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I have a long history with LaCie products, have probably purchased 25+ LaCie hard drives, needed for video storage and production. Do not buy this product! Just got mine. After loading up a series of video files it now clicks when it starts. In hard drive parlance--it's a time bomb. I've got to get the files off fast and send the HD back. Here's the backstory: I used to buy LaCie hard drives only. As mentioned I had many and would daisy chain them. LaCie uses Seagate and other reputable drive companies for the actual hard drives, and manufactures (or buys) the casing. Over the years I can honestly say that EVERY SINGLE LaCie drive has failed. The raw hard drivers were not the issue. The problem was in the connections between casing and the drives. I know this because I pulled the drives, uses a drive reader and the drives worked. The problem is La Cie's--in the casing connection to the drive. At a certain point, I switched to buying hard drives from OWC. I now have 21 1-3 TB firewire drives in a row. Never has one failed. Six months ago I was looking for Thunderbolt drives--it has been 3 years since I'd purchased a LaCie drive---and figured LaCie might have improved on the problems it was having. I bought a 6 TB Thunderbolt RAID. I back up everything to other drives, but I (yep, here it comes) didn't because I had monster projects with monster video requirements and was too cheap to split the drive into duplicating 3TB drives. Mistake! The drive died the other day. LaCie's tech people weren't helpful in the least. They didn't back up the integrity of their product. Instead, they blamed me for not backing up their drive! Finally, back to the 4TB drive. That's dying but not yet dead, though I know enough that sometimes they die a slow death and this one has the death rattle. There aren't many Thunderbolt drives out there yet, so I can't speak to the quality of others companies. I've had decent luck with the LaCie Rugged 1 TB Thunderbolt USB3 drives I've purchased. I'm guessing that's because they're buss powered and don't have the same interface between drive and casing.