Rugged Portable Usb Drive

Buying a rugged drive involves a lot of the same decision points you d face with an ordinary external drive.

Rugged portable usb drive. Lacie rugged usb c 5tb external hard drive portable hdd usb 3 0 drop shock dust rain resistant shuttle drive for mac and pc computer desktop workstation laptop 1 month adobe cc stfr5000800 4 3 out of 5 stars 581. Don t use a portable hard drive as your only backup. A rugged all terrain portable hard drive that is relentless under pressure. If you really need extra performance but can t dole out the bucks for a portable ssd due to cost or capacity concerns a few 7 200rpm external rugged hard drives are available the g tech g drive.

Usb 3 of various flavors very common and thunderbolt much less common. Which features a good software suite aes 256 bit encryption and usb a and usb c support via an adapter. Let s break them down. It s resistant to crushing and withstands drops from up to 4 feet and its usb 3 1 interface provides high speed file transfers to and from usb c devices.

The included usb c to usb a cable of this lacie rugged portable drive enables backward compatibility with usb 2 0 and 1 0 computers. The industry has settled on two main interfaces in external portable drives these days. This item u32 shadow dura 4tb usb c 3 1 gen 2 rugged portable solid state drive ssd u32 shadow 4tb external ssd usb c portable solid state drive usb 3 1 gen 2 vectotech rapid 4tb external ssd usb c portable solid state drive usb 3 1 gen 2 up to 540mb s data transfer 3d nand flash. Lacie rugged usb c 1tb external hard drive portable hdd usb 3 0 drop shock dust rain resistant shuttle drive for mac and pc computer desktop workstation laptop 1 month adobe cc stfr1000800 4 6 out of 5 stars 1 801.

Performance capacity or compatibility or all three. Lacie rugged portable hard drives are the most trusted way to capture and transport data in the field. Lacie rugged raid pro. The buffalo ministation extreme nfc is very flexible and comes with a rugged case that s dust and water resistant along with a built in usb 3 0 cable.

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