LaCie Rugged SSD Pro is Extremely Fast and Extremely Rugged
By Adam Noyes
The LaCie Rugged SSD Pro is a great storage solution for the content creator on the go. These drives feature USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 and Gen 2 ports. The SSD Pro is extremely rugged against dust, water, drops and crush pressure.
Check out some highlights from this article from sea.pcmag.com below to learn more.
Most people don’t need, and won’t want to pay for, the extreme speed and durability of LaCie’s Rugged SSD Pro external solid-state drive. But if you’re a videographer, filmmaker, or other professional who works in the field—and if you have a Thunderbolt-3 equipped laptop, so you can take full advantage of the device’s performance—you may consider it a bargain even at the $419.99 list price for the 1TB version tested here, or $739.99 for the 2TB version. Our new Editors’ Choice among high-end, rugged external SSDs, the LaCie is housed in a silicone-wrapped, crush-resistant aluminum case that’s small and light enough to fit in a shirt pocket, rugged enough to meet the IP67 spec for dust and water resistance, and rated to survive a 3-meter (10-foot-plus) fall. It’s also designed to fit in an overnight express envelope and survive the trip, so you can ship it to the office or studio when data connections are slow or nonexistent.
Extremely Fast, Extremely Rugged
The Rugged SSD Pro’s speed and toughness are pretty much tied for being its most impressive feature. For the first, it marries a Seagate FireCuda NVMe SSD with a Thunderbolt 3 interface. LaCie rates the combination at 2,800MBps for both disk reads and writes, compared with the 2,800MBps for reads and 2,300MBps for writes claimed for the Samsung Portable SSD X5—another SSD that combines NVMe with Thunderbolt 3, and the only other drive we’ve tested to date with similar performance. The two were virtually tied in our tests, leaving everything else in the dust. Together, they effectively redefine what fast means for an external drive.