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LaCie Porsche Design USB-C Hard Drive -- TESTED & REVIEWED
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May 30, 2025
If you're like me, you can never have enough disk storage space, but the very latest generation of computers - including the 2016 and 2017 Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro - feature USB-C connectors, not Firewire, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0. LaCie has you covered with the sleek Porsche Design USB-C drive, however, in sizes ranging from 1TB to 5TB. Tech expert and MacBook Pro owner Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ plugs in a LaCie USB-C drive and runs it through its paces, finding it a great addition to any road warrior's pack with its huge storage and small footprint. Check the drives out at: https://www.lacie.com/
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running out of disk space this solves
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the problem Dave Taylor here and I'm
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gonna talk about hard drive space
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because the fact is however much you
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have it's not enough I don't know what
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the deal is I have so much disk space on
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so many storage devices and I still find
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myself running out of space and having
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to manage what I have on my drive and
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what I put somewhere else so when I'm on
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the road I don't have the ability to do
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all these backups and yeah I could use
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the cloud but really do I want to wait
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four days for something to happen not so
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much so let's say sent me this this is
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the Porsche Design mobile Drive and I'm
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showing it to you face on because when I
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go to the side it's pretty small it is a
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beautiful designed piece of hardware
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it's all aluminum case and on the back
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it just has a USBC so it's super easy
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there's no special weird connector you
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don't have a cable built in that you
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have to use this just makes it super
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easy so I have it comes with a USBC
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cable on both ends I plug it in and now
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I'm ready to rock and roll with my
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macbook pro which also has USB see if
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you have older USB like a 2.0 or 3.0 or
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even 3.1 comes with an adapter so you
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can still use it on your legacy systems
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but USB see it's kind of where things
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are going and this is the aluminum color
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they've made it very pretty so you can
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also get it in gold or rose gold to
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match your macbook design also it works
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for PCs if you have a computer from an
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Adele or Toshiba or whatever and that's
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also USB see this will work just fine
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plug this baby in and just get started
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now I'm gonna run a quick test so let's
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actually see how fast it is let me plug
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it into my computer here we go
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and then I'm gonna go ahead and we're
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gonna do just a basic file copy so we'll
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start by doing a copy onto the drive and
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then we'll do another one where I'm
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copying off the drive so let's spin
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around and you can see what's on my
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screen
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so let's open up the hard drive you can
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see I already have some files on here on
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pretty big files but you can see there's
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a copious amount of space available
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which is nice because I just happen to
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have this five gigabyte file to copy so
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let's go ahead and drag it on to the
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hard drive and we'll see how long this
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takes so this is a five gigabyte copy
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just going across USB see you see the
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Mac does that sort of classic thing of
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it's really big it's gonna take forever
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oh wait a minute actually it's going
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pretty fast so it's actually copying
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along pretty fast now theoretically USBC
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has a maximum throughput of five Giga
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bits of second this is not what we're
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seeing I'm pretty sure no one would ever
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see that on any device but the number
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sounds fantastic right
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so let's just get this copy to go and
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then what I'm gonna do is I'm going to
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rename the file and then copy it back
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onto the hard drive on my macbook pro
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and this is a 2016 MacBook Pro and it
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only has USB C so if I had a USB 3.0
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hard drive sadly I would not be able to
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use it without an adapter going in the
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other direction so this should go and
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zip along you can see it's almost done
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we're at five gig already of the 5.7 gig
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and just a couple seconds it should be
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done five four four anyone Bueller okay
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well it's done without actually counting
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from five down so now we're gonna rename
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this file and we're gonna call it
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whoops let's try that again really big
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data and now we're gonna just go ahead
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and do the reverse operation I'm gonna
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just copy it right back onto the desktop
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since it has a new name it will be a
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brand new copy and this theoretically
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should go a little faster although it's
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interesting that the Mac operating
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system seems to be actually dragging
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down a little bit and saying oh this is
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slower and slower now it's speeding up
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so now we have three minutes nope two
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minutes
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so it's chugging along pretty fast and
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quite honestly this is
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a little bit like watching paint dry but
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keep in mind this is five point seven
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five gigabytes of data that represents
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what 500 mega five thousand megabytes
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that's what the number is five thousand
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megabytes of data and five gigs pretty
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big I can tell you that you can rip a
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movie and have it be a gig and it can
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look gorgeous on an HDTV so five gigs of
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data is pretty good and we're chugging
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along it's over halfway and in just a
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moment or two we should finish up this
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copy come on Mac you can do it and this
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is yes running the latest version of Mac
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OS 10 and the last say luckily there's
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no hardware there's no firmware there's
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no software whether there is hardware so
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luckily there's nothing else you have to
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worry about you don't have to install
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any drivers or anything you just plug it
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in and boom you're ready to go and here
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we are we're again at five seconds and I
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suspect it'll go from five seconds to
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done any second now you can do it and
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done so there we have it we've copied
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five gig onto the hard drive and then
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we've copied five gig back off the hard
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drive onto the internal drive on this
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macbook pro so that's pretty speedy so
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let's spin the camera around so there
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you have it I'm pretty darn impressed in
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fact I'll tell you that this Porsche
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design drive is now in my computer bag
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with me at all times I like it because I
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can have a backup of even hundreds of
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gigabytes of files but I can also have a
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huge archive of stuff that I'd otherwise
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don't have space to fit on my computer
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but I can have it with me just in case
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the client needs something or whatever
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so really nice I think it's really
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delightfully fast this was a pretty big
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file we were copying there's no magic
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really big files take longer than really
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small files go figure you there's like
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you know it's just the way reality works
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so the only thing left to talk about is
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the price and before we get there let me
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ask you can you go ahead and click on
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the subscribe button if you haven't yet
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subscribed and I really appreciate the
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feedback give me a thumbs up and let me
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know that you really
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found this video useful cool now this
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lusts a Porsche Design mobile drive and
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this identifies let's see the model
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number is the p9 two to seven looks like
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the model number and it comes in a bunch
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of different sizes you can get it for
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one terabyte for $89.99 two terabytes
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will run you a hundred and nineteen
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ninety nine that's what this is this is
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a two terabyte drive you want to go
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higher and bigger well they have a four
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terabyte drive for a hundred and seventy
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nine ninety nine and a five terabyte
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drive for two 1999
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that's a lot of space five terabytes of
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data and even that I think it's pretty
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reasonably priced for something that's
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this small and this easy to work with
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you can have it on your Mac you can
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switch it on to your PC whatever you
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need to do this drive is gonna work and
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it's flexible and super easy and as you
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see there's no additional power I need
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or anything all of it it gets everything
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it needs right off that USB C wire so
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really I'm a big fan this is the 'less a
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Porsche Design mobile Drive I'm Dave
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Taylor and I'll catch you in my next
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video
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