External hard drives are very useful. They offer usability and mobility. They are easy to carry and offer incredibly higher storage space compared to traditional mediums of storages such as USB flash drives, DVD/ CDs and floppies. There are so many companies offering different external hard disks. LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External HDD is one of the most popular brands that offers thunderbolt speed upto 378 MB/ second. LaCie Rugged Mini is designed for home users and businesses looking for high-speed performance and stability.

Find duplicate photos and similar/lookalike photos in the Network Drive. Use PictureEcho to scan the drive today! Download Now. 

When it comes to the look and appearance, LaCie Rugged Mini doesn’t look any different than its predecessor. The new removable cap protects the drive from splashing water and dust. The cap which is orange in color is made up of a thick rubber material that surrounds all the edges of the drive. After you detach the cap, you will be able to see a USB 3.0 port and a thunderbolt cable. The plug-and-play USB 3.0 port offers universal connectivity. A magnet in small size holds the thunderbolt cable on its place. You can gently pull the thunderbolt cable. If you detach the cap and lose it somewhere, no need to worry. You already have an additional cap in the package box. Thunderbolt is not as common as USB 3.0 on non-Apple devices.

According to the manufacturer, accidentally dropping the drive from the height of 2 metres (as opposed to, 1.2 metres in the case of its predecessor) during non-operating mode shouldn’t, in most cases, damage or break the surface. No visible damage should be seen, thanks to the rubber protection layer. However, that doesn’t mean that you drop your drive or use it without care. Dropping the drive during operation mode is strongly NOT recommended. Some users on different Web forums have gone further and claimed that dropping the external HDD from a bit higher distance than company recommended apparently didn’t cause any visible damage though their claims could not be independently verified.

Find & Fix Duplicates On LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External HDD

As you copy and synchronize new files to/ from your LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External Hard Drive, you gather a lot of duplicate photos. These duplicates photos can take a significant storage and make you run into low storage when required. It is recommended that you regularly scan your external HDD for duplicates and fix them immediately.

You don’t have to evaluate each photo file and compare it with others. You can identify duplicates using PictureEcho, a specialized image duplicate finder software for Windows 10/ 8.1/ 8/ 7, The software supports both 62 and 32 bit architectures. It takes into consideration four similarity levels and supports many popular image formats including .gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .ico, .tif, .bmp and .png. 

With PictureEcho, you can find duplicates with exact match and similar match criterias. The small, yet powerful tool makes the job easier for the user to bulk select hundreds of duplicate files based on different selection criteria. You don’t have to evaluate every single photo from the result and select it. Just use the Select Duplicates button and choose one of the criteria of your choice:

1. Select By Location: As the name describes, this selection criteria lets you mark and unmark files by their location/ path. This feature is very helpful to deselect images located in a directory that may be important in nature.
2. Retain Smaller/ Bigger Images In Each Group: You can use these image size criterias to select files by their size. By deleting larger image versions, you can free-up maximum amount of storage space.
3. Retain Low/ High Resolution Images In Each Group: In layman’s term the resolution of an image describes an image’s level of detail. Details of an image are measured in the form of pixel counts. Higher the pixels, the better the image resolution. To mark images with higher or lower resolution, use these selection criteria.
4. Retain Newest Or Oldest Images In Each Group: If you’re a photo editor working on diverse requirement of client portfolios, chances are that you’ve worked on the same image file on multiple times. It is not uncommon to take file backups before changing brightness, resizing, rotating and cropping images, adding watermarks to the original photos. Over time, these backups accumulate a significant portion of your disk space and it becomes difficult , time consuming and challenging task to distinguish the original and edited file. With PictureEcho, you can auto select newest or oldest versions of your duplicates images. The software gives you better control to delete unwanted photos without harming the files you actually require.

Procedure

The steps to identify and fix duplicate photos from your LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External HDD are as under:

1.Download and install PictureEcho.

2. Click the Add Path button on the left.

3. The Folder Browser dialog would appear. Select the partition of your LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB External Hard Drive (for example: F:)

4. Add other directories that might contain more duplicate images. Some of the directories that may contain duplicate images are-

• C:\Users\UserName\Downloads
• C:\Users\UserName\Pictures
• C:\Users\UserName\OneDrive\
• C:\Users\UserName\OneDrive\Pictures

5. Select a similarity criteria:

• Exact match
• Similar match

6. Once you’ve selected your preferred similarity criteria, it is safe to start the scan now.

7. The scan should take place. Wait for a moment.

8. Once the scan is completed, you’ll be able to see a list of all images that are duplicates in nature.

9. Use the Select Duplicates button to automatically mark duplicates of your choice, and then use Select Action to delete them or move to a new folder.