Stylish industrial design for the aluminum enclosure gives it a premium look and feel (tying in closely with the LaCie branding message).It comes with a quick start guide, as well as a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C to Type-C cable (rated for SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps) and a Type-C to Type-A cable.Ĭompared to the Seagate Backup Plus Portable, the Porsche Design Mobile P9227 external hard drive brings the following updates: The LaCie Porsche Design Mobile 4TB version has dimensions of 128 mm x 84 mm x 21 mm and weighs 315 grams. The USB 3.0 bridge chip also supports UASP and S.M.A.R.T passthrough. It appears that the ST4000LM0016 uses five platters with a 800GB/platter design to achieve the capacity point. This 2.5' drive has a 15mm thickness, making it suitable for use in bus-powered external drive enclosures. It turns out that the internal drive is the Seagate / Samsung Momentus ST4000LM016, the same as the one we saw in the Seagate Backup Plus Portable last year. Once the review unit reached our hands, it was easy to see why. Though the LaCie Chrome USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C external SSD was easily the most impressive announcement of the lot, it is the LaCie Porsche Design Mobile which is making it to the market first. Seagate launched a host of direct-attached storage products under the LaCie brand name at CES earlier this year.

Lacie external hard drive setup