LaCie 2big RAID 40TB External Hard Drive Desktop HDD – USB-C, 7200 RPM Enterprise Class Drives, for Mac and PC Desktop, Rescue Services (STHJ40000800)

I bought two of the LaCie 2big RAID 40TB with the wide-eyed optimism of a fool headed into the desert with a half-charged flashlight, expecting some gleaming monument of professional engineering. Instead, what I unboxed was a forty-terabyte paperweight — a sulking, malfunctioning steel brick masquerading as “reliable storage.” From the moment I plugged it in, the thing behaved like a drunk buffalo on roller skates: refusing to initialize, disconnecting at random, and collapsing under the weight of its own marketing hype. This wasn’t a hard drive. This was a $1,500 anxiety generator with a power cable. And then came customer support — the great Seagate help desk, a place where sanity goes to die. Their responses were a parade of canned nonsense, each message written like it was assembled by a committee of malfunctioning robots. Every time I explained the problem, they fired back with the same dead-eyed instructions as if I hadn’t already tried them. Hours of my life vanished into this bizarre correspondence, and the final verdict from their digital oracle was: “No refunds. Only replacement.” A replacement? For something that never worked in the first place? At this price point, refusing a refund is not just bad business — it’s corporate madness, the kind Hunter S. Thompson warned us about. So I turned to Amazon, hoping for salvation. Wrong again. They washed their hands of it immediately, claiming the responsibility lay with LaCie/Seagate. No help, no sympathy, just a polite shrug and a reminder that I would be paying the shipping bill to return this monstrous, defective contraption. Imagine hauling a forty-terabyte corpse to the post office because two massive companies couldn’t be bothered to stand behind the garbage they sold you. In the end, the story is simple: if you spend this kind of money, you deserve a machine that works, and a company that won’t treat you like a deranged troublemaker for expecting basic functionality. LaCie/Seagate delivers neither. No refunds, no accountability, and no respect for the people who keep them in business. Final verdict: stay far, far away. Buy from literally any brand that hasn’t given up on its customers. This isn’t storage — it’s a trap.

As a commercial photographer, I need vast amounts of storage. I've used LaCie mirrored RAIDs for fifteen years, and It has been a love-hate relationship from the beginning. I am finally done. Nothing has ever worked out of the box. Every drive, from the first to the last requires hours of firmware updates, software, troubleshooting, etc. If you call tech support, they blame Apple... Apple blames LaCie... and nothing gets resolved. I am trying to rid myself of the older, slower drives with low capacity in favor or larger, faster drives. I purchased this 40TB beast, which (technically) would give me 20TB of mirrored storage... if the drive actually worked. After a day of trying everything, including multiple computers, multiple USB-C cables, downloading the latest LaCie RAID Manager software and trying to update the drive's firmware... nothing, nada, zilch. The drive powers up, but is never recognized by the computers. If you are looking for a $1,600 blinking blue nightlight, this is the drive for you! If, however, you want a simple solution for large, safe storage, but anything else. LaCie is to drives what McDonalds is to hamburgers... they are the most well known to consumers and they make a lot of them!.. but they suck!

I bought the 40TB drive and it works but it's a pain to get it to show up on your computer. I find it best to walk away for 10 minutes then come back and see if it pops up. Once it shows up it works great!

Ex fat files on this drive may not be recovered.

専用ソフトを使うとミラーリング設定がとても簡単です。 特にDTM用途なんかでMacでライブラリとワーク用にパーテーション切って尚且つ安全のためにミラーリング、しかも大容量が必要となるとこれ一択ですね。相変わらずの転送速度の安定感のおかげでDAWとは相性が良いです。 ただ流石に持ち運べるサイズと重さではないのでノートPCユーザーにはお勧めしません。

Needed a reliable trustworthy 40GB external HD, this is exactly that. I use it for storage only but very happy with it.

Tengo 8 discos duros de Lacie y este concretamente no ha parado de dar problema. En la primera ocasión perdí toda la información, sobre todo fotografía de mi trabajo, y ahora se ha vuelto a ir. Tiene bastantes fallos.

Le disque à peine utilisé, il ne monte plus. On ne peut même pas le reformater car il est inaccessible. LaCie, depuis qu'ils ont été racheté par Seagate, n'a plus du tout le même service après-vente. Cela sonne dans le vide, à attendre 40 minutes sans fin, plusieurs fois. Heureusement, Amazon se charge de le réparer. Mais quelle tristesse de voir LaCie sur le déclin.