacie is, and save them from losing time and money trying to recover data from a product that is meant to keep it safe.
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based on 55 reviews
Drive is fine, but be careful of the size. Jul 11, 2009
By J. Scott
"iocomposer"
Awesome External HDD Feb 19, 2010
By Marcos Agrelli
"marcosagrelliphotography"
DOES NOT LAST! Feb 23, 2010
By Ty
