When LaCie sent over their Rugged SSD for us to test out, the opportunity couldn't have come at a better time. As a photographer that's constantly traveling from one assignment to the next, I spend as much time working remotely on location (if not more so) than I do working from my office.

Thanks to their speedy performance, Solid State Drives have become an invaluable part of my on-location workflow, which involves my having to juggle tons of mission-critical client files. Importing, managing, and backing up thousands of raw and finished images along with plenty of Capture One sessions to boot can take a long time, so every second saved goes a long way. Along with being significantly faster when compared to traditional magnetic disk drives, SSDs tend to be more robustly constructed as well due to their lack of moving parts. This does not make them immune to mechanical failures, however. Unfortunately for me, that's precisely what happened to one of my external SSDs. The LaCie Rugged SSD is said to be dustproof, water-resistant up to one meter, crush-resistant by up to a two-ton vehicle, as well as being drop-proof up to three meters. Bold claims for sure, and after what happened to my last external SSD, I was eager to put the LaCie Rugged SSD to the test. . thephoblographer.com

2020-2-18 08:00