LaCie Portable SSD 1TB Review

Name: LaCie Portable SSD 1TB
Brand: LaCie

LaCie's Portable SSD 1TB, a high capacity small form factor storage solution gets tested. Should you buy? Let's see.

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Tyler Bernath

In Loving Memory

Published May 2, 2019 10:00 AM CDT
Updated Nov 3, 2020 6:57 PM CST

Manufactured by LaCie

2 minutes & 30 seconds read time

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Our Verdict

LaCie offers an amazing small form factor portable solution reaching the peak of USB 3.0 with the Portable SSD.

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Continuing our coverage of LaCie, we have the Portable SSD in the 1TB capacity in house.

This solution is a small form factor drive aimed at media professionals that want a high-speed solution for storing and editing digital content. To that point, LaCie says you can transfer an hour of footage to the Portable SSD in less than a minute, and you can edit straight from the drive with speeds up to 540 MB/s. Further, this drive can hold 65 hours of film and 20K photos.

Connectivity is handled via USB-C and compatibility with Windows and macOS is maintained with exFAT formatting. MSRP of the LaCie Portable SSD in the 1TB capacity comes in at $229.99 with a three-year warranty.

Packaging for the Portable SSD offers capacity information at the top right along with performance. Centered you will find an image of the drive.

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Included with the Portable SSD, we have both USB-C and C to A cables along with reading material.

The drive itself offers a matte black exterior a slight bit of red pokes out from the edges. Down below we have the USB-C connection and activity LED.

Here you can get an idea of how thick the drive is compared to quarters.

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Testing performance, we start with CDM getting 518 MB/s read and 475 MB/s write.

Black Magic shows similar performance 531 MB/s read, and 492 MB/s write, good for 2160p60 with ProRes422.

Over the last year, we have looked at every portable SSD to come out of the Seagate factory; this includes the new and old Game Drive SSD and Seagate Fast SSD. Adding the LaCie Portable SSD to the mix and I can certainly say the LaCie has the highest build quality and while they all share a similar aesthetic, the LaCie with its red on black colorway looks the best too.

As for performance, this drive is at the peak of what USB 3.0 can offer; 530 MB/s read 490 MB/s write. It puts it on par with both the new Game Drive SSD for Xbox and Fast SSD from Seagate. Value-added solutions for this drive include LaCie toolkit which allows you to configure your drive and do automated backups through a "mirrored" folder.

As for pricing, this drive is identical to both the Fast and Game Drive so it will come down to your choice of aesthetics and outside of the Seagate ecosystem it's a touch more expensive than the T5 from Samsung and Extreme from Sandisk.