HI! guys I'am at the Apple store on London's Regent Street to pick up a new external hard
drive I've been shooting quite a lot of high definition film for my YouTube vlogs recently
and taking quite a lot of pictures for my blog and I'am filling up both my camera memory
card and my iPhone memory so I don't want to just delete them I want somewhere to dump
them so I've come to get an external hard drive I also need to back up my MacBook and
I want an external hard drive that I can occasional share files between my PC and my Mac now I'am
not sure how you pronounce this LacIe Lacie Lacie Iam going to go with LaCie I've decided
to get the LaCie rugged thunderbolt in this video I'am going to unbox it quickly take
a look at it I'am going to show you how I set it up on both a Mac and a PC they are
built and designed to be shock dust and water resistant for all terrain use hence the bright
orange rubber shock resistant sleeve it has a built in integrated thunderbolt cable but
it is also supplied with a removable USB three cable now I'am going to be using this with
my MacBook which has thunderbolt and with my windows PC which is USB 3 if I was only
using it with my windows PC and not my thunderbolt macbook then I would have bought one of the
less expensive USB variations of the hard drive now in terms of basic functionality
it will work on both a windows PC and an Apple Mac but it is going to be capable of faster
transfer speeds with a Mac than a PC and it is not just due to the cabling you can format
it in a way where it is optimised to work on a Mac but it won't work on a PC or you
can set it up so it will work on both so it is in a file format that is recognised by
both Windows PC's and Mac's but it is not as fast what you can also do which is what
I'am going to do is you can partition it and have both so I'am going to use the majority
of it in the Mac optimised format and then I'am going to partition a small amount so
I can share files between my Mac and my PC so here we have the built in integrated thunderbolt
cable for some reason it comes with a spare cover as well as as you can see the USB three
cable it feels pretty solid and if I didn't know it was a hard drive I'd say it felt pretty
rugged if your travelling and you looking for a portable hard drive it is going to be
excellent especially if your just using the thunderbolt cable because the integrated cable
means you have no cables to lose so far the largest transfer we have done is the time
machine back up which for us was one hundred and ninety two gigabytes and it took just
over an hour I'am not so sure if that is a significant improvement on USB three but hey
I'am sure someone in the comments below will OK lets take a look at setting it up on the
Mac and then we will plug it into our PC OK we are going to plug the drive in for the
first time using the integrated thunderbolt cable you see you get the icon top right LaCie
set up you can see it has found the drive as a device so we are going to hit set up
we are in England English is our language so we selected that
OK first stage of setting it up is agreeing to the terms and conditions so I'am going
to ignore those and hit next now this is the formatting stage like I said earlier we are
going to use this primarily for our Mac so we are going to keep it pretty much this set
up eight hundred gigabytes for dedicated Mac use and then we are going to have two hundred
gigabytes which we can use on both Mac and PC to share files now you can customise this
completely so you can slide it all the way to the left or all the way to the right so
if you were going to use it entirely on a Mac you would have no need for the LaCie share
section and I guess if you were going to use it entirely on a PC or you wanted to be able
to share absolutely everything on the drive you would have it set up entirely as a shared
drive I was almost tempted to set the whole thing up as a share drive but then your not
going to get the benefits of the speed when I'am using it on a Mac so whenever I want
to share something I can just take it out of the LaCie drive and put it into the share
drive and then vice versa the next stage after deciding how you are going to format and partition
the drive is the time machine settings you need to decide whether your going to use it
or not for time machine and if you are in which partition the back up is going to be
stored and once you've set up time machine settings that is pretty much it the next stages
of the set up assistant are just registering the product and then it gives you the option
to install some optional software while the drive is plugged in you can see you've got
desktop icons top right for the two partitions and if you click on either one of those it
is important that you hit those and then take the opportunity to eject the drive before
you disconnect it right we have ejected it from the Mac and plugged it into a PC and
in terms of setup it didn't take any it has found it straight away it has only found the
two hundred partition that we set up that is suitable for both Mac's and PC's it obviously
won't find the eight hundred that only optimised for Mac just simply dragged and dropped a
simple image into the drive and disconnected it from the PC and plugged it back into the
Mac as soon as we plugged it in you get the two icons for the partitions top right we
click on the share drive where we dropped the image and there it is OK that is the image
I'll shut down the image and then if I just click on the LaCie icons top right I'll show
you the eject options and that is it setting it up really is that simple if you found this
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