LaCie Porsche Design Desktop Drive 8TB

[HEXUS]

Stylish and spacious, but can it deliver on speed?

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[EndlessWaves]

"The move to USB 3.1 provides greater throughput"

What are you basing that statement off? The four benchmarks all show a USB 3.0 connected SSD exceeding the speeds of this unit. There seem to be no evidence that USB 3.1 provides greater throughput for this drive.

[Kanoe]

"The move to USB 3.1 provides greater throughput"

What are you basing that statement off? The four benchmarks all show a USB 3.0 connected SSD exceeding the speeds of this unit. There seem to be no evidence that USB 3.1 provides greater throughput for this drive.

Think they are talking about in comparison to the other two mechanical drives in the test line up, i.e. the Seagate Backup Plus and WD My Passport Ultra which both use USB3.0.

[Plasmastorm]

My company stopped selling Lacie products years ago, overpriced is barely scratching the surface.

[Myss_tree]

Exactly where is the Porsche design?

the Porsche Design Desktop Drive employs an aluminium enclosure with polished edges, rounded corners and a sandblasted finish that feels as good as it looks.

Ooooo lot of revolutionary design work there to justify an extra £100.

[Nifl]

Rounded corners? Where are the Apple lawyers?

[Parm]

"The move to USB 3.1 provides greater throughput"

What are you basing that statement off? The four benchmarks all show a USB 3.0 connected SSD exceeding the speeds of this unit. There seem to be no evidence that USB 3.1 provides greater throughput for this drive.

Hi, the throughput improvement is in comparison to USB 2.0. The paragraph has been reworded to make it clearer. It now reads: "The transition from USB 2.0 to USB 3.1 provides a genuine improvement in throughput, as well as the ability to power your laptop and access the drive simultaneously."

For anyone needing to make use of the backward compatibility, we can confirm that the drive managed sequential read and write speeds of 43.6MB/s and 40.9MB/s, respectively, via the older standard.

[Unique]

expensive. if someone made a cheap caddy only version that let you use a 3.5" drive via USB without a power cable it would be great. surely some chinese company will make one

[TooNice]

I bought one of a much older model a long time ago. Think it was a mere 250GB? Or maybe 320/500GB. Anyway, pre-TB, pre-USB3 era. It was on sale and probably one of the best cost/GB I could find at the time I ordered. And it still looks like the same brick that probably still collect quite a bit of dust like most electronics.

The truth is that it's a HD and and not even Porsche can make it stylish and functional. Actually I think it would be better if they make it so that it can be mounted vertically with a stand. Flat is good for stacking, but for people with just one or two external drives, vertical take less footprint and also has less surface for dust to collect.

[Xlucine]

...Actually I think it would be better if they make it so that it can be mounted vertically with a stand. Flat is good for stacking, but for people with just one or two external drives, vertical take less footprint and also has less surface for dust to collect.

There are loads of drives that can sit vertically without a stand, this is right next to me on my desk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009HXWWP2/

[adam0r]

Is anyone else instantly turned off when a car marker punts out a piece of 'Tech'? :-/

[Disturbedguy]

Is anyone else instantly turned off when a car marker punts out a piece of 'Tech'? :-/

Unless im mistaken, Porsche didn't "punt" it out, LaCie did, Porsche just did some work on the design of the enclosure..

[tinbin]

too expensive...

[Mr_Jon]

too expensive...

Maybe, nearly three years later, it has come down in price?

[peterb]

too expensive...

Maybe, nearly three years later, it has come down in price?

2016 edition (as reviewed) now £159.90, the updated 2018 version is £209 from Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LaCie-Porsc...00S1LNNFY&th=1

[jimborae]

My company stopped selling Lacie products years ago, overpriced is barely scratching the surface.

This.

I would love to find out the failure rates on Lacie external drives. Mine and other folks I know have all had them fail on them multiple times. Think they had Seagate drives in them at the time which may explain things. Eitherwa I will be staying well away from product.