The Lacie Rugged SSD Pro is a secure and fast SSD system that allows you to not only have consistent performance but 256-bit hardware encryption for all of your personal information. The Rugged SSD Pro is available in Black only, with the Standard Rugged SSD model available in Orange.

LaCie was kind enough to allow me to pick not only the sizes but the colors that I wanted for each of these review units, but I tend to stick with black portable drives for no particular reason. Both portable drives allow me to house all of those confidential and personal files and photos, but they are compact enough that all I have to do is toss one in my bag if I have to leave the house. Over the past two months, I’ve been exclusively using LaCie’s Rugged SSD Pro and Backup Plus Portable hard drive. And thanks to these LaCie and Seagate portable storage solutions, I’ve been able to do just that. Four years later, and I once again find value in having my crucial documents and files readily available without having to use a browser to get to them. At the time, I was using Dropbox to store larger files in an attempt to go all-in on cloud storage.

Back in 2016, when I purchased my MacBook, I thought that 1TB of storage would go far.

Lacie external hard drive time machine