Lacie Porsche Design For Mac Desktop Drive - 8tb

August 11th, 2016 by Tucker Mindrum LaCie Porsche Design USB-C Desktop Drive Review LaCie’s latest batch of desktop drives combines emerging USB-C technology with their classic Porsche design for up to 8TB of storage. Although it can take advantage of the improved transfer speeds of USB-C, this drive is fully compatible with USB 3.0 (and USB 2.0) through the use of LaCie’s included adapter cable. Thanks to the enhanced wattage of USB-C, compatible laptops can draw power from LaCie’s desktop drive; this feature clearly caters to the new MacBook, which consolidates its data transfers and power supply into one port. LaCie’s customary aluminum finish and minimalistic enclosure design easily pairs the Porsche Design desktop drive with any Mac setup (although it is also compatible with Windows). Several software programs come with the Porsche Design desktop drives, including LaCie Backup Manager and LaCie Private-Public (which assists in configuring automatic computer backups and facilitates AES 256-bit encryption, respectively), as well as Eco mode. However, installing the included software isn’t always critical; Mac users can just partition their drive as a secondary volume through Apple’s Disk Utility. LaCie offers their Porsche Design desktop drives in a 4TB, 5TB, and 8TB model ($200, $250, and $320, respectively) and includes a 2-year warranty.