Werner Herzog’s flash drive looks awesome.
RuggedKey
– Werner Herzog’s flash drive looks awesome
It’s interesting to watch where LaCie brings
their product at the time when Seagate took over the company. Our advice is not
to misbehave with Rugged’s hard drive and USB drive series. LaCie Rugged Hard
Disk is still a must-have one for extremists, but now RuggedKey allows you to take
data to anywhere and keep it safe without an enclosure’s bulkiness.
Clearly, LaCie combined its two best
products, borrowed the beautiful orange coat from Rugged hard drive series, and
the USB which looks similar to IamaKey series was neglected. This USB device is
trendy and compact enough to hang with car keys plus the rubber coat can stand
again dust, temperature, coldness as well as fall from 100 meter height.
RuggedKey features 32GB (we did test the
16GB version), which was not much in accordance to the cost you have to pay. Transfer
rate was slightly enhanced. Read and write speed (USB 3.0) were 138MBps and
35MBps respectively. Besides, Mac devices having USB 2.0 connectors are
becoming obsoleted and stuck with read/write speed of 26MBps/17MBps.
RuggedKey can be protected by password with
256bit AES encryption. And it comes with 5 Wuala cloud secure apps, enabling
you to copy content into each or double drive storage although usually you need
to enter the Internet to gain access to these files. Of course, you don’t really
need these services as Disk Utility and Dropbox offer similar back-ups and
encryption. But Wuala can be useful in case the drive is used with different
PCs.
Key points
If you want a loyal drive which is durable
and able to carry a millions of studies to anywhere you go, it’s recommended to
invest in LaCi’s Rugged drive and defrag it with a NTFS driver to make it
available for Windows PCs. But, if you just need a multi-based USB drive that
is easily carried along and able to stand harsh weather, LaCie RuggedKey
appears value for money.
Invest
in LaCie RuggedKey drive and defrag it with a NTFS driver to make it available
for Windows PCs.
Info
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Price: $39.99 (16GB); $69.99 (32GB)
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Manufacturer: LaCie
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Website: www.lacie.com
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Requirement: USB connector, Internet
connection for Wuala service
Verdict
Pros
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Transfer rate gets fast in USB 3.0
configuration.
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Durable coat can stand against any harsh
weather.
Cons
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Transfer rate gets slow in any other USB
configuration.
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There’s no water-proof ability.
Ratings: 3.5/5
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