One of the portable external drives The most famous of the LaCie company is undoubtedly its Rugged range, since it combined in a single product a good storage capacity and a very successful protection against falls thanks to an external rubber-based casing. Well, today it has announced that it will have the updated versions of these external drives available for purchase shortly. Specifically, they are all expected to be available in mid-June, according to the press release of the company.
The most notable difference is that now the units are capable of speeds of up to 387MB / s Since apart from the fact that some integrate SSDs, they have an improved exterior for greater durability and have an integrated thunderbolt cable that secures a greater bandwidth as long as the equipment to which it is connected has this connection. In any case, it will be preserved as seen in the header image, a USB 3.0 connection that even if it limits its capacity a little more will have enough bandwidth to cover most of the needs.
However, all this has an impact on the price and cost per GB ratio it goes off since a disc with these characteristics and durability is not exactly cheap. In relation to the models that will be available we have several configurations.
The final prices for Europe are not yet known for sure, but approximately the 1TB disk will be around € 200 while that of 2TB which is currently available now, it comes at a price of € 269. If we want to reach the maximum sustained speed of 387 MB / s we will have to access the versions that integrate a solid disk or SSD in two configurations, the first would be 250Gb at an approximate price of € 269,99 and another version of 500Gb at a price approximately € 469,99.