My company films on average 150 events per year. Half of those are weddings that take up a TON of drive space, especially if you optimize your footage in a program like Final Cut Pro. We've religiously utilized WD MyBook drives for many years and recently began using these LaCie 1big Docks... specifically the 16GB model. I really wanted to embrace SSD drives, but they're just too expensive still. At least for the amount of space I need for active projects (we need at least 60TB's of space for active projects). So when it was time for new drives, I exhaustively tried a myriad of different drives from different manufacturers recently. G-Drive, WD, other brands. They had to have at least 8TB of space. So, they were all a bit noisy to an extent (any drive at 8TB or ... MoreMy company films on average 150 events per year. Half of those are weddings that take up a TON of drive space, especially if you optimize your footage in a program like Final Cut Pro. We've religiously utilized WD MyBook drives for many years and recently began using these LaCie 1big Docks... specifically the 16GB model. I really wanted to embrace SSD drives, but they're just too expensive still. At least for the amount of space I need for active projects (we need at least 60TB's of space for active projects). So when it was time for new drives, I exhaustively tried a myriad of different drives from different manufacturers recently. G-Drive, WD, other brands. They had to have at least 8TB of space. So, they were all a bit noisy to an extent (any drive at 8TB or better will be a little noisy). No big deal there. The deal breaker for the other drives were they lagged a bit in Final Cut Pro. When playing back footage or skimming over the timeline, it would freeze for a quick second. Doesn't seem like a big deal, but when that's all you do all day long, it becomes irritating. This was the only HDD I could find without any lag issues. And, in speed tests, this was indeed consistently the fastest drive. So I purchased two of these drives to start. I have one nearly filled with about 40 events. Yes... FOURTY events! Mostly weddings. I still have 4TB of space on it. And the drive is still as smooth as can be. The extra ports have come in handy, especially when I'm traveling. The drive is small enough to fit in my computer bag on flights... so I'm happy with it's portability as well. It feels very rugged with an all metal enclosure.Now the drawback... the power source. One, it has a hefty plug with a power brick on it. Most of the other drives I tested were either powered by the USB C cabled connected to the computer, or had a smaller plug without the power brick. But, the extra power for this drive probably explains why it's also the fastest. So, I can live with the additional bulk of the plug. The BIG problem with said plug is... if you damage it... you will NOT be able to power your drive. I damaged one of the plugs (well, my new puppy decided to chew on it rendering the power supply useless). Had I not had another power supply from the other drive, I would not have been able to get any work done as the plug for this unit is unique to it. And apparently it only.I asked Seagate/Lacie for help. They told me they couldn't provide just a power supply. To their credit, they said I could send in the entire drive for a replacement (which would come with a new plug), but I had over 10TB of projects on this one drive and didn't have the time to transfer it all to another drive and keep my clients happy at the same time. So they recommended I look into third party suppliers.I contacted three different companies that ONLY deal with power supplies, and NONE OF THEM had anything like the power supply for this unit. I even sent the damaged one into one of the companies and they said... yea... nothing like that that they know of.So it has a very unique power supply...as do most LaCie drives. And again, to their credit, they followed up with me to see if I had any luck finding a new power supply, which I did not. They finally pulled some strings and was able to get their manufacturer send me a new power supply, at no charge.So, lesson here is, if you buy this drive and damage your power supply somehow, you're dead in the water. If you don't plan on moving this drive off your desk or have any puppies around that like to chew on wires, you should be okay (lol). Just be prepared in the event your power supply fails. Purchasing two of these units will at least also provide you with two power supplies in the event one stops working.LaCie was eventually helpful, but it took about a month to find a new power supply for me.

My wife and I now the owners of 3 16 TB 1big Docks. These are great devices. We use them to serve as external hard drives for our iMacs for our large number of photographs. They're fast and reliable. They are also flexible, with built-in SDXC and CompactFlash Memory Cards if you need them (we don't need them, because most of my cameras require CFExpress cards) The 1big Dock cards are also reasonable in cost given the size. Our observation is that LaCie makes worthy products. We also use SSD LaCie devices as our Time Machines.

Got a great price here and quick delivery. One (slight) caveat. Missing the USB-C to USB-A cable that was supposed to be included. I had several extras in my arsenal. Upon install, the drive would not show up in Windows but when I plugged an SD or USB stick into the front portal, it would mount but it was like the LaCie was just a pass-through. Went through several cables with the same results. Finally, a new certified USB cable did the trick. The lesson? USB cables are finicky.