LaCie 2big

LaCie 2big

If the recently reviewed LaCie Minimus is arguably the most compact desktop external hard drive, the LaCie 2big USB 3.0 is quite the opposite. It's huge and heavy. But that's the only complaint we have. The drive comes in a good-looking and user-friendly design. It's fast in our tests and incorporates a convenient way to manage the internal hard drives. If you're in need of an external hard drive to either expand your desktop computer's storage or store backups of important files, look no further than the LaCie 2big USB 3.0. At the street price of around $330 for 2TB (or $550 for 4TB), the 2big is slightly more expensive than other similarly configured external hard drives of the same specs, but it's well worth the investment. The LaCie 2big USB 3.0 is the first USB 3.0-based external hard drive that supports RAID we've reviewed. It can host two 3.5-inch SATA internal hard drives and allows user to configure them into either RAID 1 (for data protection) or RADI 0 (for maximum storage space and speed). You can also use the two hard drives in a non-RAID setup called JBOD. Similar to the WD My Book Mirror, the 2big offers a very convenient way for users to service the internal hard drives. The two drive bays are accessible from the back.