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It's IP54 water- and dust-resistant, you can drop it from a height of up to 1.2m (providing it's not switched on), and it can be driven over by a one-tonne car. What's more, as the name suggests, this is a rugged hard drive.

There's even a built-in SD slot so you can back up images and video directly when on the go no need for a laptop. The device supports RAID 0 for a max transfer speed of 250MB/s, though, for data redundancy, RAID 1 is required, and as such you'll be limited to 125MB/s. However, you'll need to connect to a Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.1 Gen 2 port for this to work: older USB connections that can't pump this much juice will require the RAID Rugged Pro to be powered by an included AC adapter. This means it can be used without a mains power outlet, with the USB-C connection providing enough power to run both the 5400RPM 2.5-inch hard disk drives housed within the Rugged RAID Pro. The LaCie Rugged RAID Pro is, strictly speaking, a portable hard drive. Raid drives don't have to be bulky boxes confined to your desk.

That's enough for up to 168TB of total capacity, in a drive case that looks more like a filing cabinet!

If you need even more storage capacity and protection against drive failure, LaCie also offers 6big and 12big versions of the Big, containing six and twelve individual hard drives respectively. The drives can be configured in a RAID 0 array where they team up to give you max file transfer speed, or as a RAID 1 array for auto file duplication in case, one drive should fail. Available in 4TB, 8TB, 16TB, and 28TB capacities, we recon the 8TB option is the best value, as prices rise sharply for the larger models.įor your money, you get a pair of enterprise-class Seagate IronWolf Pro 7200RPM hard drives that deliver both reliability and speed, with an up-to-date USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connection ensuring the drive speed won't be bottlenecked. LaCie's two-drive variant of its Big RAID solution isn't the cheapest for its capacity, but it is packed with high-end features.

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