LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2TB Review

The drive comes factory formatted as FAT32 but we re-formatted the drive as NTFS to show off its best performance and to allow us to transfer some of the very large files in the real life file transfer tests.

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously.
Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

The 2TB Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C drive has, at its heart a 5,400rpm, 128MB cache Seagate Barracuda drive.  The drive offers pretty good all round performance, but if you want faster performance then you will have to sacrifice capacity for the performance advantage of the SSD versions of the drive.

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