The fingerprint securing technology adds about a $40 premium to the price of a regular LaCie Rugged All-Terrain drive. Although its design is relatively minimalist, the LaCie Mobile Drive offers a high level of reliability due to its sturdy aluminum case. With a capacity of 2 TB, it offers USB-C, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 connections. The other potential downside we found to the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Fingerprint-Secured External Hard Drive the cost. The LaCie Mobile Drive is an affordable external hard drive from Apple.
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We also found that our MacBook Pro wouldn’t always recognize the drive when we plugged it in sometimes we had to unplug and try again. Sadly, the drive does not support USB 3.0-only USB 2.0 and FireWire 800. (On the aberrant scan the drive worked on the second attempt). Only once did the drive not unlock immediately. After setting up ours Spot Cool Stuff did ten test swipes. Setting up fingerprints is easy and the scanner really does work. Swipe an approved fingerprint-you can store up to 10 of them-and the drive “unlocks.” It’s all very James Bond. The only way for some one to access the files on the drive is to swipe their finger across the top. It is about the same size (that of a short paperback book) and a touch heavier (10.5 ounces vs 8.8). For those familiar with LaCie’s regular Rugged All-Terrain hard drives, the fingerprint-secured model is nearly an identical product. The major difference: the small fingerprint scanner that’s set within an indent on the top of the drive. Like the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Fingerprint-Secured External Hard Drive. A metal-skinned gem of a platter hard drive, the LaCie Mobile Drive looks great and performs on point.
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LaCies RAID Monitor software alerts you when you need disk maintenance, identifies drive. And it has the same protective rubber run-around that helps protect the drive when dropped or knocked against things. Mitch Gallagher presents the LacCie 2big Thunderbolt 2 hard drive. Built into the front of the unit are CF and SD. Like the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Fingerprint-Secured External Hard Drive.įor those familiar with LaCie’s regular Rugged All-Terrain hard drives, the fingerprint-secured model is nearly an identical product. LaCie’s drive of choice for the range are Seagate IronWolf Pro enterprise-class hard drives which have spin speeds of 7,200 rpm and 256MB of cache. One easy step you can take: When you save your files to an external disk drive, especially one you are likely to travel around with, make it a biometric drive. Basic digital security is something everyone should (do but few people actually do) practice. You needn’t be an international banker, royal family member or Scarlett Johansson to want to keep your private files private.
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