LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2TB Portable HDD Review

Software

The drive is designed for use with both Mac OS and Windows right out of the box, and it comes with a setup assistant to finish the setup for whichever system you’re going to use it on. The drive is easy to locate in your file manager, even if you got autostart/autorun disabled thanks to the drive logo which looks like the drive itself.

It has a pre-setup partition that contains the setup assistant which will finish the setup, even for users who have no idea how to set up a new drive and format it. The tool will do it for you.

The first page with options lets you determine how the drive should be formatted – whether you just want an NTFS or Fat32 partition, or both.

Once you’ve selected your setup with the slider, it will format the drive as asked.

Next, you can register the drive with LaCie, but this is an optional choice.

The drive itself is ready to be used now, but you can do more. You can also install Adobe’s PDF reader to read the included manual and LaCie also bundled the Genie Timeline backup app with the drive. It is free and it can make regular backup jobs a lot easier for you.

You can follow the progress on the screen.

And shortly after, it is done.

Genie Timeline Backup Software

The Genie Timeline backup program is real easy to set up and use, it only requires two steps.

Select the LaCie, or another drive you want to use as the backup target, and hit the next arrow at the bottom of the screen.

Now you can either use the smart selection of files and features.

Or you can manually select the folders you want to backup to your portable Rugged drive.

Once done, the app will start the backup process. You can pause this at any time to the left on the screen, should you want to do so.