Drive Shows Up As Disc 3 Partition 1

I like how the drive could be partition

This 1TB Gold Anniversary Edition is another great hard drive from Western Digital.There are only two things that I do not particularly like about this drive.1.There are no rubber feet on the underside of the unit2.The USB cable is thicker and stiffer than the earlier modelsThese two combine to cause the drive to sometimes slide around when it's sitting on a smooth surface particularly when the USB cable is plugged into my MacBook Pro.Apart from those two minor complaints I really like this drive.1.This unit has so far performed flawlessly. 2.Compatible with both PC and Mac 3.USB 3.0/2.04.It's extremely fast and quiet5.Huge capacity6.Great price 7.Stays cool8.It looks awesome, has great form factor9.Contrary to what another reviewer has stated, this drive is extremely easy to reformat to the Mac platform, it took me all of 2 minutes10.Oh Yes, and there's Free Expedited Shipping, gotta love FES

I bought this drive as an emergency and backup drive to have while traveling. It is small, lightweight, and doesn't require a separate power cord. It is excellent for the purpose and a very good value.I have a 500 GB MyPassport that has been in constant service for more than two years as a Time Machine drive for an iMac. That My Passport has performed flawlessly.This My Passport does not come GUID formatted (required in order to install OS-X), but GUID can be added easily with Apple's Disk Utility. I've partitioned the drive into a 250 GB bootable OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) partition and a 750 GB Time Machine partition.

I use the drive to back up my laptop and I use another partition to archive all my photos. It isn't USB 3.0 but it is plenty fast when transferring data. I haven't used it for very long but so far so good. I like that is doesnt come preloaded with WD software.

I upgraded my Windows 7 machine from a 1TB to a 2TB hard drive it was easy to install. I used Clonezilla Live to transfer an image of my old drive to the new one and then expanded the 1TB partition to a 2TB partition using AOMEI Partition Assistant pro.

Drive comes with software for managing it on Windows and (I think) Apple, but I deleted the partition(s), threw a BTRFS on it, and it was happy as a clam.

I bought two of these for two different older Win10 computers with spinning hard drives that were degrading, making the computers very slow. First was my wife's nearly 9 year old laptop. First attempt at cloning drive failed because the computer shut itself off during the process. Be sure to go into power settings and disable automatic shutdown or sleep mode. Once I did that the cloning succeeded. Second PC was a desktop with a 250GB spinning drive. The SSD is 1 TB. Using the cloning wizard, it wanted to create a 217 GB Windows partition (same size as it was on the spinning drive) and it wanted to blow up the recovery partition to well over 700 GB. Well, that's stupid! It should have kept the recovery partition the same size and increased the Windows partition as much as possible. So I halted the cloning and restarted it in manual mode, which allows changing the partition sizes. In manual mode the cloning software made the correct suggestion: it kept the recovery partition and two small mysterious partitions the same sizes that they were on the hard drive, and it increased the Windows partition to 871 GB. So I accepted those sizes and did the cloning. Why couldn't the wizard have figured that out? Bottom line - pay attention during the cloning process to make sure the wizard isn't doing something dumb. Both computers are now running much faster than before. My wife is delighted with her new laptop. She says it is now super-fast. B&H sale price was great with free two day delivery.

I had a support chat with OWC first before ordering this because of the cost involved. Wanted to be sure that I was sure that it would work with my 2019 Mac Pro. They assured me it would, so I ordered confidently. Installation was simper than simple, just lift the top, place the card in a slot, replace the top, boom. Booted, holding my breath, and it showed up in the disk utility. But showed only 8.64GB of available storage. I tried the Erase (initialize) option, Still 8.64GB. Then, went into the partition setup of the disk utility, and voila, there it showed the full 4TB (well, 3.84TB) storage. Once I claimed it all for a single large partition and then reinitialized the drive (using MacOS Extended, Journaled), all was well. I was then able to make full use of the drive. It seems funny to call it a drive, when it's actually just a thin chip on a PCIE-card. Even what you see in the picture there isn't really it. Most of that bulge is just heat sink. Amazing they can stuff that much storage onto something so small. Also a rather amazing amount to pay for a drive, but I wanted fast, non-internal storage, and lots of it, so felt the need and went for it. So far, it is behaving perfectly, is indeed fast. So after a few anxious 8GB moments, I'm relieved and happy.

The drive was great, easy to format or initialize set up the partition via an enclosure and then swap out the original D drive

So for the folks who remember this company from 2000 and their advertisements for products geared towards the Mac market, it should be noted that as of 2014 that LaCie is a Seagate company. In as much as I have seen my fair share of 1TB + Seagate hard drives die since 2009, this was slightly disappointing to find out as I was coming close to filling up my 4TB WD My Passport Ultra and needed more capacity in a single drive. Also note: these are two physical drives in one. With that the folks who are used to throwing out the initial files contained on the drive out of the box need to refrain. The initial software is needed to put those two drives in a RAID 0, another drawback, is on the drive. There is an option to make a 2.5TB RAID 1. It’s on a 400 MB FAT32 partition initially. After setup the files are on the drive still but the 400MB partition is gone. And the setup application has to be run from the drive itself. If you backed up the files and deleted the partition trying to partition it manually, you can make another 400 MB FAT32 partition, labeled anything, and put the files back on the drive. Having to use this on the go a bunch I do like the big orange rubber surround on it. It is a few ounces heavier than my WD My Passport Ultra 4TB was: ~12.4 ounces to WDs ~9.4 or so. You don’t feel the drives rotating when you disconnect, so it seems you have some protection from minor shocks and impacts. As for performance, it seems right on par with the WD My Passport Ultra 4TB. All in All, it’s a good buy. Cool to have something from them. Just hope I don’t have to use that 2 Years of data recovery protection on the count of this being a RAID 0 implementation in practice. There just wasn’t a WD option beyond 4TB in a mobile drive out there :).